Beauty Contest - Miss Paris 1974

Ghislaine Motte, Miss Paris 1974, and other candidates. Singer Mike Brant. May 4, 1974. All photographs by Simos Tsapnidis © Manolis Daloukas. Archive 1974/390.

Photographs of Paris. 1957

 Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis. 1957

Greeks protesting against greek military regime. Paris, 1968

All Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis, 1967
Copyright Manolis Daloukas
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On April 21, 1968, at Parisian streets, hundreds of Greeks, protested against greek military regime (Junta). Most of them were students (and a part members of  Rigas Ferraios organization). They were carrying Greek flags,and protest banners with written slogans like "Vive la Resistance du peuple Grec" .

Andreas Papandreou. Press Conference after his arrival in Paris. 1968

  


When the Greek Colonels led by Georgios Papadopoulos seized power in April 1967, Andreas Papandreou was incarcerated.
 Under heavy pressure from American academics and intellectuals, such as John Kenneth Galbraith, a friend of Andreas since their Harvard days, the military regime released Andreas on condition that he leave the country.

All photographs by Simos Tsapnidis

La Maison Rose. 1970

La Maison Rose.
2 Rue Abreuvoir, 75018 Paris, France

A relic of Montmartre’s golden days. It occupies a corner position just up the road from the famous Lapin Agile where Picasso and crew used to hang out and has a plaque outside proclaiming its importance as subject matter for a painting by Utrillo. They say that Picasso actually lived in the building at one time.
Photo by Simos Tsapnidis (August of 1970) .

Beatniks by the river Seine. Paris, 1965

Kerouac introduced the phrase "Beat Generation" in 1948, generalizing from his social circle to characterize the underground, anti-conformist youth gathering in New York at that time. The name came up in conversation with the novelist John Clellon Holmes who published an early Beat Generation novel, Go (1952), along with a manifesto in The New York Times Magazine: "This Is the Beat Generation" In 1954, Nolan Miller published his third novel, Why I Am So Beat (Putnam), detailing the weekend parties of four students.

 The word "beatnik" was coined by Herb Caen in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle on April 2, 1958. Caen coined the term by adding the Russian suffix -nik after Sputnik I to the Beat Generation. Caen's column with the word came six months after the launch of Sputnik. Objecting to Caen's twist on the term, Allen Ginsberg wrote to the New York Times to deplore "the foul word beatnik," commenting, "If beatniks and not illuminated Beat poets overrun this country, they will have been created not by Kerouac but by industries of mass communication which continue to brainwash man."
 (Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis)

Alexander Iolas and Victor Brauner. Paris, 1965

Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis, 1965.
   Copyright Manolis Daloukas.
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Aguigui Mouna, and his followers. Paris, 1968

Born André Dupont (1911-1999), Aguigui Mouna's first manifesto was to remain on a tree for 16 hours in Golfe-Juan in 1956. Known in Paris all around the "Quartier Latin" (universities district in Paris), you often saw him on a bicycle with a red phone, selling his self-edited mag "Le Mouna Frères". He was nominated "chevalier des Arts et des Lettres" by the minister of Culture Jack Lang. His philosophy was a mix of anarchism, ecology, peace and humour!
(Phtograph by Simos Tsapnidis,1968)