CANNABIS - GAINSBOURG - Lot 236

CANNABIS - GAINSBOURG Serge Gainsbourg, film by Pierre Koralnik, 1970. Photo by Daniel Angeli, vintage silver print, photographer's stamp on back. 20.5 x 30 cm. Paperclip marks on top edge (mostly visible only against the light). Note: Taken by Daniel Angeli for Pierre Koralnik's Cannabis in 1970, this photograph plunges us into the free and provocative aesthetics of French cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s. At the center of this collective scene dominated by bodies, fabrics and subdued lighting appears Serge Gainsbourg, a major figure in French culture, embodying here a universe blending marginality, sensuality and disenchantment. The abundant composition of the image perfectly conveys the psychedelic, libertarian atmosphere of the period. An emblematic photographer of French entertainment and artistic life, Daniel Angeli acutely captures the spirit of an era marked by the social and aesthetic upheavals of the post-1968 era. Cannabis, which starred Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, remains today a singular testimony to this underground culture, where cinema, music and counterculture constantly intersected. This vintage silver print retains all the documentary and visual power of a pivotal moment in French cultural modernity.