This summer, Hamiltons are delighted to be taking you back in time to the sun-soaked Saint Tropez of the 1970s photographed by the esteemed Philippe Garner. The images capture the sizzling endless summer days on the beaches of Saint Tropez and in the surrounding towns of Aix-en-Provence.
Our limited-time online viewing room is a perfect summer selection to dive head first into. Languorous tanned bodies punctuate a vibrant yet nostalgic collection of photographs of sea, sand and Seventies summertime living.
Summer - Seventies - Saint-Tropez was the first solo show of photographs by Philippe Garner, a figure already well known and respected as a long-standing champion of photography through a fifty-plus years career as an auction specialist and historian.
The images – all shot on Kodachrome film, notable for the rich and vibrant saturation of its colours – take us back half a century to discover now-long-erased traces of an old Provence in and around Aix-en-Provence, where Garner was born. A discrete suite of images made on the now-legendary La Voile Rouge beach of Saint-Tropez capture the spirit of its raffish, chic-bohemian heyday.
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Artwork Selection
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About The Artist
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Philippe Garner | Summer - Seventies - Saint-Tropez
Listen to Philippe Garner discuss his 2023 exhibition at Hamiltons, Summer - Seventies - Saint Tropez. -
‘I was twenty-three when I took the first of these pictures. Thinking
back to those years, I recall how driven I already was to make images that captured
the essence of all that engaged me.’ - Philippe Garner