Photographer Richard Blanshard – then a 22-year-old rookie – first visited the famous film festival in 1976, becoming an official snapper for two decades known for his candid personal shots
Lights, camera, action! Flashbulbs popped as celebs rubbed beautifully- toned shoulders on the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival .
Many appear in his new book, Cannes Uncut: The Golden Years, taken at a time when then the festival was THE showcase for promoting or raising money for a film. Richard says: “I was assigned to photograph Muhammad Ali when he visited Cannes to launch Freedom Road. He never once declined to have a picture taken. He was a wonderful character, but his entourage was a scary bunch.
Richard, 69, recalls Johnny Depp being “effortlessly cool”, and Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone “trying to upstage one another”. Of a 1987 appearance by Prince Charles and Princess Diana, Richard says: “When I look at the images now it seems clear their relationship wasn’t in a great place.”
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