André Villers

Photographer and plastic artist born in 1930 near Belfort and died in 2016 in the Var, André Villers started photography in 1952 thanks to Pierre Astoux, a teacher, during his stay at the Vallauris sanatorium following bone tuberculosis. It was in 1953 that he met Pablo Picasso who gave him his first camera. Following this meeting, André Villers produced many portraits of Picasso but also a joint work. He produced portraits of artists such as: Alexander Calder, Pierre Soulages, Salvador Dali, César, Tapies ... In 1970, he began to experiment with other techniques for his photographs such as the creation of his negatives from layers, cutting. The collections of his works are in the Nicéphore-Niépce Museum.