PHOTOGRAPHER-REPORTER, ORIGINALLY FROM ORAN, BORN IN 1936, CHARLES BÉBERT IMMORTALIZED THE ARRIVAL OF INTERNATIONAL STARS ON THE CÔTE D’AZUR FROM THE 1960S, FOR THREE DECADES. FROM THE AIRPORT TARMAC TO THE ENTRANCE OF PALACES, BEHIND THE SCENES OF CONCERT HALLS OR ON STADIUM LAWNS,

“CHARLY” MOVED TO PROFILER FROM PAPARAZZI, CASTING A BENEVOLENT AURA IN BLACK AND WHITE OVER A GENERATION OF “GREATS OF THIS WORLD” PREPARED TO BE IMMORTALIZED. AN ADMIRER OF HIS SUBJECTS, SOME OF WHOM BECAME FRIENDS AND ACCOMPLICES LIKE JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO OR CLAUDE FRANÇOIS, CHARLES BÉBERT NEVER TRIED TO PROMOTE HIMSELF OVER HIS SUBJECTS.

TO THE POINT WHERE HIS NEGATIVES, ALL BUT FORGOTTEN, WERE (RE)DISCOVERED BY HIS SON ALMOST BY CHANCE IN THE ARCHIVES OF HIS STORE "CHASSEURS D'IMAGE".