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- Pablo Picasso. Nice, 1955.
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- Grace Kelly. Cannes, 1955
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- Audrey Hepburn. Monaco, 1951
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- Alain Delon and Jane Fonda. Antibes, 1964
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- David Hockney. London, 1977.
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- Winston Churchill. Nice, 1959
Archive representative: Wolfgang Frei
Born in Dublin in 1920, Edward Quinn was a professional musician and served as a flight navigator in the Royal Air Force during World War II. After the war, he eventually made his way to the Côte d’Azur, where he learned photography and captured images of world leaders, glamour girls, as well as figures from the worlds of film, art, music, and literature. His most memorable work included images of a then-unknown Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, and Brigitte Bardot. His keen eye also captured Picasso, T.S. Eliot, Gary Cooper, and many others.
In 1951, Edward Quinn met and photographed Pablo Picasso for the first time. Their friendship lasted until Picasso’s death in 1973. This encounter with Picasso proved to be hugely influential for Quinn and shaped much of his later work. Quinn is the author of several books and films about Picasso.
Starting in the 1960s, Quinn focused his work on artists, including Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, Francis Bacon, Salvador Dalí, Graham Sutherland, and David Hockney. Quinn passed away in 1997.
The Edward Quinn Archive, located in Switzerland, is managed by his nephew Wolfgang Frei. It contains more than 180,000 photos (negatives) from the 1950s through the 1970s.
A curated selection of about 16,000 photos is published on edwardquinn.com.
The most significant part of the archive is the approximately 9,000 photos of Picasso.
About 25,000 pictures have already been digitized.