This is the first monograph to be published on the innovative French photographer.

Jean-Francois Bauret was a celebrated portrait photographer and pioneer of the `black and white` nude, whose images of men and women often scandalised the society of his time, but brought a wind of freedom to the world of portraiture and advertising. Bauret died in 2014 leaving behind an imaginative world of naked men and women, sometimes pregnant, ordinary people and famous artists.

In this work, Claude Nori, the founder of the publishing company Contrejour, and a famous photographer in his own right, gathers Bauret`s best photographs together, and accompanies these with an important text, that traces his life and his work through a review of French photographic activity over the last 40 years.