Chronicler, photographer, this pure product of Hollywood died on December 17, at the age of 78 years.
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Chronicler, writer, photographer and especially muse Californian art scene of the years 1960-1970, the American Eve babitz died at the Los Angeles Hospital, Friday, December 17, a suites of a Huntington disease. She was 78 years old.
The name of Eve Babitz immediately evokes a famous photo taken in 1963, by a photographer of Time magazine, Julian Wasser, in a Museum of Pasadena Museum (California). She shows a game of chess that begins: on one side, Marcel Duchamp – he is in black suit and plays with whites; On the other hand, the young Eve babitz, completely naked (she has very white skin and plays with the blacks). Note that his posture franked does not seem to deconcerate the father – already chenu – the famous “Ready-Made”.
How is it to be “in EVE holding” – it will later be the title of one of its books published in February 2021 (points, 96 p., € 5.90) - at Just 20 years, in front of the tutelary figure of the art of XX e century? No doubt it is necessary to belong to the artistic environment, which is the case of Eve Babitz. The girl is a pure hollywood product. This is where she was born on May 13, 1943, of a mother who drew houses and a classic violinist father in the Tweetieth Century Fox orchestra. His parents are very introduced. They picnify with Bertrand Russell. The friends of the family are called Greta Garbo and Charlie Chaplin. As for the godfather of Eve Babitz, it is none other than “the very small, happy and awesome” Igor Stravinsky. While she is 16 years old and judges the adults “cans and puppets”, Igor slips at Eve des Votochs under the table during dinner and removing rose petals in her bodice.
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A teen, babitz reads with greed. Virginia Woolf and Colette are his idols. At age 14, she writes “memoirs” titled – for his parents? – Me, I would not go to Hollywood my kid. Later, she will be known as the inspirer, at the same time Muse and Madonna, Harrison Ford and Jim Morrison to whom she boasted of having made advances “after only three minutes”. Unbridled life with celebrities, art, parties, drugs and sexual freedom … babitz will tell all that in his books. But it is only at the beginning of the 1970s that she begins to write really. Previously, she designs record pockets, before becoming columnist for vogue magazines or Rolling Stone, especially.
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