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The great French photographer Jeanloup Sieff died on 20th September at the Laennec hospital in Paris. He was

Jeanloup Sieff was a star, one of the first French photographers to make it in America, a serial prizewinner (he won the Grand Prix National de la Photographie in ) and a big player in the commercial photography and advertising worlds.

The other side of the same coin was that the artworld always treated him with a certain distance. He was too much the gentleman- amateur - in the tradition of Jacques-Henri Lartigue - to be fully accepted by the artworld, but then nor was he ever very sure that he wanted to be part of it either.

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He was an old-fashioned 'smudger': loving the very craft of photography and the life it led him. He affected a casual insouciance about his pictures, and didn't have much time for what he considered pretentious or laboured analysis.

He revelled in a certain levity: 'I'm proud of the two adjectives superficial