Intimate Provence: photo, dance, music and singing

The intimate Provence show brought together in August 2024 international artists. These two unique performances allowed more than 200 spectators to immerse themselves in the world of archives by André Abbe.

Here are some images. Thanks to the American volunteer Julian Shelton for making the trip to immortalize these evenings.

Children of Brazil

Children in Brazil in 1990 - accompanied by trumpeter Emmanuel Collombert during the intimate Provence show - picture Julian Shelton for Abbe Photo

André Abbe started photography to finance his trips. Brazil remains high on the list of its favourite countries.

Children in Brazil in 1990 - André Abbe

Flowers to fish at Rocher de Roquebrune (Var)

Flowers for fishing on the Rock of Roquebrune with Nazpari Azari - photo Julian Shelton

The Rock now has three crosses but these fruit trees have disappeared from the Argens Valley...

Peach flowers on Rocher de Roquebrune background - André Abbe 1980

Traveling sale in Séverac le Château (Aveyron)

Traveling sale in Séverac the Chateau and the dancers Flavio de Brito and Richard John Moore - photo Julian Shelton

The « estafettes », these vans equipped with street grocery. A whole time!

Traveling sale near Brousse le Chateau en Aveyron in 1981 - photo André Abbe

Hand harvest without a machine in Fayence (Var)

Monsieur Laugier at the intimate Provence evening - The dancers Emma Livingstone and Flavio de Brito from England to support the backup of the 100,000 archive photos of André Abbe - picture Julian Shelton for Abbe Photo

The harvest by hand, without a machine, in the Laugier family.

Monsieur Laugier at the intimate Provence evening - The dancers Emma Livingstone and Flavio de Brito from England to support the backup of the 100,000 archive photos of André Abbe - picture Julian Shelton for Abbe Photo

The passion of travel like here in Turkey

The actor and artistic director Xavier-Adrien Laurent dit XaL, and André Abbe in the background traveling to Anatolia in Turkey in 1967 - picture Julian Shelton

In 1967 André had not yet started his career as a photographer. But he already had the taste of travel. And made a lot of stops. So push it up. This photo is exceptional for several views. This shoot is actually a fake: we added it to joke!

André Abbe - Turkey - Anatolia - 1967

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