Born in Marseille in 1939, Francis Giacobetti is a French photographer and filmmaker (e.g. Emmanuelle l’antivierge, 1975). He rose to prominence notably thanks to fashion photographs for Elsa Schiaparelli, Pierre Balmain, Madame Grès and other fashion houses as well as for his work for glossy magazines such as Marie Claire, Paris Match and Playboy. Thanks to the help of the editor Michel Archimbaud, from late 1991 to early 1992, just months before he passed away, the sulfurous Irish-British painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992) granted Francis Giacobetti a series of interviews and sittings. The French photographer portrayed the artist and his surroundings and created a series of some 200 original images inspired by...