LONDON.- To mark Raymond Cauchetier's 95th birthday, and to coincide with the publication of a new monograph on his work, James Hyman Gallery presents a new exhibition: Raymond Cauchetier's New Wave. The exhibition includes never-before-editioned photographs selected from Cauchetier's own private archive.

One of the most influential and innovative film-set photographers of his day, Cauchetier - who still lives in the same Paris apartment in which he was born in 1920 - was for many years the unacknowledged genius behind some of the most iconic images of 1960s French cinema. Following a sustained campaign to have his work recognised, and with events such as the 50th anniversary of the release of Jean-Luc Godard's A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) in 2010 driving a resurgence of interest in New Wave cinema, Cauchetier is now ale to claim his rightful place in French photographic history.

Building on the success of James Hyman Gallery's 2010 show, La Nouvelle Vague: Iconic New Wave Photographs by Raymond Cauchetier (Cauchetier's first ever solo show in London), this new exhibition will showcase previously un-editioned, landmark images from such cult classics as A Bout de Souffle (1959), Une Femme est Une Femme (1960), Jules et Jim (1961) and Peau de Banan (1963).

In addition to Cauchetier's New Wave photographs, the new show will also feature less familiar landscape photographs made on Cauchetier's travels in Asia.

The opening of Raymond Cauchetier's New Wave coincides with the publication of Philippe Garner's new monograph of the same name, released by ACC Editions in June 2015.

Raymond Cauchetier's photographs of French New Wave Cinema are internationally acclaimed and are some of the iconic pictures of the period. According to Marc Vernet:

The power of Raymond Cauchetier's photography does not stem simply from the exceptional character of the stars he photographed, or from the artistic dimension of the directors for whom he worked...but from the fact that he, before anyone else, knew just how to capture the mood of what would become known as the Nouvelle Vague.

In 1959 Cauchetier was hired as the on-set photographer for Godard's first feature, A Bout de Souffle. He photographed not only the famous moments, such as Jean Seberg and Jean Paul Belmondo walking down the Champs Elysées, Seberg in her New York Herald Tribune t-shirt, but also behind-the-scenes glimpses which document the filmmaking process. Unlike other on-set photographers whose aim was simply to create stills which could be used for publicity purposes, Cauchetier approached the set as a photojournalist, bearing witness to a defining moment in cinematic history. The resulting images offer an incredible insight into the genius of Godard and document his highly unorthodox methods.

Raymond Cauchetier was largely a self-taught photographer. His first photographs were taken in his thirties while serving in the press corps of the French Air Force in Indochina. Upon his return to Paris, Cauchetier began mixing with a circle of young film critics and filmmakers, among them Jean Luc Godard which lead to his involvement with the French New Wave which lasted until 1968. He has traveled extensively and taken photographs in Cambodia and has also photographed throughout Europe for his work on Romanesque sculpture. Several books of his photographs have been published, including Photos de cinéma: Autour de la nouvelle vague 1958-1968. His work has been showcased in Aperture Magazine as well as The New Yorker Magazine.

Raymond Cauchetier lives in Paris. 1920