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Mes Meilleurs Souvenirs par Bernard Cahier,Signed by Bernard Cahier

Mes Meilleurs Souvenirs par Bernard Cahier,Signed by Bernard Cahier
Mes Meilleurs Souvenirs par Bernard Cahier,Signed by Bernard Cahier
Mes Meilleurs Souvenirs par Bernard Cahier,Signed by Bernard Cahier
Mes Meilleurs Souvenirs par Bernard Cahier,Signed by Bernard Cahier
Mes Meilleurs Souvenirs par Bernard Cahier,Signed by Bernard Cahier
Mes Meilleurs Souvenirs par Bernard Cahier,Signed by Bernard Cahier
Mes Meilleurs Souvenirs par Bernard Cahier,Signed by Bernard Cahier
Mes Meilleurs Souvenirs par Bernard Cahier,Signed by Bernard Cahier
Mes Meilleurs Souvenirs par Bernard Cahier,Signed by Bernard Cahier
  • Stock: In Stock
  • Author: Xavier Chimits
  • ISBN: 2351240065
  • Publisher: Drivers
  • Publication Year: 2006
  • Edition: 1st Edition
  • Revised: No
  • Reprint: No
  • Language: English, French
  • Pages: 203
  • Illustrations: Colour and Black and White
  • Format: Hardback - Published Without Dustjacket
  • Condition Book: Fine
  • Dimensions: 260.00mm x 345.00mm
£225.00
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This book has been dedicated to the previous owner

Bernard Cahier was just five years old when his father took him to see his first motor race, the 1932 Miramas Grand Prix. He was so entranced by the spectacle and the smells that he decided he would become a racing driver. The war, though, put paid to this ambition, and when it was over he was not too keen on going back to his studies in the Lycee Janson in Sailly. On a sudden impulse he decided to go to Doula where he spent a year honing his driving skills at the wheel of lorries belonging to a Cameroonian export-import company! Bernard was an adventurer at heart and there was no way he could be satisfied with such a destiny. He set off for the USA where his "French lover" good looks helped him find a job in a chic Los Angeles restaurant. Joan, a young American girl, fell under his charm and they were soon married. However, he was still driven by the racing bug and at weekends he competed in his MG TD. In the paddock he met up with a guy called Robert Barlow who won a lot of races in his 1500 cc Simca Gordini. He owned a garage and sold Bentleys, Rolls Royces, Jaguars, Mercedes Benz and other exotic imported machinery to a well off clientele. Barlow decided to take on Bernard as a second salesman to beef up his sales force, which consisted of Phil Hill as salesman and Richie Ginther as mechanic! When Hill began his career as a racing driver Bernard took up photography and collaborated with an American newspaper as a photographer/reporter. Then in 1952, he decided to come back to France where his skills behind the camera allied to his natural enthusiasm helped him to make friends with the drivers. The following year he was taken on by L'Action Automobile as a journalist/photographer. He brought a Leica with his first salary and then he organised France's participation in the Carrera Panamericana in Mexico. In 1954, he bought himself a 2CV and travelled to circuits all over Europe. For drivers like Fangio, Hawthorn, Collins, Phil Hill and many others Bernard was more than just a photographer: he became a friend who shared their joys and sorrows. In 1958, he founded the IRPA (International Racing Press Association) to make life easier for his fellow journalists. In 1963, the American tyre manufacturer, Goodyear, took him on as Press Relations officer and this in turn, led to John Frankenheimer calling upon his services when he began shooting the film 'Grand Prix' in 1966. And who should he meet up with again but his old friend, Phil Hill, who was also involved in the project! As the seventies dawned, Bernard saw the blossoming of a whole new generation of drivers like Ickx, Stewart, Cevert and many others. After twenty years in the business he had built up a solid reputation, and he acted as adviser to these new stars as well as forming new friendships with them, helped by his role as faithful chronicler of their exploits. With the arrival of the eighties the job of a photographer had changed. The old Leica and its 50 mm lens had to give way to much heavier and more sophisticated equipment. The increasing distance that was growing up between those behind the barriers and what was happening on the track decided Bernard to quit the circuits. His son, Paul-Henri, took over behind the camera and Bernard and Joan gave themselves some well-earned rest after the hectic life they had led. Bernard has decided to dip into his copious archives, which covers thirty years of motor sport between the period 1953 and 1973, and has chosen this selection of photos for our immense pleasure. Some of them are famous and have already been seen while others, oddly enough, have been neglected up to now! Covering both personalities such as, Innes Ireland, Stirling Moss, Jack Brabham, Jim Clark, as well as racing from Formula One to sports cars racing at venues around the world from Aintree, Brands Hatch, to Le Mans, the Mille Miglia, Monaco Nurburgring, Reims , Spa, Silverstone, Targa Floria and Zandvoort. The flow of m

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