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== Career == [[File:Daniel Filipacchi en 1958.jpg|right|thumb|Filipacchi in 1958]] Filipacchi wrote and worked as a photographer<ref name="Groueff2003">{{cite book|author=Stephane Groueff|title=My Odyssey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J-1JCmhgKxIC&pg=PA175|accessdate=30 April 2013|date=12 February 2003|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=978-1-4697-2803-2|pages=175–}}</ref> for ''[[Paris Match]]'' from its founding in 1949 by [[Jean Prouvost]].<ref name=top/> Filipacchi later claimed never to have enjoyed taking photographs, despite earning early notoriety as a "well-mannered paparazzo".<ref name=lExpress>Dupuis, Jérôme. [http://www.lexpress.fr/culture/livre/daniel-filipacchi-je-travaille--la-nuit-et-reflechis-mieux-sur-mon-bateau_1087456.html Daniel Filipacchi: "Je travaille mieux la nuit et réfléchis mieux sur mon bateau"] (English: "I work better at night and think better on my boat"), ''l'Express'', 29 February 2012. Filipacchi is quoted as saying "je peux bien le dire aujourd'hui : je n'ai jamais aimé faire des photographies." ("I can just as well say it today: I never liked taking photographs.") Accessed 25 May 2013.</ref> While working at ''Paris Match'' and as a photographer for another of Prouvost's titles, ''[[Marie Claire]]'', Filipacchi promoted jazz concerts and ran a record label.<ref name="Tungate2005">{{cite book|author=Mark Tungate|title=Media Monoliths: How Great Media Brands Thrive and Survive|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=saa-yjtcu7sC&pg=PA186|accessdate=30 April 2013|date=3 June 2005|publisher=Kogan Page Publishers|isbn=978-0-7494-4595-9|page=186}}</ref> In the early 1960s, at a time when [[jazz]] was not played on government-owned French radio stations, Filipacchi (a widely acknowledged jazz expert<ref name=lExpress/>) and [[Frank Ténot]] hosted an immensely popular show on [[Europe 1]] called ''Pour ceux qui aiment le jazz'' ("''For those who love jazz''").<ref name="Suddarth2008">{{cite book|author=Roscoe Seldon Suddarth|title=French Stewardship of Jazz: The Case of France Musique and France Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C8foEX14fo0C&pg=PA37|accessdate=30 April 2013|year=2008|publisher=University of Maryland, College Park|isbn=978-0-549-57192-6|page=37}}{{Dead link|date=January 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In the 1960s, he presented a rock and roll radio show modeled after ''Dick Clark's American Bandstand'' and called ''[[Salut les copains (radio program)|Salut les copains]]'', which launched the musical genre of [[yé-yé]]. The show's success led to his creation of a [[Salut les copains (magazine)|magazine of the same name]].<ref name="SchildtSiegfried2006">{{cite book|author1=Axel Schildt|author2=Detlef Siegfried|title=Between Marx and Coca-Cola: youth cultures in changing European societies, 1960-1980|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q_G5mucF8nwC&pg=PA53|access-date=30 April 2013|year=2006|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=978-1-84545-009-0|page=53}}</ref> The latter was eventually renamed as ''Salut!'' and built a circulation of one million copies. Filipacchi played American and French [[rock music]] on this radio show<ref>{{cite book|title=Art and Visual Culture on the French Riviera, 1956-1971: The École de Nice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mvUx9l8iNcMC&pg=PA30|accessdate=30 April 2013|year=2012|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-0-7546-6471-0|page=30}}</ref> beginning in the early 1960s. Both he and this show are credited with playing important roles in the formation of the 1960s youth culture in France.<ref name="Marwick2011">{{cite book|author=Arthur Marwick|title=The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, C.1958-c.1974|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=etYOaWh1t4cC&pg=PT167|access-date=30 April 2013|date=28 September 2011|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4482-0542-4|page=167}}</ref> Filipacchi acquired the venerable ''[[Cahiers du cinéma]]'' in 1964.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Antoine de Baecque|author2=Serge Toubiana|title=Truffaut: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a2H0AiDn4XIC&pg=PA278|access-date=30 April 2013|year=2000|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-22524-4|page=278}}</ref> ''Cahiers'' was in serious financial trouble and its owners appealed to Filipacchi to buy a majority share in order to save it from ruin. He hired a number of new people and redesigned the journal to look more modern, zippy, and youth-appealing.<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard Brody|title=Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nf_uKU6bYRYC&pg=PA206|access-date=30 April 2013|date=13 May 2008|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-0-8050-6886-3|page=206}}</ref> The revolutionary [[May 1968 events in France]] affected the subsequent evolution of ''Cahiers'' into a more political forum,<ref name=cahiers>{{cite book|author1=David Wilson|author2=Bérénice Reynaud|title=Cahiers Du Cinéma: Volume Four, 1973-1978 : History, Ideology, Cultural Struggle : an Anthology from Cahiers Du Cinéma, Nos 248-292, September 1973-September 1978|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YhSYUs12aloC|access-date=30 April 2013|date=1 May 2000|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-02988-9}}</ref> under the influence of [[Maoist]] director [[Jean-Luc Godard]]<ref name=cahiers/> and others. Filipacchi lost interest in the magazine and sold his share in 1969.<ref name=cahiers/> But he remained involved in that world, starting more magazines and acquiring others, such as ''Paris Match'' in 1976.<ref name=top>{{cite news|work=The New York Times|title=A Top French Publisher Purchases Paris-Match|date=September 2, 1976|page=23}}</ref> He owned specialty magazines, for instance, some were for teenage girls (such as ''Mademoiselle Age Tendre'') and others for men (such as ''[[Lui]]''),<ref>Aaron Latham, "Rabbit, Run", ''[[New York City]]'', Nov 27, 1972, p.54</ref> which Filipacchi had founded in 1963 with [[Jacques Lanzmann]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jacques-lanzmann-406564.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107051957/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jacques-lanzmann-406564.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 7, 2012|title=Jacques Lanzmann — Novelist, lyricist and editor of ''Lui''|work=The Independent|date=July 4, 2006|access-date=April 30, 2013}}</ref> He also acquired ''Newlook'' and French editions of American magazines ''Playboy'' and ''Penthouse''.<ref>Bill Marshall, Cristina Johnston, "France and the Americas: culture, politics, and history, a multidisciplinary encyclopedia", ''Transatlantic relations series vol.3'', ABC-CLIO, 2005, {{ISBN|1-85109-411-3}}, p.945</ref><ref>Groueff 574</ref> In February 1979 Filipacchi bought the then-defunct ''[[Look (American magazine)|Look]]''. He hired [[Jann Wenner]] to run it in May 1979<ref>{{cite news|work=The New York Times|title=Look and Rolling Stone|date=July 8, 1979|page=F13}}</ref> but the revival was a failure, and Filipacchi fired the entire staff in July 1979.<ref>{{cite news|work=The New York Times|title=Look Magazine Dismisses Staff And Ends Ties to Rolling Stone: Losses by Investors Cited|author=Deirdre Carmody|date=July 4, 1979|page=B3}}</ref>
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