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Daniel Filipacchi (born 12 January 1928) is the Chairman Emeritus of Hachette Filipacchi Médias and a French collector of surrealist art.
CareerEdit
Filipacchi wrote and worked as a photographer<ref name="Groueff2003">Template:Cite book</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. 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">Template:Cite book</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">Template:Cite bookTemplate:Dead link</ref>
In the 1960s, he presented a rock and roll radio show modeled after Dick Clark's American Bandstand and called Salut les copains, which launched the musical genre of yé-yé. The show's success led to his creation of a magazine of the same name.<ref name="SchildtSiegfried2006">Template:Cite book</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>Template:Cite book</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">Template:Cite book</ref>
Filipacchi acquired the venerable Cahiers du cinéma in 1964.<ref>Template:Cite book</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>Template:Cite book</ref> The revolutionary May 1968 events in France affected the subsequent evolution of Cahiers into a more political forum,<ref name=cahiers>Template:Cite book</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>Template:Cite news</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>Template:Cite news</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, Template:ISBN, p.945</ref><ref>Groueff 574</ref>
In February 1979 Filipacchi bought the then-defunct Look. He hired Jann Wenner to run it in May 1979<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> but the revival was a failure, and Filipacchi fired the entire staff in July 1979.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Art collectingEdit
ARTnews has repeatedly listed Filipacchi among the world's top art collectors.<ref>For example, {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }};{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Art from Filipacchi's collection formed part of the 1996 exhibit Private Passions at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> His collection (along with that of his best friend, the record producer Nesuhi Ertegün) was exhibited at the Guggenheim in New York in 1999 in Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, the Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi Collections - an event described by The New York Times as a "powerful exhibition", large enough to "pack the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from ceiling to lobby".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Although Filipacchi sued the Paris gallery which sold him a fake "Max Ernst" painting in 2006 for US$7 million, he called its notorious forger Wolfgang Beltracchi (freed on 9 January 2015 after serving three years in prison for his forgeries) a "genius" in a 2012 interview.<ref name=VF>Hammer, Joshua. The Greatest Fake-Art Scam in History?, Vanity Fair, 10 October 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2013.</ref>
Personal lifeEdit
His father, Henri Filipacchi, who was born in İzmir, Turkey, descended from shipowners from Venice, hence the Italian family name.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Filipacchi has three children. The eldest of these, Mimi, was from an early marriage.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He then had two children with fashion model Sondra Peterson: Craig and novelist Amanda Filipacchi.<ref name="hoban">Template:Cite news</ref>