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  • Teddy DupontTeddy Dupont Deity
    Posts: 1,257
    Has anyone seen a good copy of this photo of Django and Babik?
    Buco
  • MatteoMatteo Sweden✭✭✭✭ JWC Modele Jazz, Lottonen "Selmer-Maccaferri"
    edited April 2015 Posts: 393
    In fact, I think they have already solved that at the French forum (Courvoisier cognac). Now they are trying to find out the name of the furniture maker behind the table...
    Svanis1337MichaelHorowitz
  • spatzospatzo Virtuoso
    edited April 2015 Posts: 768
    Nice photo of Django! is he holding a Book?

    Yes it has been solved: that's COurvoisier! But it will not be easy to understand where/when it has been shot but that's probably in a Billiard Club maybe Place Clichy or at the Terminus Hotel near the Gare Saint Lazare where there was and still exists a club.

    It might also be in Belgium in 1942...
  • Teddy DupontTeddy Dupont Deity
    Posts: 1,257
    Definitely a book Spatzo. I think I can just see it is a well thumbed copy of "War and Peace".
  • Teddy DupontTeddy Dupont Deity
    Posts: 1,257
    ...and another "new" one. La Boite a Matelots. Is that Django next to Joseph?
    MichaelHorowitz
  • spatzospatzo Virtuoso
    Posts: 768
    Is this a new one for you Teddy?
    MichaelHorowitz
  • Teddy DupontTeddy Dupont Deity
    edited April 2015 Posts: 1,257
    Yes it is Spatzo. Thanks. :-h What publication did it come from?
  • spatzospatzo Virtuoso
    Posts: 768
    Announcement of a gig "Chez Jane Stick" in an old newspaper dated March 9th, 1941.

    In that time Django played each day in three cabarets (Chez Le Doyen where he composed "Lentement mademoiselle" in the afternoon at tea time , "chez Jane Stick" at 9pm and finally at the "Amiral" later.
  • Svanis1337Svanis1337 ✭✭✭
    edited April 2015 Posts: 457
    It might be Django in the 1933 photo. He was much younger then, and looked very different. This was before he became famous, after which he rarely showed himself in public without Brylcreem and a suit. The newspaper photo is by Teddy Piaz, (not to be confused with Teddy Dupont! Although he'd wish :D) someone who took more than one photo of Django, including a "famous actor postcard". Higher quality copies remain undiscovered afaik. It's a shame, because they're professional photographs.

  • spatzospatzo Virtuoso
    Posts: 768
    The higher quality photos negative should be hidden somewere in the archives of those newspapers. Unfortunately often they were lost or distroyed when those newspapers closed definitively their editions.

    But nowadays most of those archives are being digitalized with the low paper resolution so we will progressively find some of them and that's nice for us. The research in those archives are very long because most of the time the search engines associated with those databases are pretty poor in efficiency and they give less results than what is effectively present in the database. So that means hours of work...you must be very patient and read all the issues to find something.

    Finding those databases for exemple in France, Belgium, Holland, UK, etc. should be very proficuous.
    Teddy Dupont
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