Breakfast in bed: how was the first class of Air France airline in 1957

Recently in a network there was a rare series of photographs taken for advertising campaigns of the airline Air France in 1957. It was removed very trivial photographer with an interesting fate.

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The author of photos — Eugene Louis Kammerman (Louis Eugene Kammerman), American photographer, born in Philadelphia in 1920. He served in the army as a photographer and in 1944, together with the U.S. military landed on the beaches of Normandy. After the war he married a French citizen and stayed in France.

Working as a reporter for the Saturday Evening Post, Eugene collaborated with a young newspaper L'express, which was too poor to pay him for the work. Then Eugene began to make to order the advertising campaign and take reports about well-known fashion houses. His photographs were published in magazines such as Elle, Life, Paris Match.

In March of 1961, at the age of 41 years, Eugene Louis Kammerman died from injuries sustained in a car accident in England.