"Riviera Cocktail" DVD — BioPic of Photographer Edward Quinn & Glory Days of Cannes Film Festival

Janson Media today announced the release of the DVD, Riviera Cocktail: Edward Quinn, Photographer, Nice, a biography of the celebrity photographer Edward Quinn. Riviera Cocktail encompasses and entire era, tracing the path followed by Edward Quinn from his early pin-up photography to his unconventional portrayal of all the great stars and, finally, to his relationships, as a photographer, with Pablo Picasso and Georg Baselitz. No other photographer has captured the far-flung social and cultural life of the Cote d'Azur in the fifties with such intelligent verve and remarkably gentle irony as the Irishman Edward Quinn (1920 - 1997). For over a decade, Quinn showed a perfect blend of persistence and discretion in his daring exploration of the social jungle on the French Riviera. Edward Quinn's career followed a long, meandering trail that ended far away from the Cote d'Azur, but in 1949 he was still shooting anything that promised a bit of income. This included the warships H.M.S. Mermaid and H.M.S. Magpie at anchor in Monte Carlo. Quinn sold the crews some 100 souvenir photographs of their ships but barely broke even because he had to have the pictures enlarged by a professional. He also took pictures in law courts until he finally found out what newspapers and magazines were really interested in: people and especially celebrities. The film recounts a dazzling era of stars, starlets, film producers, playboys, princes and artists. By the end of the decade, Quinn had created a body of work that reflected the very essence of those heady days. Riviera Cocktail: Edward Quinn, Photographer, Nice (1 x 97), directed by Heinz Butler, was produced by Accent Films International, Ltd. It is now available to North American DVD markets exclusively through Janson Media.