Daniel Filipacchi

Daniel Filipacchi (born 12 January 1928) is the Chairman Emeritus of Hachette Filipacchi Médias and a French collector of surrealist art.

Filipacchi wrote and worked as a photographer^[1] for Paris Match from its founding in 1949 by Jean Prouvost.^[2] Filipacchi later claimed never to have enjoyed taking photographs, despite earning early notoriety as a "well-mannered paparazzo".^[3] 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.^[4] In the early 1960s, at a time when jazz was not played on government-owned French radio stations, Filipacchi (a widely acknowledged jazz expert^[3]) and Frank Ténot hosted an immensely popular show on Europe 1 called Pour ceux qui aiment le jazz ("For those who love jazz").^[5]

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.^[6] 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^[7] 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.^[8]

Filipacchi acquired the venerable Cahiers du cinéma in 1964.^[9]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.^[10] The revolutionary May 1968 events in France affected the subsequent evolution of Cahiers into a more political forum,^[11] under the influence of Maoist director Jean-Luc Godard^[11] and others. Filipacchi lost interest in the magazine and sold his share in 1969.^[11]

But he remained involved in that world, starting more magazines and acquiring others, such as Paris Match in 1976.^[2] He owned specialty magazines, for instance, some were for teenage girls (such as Mademoiselle Age Tendre) and others for men (such as Lui),^[12] which Filipacchi had founded in 1963 with Jacques Lanzmann.^[13] He also acquired Newlook and French editions of American magazines Playboy and Penthouse.^[14][15]

In February 1979 Filipacchi bought the then-defunct Look. He hired Jann Wenner to run it in May 1979^[16] but the revival was a failure, and Filipacchi fired the entire staff in July 1979.^[17]

ARTnews has repeatedly listed Filipacchi among the world's top art collectors.^[18] Art from Filipacchi's collection formed part of the 1996 exhibit Private Passions at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.^[19] 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".^[20]

Aunque Filipacchi demandó a la galería parisina que le vendió un cuadro falso de " Max Ernst " en 2006 por 7 millones de dólares, en una entrevista de 2012 calificó de "genio" a su notorio falsificador, Wolfgang Beltracchi (liberado el 9 de enero de 2015 tras cumplir tres años de prisión por sus falsificaciones). ^{[ 21 ]}

Su padre, Henri Filipacchi, nacido en Esmirna , Turquía, descendía de armadores venecianos , de ahí el apellido italiano. ^{[ 22 ]} Filipacchi tuvo tres hijos. La mayor, Mimi, nació de un matrimonio temprano. ^{[ 23 ]} Luego tuvo dos hijos con la modelo Sondra Peterson : Craig y la novelista Amanda Filipacchi . ^{[ 24 ]}