The French surrealist Jean Cocteau’s 1930 film ... In 1949, LIFE commissioned photographer Philippe Halsman to produce a photo essay on Cocteau, in order to try and illustrate what happens ...

After an accomplished career as a photographer, Nina Glaser turned to mixed-media mosaics that merge photography and glass. “Combining figures from my photographs with the deep colors of glass ...

‘If I were to take a picture of a village wedding,’ a photographer once remarked, ‘Jean Cocteau would appear between the bride and groom.’ Across the span of his life he appears in snaps with ...

It wasn’t only through his films, or even through his advocacy on behalf of the art of the cinema, that Jean Cocteau was a crucial ... Also: The great Malian photographer Malick Sidibé, East ...

Jean Cocteau has received a bit more ink than usual this year thanks to the No. 1 bestseller “The Da Vinci Code,” in which novelist Dan Brown asserts that the famed avant-garde French artist ...

Though the film is directed by Jean Delannoy, it is generally agreed that the quality is Cocteau's. It is a beautifully composed picture; the photography and lighting is not tricky and weird ...

By Hilarie M. Sheets A 1949 photograph of Jean Cocteau, shot by Philippe Halsman for Life magazine, playfully depicts the suave and influential Cocteau, a leading figure of the 20th-century French ...