Breakfast in bed: What Air France's first class looked like in 1957

Check out this rare series of archival photographs taken for an Air France advertising campaign in 1957. They were taken by a rather unusual photographer with an interesting life story.





The photographs were taken by Eugene Louis Kammerman, an American photographer born in Philadelphia in 1920. He served in the Army as a photographer and landed with the American troops on the beaches of Normandy in 1944. After the war, he married a French woman and remained in France.

While working as a reporter for the Saturday Evening Post, Eugene collaborated with the fledgling newspaper L'Express, which was too poor to pay him. He then began creating custom advertising campaigns and shooting reports on famous fashion houses. His photographs were published in magazines such as Elle, Life, and Paris Match.

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









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