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Paris: Editions Cahiers du Cinéma et Ciné-Tamaris, 1994. First and only edition. 8vo large (25x19cm), printed card wrappers with french flaps. 285pp. Text in French. Slight rubbing to bottom edge of wrappers. Inscribed by Agnès Varda. Near Fine. Varda par Agnès was published in 1994 on the occasion of Agnès Varda's retrospective at the French Cinémathèque and is not to be confused with her last film of the same title, which was released in 2019.

After the international success of Jacques Demy's film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Demy was offered to direct a Hollywood film with Columbia Pictures in 1967. Agnès Varda joined her husband to California, where she became fascinated by the counterculture that was taking place in Los Angeles – from the Vietnam War protests to the formation of the Black Panthers, the Women's Liberation, and the Hippie movement.
A year later in 1968, Varda completed her screenplay about the hippie culture in California, titled Peace and Love, which was commissioned by Gerry Ayres, the same producer who brought Jacques Demy to Columbia Pictures. The studio liked the script but would not grant Varda the final cut, leading to an abrupt end to negotiations with Varda walking away from the project.
In Varda's film Les plages d'Agnès [The Beaches of Agnès] from 2008, Gerry Ayres adds to this incident:
"Agnès had the chance to make a film for Columbia Pictures at the time, but she slapped the hand of the man who pinched… Read More