A Poet in Exile

Prévert’s SongA Serge Gainsbourg song Oh, I wish you still remembered, my dear,That Indian summer, golden and severe,When life was beautiful beyond compare,And the sun burned hotter than it does out there. There was a song you used to softly sing,A song by Prévert — melancholy thing,The Autumn Leaves — your voice would fill the air,And I’d stand still, lost somewhere in your stare. The dead…

Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg 🤍

UNEASY: Leonard Cohen

"I’m frequently asked to name my favorite photo session of my career, and I always answer “Leonard Cohen.” It’s not because this is the best photograph in UNEASY but it was a sitting with someone I most admired, as a musician and as a man.

After the shoot I wrote six pages of handwritten notes about the experience, the text below is culled from that material.

July 20, 2001, at his home, Los Angeles"