Before creating and managing the Dalle photographic agency, Bertrand Alary took his camera from concerts to festivals for specialized magazines for many years.
As early as 1980, he captured images of the greatest heavy metal groups, which he specialized in as magazines dedicated to the genre emerged over the course of the decade.
It is thanks to the confinement, and the considerable slowdown in the activity of his agency, that the
50-year-
old took the time to put his archives in order in order to draw from them a beautiful book,
Metal: 40 years of powerful music
(Gründ).
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I had the chance to experience a golden age, that of the early 1980s, which corresponded to the emergence of the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM for specialists) with bands like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden , Def Leppard, Saxon and others.
At the time, a lot of high school students had the AC / DC and Trust logos on their backpacks, ”
recalls
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