The Edward Quinn Archive
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The Edward Quinn Archive contains more than 100’000 mostly black and white negatives, format 35mm and 6x6cm. The most important part consists of Picasso negatives (more than 15’000) and Baselitz (ca.8’000). Also in the archive are vintage prints, format 50x60cm, 40x50cm and 24x30cm, signed by Edward Quinn, and later prints which were approved and signed by his wife Gret Quinn.
Catalogue
The Archive has been catalogued completely and with great care by Gret Quinn during the past years and was recorded in a data bank. Gret Quinn had helped her husband during his professional activity, writing informative text for the pictures and helping in the darkroom.
Substance
The Archive contains pictures taken by Edward Quinn on the Côte d’Azur during the fifties up to the seventies, while he was 
working for international magazines like PARIS MATCH and LIFE. Most likely all the very important personalities who came to the Riviera during the “golden fifties” were photographed by Quinn. The Archive represents a wide spectrum from John Wayne to Steve McQueen, Marlon Brando, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Brigitte Bardot, Hitchcock or Churchill.
During the sixties life on the Riviera changed and, inspired by Picasso and his work, Quinn concentrated on artists, painters and writers. Amongst them were Max Emst, Alexander Calder, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Somerset Maugham, Jean Cocteau, Aldous Huxley, Françoise Sagan or Colette.
Quinn’s friendship with Picasso lasted for 20 years and during all these years his main interest was concentrated on the painter. He was able to make several books and films about Picasso. Also many exhibitions of his photographs of the painter were organized.
In the late 80’s an intense relationship, similar to his friendship with Picasso, linked Quinn to Baselitz. As a result, two books of the painter were published and several exhibitions took place.
Besides photographing personalities, Quinn also concentrated on documentary and landscape photography. He took for instance a great number of pictures of the Dublin of James Joyce and of the gipsies at Sainte-Marie-de-la-Mer.
Quinn made several movie films, especially with and about Picasso which were shown worldwide by numerous TV stations.
Photos for collectors, museums, media and advertising on request:
© Edward Quinn Archive - CH-8852 Altendorf/SZ, Switzerland