jean clemmer was a member of the french avant-garde art & intellectual circles from the 1940s to the 1960s. for over 20 years he was intinsically involved with salvador dali - he was also dali's personal photographer. he was also close friends with artist jean cocteau & collaborated with designer paco rabanne. clemmer was a painter, a violinist, a surrealist and a photographer. his erotic nudes were banned in parts of france even as the country was in the throws of a sexual revolution.