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Mario Andretti by Bernard Asset

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Mario in 1978 at Zandvoort.

Review by Pete Vack
All photos by Bernard Asset from the book

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Bernard Asset has a huge file of photos and is making use of them by creating interesting books, combining his (and others) photos with often even more enlightening comments on the subject from friends, photographers, mechanics, PR folks, drivers and historians. Asset already has similar volumes on Michael Schumacher, Aryton Senna, and Jacques Laffite, and all four can be ordered as a collection. The Andretti volume, entitled Mario Andretti by Bernard Asset, is the first one we have seen and read. [Read more…] about Mario Andretti by Bernard Asset

Graham Gauld talks to Bernard Asset

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Change indeed. Bernard Asset’s art. McLaren at Eau Rouge on the Spa circuit. F1 photography would never be the same again. Copyright Bernard Asset. All rights reserved.

By Graham Gauld
From the VeloceToday archives June 2013

At a recent race meeting I met up with an old friend of over 25 years, the famed French Formula 1 photographer Bernard Asset. You may not have heard of him, but he completely changed the style of motor racing photography back in the 1970s.

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Bernard Asset: The Man Who Changed the Pictures

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Change indeed. Bernard Asset's art. McLaren at Eau Rouge on the Spa circuit. F1 photography would never be the same again. Copyright Bernard Asset. All rights reserved.

By Graham Gauld

At a recent race meeting I met up with an old friend of over 25 years, the famed French Formula 1 photographer Bernard Asset. You may not have heard of him, but he completely changed the style of motor racing photography back in the 1970s.

Bernard Asset today. Photo by Graham Gauld.

When the French-based magazine Grand Prix International was founded in 1978, it devoted an entire issue to each Grand Prix and selected other events, notably Le Mans. This created a demand for variety and multitude of photos and Asset was ready to comply with his own unique vision of F1 racing.

Born in 1955 Bernard Asset was brought up in Paris; his father was a keen and talented amateur photographer. From the age of 14 young Asset wanted to be a photographer, and as a young teenager at the photography school the teacher asked him what he wanted to do. He said he wanted to be a sports photographer and cover the Olympics. The teacher told him to forget it as they were training commercial photographers. the Olympics, including the 1992 Summer and Winter Olympics at Barcelona and Albertville. “You know, ski photography is very similar to photographing Formula 1,” he remarks. [Read more…] about Bernard Asset: The Man Who Changed the Pictures

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