André Zucca was a French photographer. Originally Piedmont , André Zucca spent part of his youth in the United States before returning to France in 1915 . He joined the French army during the First World War , during which he was wounded, and then decorated with the Military Cross . After several reports from 1935 to 1937 (Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia, Japan, China, India, Morocco) alongside Joseph Kessel , he worked in several newspapers, including L’Illustration , Paris-Soir , Comœdia, or match , and covered the phoney war in 1939-1940 . In 1941, he was requisitioned to work at the newspaper Signal , propaganda organ of the German army, and this positively the German occupation and the creation of the LVF . These activities are however linked to any ideological commitment, even if it was sometimes referred to as the right of anarchist . Alongside its contribution to signal he is one of the only ones who can be photographed in color, with a film Agfacolor (rare piece at the time), scenes of Parisian daily life. His son Peter was born in 1943. After the war, his record is subject to no further action during the treatment, and he settled under an assumed name (André Piernic) in Dreux , where he opened a wedding photo shop, communions and hunts . He died in 1973. His archives were purchased by the Historical Library of the City of Paris in 1986; they mainly consist of photographs taken during World War II and especially during the occupation in Paris, and in 2008, Gallimard organized with the City of Paris an exhibition of photographs by André Zucca under the occupation . This exhibition has attracted great controversy immediately because the conditions in which these photographs were taken were not specified , . The exhibition was held and the information device on the context, offered to visitors, was reinforced . Andre Zucca is the father of Pierre Zucca (1943-1995) French director and screenwriter.