Brigitte Bardot, the French actress and animal rights campaigner whose death was announced on Sunday, was a creature of the still image as well as the moving one. And like many female stars over the decades, she was both a master and a victim of the photographer’s gaze. She used the camera’s lens to project her personality, just as it fixed her in the public imagination.
Here is a selection of some of the photographs that show Ms. Bardot’s life:
Matthew Mpoke Bigg is a London-based reporter on the Live team at The Times, which covers breaking and developing news.
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