Picture-perfect: Peter Beard, photographer, adventurer, and “seducer of every human being and animal in existence,” at his mill on the cliffs of Montauk, New York.

Bohemian street style: Florence Grinda and Marisa Berenson out in St. Tropez.

Just add water: Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, and other Factory members on their first trip to Paris, in and out of the tub at the Hôtel de Bourgogne.

Like sister, like brother: Loulou de la Falaise with her brother, Alexis, in Paris.

In profile: British actor Michael York on the Lido at the Venice Film Festival.

Contact high: Warhol and Factory members in their room at the Hôtel de Bourgogne.

Ski and be seen: Peter Kronig, ski instructor to the stars, in Zermatt.

City to sea: *top,* Warhol’s business manager, Fred Hughes, in Paris; *above,* Mary Russell (far left) and friends on Gunter Sachs’s *Riva,* on their way to Pampelonne Beach in St. Tropez.

Fresh-faced: Isabelle Adjani, photographed when she first appeared on the Paris scene.

Bohemian Rhapsody

Photographs of Andy Warhol, Loulou de la Falaise, and Marisa Berenson capture the birth of 60s cool

photographs by Mary Russell

“The world was smaller then,” writes Mary Russell in her memoir, edited by French gallerist Pierre Passebon. Among photographers in the 60s in Paris, where Russell worked as a fashion correspondent and photo stylist, “it was more a fraternity than a feeding frenzy.” Russell’s work at Glamour, Vogue, Women’s Wear Daily, and The New York Times provided her with an understanding of fashion and publishing while introducing her to photography masters—Helmut Newton, David Bailey, Lord Snowdon—as well as a young circle of artists and socialites whose world soon became her own to frequent and document. “In some mysterious way I always seem to be in the right place at the right time,” Russell writes—be it in New York City, where she met Andy Warhol early on; Montauk, where she’d visit Peter Beard; or the St. Tropez of 60 years ago, partying with Gunter Sachs and whomever happened to be on his boat that day. To picture the scene, subtract the ostentatiousness of St. Tropez today and add a heavy dose of bohemian chic. Or see Russell’s shots of the time. —Julia Vitale