Credits and Acknowledgments
During three years, Jaydie Putterman and
Rosalynde Lesur crisscrossed the whole of Europe, in order to meet and photograph 111
representatives of what they like to name "the new European humanism".
According to the creators, it's about an exclusive and unique assembling of scientists,
artists, heads of state and founders of idealistic movements, who are engaged in the most
ambitious of adventures for the 20th century: permit Europeans to live and work in peace
and serenity.
It goes without saying that this project is not exhaustive. 111, is not many. it's almost
nothing. Heroes are often anonymous, working hard in the shadows of life, without other
recognition then belated relief of those who they've helped. This internet website is
dedication to them, and to all those, who, one day, gave something that he could have kept
for himself to someone who he did'nt know.
Wishing, Internet Visitor, that, sooner or later, you can recognize yourself in this
definition. Save your talent. Enlarge your conscience. Cultivate your garden, Europe.
The original project would not have been realized without the patronage and the support
from corporations, associations, men and women, all of special quality. For this they must
all be thanked here. This page, has as a goal, to recall their contribution to the
European culture.
Sponsors of this website
The persons and corporations listed below are to be thanked for their active participation concerning the development and installation of this internet site. A very big THANKS to:
Fatjapublishing, Avignon (France)
Pascal Avot
Sponsorship and Patronage of the initial Project
"Talents and Consciences of Europe" thanks all those who have so willingly given a little - or a lot - of their time, their talents, their consciences to the planning and carrying-out of this project. "Talents and Consciences of Europe" is a concatenation of determinate endeavors by people from all walks of life, each individual was essential, each link in the chain of prime importance. It would be quite impossible to name them all: there are so many of them. They know who they are and that we are thinking of them. But there are some to whom we owe very special thanks:
The initial project "Talents and Consciences of Europe", which was the production of editions of traveling photographic exhibitions and the publishing of books and catalogues in 5 languages, received:
The "Parrainage" of:
Jacques Chirac, Jacques Delors, Michel Charasse, Roland Dumas, Alain Juppé.
Jacques Delors has also written the preface of
the project for Jaydie Putterman. The following is its reproduction: "If the European venture had to rely solely on politicians
and civil servants, its future would be very uncertain indeed. But Europe's true richness
lies in its many different faces and its vast range of talents.
The lesson brought home through the images of Jaydie Putterman in this book is to remind
us of the evident fact that Europe is both one and many: a vigorous mix of scientists,
artists, thinkers, activists and politicians, of generosity and brilliance; but also a
unique testbed of plural democraty, united by a shared model of society founded on common
values - a shared conception of economic and social relations - and rooted in a philosophy
of balance between man and society.
These portraits, serious and lively, also make us aware of the contribution made to our
privileged Western world by those - exemplified here by men such as Vaclav Havel, Jiri
Dienstbier or Alexander Dubcek - who assert the right not simply to our material
prosperity but above all else to their historical and spiritual place in Europe; proof
that, though there may be no such thing as a European nation, there are in Europe nations
in search of a common destiny.
Jacques Delors
President of the Commission of the European Communities
The Patronage of:
Federico Mayor Zaragoza, UNESCO
Jack Lang, France
Monsignore Luigi di Liegro, Italy
Arnoldo Farina, UNICEF
Jose Maria Alvarez del Manzano, Spain
Javier Solana, Spain
Diego Hidalgo Schnur, Spain
Joaquin Satrustegui, Spain
The Sponsorship of:
Cartier International
Du Pont
Hertz
The Support of:
Peter Benenson, Amnesty International
Jacques Toubon, France
Jean Marie Daillet, France
Bernard Kouchner, France
Silvia Escobar, Spain
Leopoldo Torres Boursault, Spain
Luis Maria Anson, Spain
Javier Ruperez, Spain
Jacques Santers, Luxemburg
Jerzy Lukaszewski, Poland
Lydwine van Kersbergen, Holland
Francis Humphrey Howard, United States of America
Other Supports:
Léon Daviccio, Jean-Pierre Divolis, Bruno Dethomas, Raphael Fraguas, Marion Gräfin
Dönhoff, Claude Cheysson, Maria Lourdes da Pintasilgo, Christian de Boisdeffre, Eric
Ancian, Marina Gazzo, Andrea Pucci, Sandi Auman, Claude Harel, Lester Rosenkrantz, Sidney
Tenoudji, Hélène Harweilher, Jerzy Lukaszewski, Gabriel Ferran de Alfaro, Juan Szurita,
Guido Brunner, Haro Hadt, Christos Lambrakis, Daniela Hegrova, Pierre Frieden, Alfred
Cahen, Marc Geleyn, Uffe Andreassen, Arpad Vigh, M. Sonik, Jean-Loup Nitot, Elisabeth
Ardaillon, Prado Coelho, Christiane Ravenot, Jaroslav Sedivy, Charles Hargrove, Dragoljub
Naïman, Alfred Frisch, Marie-France Garaud, Caroline Jausseret, Michel Redon, August Graf
von Kageneck, Daniel Couvreur, Eddy Caekelberghs, Jacques Danois, Colette Muret, Yves
Lassueur, Paolo Romani, Guido Paglia, Antonio Taiani, Armelle Thoraval, Marc Semo,
Jean-Dominique Merchet, Thierry Benoit, Frédérique Carjaval, Nadia Charvet, Stanley
Glick, Jean-Pierre Labro, Thierry Bourdois.
Jean-Yves Brégand, Imaginoir, Paris - Martine Swyer, Texture, Paris - J.B.N., Japan
Business News Center, Kyodo - News Services, Tokyo - E.G.T., Entreprise Générale de
Télécommunications, France - U.P.S., United Parcel Service, France.
May we get together again
soon for further projects, more sleepless nights and new satisfactions.
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