The Dominique Tarlé Gallery

Nellcôte, France, 1971

Bill Wyman sitting under a tree

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Bobby Keys on sax

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Charlie at the piano

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Charlie at the table

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Charlie takes 5 in the studio

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Charlie at the drums

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Charlie on drums

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Charlie at the door

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Guitars and amps

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Horns in the corridoor

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Recording horns

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Keith relaxes in a chair

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Keith and Charlie

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Keith plays guitar outside

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Keith and Gram Parsons

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Keith plays to an audience

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Keith at the door

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Mick and Keith in the studio

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Keith and statues

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Keith recording

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Keith relaxing
Mick in the studio
Mick at a table

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Mick with a Flying V guitar

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Mick playing guitar

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Mick with guitar at the table

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Mick rides a motorbike

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Mick, Jake and guitars

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Mick and Keith play guitars
Mick and Keith sat at a table

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Mick and Keith sat at a table

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Recording in the basement

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Mick, Keith and Jimmy

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Mick recording

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
The mobile recording studio

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
A view of Nellcote

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Keith and Nicky Hopkins

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Ian Stewart at the piano

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Mick Taylor strums guitar

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Mick Taylor recording

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Mick Taylor at the piano

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Mick Taylor recording

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
Jagger, Richards and Taylor recording

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
The band outside Nellcote

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971
The band outside Nellcote

Photograph by Dominique Tarlé, 1971

Dominique Tarlé is an acclaimed French photographer best known for his association with The Rolling Stones. The Stones escaped the UK’s punitive tax regime in 1971 and decamped to the South of France at Villa Nellcôte, where Keith had set up house with Anita Pallenberg and their son Marlon.

It became the location where Exile On Main Street was recorded, with the help of a mobile recording truck connected to a basement studio. Tarle recounted to the New York Times that, “A carnival of characters paraded through: Terry Southern, Gram Parsons, John Lennon, even a tribal band from Bengal… dope dealers from Marseille; petty thieves, who stole most of the drugs and half the furniture; and hangers-on, all of them there to witness what was happening.”

Tarle’s beautifully evocative photographs from Nellcote are renowned among Stones fans the world over. They have been the subject of a sold-out, limited edition Genesis Publications volume, Exile (2002). In an interview about the book, Tarle said, “… I realised that pictures are far more important than the photographers themselves. For myself, I could only say that the whole of the game was to remain invisible and to have the least possible impact on what was going on around me.”

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