Cannes by the Traversos - in pictures

A woman is thrown into a swimming pool after La Dolce Vita’s victory in the Palme d’Or, 1960 Photograph: Photo Traverso

Elizabeth Taylor – seen here in 1950 – was one of many actors happy to mingle on the beach with the public. By the late 1960s most had retreated before a growing media scrum Photograph: Photo Traverso

Brigitte Bardot with a schoolboy in tow, 1955, photographed by Gilles Traverso’s father Henri. 'For people like Bardot' says Gilles, 'the promotion was also a performance' Photograph: Photo Traverso

An ill-at-ease Andy Warhol in 1967, with some of his muses – including the singer Nico, sat beside him Photograph: Photo Traverso

The stars of Taxi Driver – Jodie Foster, Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel – in 1976, the year the film, directed by Martin Scorsese, won the Palme d’Or. De Niro returns in 2011 as president of the jury Photograph: Photo Traverso

Arnold Schwarzenegger gatecrashes the party in 1977, with support from the Folies Bergère Photograph: Photo Traverso

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, promoting Inglourious Basterds, in 2009 Photograph: Photo Traverso