Brigitte Bardot: A Life in Pictures

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:

Brigitte Bardot in Cannes, France, in 1956.

Bardot, with Roger Vadim, the French director, in a film studio. They were briefly married in the 1950s.

Bardot, in parachutist’s uniform, during the shooting of “Babette Goes to War,” directed by Christian-Jaque in 1959.

Bardot with the tennis players, from left, Lew Hoad, Pancho Segura, Barry MacKay, Andres Gimeno, Tony Trabert, Robert Haillet and Butch Buchholz at the Roland Garros stadium, Paris, in 1961.

Bardot and Jacques Charrier in 1959. They married that year.

Bardot in London, 1959, during the shooting of “Babette Goes to War.”

Bardot on the set of “The Truth,” directed by G.H. Clouzot, in Paris, 1960.

Bardot and Charrier in 1960 with their newborn son, Nicolas. The couple divorced in 1963.

Bardot in 1962 with the screenwriter Marcel Achard, second from right, at the Cirque D’Hiver in Paris.

Bardot on the set of “Viva Maria,” directed by Louis Malle, in Mexico, 1965.

Bardot arriving at Orly Airport in Paris from Mexico in 1965.

Bardot in December 1965 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, where she came to attend the preview of “Viva Maria.”

Bardot during filming of “Viva Maria” in Mexico, 1965.

Bardot with her then husband, Gunter Sachs, during their honeymoon in Las Vegas in 1966. They divorced in 1969.

Bardot in 1968 on the set of Edward Dmytryk’s “Shalako.”

Bardot with the actors Jean-Paul Belmondo (with beard) and Jean-Pierre Cassel (leaning in) at the Cirque d’Hiver in Paris in 1970.

Bardot at a photo exhibition of herself in Paris, 1971.

Bardot running from reporters at the Colombes Stadium, near Paris, 1971.

Bardot, right, with the Italian actress Claudia Cardinale at the premiere of “The Legend of Frenchie King” in Paris, 1971.

Bardot and her then boyfriend, Christian Kalt, at the premiere of “Rum Runners” in Paris, 1971.

Bardot in Paris, 1976, at a news conference announcing the creation of the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, which aimed to protect the environment and animals.

Bardot at a debate over seal hunting at the European Council in Strasburg, France, in 1978.

Bardot in Paris, 1982.

Bardot on a northern French beach with a seal pup in 1990.

Bardot with Vadim in Saint-Tropez, France, in 1995, after the screening of his 1957 film “And God Created Woman,” in which she starred.

Bardot during an animal rights protest in Brussels, 1995.

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