All photos ©2020 David Burnett/Contact Press Images Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, or VGE as he was known, served as president of France from 1974 to 1981, just as oil shock and inflation were  buffeting the West. I had been working for GAMMA, the French photo agency, for about a year. LIFE magazine, where I had hoped … Continue reading Valéry Giscard d’Estaing: his ‘personal’ American photographer reflects