[1] Henry Chapier was born in Bucharest, Romania, the son of an international lawyer and an actress of Austrian descent.

[2] Chapier began in 1958 a career as film critic collaborating with the weekly newspaper Arts with François Truffaut.

In 1973, he directed the "semi-experimental" film Amore, with a score by Vangelis Papathanassiou[5] and a screenplay ostensibly by Paul Morrissey & Andy Warhol.

[6] In April 1974, Philippe Tesson created Le Quotidien de Paris and Henry Chapier was the editor-in-chief of the Culture pages.

[1] He left France 3 that year and became president of the Maison européenne de la photographie in 1996.