Claude Ferrand (1927-2006) was a pioneer in experimental color photography.

Renowned for his technical innovations in the color laboratories of Kodak and ELLE magazine before opening his own studio in 1962, Ferrand collaborated with prestigious brands like Chanel, Dior, and Guerlain, as well as artists such as William Klein. Jean-Claude Lemagny (The National Library of France - BnF) regarded his work as "a successful, and perhaps unique, testament to the crossing of boundaries between advertising and art, the decorative and the creative, the rigor of forms and the pleasures of the eye."