The French pop star Françoise Hardy, who died on Tuesday at the age of 80, was celebrated for her beauty and style, always striking the perfect pose whether she was doing a fashion shoot or had gotten caught in a candid picture. Hardy’s self-possession could be intimidating, but her songs created a sense of intimacy, pulling listeners close by exploring emotional depths, and she earned the love and loyalty of pop aficionados, devoted aesthetes and lonely souls.In these images we gathered, notice how she sometimes seems to be looking at us, even though we are looking at her. Notice also what is not there, besides any bad angles: no come-hither poses, no inviting décolleté, no exposed gams, and almost no teeth — Hardy’s smiles were of the closed lips, amused kind, not open-mouthed beams. In a photo captured on a motorboat, she’s the only one not wearing a bathing suit as she turns her face to the sun in what looks like serene bliss.Hardy was no prude and enjoyed fun — she was prone to fits of laughter, her close friend the singer Étienne Daho remembered in a brief eulogy — but she led her life and career while remaining true to herself, on her terms: watching the world with curiosity, artistically exacting, a little aloof and a little curmudgeonly, and always passionate.Hardy in London, where she did some of her recording, in 1963.Reporters Associes/Gamma-Rapho, via Getty ImagesHardy with Sheila, a fellow pop star, on the French Riviera, circa 1960. Hardy’s first big single was released in 1962.Reporters Associes/Gamma-Rapho, via Getty ImagesHardy and Claude François (center left) congratulate the winners of a twist dance competition in Paris, 1964.Keystone-France/Gamma-Rapho, via Getty ImagesHardy evolved into the kind of performer who unleashed emotion even as she refused to over-emote.Sam Falk/The New York TimesHardy at the Savoy Hotel in London, 1965. Jean-Marie Périer, in the background, photographed many of the yé-yé singers (as the rocking and twisting French singers of the era were known).Keystone-France/Gamma-Rapho, via Getty ImagesHardy on the set of the film “Grand Prix” in London, 1966.Keystone-France/Gamma-Rapho, via Getty ImagesHardy performing at the Savoy Hotel in London, 1967.Keystone/Hulton Archive and Getty ImagesHardy wearing a silver suit by the designer Paco Rabanne in London, 1968.Evening Standard/Hulton Archive and Getty ImagesCalle Hesslefors/ullstein bild, via Getty ImagesHardy on the streets of London in 1968.Chris Ware/Keystone Features and Getty ImagesBack in Paris, 1969.Reg Lancaster/Daily Express/Hulton Archive and Getty ImagesHardy, the actress Mireille Darc, and Liza Minnelli in the front row at Yves Saint-Laurent in Paris, 1969.Keystone-France/Gamma-Rapho, via Getty ImagesHardy rehearsing with her early singing teacher Mireille at a recording studio in Paris, 1969.Yves le Roux/Gamma-Rapho, via Getty ImagesHardy and the crooner Tino Rossi signing autographs at a campaign to support medical research in Paris, 1970.Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesHardy at the drums in 1970. Her main instrument was the guitar.Evening Standard/Hulton Archive and Getty ImagesHardy with the French singer-songwriter Julien Clerc in Lyon, 1974.Picot/Gamma-Rapho, via Getty ImagesHardy appeared on the German TV show “Liedercircus” (“Song Circus”) in 1977. Hardy stopped giving live concerts in the late ’60s.Impress Own/United Archives, via Getty ImagesHardy on the beach at Cannes, 1974.Gilbert Giribaldi/Gamma-Rapho, via Getty ImagesEtienne Daho and Hardy at the French music awards show Victoires De La Musique, in 1986.Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty ImagesHardy with Mireille again, at an event in Paris in 1996.Eric Feferberg/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesHardy with her son, Thomas Dutronc.Stephane Cardinale/Sygma, via Getty ImagesJacques Morell/Sygma, via Getty Images More