Riassunto:
At once cosmopolitan metropolis and venue for a pensive stroll, Moloch and emblem of the modern, Paris has been a source of inspiration for countless artists and writers down the ages. But not least it is the home and constant muse of a relatively young art: photography. Since the earliest days of the daguerreotype right up to our time, renowned photographers such as Joseph Nicephore Niepce, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, and Jeanloup Sieff have lived and worked in the city of lights. Over the years a love affair developed between Paris and photography, giving rise to a remarkable record of the metropolis and a telling history of a new art form. This volume takes the reader on numerous walks, camera in hand, through the streets of Paris. Atmospheric black-and-white photos, shot by great photographers over two centuries, reveal the dramatic and the tranquil, the historic and the everyday - in the capital's parks and gardens, boulevards and backstreets, passages and arcades, bistros and nightclubs.
L'autore:
Sobre el autor:Jean Claude Gautrand, nacido en 1932, es uno de los expertos en fotografía más distinguidos de Francia. Fotógrafo en activo desde 1960, también ha adquirido renombre como periodista y crítico, con numerosas publicaciones en su haber. Es el autor de los libros de TASCHEN Paris mon amour (1999), Brassaï (2004), Willy Ronis (2005), Robert Doisneau (2014) y Eugène Atget: París (2016).
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