Paris: Portrait of a City - Softcover

Gautrand, Jean Claude

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9783836532174: Paris: Portrait of a City

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3836532174 ISBN 13: 9783836532174

Publisher: Taschen America Llc, 2013

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L'air de Paris. This is the vivid history of the capital of love and photography. A city built on two millennia of history, Paris is entering the third century of its love story with photography. It was on the banks of the Seine that Niepce and Daguerre officially gave birth to this new art that has flourished ever since, developing a distinctive language and becoming a vital tool of knowledge. "Paris, Portrait of a City" recounts the history of the city in photographs ranging from Daguerre's early incunabula to the most recent images - a span of over a century and a half of transformations. This book brings together the past and the present, the monumental and the everyday, objects and people. Images captured by the most illustrious photographers - Daguerre, Marville, Atget, Lartigue, Brassai, Kertesz, Ronis, Doisneau, Cartier-Bresson and many more - but also by many unknown photographers, attempt to bottle just a little of that "Parisian air," something of that particular poetry given out by the stones and inhabitants of a constantly changing city that has inspired untold numbers of writers and artists over the ages.

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"A visual hymn to the French capital... The book collects a fascinating set of photographs that capture its shifting face over 150 years of reinvention through revolution, occupation and volcanic artistic expression."

"Photographic journeys through the past and present of some of the world's most iconic metropolises."

"These are cut-downs of the larger versions... but manage to feel uncompromised, satisfying in the hand, still with great vintage photography, lyrical quotes, and captions... It's uplifting to find books this good at this price."

About the Author:

The editor: Jean Claude Gautrand, born in 1932, is one of France's most distinguished experts on photography. An active photographer since 1960, he has also made a name for himself as a historian, journalist and critic, with numerous publications. He is the author of the TASCHEN books Paris mon amour(1999), Doisneau (2003), Brassai (2004) and Ronis (2005).

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