Paris. Portrait of a City - Softcover

Gautrand, Jean Claude

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3836556065 ISBN 13: 9783836556064

Publisher: TASCHEN, 2017

Synopsis

A lens on the city of lights: A photographic tribute to a capital of romance

Described by Goethe as  universal city where every step upon a bridge or a square recalls a great past, where a fragment of history is unrolled at the corner of every street , Paris is as rich in its two millennia of history as it is in its beauty, its romance, and its art.

It was on the banks of the Seine that Niépce and Daguerre officially gave birth to the new art of photography, and in this evocative tapestry of images, Paris: Portrait of a City leads us through the city s photographic, as well as its cultural, architectural and civic history. Now in a popular Reader s Edition, the book features some 500 pictures, bringing together past and present, the monumental and the everyday, faces and vistas. Images captured by the most illustrious photographers Daguerre, Marville, Atget, Lartigue, Brassaï, Kertész, Ronis, Doisneau, Cartier-Bresson, sit alongside unknown photographers whose work somehow bottles a little of that Parisian air, in all its sensuality, its poetry and its light.

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Review:

"A luminous, voluminous portrait of Paris."

About the Author:

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), Robert Doisneau (2003), Brassai (2004), Willy Ronis (2005) and Paris, Portrait of a City (2011).

About this edition

• Publisher: TASCHEN
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 3836556065
• ISBN 13: 9783836556064
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432
• Illustrator: Nippoldt Robert