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Les petits miracles de la vieOne of the great chroniclers of Parisian life in the 20th centuryProduced in close cooperation with Willy Ronis and featuring images from his archives, this book traces the career of one of France's most remarkable photographers, to whom, along with Doisneau, Cartier-Bresson, and Brassaï, we owe our romantic vision of France. In Ronis's photos of Paris, the city is inseparable from the working class men, women, and children who inhabit its streets and cafes. He once described his approach to photography in five words: "patience, thinking, chance, form, and time." Working with available light, Ronis sought to capture the fleeting moments of everyday life, and his body of work documents, with timeless beauty and grace, the feel of French life in the 20th century.
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Jean Claude Gautrand, geb. 1932, gilt in Frankreich als einer der herausragenden Experten in Sachen Fotografie. Seit 1960 ist er als Fotograf aktiv und machte sich auch als Historiker, Journalist und Kritiker mit zahlreichen Veröffentlichungen einen Namen. Für TASCHEN verfasste er die Bücher Paris mon amour (1999), Doisneau (2003), Brassaï (2004) und Ronis (2005)
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Les petits miracles de la vie
One of the great chroniclers of Parisian life in the 20th century
Produced in close cooperation with Willy Ronis and featuring images from his archives, this book traces the career of one of France's most remarkable photographers, to whom, along with Doisneau, Cartier-Bresson, and Brassa, we owe our romantic vision of France. In Ronis's photos of Paris, the city is inseparable from the working class men, women, and children who inhabit its streets and cafes. He once described his approach to photography in five words: "patience, thinking, chance, form, and time." Working with available light, Ronis sought to capture the fleeting moments of everyday life, and his body of work documents, with timeless beauty and grace, the feel of French life in the 20th century.
