Paris: Ronis
Humanist photographer Willy Ronis’s most iconic images of Paris are beautifully produced in this affordable volume.
 
Unparalleled in his ability to portray the Parisian joie de vivre, Willy Ronis captured sheer delight on the faces he photographed, from the Parisian gamin running with an oversized baguette to the cheerful Parisiennes behind the bakery counter, and from dancers in full swing at a summer festival to a gaggle of children in a bumper-car tangle. His images are iconic and varied, ranging from lovers embracing in front of the Eiffel Tower to monuments softened by gauzy fog to a determined factory worker protesting for her rights.

The Parisian-born Ronis bought his first Rolleiflex camera in 1937 at the age of 27. He strolled the streets of his beloved city, training his camera on the working-class neighborhoods of Belleville and Ménilmontant, capturing the essence of everyday life in Paris. He memorialized the urban landscape—a lamp-lit bridge or the leafy horse chestnut trees bordering the Seine—and typical Parisians—in the metro, sunbathing on the Île de la Cité, or ice-skating in the park.

This pocket volume of high-quality reproductions is a joyful tribute to Paris and the esteemed photographer’s finest work.
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Paris: Ronis
Humanist photographer Willy Ronis’s most iconic images of Paris are beautifully produced in this affordable volume.
 
Unparalleled in his ability to portray the Parisian joie de vivre, Willy Ronis captured sheer delight on the faces he photographed, from the Parisian gamin running with an oversized baguette to the cheerful Parisiennes behind the bakery counter, and from dancers in full swing at a summer festival to a gaggle of children in a bumper-car tangle. His images are iconic and varied, ranging from lovers embracing in front of the Eiffel Tower to monuments softened by gauzy fog to a determined factory worker protesting for her rights.

The Parisian-born Ronis bought his first Rolleiflex camera in 1937 at the age of 27. He strolled the streets of his beloved city, training his camera on the working-class neighborhoods of Belleville and Ménilmontant, capturing the essence of everyday life in Paris. He memorialized the urban landscape—a lamp-lit bridge or the leafy horse chestnut trees bordering the Seine—and typical Parisians—in the metro, sunbathing on the Île de la Cité, or ice-skating in the park.

This pocket volume of high-quality reproductions is a joyful tribute to Paris and the esteemed photographer’s finest work.
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Paris: Ronis

Paris: Ronis

by Willy Ronis
Paris: Ronis

Paris: Ronis

by Willy Ronis

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Humanist photographer Willy Ronis’s most iconic images of Paris are beautifully produced in this affordable volume.
 
Unparalleled in his ability to portray the Parisian joie de vivre, Willy Ronis captured sheer delight on the faces he photographed, from the Parisian gamin running with an oversized baguette to the cheerful Parisiennes behind the bakery counter, and from dancers in full swing at a summer festival to a gaggle of children in a bumper-car tangle. His images are iconic and varied, ranging from lovers embracing in front of the Eiffel Tower to monuments softened by gauzy fog to a determined factory worker protesting for her rights.

The Parisian-born Ronis bought his first Rolleiflex camera in 1937 at the age of 27. He strolled the streets of his beloved city, training his camera on the working-class neighborhoods of Belleville and Ménilmontant, capturing the essence of everyday life in Paris. He memorialized the urban landscape—a lamp-lit bridge or the leafy horse chestnut trees bordering the Seine—and typical Parisians—in the metro, sunbathing on the Île de la Cité, or ice-skating in the park.

This pocket volume of high-quality reproductions is a joyful tribute to Paris and the esteemed photographer’s finest work.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9782080203687
Publisher: Rizzoli
Publication date: 09/04/2018
Edition description: Bilingual
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Major twentieth-century photographer Willy Ronis (1910–2009) was featured in MoMA’s exhibitions The Family of Man (1955), Postwar European Photography (1953), and Five French Photographers (1951–52). His photographs appeared in Life, Vogue, and Time, and he received many awards, including the Venice Biennale Gold Medal, the Grand Prix des Arts et Lettres, and the Prix Nadar.
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