Paris: Portrait of a City
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (548 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3836556065 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 544 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Jean Claude Gautrand, born in 1932, is one of France’s most distinguished experts on photography. . He is the author of the TASCHEN books Paris mon amour (1999), Robert Doisneau (2003), Brassaï (2004), Willy Ronis (2005) and Paris, Portrait of a City (2011). An active photographer since 1960, he has also made a name for himself as a historian, journalist and critic, with numerous publications
Some 500 pictures bring together past and present, the monumental and the everyday, faces and vistas, as well as the talents of such illustrious photographers as Daguerre, Marville, Atget, Lartigue, Brassaï, Kertész, Ronis, Doisneau, Cartier-Bresson.Text in English, French, and German. It’s the city of Marcel Proust and Coco Chanel, of Edith Piaf and Jean-Paul Sartre, of Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, of Left Bank cool and the twinkling lights of the Tour Eiffel by night. Paris, Je T’Aime A photographic tribute to a capital of romance Described by Goethe as the “universal city where every step upon a bridge or a square recalls a great past,&
. 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), Brassaï (2004), Willy Ronis (2005) and Paris, Portrait of a City (2011). Jean Claude Gautrand, born in 1932, is one of France’s most distinguished experts on photo