Photographers' Paris

by Jean-Claude Gautrand

Since Daguerre's invention more than 150 years ago, Paris has remained a favorite subject for photographers - both French and foreign. This collection includes includes the work of those early Eugene Atget's photographic elegies to the vanishing street vendors of fin-de-siecle Paris, Charles Negre's dramatic street scenes and character studies, Daguerre's formal images of the Parisian skyline with their remote and evanescent beauty, Charles Marville's haunting alleys and his compelling chronicles of Baron Haussmann's wholesale renovation of the city at mid-century. This book is a visual feast of every aspect of the city - of both the old Paris and its modern counterpart. Here are captivating images of the Boulevards, the Seine, Montmartre and Les Halles taken by Cartier-Bresson, Alfred Stieglitz, Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis, Andre Keresz, Man Ray and many others. 218 plates.

1 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1990