Paris: Portrait of a City

Jean-Claude Gautrand

Publié par Taschen, le 01 août 2017

Résumé

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 Niepce and Daguerre officially gave birth to the new art of photography, and in this evocative tapestry of images, Paris: Portrait of a Cityleads us through the city sphotographic, as well as its cultural, architectural and civic history. Now in a popular Reader s Edition, the book features some500 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, Brassai, Kertesz, 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. About the Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe at an unbeatable, democratic price!Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, the name TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible, open-minded publishing.Bibliotheca Universalisbrings together nearly 100 of our all-time favorite titles in a neat new format so you can curate your own affordable library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia.Bookworm s delight never bore, always excite! Text in English, French, and German "