Paris mon amour

Häftad bok. Köln; London : Taschen. 2004. 239 sidor.

Nära nyskick. Bok i stort s.k. coffee table format.

Boken är en kärleksförklaring till Paris och parisarna genom 1900-talet.

Över 500 fantastiska bilder i svartvitt. Många av dem i helsidesformat. Flera av världens stora fotografer har tagit bilderna mellan åren 1920-1990.

Boken har engelsk, fransk och tysk bildtext.

Nedan följer en presentation på engelska.

"At once a cosmopolitan metropolis, venue for a pensive stroll, and emblem of the modern, Paris has been a source of inspiration for countless artists and writers down through the ages. But not least it is the home and constant muse of a relatively young art: photography. Since the earliest days of the daguerreotype right up to our time, renowned photographers such as Joseph Nicephore Niepce, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, and Jeanloup Sieff have lived and worked in the city of lights. Over the years a love affair developed between Paris and photography, giving rise to a remarkable record of the metropolis and a telling history of a new art form. This volume takes the reader on numerous walks, camera in hand, through the streets of Paris. Atmospheric black-and-white photos, shot by great photographers over two centuries, reveal the dramatic and the tranquil, the historic and the everyday-in the capital's parks and gardens, boulevards and backstreets, passages and arcades, bistros and nightclubs."