Shoes and the Eiffel Tower, for Stern, 1974.
Once again, a book by the German Taschen, which could very well be the Paris of the publishing world, portrays the city from its unique perspective and launches a new and precious collector's item designed by Jean Claude Gautrand.
'Paris, portrait of a city' traces the history of the city through more than 600 photographs, from the beginning of the revolutionary system, precisely on the banks of the Seine where Niépce and Daguerre gave birth to it, to the present day with digital culture and its Technical advances. Which makes Paris proud of being one of the few cities in the world whose photographic history spans three centuries, and adds more than a century and a half of uninterrupted snapshots that follow the trail of her beautiful face.
Its bridges, squares, palaces, monuments and, above all, its inhabitants, go through the photographs that keep the essence of Paris, that characteristic atmosphere of the city of light, love and so many other names, which try to describe that ' je ne sais pas' that deceives everyone who steps on it. Among the photographers who parade through its pages are Marville, Atget, Lartigue, Brassaï, Kertész, Ronis, Doisneau and Cartier-Bresson, as well as a large number of unknown artists.
In a trilingual edition: Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, and with 624 pages bound with care in a large hardcover format, the monograph on the French capital will be released in our country on March 23 at a cost of €49.99 . “A universal city where a walk across a bridge or a square evokes a great past, where a fragment of history has been experienced in every corner” , said Goethe of Paris, a quote that would perfectly summarize the content of this book, a great family album for the world.
Cover of 'Paris, portrait of a city'.