A postwar day with Kertesz in Paris, 1945
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Author: Kertész, André
Title: Day of Paris
Place Published: New York
Publisher:J.J. Augustin
Date Published: [1945]
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[4], 148 pp. Edited by George Davis. With 103 halftones from photographs by André Kertész (many double-page). Cloth, jacket. First Edition.
Day of Paris contains “some of Kertész’s most famous photos,” taken before he was forced to leave Europe at the outbreak of WWII (Roth, 114). “The keynote of Day of Paris is elegance… Kertész’ book loosely follows a familiar scenario, a ‘day in the life’ of Paris, beginning with the gargoyles of Notre Dame and giving us a photographic modernist’s tour of the city, nodding appreciatively at Henri Cartier-Bresson along the way, and ending up with Brassaï in a series of nocturnal views” (Parr & Badger Vol. I, p. 200).
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Author: Kertész, André
Title: Day of Paris
Place Published: New York
Publisher:J.J. Augustin
Date Published: [1945]
Description:
[4], 148 pp. Edited by George Davis. With 103 halftones from photographs by André Kertész (many double-page). Cloth, jacket. First Edition.
Day of Paris contains “some of Kertész’s most famous photos,” taken before he was forced to leave Europe at the outbreak of WWII (Roth, 114). “The keynote of Day of Paris is elegance… Kertész’ book loosely follows a familiar scenario, a ‘day in the life’ of Paris, beginning with the gargoyles of Notre Dame and giving us a photographic modernist’s tour of the city, nodding appreciatively at Henri Cartier-Bresson along the way, and ending up with Brassaï in a series of nocturnal views” (Parr & Badger Vol. I, p. 200).
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