DOISNEAU, Robert. La Banlieue de Paris. Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1949.



Click here to be notified by email when another copy becomes available.


ROBERT DOISNEAU'S FIRST BOOK


DOISNEAU, Robert and Blaise Cendrars.
La Banlieue de Paris.
Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1949.

8vo (233 × 172 mm), pp.56, 135, [5]. 128 black-and-white photographs. Text by Cendrars. Photo-illustrated endpapers. Cream paper-covered boards, spine and upper board lettered in black; light bumping to spine-ends and tips, small indentation to top edge of front board. Photo-illustrated dust-jacket; light wear to edges and rubbing to spine, short tears to folds. A near-fine copy in an excellent example of the fragile dust-jacket.

First edition, the preferred issue. La Guilde du Livre in Lausanne issued a pre-publication issue without a dust-jacket. Doisneau’s first book is an unsentimental and affectionate look at the lives of the working class in and around the suburbs of Paris, photographed just before the old districts were to change or disappear completely. At the time of publication Doisneau was not well known, though he had already taken a number of what would become his most famous photographs. He met Cendrars whilst on assignment for L’Album du Figaro; the two began a correspondence which with Cendrars’s support culminated in this book.

Sinibaldi, A. and Couturier, J-L., Regards sur un siècle de photographie à travers Le Livre (94); Parr, M. and Badger, G., The Photobook: A History vol.I p.201; Roth A., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century pp.132-3; Koetzle, H-M., Eyes on Paris: Paris im Fotobuch 1890 bis heute pp.202-5; Desachy, A., La Guilde du Livre: Les Albums Photographiques 1941-1977 pp.18-21.

 

Click here to view all items in the 'Space Never Stops' list

Click here to view all items in the 'Prismatic Gyrations and Stratified Emotions' list

 


Share this Product