To evoke his name is to summon the misty roofs of Paris bristling with the towers of Notre-Dame and the Eiffel Tower, in front of which the lover Riton whispers in the ear of his Marinette;
it is to invoke the shapely legs of a stranger perched on stiletto heels spanning a puddle in which the Place Vendôme is reflected… all immortalized in a subtle black and white of which only he had the secret.
Yet here, it is to Willy Ronis "
in color
" that we pay tribute.
A little-known part of his work, which the artist, who died in 2009, was nevertheless willing to reveal despite the technical constraints of the Kodachrome of the time that he used from 1955.
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A work that can be found gathered in a book soberly named
Paris-Couleurs.
The film is different, but its look is the same.
We find the same spontaneity, the same love for the capital as in his most famous photos.
Adorned with vivid and saturated colors, these images contain everything
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