Signed; Sabine Weiss - Les villes, la rue, l'autre - 2018
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Signed by Sabine Weiss, the 1st edition copy of Les villes, la rue, l'autre (2018) is a hardcover French photography book of 180 pages with 104 black-and-white full-page plates, issued by Editions du Centre Pompidou / Editions Xavier Barral.
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Exceptionally signed copy on the title page by Sabine Weiss (1924 – 2018), unique and unavailable in signed copies, very rare and nearing extinction in unsigned copies. 180 pages and 104 black and white photographs printed full-page outside the text, foreword by Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandoska and an interview with Sabine Weiss. Solid hardcover publisher's binding, illustrated on the cover and spine. Excellent condition, like new.
To view the photographic series in full screen, double-click on a photograph, then you can return to the standard display at any time.
This book was published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou (Paris), and the works exhibited were donated to the French state.
Through this book covering the period 1945-1960, corresponding to the challenging years after the war, a new interpretation of Sabine Weiss's photographs emerges. Whether it is children playing in the vacant lots of her neighborhood – Porte de Saint Cloud – the city of Paris, her daily life, the metro, flea markets... Sabine Weiss offers a view that is both gentle and understanding of the inhabitants, seeking simple beauties, suspended moments, rest, or daydreams. Her photographs are full of light, play of shadows, and blurriness. Similarly, whether in Moscow or New York, one of the recurring themes in her work is the street, urban life, the individual versus the crowd of metropolises. This rich and varied body of work, rooted in a humanist ethos, testifies to a commitment to reconcile photography with reality.
Born in 1924 in Switzerland, Sabine Weiss was naturalized as French in 1995. She is the most French of Swiss photographers and the most Swiss of French photographers. She is associated with the post-war French humanist school, which included photographers like Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis, Édouard Boubat, and Izis.
Sabine Weiss became interested in photography at a very early age and decided to turn her passion into a profession. During the war, she apprenticed at the Boissonnas studio in Geneva. After the armistice, she decided to settle in Paris and worked for a few years with Willy Maywald, who introduced her to the world of fashion and Parisian high society. She quickly became an independent photographer. She published her first photographic report at the age of twenty-one; at twenty-nine, she participated in the 'Post-War European Photography' exhibition at the MoMA in New York and joined the agency Rapho. A year later, the Art Institute of Chicago dedicated a solo exhibition to her, which toured the United States. The following year, in 1955, three of her photographs were included in the 'The Family of Man' exhibition at the MoMA in New York.
Sabine Weiss reflects on this prolific journey through a selection of black and white photographs, iconic or rarer, but where emotion always surfaces. The emotion captured by the lens. The emotion felt in front of these snapshots taken in a flash. A body of work entirely dedicated to others, expressing a deep love of life and openly bearing witness to the human condition.
Book from my personal collection, in excellent condition (like new), kept with the utmost care. Shipping is very securely protected and international postal tracking is guaranteed. In case of multiple purchases, there is the possibility of combined shipping with reimbursement of any overpaid postal fees via Paypal.
1.1 kg excluding packaging
Exceptionally signed copy on the title page by Sabine Weiss (1924 – 2018), unique and unavailable in signed copies, very rare and nearing extinction in unsigned copies. 180 pages and 104 black and white photographs printed full-page outside the text, foreword by Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandoska and an interview with Sabine Weiss. Solid hardcover publisher's binding, illustrated on the cover and spine. Excellent condition, like new.
To view the photographic series in full screen, double-click on a photograph, then you can return to the standard display at any time.
This book was published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou (Paris), and the works exhibited were donated to the French state.
Through this book covering the period 1945-1960, corresponding to the challenging years after the war, a new interpretation of Sabine Weiss's photographs emerges. Whether it is children playing in the vacant lots of her neighborhood – Porte de Saint Cloud – the city of Paris, her daily life, the metro, flea markets... Sabine Weiss offers a view that is both gentle and understanding of the inhabitants, seeking simple beauties, suspended moments, rest, or daydreams. Her photographs are full of light, play of shadows, and blurriness. Similarly, whether in Moscow or New York, one of the recurring themes in her work is the street, urban life, the individual versus the crowd of metropolises. This rich and varied body of work, rooted in a humanist ethos, testifies to a commitment to reconcile photography with reality.
Born in 1924 in Switzerland, Sabine Weiss was naturalized as French in 1995. She is the most French of Swiss photographers and the most Swiss of French photographers. She is associated with the post-war French humanist school, which included photographers like Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis, Édouard Boubat, and Izis.
Sabine Weiss became interested in photography at a very early age and decided to turn her passion into a profession. During the war, she apprenticed at the Boissonnas studio in Geneva. After the armistice, she decided to settle in Paris and worked for a few years with Willy Maywald, who introduced her to the world of fashion and Parisian high society. She quickly became an independent photographer. She published her first photographic report at the age of twenty-one; at twenty-nine, she participated in the 'Post-War European Photography' exhibition at the MoMA in New York and joined the agency Rapho. A year later, the Art Institute of Chicago dedicated a solo exhibition to her, which toured the United States. The following year, in 1955, three of her photographs were included in the 'The Family of Man' exhibition at the MoMA in New York.
Sabine Weiss reflects on this prolific journey through a selection of black and white photographs, iconic or rarer, but where emotion always surfaces. The emotion captured by the lens. The emotion felt in front of these snapshots taken in a flash. A body of work entirely dedicated to others, expressing a deep love of life and openly bearing witness to the human condition.
Book from my personal collection, in excellent condition (like new), kept with the utmost care. Shipping is very securely protected and international postal tracking is guaranteed. In case of multiple purchases, there is the possibility of combined shipping with reimbursement of any overpaid postal fees via Paypal.
1.1 kg excluding packaging
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