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Little details

17th September 2009 by Violette

A few days ago, Ana celebrated Henri Cartier-Bresson in her blog post as one of the masters of ‘now’ in photography. Willy Ronis was also one of them.

I went to see a retrospective of his work a few years ago in Paris. The exhibition was extremely busy and very dense due to the amount of documents presented. However some of his pictures changed my vision of photography. The way they could look both so ancient and alive at the same time was fantastic. I especially remember Summer Holiday and Quai Malaquais and of course some of his famous Parisian pictures, most notably the ones he took of the North-East districts where I come from.

Most of these pictures, especially the ones with children conjure up a sense of enjoyment and mischievousness despite the circumstances that I found very touching.

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