GRAND BAL DU PRINTEMPS - Jacques Prévert and Izis
Grand Bal du Printemps is a celebration of Paris, sung as a duet by a poet, Prévert, and a photographer, Izis. A love song for a city. Jacques Prévert has always loved and sung about Paris: he was and remains "the poet of Paris". This book, enriched with 62 photos of Paris by Izis, is the best proof of this.
"Paris est tout petit / c'est là sa vraie grandeur". Prévert's Paris is a city of working-class neighborhoods, street music, parties and misery, children on the loose and "strange strangers". Prévert's Paris is a human city, a city of everyday life, with its great misfortunes and its small pleasures. Izis's photographs put faces to this humanity.
Published by Lausanne, La Guilde du livre, 1951
148 pages
Grand Bal du Printemps is a celebration of Paris, sung as a duet by a poet, Prévert, and a photographer, Izis. A love song for a city. Jacques Prévert has always loved and sung about Paris: he was and remains "the poet of Paris". This book, enriched with 62 photos of Paris by Izis, is the best proof of this.
"Paris est tout petit / c'est là sa vraie grandeur". Prévert's Paris is a city of working-class neighborhoods, street music, parties and misery, children on the loose and "strange strangers". Prévert's Paris is a human city, a city of everyday life, with its great misfortunes and its small pleasures. Izis's photographs put faces to this humanity.
Published by Lausanne, La Guilde du livre, 1951
148 pages
Grand Bal du Printemps is a celebration of Paris, sung as a duet by a poet, Prévert, and a photographer, Izis. A love song for a city. Jacques Prévert has always loved and sung about Paris: he was and remains "the poet of Paris". This book, enriched with 62 photos of Paris by Izis, is the best proof of this.
"Paris est tout petit / c'est là sa vraie grandeur". Prévert's Paris is a city of working-class neighborhoods, street music, parties and misery, children on the loose and "strange strangers". Prévert's Paris is a human city, a city of everyday life, with its great misfortunes and its small pleasures. Izis's photographs put faces to this humanity.
Published by Lausanne, La Guilde du livre, 1951
148 pages