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Grand Spring Ball is a celebration of Paris, sung as a duet by a poet, Prévert, and a photographer, Izis. A love song to a city. Jacques Prévert has always loved and sung of 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 is very small / that is its true greatness." Prévert’s Paris is that of working-class neighborhoods, street music, festivals and poverty, children running free, and “strange strangers.” Prévert’s Paris is a human city, a city of everyday life, with its great misfortunes and small joys. Izis’s photographs give faces to this humanity.
Published by Lausanne, La Guilde du livre, 1951
148 pages
Grand Spring Ball is a celebration of Paris, sung as a duet by a poet, Prévert, and a photographer, Izis. A love song to a city. Jacques Prévert has always loved and sung of 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 is very small / that is its true greatness." Prévert’s Paris is that of working-class neighborhoods, street music, festivals and poverty, children running free, and “strange strangers.” Prévert’s Paris is a human city, a city of everyday life, with its great misfortunes and small joys. Izis’s photographs give faces to this humanity.
Published by Lausanne, La Guilde du livre, 1951
148 pages