After the dispersal of the crowds and the vanishing of traffic, early morning Paris vibrates to silent notes; this is precisely the moment that the photographer Jean-Michel Berts chose to take these monumental portraits of the city. Perceived by his camera obscura, the buildings, the totally deserted streets and even the gardens take on a poetic, ethereal and almost dreamlike depth.
As François I confided to Charles V, "Paris is not a city, it's a world". At dawn or dusk, long after the teeming crowds have dispersed, long after the roaring traffic has faded, Paris still vibrates with a life of its own, silent, dark and mysterious. This is precisely the moment that photographer Jean-Michel Berts chose to capture it, in black and white: from the Opera to Montmartre, along the banks of the Seine or on the Grands Boulevards, in the footsteps of Baudelaire, Brassaï, Huysmans... Perceived by his camera obscura, the buildings, the totally deserted streets and even the trees and the stairs take on a poetic, ethereal and almost dreamlike depth.
Accompanied by a magnificent text by Pierre Assouline, this work, much more than a hymn to the City of Light, surprises Paris similar, under this light, to the work of a virtuoso sculptor. Finally, the exceptional dimensions of this work make it possible to fully appreciate the spectacular quality of each of these photographs, reproduced in full pages.
Details
131 pages
In French
Released in October 2007
W 26.97 x L 32.03 x D 1.98
Hardcover with book protector
ISBN: 9782843238826
1.6200kg
Brand: ASSOULINE BOOKS