Chemins de la vie

Jean-Philippe Charbonnier
Chemins de la vie

Photographs: Jean-Philippe Charbonnier

Text: Philippe Soupault

Publisher: Editions du Cap

164 pages

Pictures: 70

Year: 1957

Price: 200 €

Comments: Hardcover with dust jacket as issued (very hard to find!), 275 x 215 mm. Gravure reproductions. Text in french. First edition, 1957. Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol.1, p.210 ; Auer Collection, p.367. Dust jacket with tears and marks in fair condition. The first pages are stained and one page is marked by a stamp (see pictures). Otherwise copy in really great condition.

Jean-Philippe Charbonnier was a french photo-journalist. All the photographs of this book looked like a manifesto of humanistic kind. They have been taken in reports, performed around the world, for the magazine Réalités (with Edouard Boubat and Jean-Louis Swiners) to which Jean-Philippe Charbonnier was attached from 1950. His work is here accompanied by a text from the surrealist poet and writer Philippe Soupault.