La Banlieue de Paris

Robert Doisneau
La Banlieue de Paris

Photographs: Robert Doisneau

Text: Blaise Cendrars

Publisher: Pierre Seghers

135 pages

Pictures: 130

Year: 1949

Comments: Hardcover under dust jacket, 240 x 190 mm. First original edition, 1949. Gravure printing. Text in french. Dust jacket fragile, some wears to the extremities and to the spine (see pictures!), but binding is rather in pretty good condition. Some foxing but reproductions very well preserved. Included in The Photobook, vol. I by Martin Parr & Gerry Badger ; Roth 132-133 ; Auer 336. A scarce and very collectible book about Paris !

"When Doisneau began to photograph the suburbs of Gentilly and Montrouge, they were still the tough but spirited working-class communities celebrated in the poetic-realist films of Julien Duvivier and Marcel Carné. But Doisneau caught them just as they were about to change and expand beyond recognition, making this book a valuable document that looks unsentimentally yet affectionately at a popular idea of the French working class”

(The Photobook, Martin Parr & Gerry Badger)