Paris. Portrait of a City

Paris, built on two millennia of history, is both a city to fall in love with and a city to photograph. Taschen's coffee-table book 'Paris. Portrait of a City' is a visual guide to the French metropolis that summarizes the chic zeitgeist of the city of lights in hundreds of carefully selected images, from some of the very first photographs ever taken of Paris - by Louis Daguerre and Henry Fox Talbot - to iconic images of the city's fashion, art and architecture from photographers such as Marville, Atget, Lartigue, Brassaï, Kertész, Ronis, Doisneau and Cartier-Bresson.

Paris, a city with a history of two millennia, is entering the third century of its love story with photography. It was on the banks of the Seine that Niépce and Daguerre officially brought to life this new art form, which has since flourished, developed its own language and become an essential tool of knowledge.

The book "Paris: Portrait of a City" takes us through what Goethe described as a "universal city where every step on a bridge or a square recalls a great past, where on every street corner a fragment of history is unfolded. The history of Paris is told through photographs ranging from Daguerre's early incunabula to the most recent images - a nearly complete account of more than a century and a half of transformations and a comprehensive panorama of more than 600 pages and 500 photographs.

Specifications
Title: Paris. Portrait of a City
Author: Jean Claude Gautrand
Publisher: TASCHEN
Size: 335 x 257 x 45 mm
Size: 544 pages
Weight: 3279 grams
Language: English
Material: Hardcover
ISBN: 9783836502931

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