![[Item #81328] La Banlieue de Paris. PHOTOGRAPHY, Blaise CENDRARS, Robert DOISNEAU, text, photographs, FRANCE.](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/81328.jpg?auto=webp&v=1716333848)
La Banlieue de Paris
Paris: Pierre Seghers, Éditeur, 1949. First Edition. First Impression. Small quarto (24cm); original pale yellow paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; photo-illustrated endpapers; [5],6-135,[5]pp, featuring 130 photogravure images by Doisneau. Spine ends bumped, upper corners tapped, with wear to lower corners, gentle sunning to spine, with some of the usual light dust-soil to covers, and a hint of foxing to text edges; Very Good+, lacking the dustjacket.
"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" (PARR & BADGER, Vol.1, p.201).
Price: $500.00