Paris Portrait of a City Jean Claude Gautrand Taschen Hardcover Eng Fre Ger

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Selling a collection of Quality books on Photographers All are Brand New unless stated otherwise All are Hardcovers Below the description of this book is the whole list I have available, if it is not listed on eBay yet, send me a message and I will give you a price Thanks for taking a look Pick up available from Ballarat Paris Portrait of a City Jean Claude Gautrand Taschen English French German Hardcover Brand New jacket has a 10cm tear along back edge hence price This is the vivid history of the capital of love and photography. After Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York, here comes the 4th volume in our Portrait of a City series: L'air de Paris . A city built on two millennia of history, Paris is entering the third century of its love story with photography. It was on the banks of the Seine that Niepce and Daguerre officially gave birth to this new art that has flourished ever since, developing a distinctive language and becoming a vital tool of kwledge. Paris, Portrait of a City leads us through what Goethe described as 'universal city where every step upon a bridge or a square recalls a great past, where a fragment of history is unrolled at the corner of every street'. This history is recounted in photographs, all the way from Daguerre's incunabula to the most recent images. In fact, Paris can claim to be the only city in the world whose archives house an almost complete record of over a century and a half of transformations. This huge parama of nearly 600 pages and as many

• Publisher: Taschen
• Condition: Fine

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