Ronis, Willy - Paris, 1964 (Eiffel Tower) - photographic art postcard

Art Postcard
• Work of art title: Paris, 1964 [shows Eiffel Tower]
• Artist (if known): Willy Ronis
• Media or other details:  photography
• Publisher / Gallery: Nouvelles Images, France
• Postally used:  no - written message
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): na
• Size: modern
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Stock No.: A834

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Willy Ronis (French: [wili ??nis]; August 14, 1910 – September 12, 2009^[1]) was a French photographer. His best-known work shows life in post-war Paris and Provence.

Ronis was born in Paris; his father, Emmanuel Ronis,^[2] was a Jewish refugee from Odessa, and his mother, Ida Gluckmann,^[2] was a refugee from Lithuania, both escaped from the pogroms. His father opened a photography studio in Montmartre, and his mother gave piano lessons.^[3] The boy's early interest was music and he hoped to become a composer. Returning from compulsory military service in 1932, his violin studies were put on hold because his father's cancer required Ronis to take over the family portrait business; Ronis' passion for music has been observed in his photographs.^[4] His father died in 1936, whereupon the business collapsed and Ronis went freelance, his first photographs being published in Regards.^[5] In 1937 he met David Seymour and Robert Capa, and did his first work for Plaisir de France; in 1938–39 he reported on a strike at Citroën and traveled in the Balkans.^[5] With Cartier-Bresson, Ronis belonged to Association des Écrivains et Artistes Révolutionnaires, and remained a man of the left.^[4]

The work of photographers, Alfred Stieglitz and Ansel Adams inspired Ronis to begin exploring photography.^[6] After his father's death, in 1936, Ronis closed the studio and joined the photo agency Rapho, with Brassaï, Robert Doisneau and Ergy Landau.^[6]

Ronis became the first French photographer to work for Life.^[6] In 1953, Edward Steichen included Ronis, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Izis, and Brassaï in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art titled Five French Photographers.^[5] In 1955, Ronis was included in the Family of Man exhibition. The Venice Biennale awarded him its Gold Medal in 1957.^[5] Ronis began teaching in the 1950s, and taught at the School of Fine Arts in Avignon, Aix-en-Provence and Saint Charles, Marseilles. In 1979 he was awarded the Grand Prix des Arts et Lettres for Photography by the Minister for Culture.^[5] Ronis won the Prix Nadar in 1981 for his photobook, Sur le fil du hasard.^[5]

Ronis' wife, the Communist militant painter Marie-Anne Lansiaux (1910–91),^[4] was the subject of his well-known 1949 photograph, Nu provençal (Provençal nude). The photograph, taken in a house that Marie-Anne and he had just bought in Gordes,^[7] showed Marie-Anne washing at a basin with a water pitcher on the floor and an open window through which the viewer can see a garden, this is noted for its ability to convey an easy feeling of Provençal life. The photograph was a ""huge success"";^[4] Ronis would comment, ""The destiny of this image, published constantly around the world, still astonishes me.""^[7] Ronis lived in Provence from the 1960s to the 1980s.^[4]

Late in her life, Ronis photographed Marie-Anne suffering from Alzheimer's disease, sitting alone in a park surrounded by autumn trees.^[8]

Ronis' nudes and fashion work (for Vogue and Le Jardin des modes) show his appreciation for natural beauty;^[4] meanwhile, he remained a principled news photographer, resigning from Rapho for a twenty-five year period when he objected to the hostile captioning by The New York Times to his photograph of a strike.^[4]

Despite stiff competition from Robert Doisneau and others, the Oxford Companion to the Photograph terms Ronis ""the photographer of Paris par excellence"".^[4]

Ronis continued to live and work in Paris, although he stopped photography in 2001, since he required a cane to walk and could not move around with his camera. He also worked on books for the Taschen publishing company.^[6]

In 2005-2006 the City of Paris presented ""Willy Ronis in Paris"", a big retrospective show of his work, that had a huge success with over than 500,000 visitors.^[9]

Exhibition at Rencontres d'Arles (French) festival (France) in 2009.

Ronis died at age 99, on September 12, 2009.

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