Dec 13, 2007 - Sale 2132

Sale 2132 - Lot 78

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(DOISNEAU, ROBERT.) La Banlieue de Paris. Text by Blaise Cendrars. Illustrated with 130 photogravure reproductions of Doisneau's photographs of Parisian suburbs. Small 4to, black-stamped boards, lightly soiled. Parr/Badger I 201. first edition. Paris: Pierre Seghers, Éditeur, (1949)

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Doisneau''s first publication, in which he documents the Parisian suburbs Gentilly and Montrouge. Captured just before great changes were to sweep these neighborhoods of the working class French, this book is both a document of what was, and an example of Doisneau''s skills as a photographer.