Banlieue de Paris. Doisneau.

La Banlieue de Paris is a photographic album including a fifty-page text by Blaise Cendrars and 130 plates by Robert Doisneau, who was still little known at the time. The photographer, who lived a large part of his life in the Parisian suburbs, took a large number of photographs there (Cendrars mentions 50,000 negatives). The photographs in the book were taken between 1947 and 1949, as the introduction by Cendrars himself indicates in the table of illustrations. Some of them had already appeared in the communist magazine Regards. read more»»