ROMI, Robert Miquel dit (1905-1998)

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ROMI, Robert Miquel dit (1905-1998)
ROMI, Robert Miquel dit (1905-1998) "He is a journalist, a collector, a radio or television broadcaster, a columnist, a historian... He searched, he searched the libraries, the documents, he questioned, he walked the streets of Paris and he always found a way to he surveys the streets of Paris and he always finds the way to make us discover the elusive, the ineffable, the incredible but always true, the bizarre, the fantastic, the rare. Such is the description of Romi by his friend Alphonse Boudard. Romi photographed the first paid vacations, Sundays along the Seine under the name EREM in the years 1936-1937. Afterwards, he opened a gallery of paintings and curiosities where his friend Robert Doisneau will propose to him to expose a painting of nude in the window. From the inside the photographer captures the reactions of passers-by seeing this painting and and obtained the famous series of the Oblique Look. Often accompanied by Doisneau, Romi carried out at the end of the 1940s and beginning of the 1950s of the street world and the Parisian pavement, the parties, the bars, the small trades. Curious about all this Parisian life, he wrote many books and articles on brothels, famous criminal brothels, famous criminal cases, a short history of Parisian cafés concerts, a picturesque history of A picturesque history of the female pants and many other humorous writings.
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