WILLY RONIS 1910-2009 - Lot 17

WILLY RONIS 1910-2009 Rue Saint-Antoine, July 14, 1936. Photograph. Posterior silver print signed in ink beneath the image, titled and dated in pencil and stamped by the author on the back. Image: 23.4 x 29.8 cm; sheet: 29.8 x 39.7 cm Bibliography: Willy Ronis, "Sur le Fil du Hasard", Éd. Contrejour, 1980, Paris, p.15; Jean-Claude Gautrand, "Willy Ronis", Éd. Taschen, Köln, 2005, p.7. "It's the Popular Front, and the jubilant crowd on the demonstration route from Bastille to Nation. Now we're on rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine. I already preferred to photograph the aftermath of events rather than the events themselves. I was amused by this little girl wearing a Phrygian cap, reminiscent of the one on the flag, and raising her fist, without really knowing why of course." Willy Ronis