ROGER SCHALL 1904-1995 - Lot 49

ROGER SCHALL 1904-1995 The Kiss of Victory, Paris, May 8, 1945. Photograph. Silver print ca. 2015, dry-stamped by the estate, signed by the heirs and the printer and numbered 3/15 in pencil on the back. Image: 36.6 x 35.2 cm; sheet: 50.3 x 40.6 cm "Demobilized after the Armistice signed in June 1940 by Marshal Pétain, Roger Schall returned to Paris. "So as not to find myself in inaction, I roamed the city, noting with my Rolleiflex images that bear witness to this sinister era." It was during the Liberation of Paris that he produced another of his iconic and perhaps most famous images, The Kiss of Victory on the Champs-Élysées on May 8, 1945." Pierre-Jean Amar in "Roger Schall, un précurseur" published in 2024 by Éditions Le bec en l'air