Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Ne=6660&N=3+5666+4294958403 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=134142 Louvre is not an official text commissioned by the museums trustees. Rather it reflects the passions and idiosyncrasies of one frequent visitor who happens to be an extraordinary observer: Nicholas dArchimbaud spent three years conceiving, researching, and photographing this book. The chapters were written not by curators of the deparments, but by a team of experts: Bruno de Cessole, Annie Forgeau, Frederic Valloire, Anne Chene, and Yves Saint-Hilaire. Louvre features 650 original photographs, never-before-reproduced archival plans and documents, essays on the museums history, and architecture and overviews of its seven departments.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=189383 Parisians are renowned the world over for their elegance and savoir-faire, but few are more urbane and savvy than the feline denizens of the City of Light. Cats have captivated the citys imagination for hundreds of years, inspiring writers as diverse as Chateaubriand, Baudelaire, and Colette. From dainty kittens peering from shop windows to mysterious tomcats slinking across rooftops, les chats parisiens embody the spirit of Paris. In Les Chats de Paris, Barnaby Conrad III has collected an irresistible gallery of black-and-white photographs by such master photographers of the twentieth century as Jacques Henri Lartigue, Gilberte Brassai, Izis Bidermanus, and Robert Doisneau. Accompanied by an insightful introduction and the whimsical words of some of the most illustrious French intellectuals, Les Chats de Paris will delight cat lovers - and Francophiles - the world over.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=201932 Paris, the City of Light, has captured the imagination of photographers for more than 150 years, its buildings and monuments, bustling street life, and legendary beauty acting as constant inspiration to major photographers throughout the decades. The city, however, has served as more than merely a scenic backdrop, for Paris was photographys birthplace and has influenced its growth at every stage. Paris: The City and Its Photographers looks for the first time at the history of photography and the part that Paris played in its development. The book is divided into four sections, the first of which follows the early years of photography when, after the announcement of Daguerres momentous invention in 1839, increasing numbers of photographers could be seen carrying their cumbersome equipment around the citys streets. They documented medieval Old Paris, with its dark, winding alleyways; then, following the grand-scale demolition and rebuilding instigated by Napoleon III, they were the first to record the broad, tree-lined boulevards and fashionable cafes that are so familiar today. The second section begins in 1889 when, with the advent of the hand-held Kodak camera, photography became the province of the amateur as well as the professional. Over the next thirty years, snapshots of an ever more elegant Paris were placed in the family album alongside pictures of the latest wedding or christening. This was also the time, though, of Bohemian cafe society and of Atget, who, with tripod and black cape, spent the greater part of his life documenting the city. The third part describes how, after the First World War, photography needed new impetus, which it found with the arrival in Paris of Duchamp and the Dadaists, and the growth of Surrealism with Man Ray. In addition, photographers such as Kertesz, Brassai, Ilse Bing, and Lee Miller came to Paris to work, pushing the medium to its limits. The final section includes the founding of the Magnum Agency and the influence of Capa, Cartier-Bresson, and humanist photography. These are the years, too, of the Paris populaire of Doisneau, Izis, and Boubat; the Seine and its lovers, the cafes and fun-fairs... .It is the period, finally, of the last of the old Paris, and with the demonstrations of 1968 comes the end of an era. The photographs have been carefully chosen to encapsulate the style of their period. Each picture provides a unique record of the history of Paris; as a collection they evoke a Paris of decades past and are a lasting reminder of the artistry of their creators.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=137791