Avenue de Choisy, 17 julio 2021. Foto JPQ.

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→ Le Paris de Ihei Kimura. Kimura Ihee shashinshū Pari (1974). Fotos de 1954, 1955, 1960.

Especialista emérita, Virginie Chardin estima que el libro de Ihei Kimura y Couleur de Paris (1961), de Peter Cornelius, con el legendario prólogo de Jacques Prevert, son dos pilares capitales de la historia de París fotografiada en color.

Martin Parr también considera que el París en color de Kimura es una obra muy mayor:

“Ihei Kimura… was Japan’s leading photographer of the immediate postwar period, and represented the dominant photographic aesthetic of that era: social documentary based on a broadly humanistic approach… Kimura… [was] influenced by classic photojournalism in the Cartier-Bresson mode, and [was] keen to set Japanese photography on a much more professional basis…Paris was photographed during three visits to the city in 1954, 1955 and 1960, although the book was only published in 1974, the year of the photographer’s death… most of it was shot, in color, in the 1950s. When photographed, it was well ahead of its time…Paris is notable for two things. Firstly, it has a distinctive color palette, composed of cool blues, grays, browns and purples.Secondly, there is Kimura’s view of the city itself, which teeters between conventional travel photography and something much more original… It seems that Kimura decided to revisit the clichés and see what he could make of them, having been given a supply of new color film with which to experiment… What he appears to have discovered is a residue of Atget’s Paris… Kimura’s Paris, like Atget’s, is a nostalgic one, a city of crumbling textures and decaying structures, of courtyards and back alleys, of autumnal mists and winter gloom. Aided by his color palette, it is a much more romantic vision than Atget’s unsentimental view, but his book nevertheless has a distinctive voice that takes him beyond mere romanticism”.

París en color … La Torre / Tour Saint-Jacques desde la rue de Rivoli, homenaje a Ernst Haas.

París en color y en obras, esperando la salida de la crisis del coronavirus … Homenaje a Ernst Hass.

Dos amigos, rue de Buci, tras la reapertura de las terrazas … Homenaje a Peter Cornelius, color / colores de París.

Homenaje a Joel Meyerowitz y la fotografía en color de París y las grandes ciudades.

El mercado más cosmopolita de París y los colores, Nabis, Saul Leiter, Joel Meyerowitz, William Eggleston, Vittorio Storaro.

París en color.

Chinatown-sur-Seine.

Fotografía.