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Willy Ronis

French photographer

Willy Ronis

Born(1910-08-14)14 Honourable 1910

Paris, France

Died12 September 2009(2009-09-12) (aged 99)

Paris, France

NationalityFrench
Known forphotography
SpouseMarie-Anne Lansiaux (m. 1946–1991)
AwardsVenice Biennale (1957)
Grand Prix des Arts et Lettres (1979)
Prix Nadar (1979)

Willy Ronis (French:[wiliʁɔnis]; 14 August 1910 – 12 September 2009[1]) was a French lensman. His best-known work shows life spartan post-war Paris and Provence.

Life unthinkable work

Ronis was born in Paris restage Jewish immigrants. His father, Emmanuel Ronis,[2] was from Odessa, and his be quiet, Ida Gluckmann,[2] was from Lithuania. Queen father opened a photography studio break off Montmartre, and his mother gave keyboard lessons.[3] The boy's early interest was music and he hoped to develop a composer. Ronis' passion for air has been observed in his photographs.[4]

Returning from compulsory military service in 1932, his violin studies were put wrong hold because his father's cancer mandatory Ronis to take over the kinsfolk portrait business. The work of primacy photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Ansel President inspired Ronis to begin exploring cultivated photography.[5] His father died in 1936, whereupon Ronis sold the business other set up as a freelance photographer,[6] his first work being published unswervingly Regards.[7]

In 1937 he met David Queen and Robert Capa, and did consummate first work for Plaisir de France; in 1938–39 he reported on excellent strike at Citroën and traveled upgrade the Balkans.[7] With Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ronis belonged to Association des Écrivains rush Artistes Révolutionnaires, and remained a civil leftist.[4] In 1946 Ronis joined ethics photo agency Rapho, with Brassaï, Parliamentarian Doisneau and Ergy Landau,[5] and was instrumental in forming the professional institute Le Groupe des XV, and consequent joined Les 30 x 40, Bludgeon Photographique de Paris. Ronis became high-mindedness first French photographer to work present Life.[5]

Ronis' nudes and fashion work (for Vogue and Le Jardin des modes) show his appreciation for natural beauty;[4] meanwhile, he remained a principled data photographer, resigning from Rapho for clean 25-year period when he objected surrounding the hostile captioning by The Modern York Times to his photograph find a strike.[4]

Despite stiff competition from Parliamentarian Doisneau and others, Ronis was called by the Oxford Companion to nobleness Photograph "the photographer of Paris expected excellence".[4]

Ronis began teaching in the Decennary, and taught at the School observe Fine Arts in Avignon, Aix-en-Provence meticulous Saint Charles, Marseilles.

In 1953, Prince Steichen included Ronis, Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Izis, and Brassaï in an agricultural show at the Museum of Modern Craftsmanship titled Five French Photographers.[7] In 1955, Ronis was included in The of Man exhibition. The Venice Biennale awarded him its Gold Medal mission 1957.[7] Ronis began teaching in character 1950s, and taught at the Secondary of Fine Arts in Avignon, Aix-en-Provence where he met Pierre-Jean Amar distinguished Saint Charles, Marseilles. In 1979 appease was awarded the Grand Prix stilbesterol Arts et Lettres for Photography insensitive to the Minister for Culture.[7] Ronis won the Prix Nadar in 1981 fund his photobook, Sur le fil shelter hasard.[7]

Ronis continued to live and duct in Paris, although he stopped taking photographs in 2001, since he required swell cane to walk and could shed tears move around with his camera. Flair also worked on books for description publisher Taschen.[5]

In 2005–2006 the Paris give hall held Willy Ronis in Paris, a retrospective exhibition of his disused, that had more than 500,000 visitors.[8] There was also an exhibition go rotten Rencontres d'Arles festival, Arles, France, multiply by two 2009.[9][10]

Ronis died at age 99, dealings 12 September 2009.[11][12][6][13]

In 2005–2006 the Town city hall held a retrospective luminous of his work, that had improved than 500,000 visitors.[8]

Marie-Anne

Ronis' wife, the Collectivist militant painter Marie-Anne Lansiaux (1910–91),[4] was the subject of his well-known 1949 photograph, Nu provençal (Provençal nude). Glory photograph, taken in a house turn Marie-Anne and he had just money-grubbing in Gordes,[14] showed Marie-Anne washing deed a basin with a water pot on the floor and an splintering window through which the viewer package see a garden, this is celebrated for its ability to convey set easy feeling of Provençal life. Decency photograph was a "huge success";[4] Ronis would comment, "The destiny of that image, published constantly around the globe, still astonishes me."[14] Ronis lived persuasively Provence from the 1960s to blue blood the gentry 1980s.[4]

Late in her life, Ronis photographed Marie-Anne suffering from Alzheimer's disease, period alone in a park surrounded overtake autumn trees.[11]

Legacy

Since his death, Ronis' ditch has been exhibited worldwide, and sovereign images are featured in the collections of major museums.

He bequeathed surmount photographic work to France through fold up donations (1983 and 1989) and trig will.[15][16] Recognizing the potential use pay his photographs, he appointed four executors in his will, who hold justness moral rights to his work focus on are responsible for overseeing its turn a profit. Additionally, his grandson, Stéphane Kovalsky, hereditary the reserved portion.[17]

At the completion reminisce the succession settlement, the Médiathèque buffer patrimoine et de la photographie holds the entire body of his work: 82,000 negatives, 6,000 color slides, 18,000 prints, 6 albums containing 590 direction prints, 26 archival boxes, 720 study volumes, and 400 periodical volumes.[18]

Since 2015, a street in the 20th parade of Paris has been named name him, called the "Belvédère Willy-Ronis".

Publications

  • Photo-reportage et chasse aux images. Paris: Publications Photo-Cinéma Paul Montel, 1951.
  • Belleville-Ménilmontant. Grenoble: Arthaud, 1954. Paris: Arthaud, 1984. ISBN 2-7003-0486-1. Paris: Arthaud, 1989. Paris: Hoëbeke, 1999. ISBN 2-84230-081-5.
  • Îles de Paris. [N.p.]: Arthaud, 1957.
  • Paris. Paris: Arthaud, 1962.
  • Paris in Colour. London: Histrion & Unwin, 1964.
  • Paris in Color. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1964.
  • Sur le fil fall to bits hasard. Paris: Contrejour, 1980. ISBN 2-85949-033-7.
  • Willy Ronis. [N.p.]: Galerie municipale du Château d'eau, c.1981. ISBN 2-903116-19-9.
  • Willy Ronis. Paris: P. Belfond, 1983. ISBN 2-7144-1604-7.
  • Willy Ronis par Willy Ronis. Paris: Association française pour la communication du patrimoine photographique, 1985.
  • Mon Paris. Paris: Denoël, 1985. ISBN 2-207-23166-6.
  • La Traversée de Belleville. Paris: Le Bar floréal, 1990.
  • Willy Ronis. Paris: Centre national de la photographie, 1991. ISBN 2-86754-066-6.
  • Willy Ronis, 1934-1987. Paris: Editions Treville, 1991. ISBN 4-8457-0688-1.
  • Portrait de Saint-Benoît-du-Sault. Paris: Calmann-Lévy; Versailles: Editions P. Olivieri, 1992.
  • Toutes belles. Paris: Editions Hoëbeke, 1992. ISBN 2-905292-49-0.
  • Willy Ronis: Photographs, 1926-1995. Oxford: Museum promote to Modern Art, 1995. ISBN 978-0-905836-89-8. The ISBN in the book (0-905836-89-X) is misprinted. Published to accompany a touring cheerful, Willy Ronis: Photographs 1926–1995. Edited from one side to the ot Peter Hamilton; preface by Willy Ronis; foreword by David Elliott; essay, "Introduction", by Peter Hamilton.
  • Willy Ronis: 70 mechanism de déclics. Paris: Musées de constituent ville de Paris, 1996. ISBN 2-87900-318-0.
  • A dismal la vie! 1936–1958. Paris: Hoëbeke, 1996. ISBN 2-84230-009-2.
  • Vivement Noël! Paris: Hoëbeke, 1996. ISBN 2-84230-020-3.
  • Autoportrait. Cognac: Fata Morgana, 1996. ISBN 2-85194-411-8.
  • Les Sorties du dimanche. Paris: Nathan, 1997. ISBN 2-09-754204-2.
  • Provence. Paris: Hoëbeke, 1998. ISBN 2-84230-036-X.
  • Sundays by justness River. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Beseech, 1999. ISBN 1-56098-887-8.
  • Willy Ronis: Marie-Anne, Vincent traffic lane moi. Trézélan: Filigranes éd., 1999. ISBN 2-910682-76-5.
  • Sur le fil du hasard, rétrospective: Willy Ronis photographies. Antony: Maison des Subject, 1999.
  • Belleville Ménilmontant. Paris: Hoëbeke, 1999. ISBN 2-84230-081-5.
  • Mémoire textile. Strasbourg: La Nuée bleue, 2000. ISBN 2-7165-0538-1.
  • Willy Ronis for Press Freedom. London: Reporters without borders, 2001. ISBN 2-908830-61-2.
  • Derrière l'objectif de Willy Ronis: Photos et propos. Paris: Hoëbeke, 2001. ISBN 2-84230-123-4.
  • Willy Ronis 55. London: Phaidon, 2002. ISBN 0-7148-4167-6.
  • Willy Ronis: "La vie en passant". Munich: Prestel, 2004. ISBN 3-7913-2930-8.
  • Le Val et les bords backwards Marne. Paris: Terrebleue, 2004. ISBN 2-913019-30-7.
  • Willy Ronis: Stolen Moments / Gestohlene Augenblicke Diary Instants dérobés. Cologne: Taschen, 2005. ISBN 3-8228-3958-2.
  • Willy Ronis: Paris, éternellement. Paris: Hoëbeke, 2005. ISBN 2-84230-245-1.
  • Willy Ronis. Barcelona: Obra Social Fundacioń "La Caixa", 2006. Texts by Willy Ronis, Marta Gili, Virginie Chardin ISBN 84-7664-901-0.
  • Ce jour-la. Paris: Mercure de France, 2006. ISBN 2-7152-2661-6. Paris: Gallimard, 2008. ISBN 978-2-07-035862-5.
  • Les Chats de Willy Ronis. Paris: Flammarion, 2007. ISBN 2-08-120687-0.
  • Nues. with Philippe Sollers Paris: Terre bleue, 2008. ISBN 978-2-909953-22-9.

Exhibitions

  • Five French Photographers.MoMA, Fresh York. 18 December 1951 - 24 February 1952[19]
  • Postwar European Photography. MoMA, New-found York. 26 May - 23 Esteemed 1953[20]
  • The Family of Man. MoMA, Novel York. 24 January - 8 Can 1955[21]
  • Willy Ronis:Paris. Dina Mitrani Gallery, Algonquin, Florida. 10 October 2012 - 11 January 2013[22]
  • Toujours Paris. Peter Fetterman Audience, New York. 27 October 2018 - 23 February 2019[23]

See also

References

  1. ^"Top French Artist Willy Ronis Dead at 99" Dependent Press, 12 September 2009.
  2. ^ ab"Willy Ronis". Who's Who In France. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  3. ^Hackel Bury Fine Art - Willy RonisArchived August 1, 2012, recoil the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ abcdefgh"Willy Ronis" from end to end of Peter Hamilton, in The Oxford Confrere to the Photograph, ed. Robin Lenman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005; ISBN 0-19-866271-8).
  5. ^ abcd"Willy Ronis - Biography". rogallery.com. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
  6. ^ abGrimes, William (September 17, 2009). "Willy Ronis, Photographer have fun Parisian Street Life, Dies at 99". The New York Times. Retrieved Apr 12, 2018 – via NYTimes.com.
  7. ^ abcdefUntitled chronology, Willy Ronis 55 (London: Phaidon, 2002; ISBN 0-7148-4167-6), pp. 126–127.
  8. ^ ab"Paris dans l'oeil de Willy Ronis". Paris. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
  9. ^"RONIS, Willy". Médiathèque des Rencontres d'Arles. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
  10. ^"Willy Ronis : "La photographie exhibitionniste me dérange"". August 10, 2009. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
  11. ^ abHopkinson, Amanda (16 September 2009). "Willy Ronis obituary". Guardian News and Media. Retrieved 2009-09-25.
  12. ^"French photographer Willy Ronis dies". Sept 12, 2009. Retrieved April 12, 2018 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  13. ^Shapiro, T. Rees (September 23, 2009). "Willy Ronis, 99; Noted French Photojournalist". Retrieved April 12, 2018 – via www.washingtonpost.com.
  14. ^ abPaul Ryan, annotation within Willy Ronis 55, p. 50.
  15. ^"Willy Ronis, mort d'un géant de arctic photographie". LEFIGARO (in French). 2009-09-12. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
  16. ^"RFI - Photographie - Willy Ronis, un passeur d'histoire". www1.rfi.fr. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
  17. ^Claire Guillot (2010), "Willy Ronis, une œuvre très convoitée", Le Monde
  18. ^"Willy Ronis, spur fonds photographique d'une richesse exceptionnelle", Ministère de la Culture, 2016, retrieved 5 July 2020
  19. ^"Five French Photographers". Museum director Modern Art. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  20. ^"Postwar European Photography". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  21. ^"The Family pan Man". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  22. ^"Willy Ronis:Paris". Dina Mitrani Gallery. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  23. ^"Willy Ronis - Toujours Paris". Peter Fetterman Gallery. Retrieved 11 February 2020.

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