Willy Ronis : C'est La Vie

Now available in paperback, this book is the first major retrospective monograph in English on one of France's greatest living photographers.

It provides a definitive study of his long and illustrious career featuring a selection of the most important photographs in impeccable reproduction.

Born in 1910, for more than half a century, Willy Ronis has been revered as an outstanding photographer of Parisian scenes, particularly in his local Belleville and Menilmontant neighbourhoods.

He has also captured images of romance, charm and everyday life from other parts of his beloved country, in Provence and the village of Gordes.

His photographs were the first pictures by a French man to appear in Life magazine, and were also featured in Edward Steichen's seminal Family of Man exhibit the 1950s.

Like his contemporaries, Cartier-Bresson and Doisneau, Ronis is interested in the people of France - how they live and work.