Title: A Paris sous la botte de nazis
Photographer(s): Robert Doisneau, Roger Parry, Jean Seeberger, André Papillon, Pierre Jahan, Maurice Jarnoux, Joublin, Vals, Berson, Roughol, Pichonnier
Writer(s): Jean Eparvier
Designer(s): Jean-Louis Babelay
Publisher(s): Editions Raymond Schall, Paris, France
Year: 1944
Print run: 1525
Language(s): French
Pages: 156
Size: 22 x 27 cm
Binding: Hardcover
Edition:
Print: Draeger Frères, Montrouge, France
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Paris,1944
ISBN:
In this extraordinary photobook published only three months after the Liberation of Paris, the city's four-year occupation by German forces is recorded in over 225 black-and-white photographs attributed to leading photographers such as Roger Schall, Robert Doisneau, Pierre Vals, Maurice Jarnoux, Pierre Jahan, and the Seeberger brothers. The book's striking images show Nazis marching through the Arc de Triomphe in June 1940, streets littered with smashed barricades, sightseeing German officers, underground prisons with the handprints of tortured prisoners dug into walls, and a series documenting an execution by firing squad. The book closes with the triumphant return of Général de Gaulle through the crowded streets of Paris. Published by Raymond Schall, whose brother Roger Schall, one of the leading photographers of the day, provided the cover image and many uncredited photographs within. When Nazi forces required all photojournalists to register their work, Schall complied but withheld many negatives until their first printing here in book form. In 1962 the editor of Paris Match praised Schall and those like him "who kept alive the spark of journalism that would never die." Featuring facsimile of de Gaulle's announcement declaring the Liberation of Paris.
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