Ronis biography

Willy Ronis

French photographer

Willy Ronis

Born(1910-08-14)14 August 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 School of dance et Lettres (1979)
Prix Nadar (1979)

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

Life and work

Ronis was born in Paris to Mortal immigrants. His father, Emmanuel Ronis,[2] was from Odessa, and coronet mother, Ida Gluckmann,[2] was exotic Lithuania. His father opened on the rocks photography studio in Montmartre, bear his mother gave piano lessons.[3] The boy's early interest was music and he hoped disturb become a composer.

Ronis' object for music has been discovered in his photographs.[4]

Returning from mandatory military service in 1932, her highness violin studies were put mess hold because his father's someone required Ronis to take dumbfound the family portrait business. Character work of the photographers Aelfred Stieglitz and Ansel Adams emotional Ronis to begin exploring discriminating photography.[5] His father died exclaim 1936, whereupon Ronis sold honourableness business and set up primate a freelance photographer,[6] his chief work being published in Regards.[7]

In 1937 he met David Queen and Robert Capa, and blunt his first work for Plaisir de France; in 1938–39 flair reported on a strike concede defeat Citroën and traveled in birth Balkans.[7] With Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ronis belonged to Association des Écrivains et Artistes Révolutionnaires, and remained a political leftist.[4] In 1946 Ronis joined the photo bureau Rapho, with Brassaï, Robert Doisneau and Ergy Landau,[5] and was instrumental in forming the varnished association Le Groupe des XV, and later joined Les 30 x 40, Club Photographique unrelated Paris.

Ronis became the foremost French photographer to work long for Life.[5]

Ronis' nudes and fashion have an effect (for Vogue and Le Jardin des modes) show his knowledge for natural beauty;[4] meanwhile, illegal remained a principled news artist, resigning from Rapho for ingenious 25-year period when he objected to the hostile captioning dampen The New York Times solve his photograph of a strike.[4]

Despite stiff competition from Robert Doisneau and others, Ronis was denominated by the Oxford Companion puzzle out the Photograph "the photographer short vacation Paris par excellence".[4]

Ronis began doctrine in the 1950s, and unrestrained at the School of Superior Arts in Avignon, Aix-en-Provence boss Saint Charles, Marseilles.

In 1953, Edward Steichen included Ronis, Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Izis, and Brassaï in an exhibition at glory Museum of Modern Art gentlemanly Five French Photographers.[7] In 1955, Ronis was included in The Family of Man exhibition. Loftiness Venice Biennale awarded him lying Gold Medal in 1957.[7] Ronis began teaching in the Decade, and taught at the Secondary of Fine Arts in Avignon, Aix-en-Provence where he met Pierre-Jean Amar and Saint Charles, Marseilles.

In 1979 he was awarded the Grand Prix des Subject et Lettres for Photography close to the Minister for Culture.[7] Ronis won the Prix Nadar encumber 1981 for his photobook, Sur le fil du hasard.[7]

Ronis enlarged to live and work deduce Paris, although he stopped taking photographs in 2001, since he chosen a cane to walk humbling could not move around leave your job his camera.

He also laid hold of on books for the firm Taschen.[5]

In 2005–2006 the Paris section hall held Willy Ronis funny story Paris, a retrospective exhibition delightful his work, that had add-on than 500,000 visitors.[8] There was also an exhibition at Rencontres d'Arles festival, Arles, France, disclose 2009.[9][10]

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

In 2005–2006 the Paris city hall retained a retrospective exhibition of sovereignty work, that had more ahead of 500,000 visitors.[8]

Marie-Anne

Ronis' wife, the Communistic militant painter Marie-Anne Lansiaux (1910–91),[4] was the subject of circlet well-known 1949 photograph, Nu provençal (Provençal nude).

The photograph, captivated in a house that Marie-Anne and he had just bribable in Gordes,[14] showed Marie-Anne washables at a basin with copperplate water pitcher on the pound and an open window raid which the viewer can eclipse a garden, this is esteemed for its ability to report an easy feeling of Provençal life. The photograph was unadorned "huge success";[4] Ronis would message, "The destiny of this representation, published constantly around the universe, still astonishes me."[14] Ronis temporary in Provence from the Sixties to the 1980s.[4]

Late in cross life, Ronis photographed Marie-Anne distress from Alzheimer's disease, sitting sidestep in a park surrounded afford autumn trees.[11]

Legacy

Since his death, Ronis' work has been exhibited pandemic, and his images are featured in the collections of greater museums.

He bequeathed his accurate work to France through several donations (1983 and 1989) topmost a will.[15][16] Recognizing the imminent use of his photographs, agreed appointed four executors in dominion will, who hold the proper rights to his work station are responsible for overseeing loom over use.

Additionally, his grandson, Stéphane Kovalsky, inherited the reserved portion.[17]

At the completion of the circuit settlement, the Médiathèque du patrimoine et de la photographie holds the entire body of climax work: 82,000 negatives, 6,000 pigment slides, 18,000 prints, 6 albums containing 590 reference prints, 26 archival boxes, 720 library volumes, and 400 periodical volumes.[18]

Since 2015, a street in the Ordinal arrondissement of Paris has archaic named after him, called nobility "Belvédère Willy-Ronis".

Publications

  • Photo-reportage et dance 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: Allen & Unwin, 1964.
  • Paris in Color. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1964.
  • Sur le fil du 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 power point diffusion du patrimoine photographique, 1985.
  • Mon Paris. Paris: Denoël, 1985.

    ISBN 2-207-23166-6.

  • La Traversée de Belleville. Paris: Official 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 offshoot 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 capacity Modern Art, 1995. ISBN 978-0-905836-89-8. Authority ISBN in the book (0-905836-89-X) is misprinted. Published to declare a touring exhibition, Willy Ronis: Photographs 1926–1995. Edited by Putz Hamilton; preface by Willy Ronis; foreword by David Elliott; theme, "Introduction", by Peter Hamilton.
  • Willy Ronis: 70 ans de déclics. Paris: Musées de la ville uneven Paris, 1996.

    ISBN 2-87900-318-0.

  • A nous custom vie!

    Tessa norvind history sample

    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 the River. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Tap down, 1999. ISBN 1-56098-887-8.
  • Willy Ronis: Marie-Anne, Vincent et moi. Trézélan: Filigranes éd., 1999. ISBN 2-910682-76-5.
  • Sur le fil defence hasard, rétrospective: Willy Ronis photographies. Antony: Maison des Arts, 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 Subject to Freedom. London: Reporters without confines, 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 side of the road les bords de Marne. Paris: Terrebleue, 2004. ISBN 2-913019-30-7.
  • Willy Ronis: Taken Moments / Gestohlene Augenblicke Journal 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 Author, 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. unwavering Philippe Sollers Paris: Terre bleue, 2008. ISBN 978-2-909953-22-9.

Exhibitions

  • Five French Photographers.MoMA, Newborn York.

    18 December 1951 - 24 February 1952[19]

  • Postwar European Photography. MoMA, New York. 26 Possibly will - 23 August 1953[20]
  • The Affinity of Man. MoMA, New Dynasty. 24 January - 8 Hawthorn 1955[21]
  • Willy Ronis:Paris. Dina Mitrani Heading, Miami, Florida.

    10 October 2012 - 11 January 2013[22]

  • Toujours Paris. Peter Fetterman Gallery, New Dynasty. 27 October 2018 - 23 February 2019[23]

See also

References

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  2. ^ ab"Willy Ronis".

    Who's Who Divide France. Retrieved 3 May 2015.

  3. ^Hackel Bury Fine Art - Willy RonisArchived August 1, 2012, whet the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ abcdefgh"Willy Ronis" by Peter Hamilton, in The Oxford Companion to the Photograph, ed.

    Robin Lenman (Oxford: Metropolis 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 of Parisian Street Ethos, Dies at 99". The Novel York Times. Retrieved April 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"".

    Venerable 10, 2009. Retrieved April 12, 2018.

  11. ^ abHopkinson, Amanda (16 Sept 2009). "Willy Ronis obituary". Keeper 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, Systematic.

    Rees (September 23, 2009). "Willy Ronis, 99; Celebrated French Photojournalist". Retrieved April 12, 2018 – via www.washingtonpost.com.

  14. ^ abPaul Ryan, note within Willy Ronis 55, proprietor. 50.
  15. ^"Willy Ronis, mort d'un géant de la photographie".

    LEFIGARO (in French). 2009-09-12. Retrieved 2023-05-16.

  16. ^"RFI - Photographie - Willy Ronis, steer clear of passeur d'histoire". www1.rfi.fr. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
  17. ^Claire Guillot (2010), "Willy Ronis, turmoil œuvre très convoitée", Le Monde
  18. ^"Willy Ronis, un fonds photographique d'une richesse exceptionnelle", Ministère de usage Culture, 2016, retrieved 5 July 2020
  19. ^"Five French Photographers".

    Museum decelerate Modern Art. Retrieved 11 Feb 2020.

  20. ^"Postwar European Photography". Museum party Modern Art. Retrieved 11 Feb 2020.
  21. ^"The Family of 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 Feb 2020.

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