Literature

“The painter Daniel Pipard, a child of Menilmontant, had introduced me to a young couple from there whom I photographed in November 1947."~ Willy Ronis Belleville and Menilmontant are in an area that was long ignored by Parisians until Willy really discovered it and put it on the map in 1947.His first great great book was the result of strolls through the narrow streets of the then largely working class Eastern Paris district.I was fortunate enough to see a wonderful exhibition of all his images from this time in a beautiful municipal art center there, confirming his status as one of the most important French humanist photographers.