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One of the great French humanist photographers died today at age 99.

Tribute.



(J'espère être dans le bon topic...)

Un des plus grands photographes humanistes français est mort aujourd'hui à l'âge de 99 ans.

Hommage.


http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2009/09/12/03004-20090912ARTFIG00514-willy-ronis-mort-d-un-geant-de-la-photographie-.php

Ohhh ... what a very sad news ... Willy is a great photographer, and very humanist person ... i love his fantastic work. I´m very sad with this news :(

Au bon pain is an - I believe - American franchise in the style of Starbucks. They have quite some outlets in Bangkok. One of them very near to my (former) home. So I used to go there quite often for breakfast or an expresso. The one thing that always caught my eye was a large b&w photo of a young lad running home with a baguette under his arm and a smile of delight on his face. The setting seemed to be Paris, more than half a century ago. The photo (poster) made mention of the photographer... a certain Willy Ronis. I had never heard of him, nor did I know how important he was until I heard of his death recently.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RAJtZxqA6jA/Sqy1XM9axpI/AAAAAAAAHm8/k4lwrdZlqKs/s400/ronis+2.jpg