Aux Deux Magots, boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris, années 1950, 1955

Maurice Bonnel  

Silver print, numbered and signed by Maurice Bonnel's daughter, Marie-Christine D'issernio.
Each photograph is printed in 25 copies, all formats combined.

- Bibliography: "The Paris of Maurice Bonnel 1950-1965", Patrick Marsaud, Michel Lagarde editions, 2022
- Exhibition: March 23 – April 5, 2022, Atelier/Galerie Taylor, Paris Xe.

"Maurice Bonnel's work is in the so-called "humanist" line of French photography, a current to which Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis, Sabine Weiss, Edouard Boubat and many others are affiliated. He began by photographing his street and surrounding thoroughfares, sometimes following his daughter's first steps. Documenting his nearby neighborhood, he moved further and further away from it, until he moved. His walks then illustrated themes he had chosen: the cinemas, the Seine, the children, the posters or the shops, watching for the detail that no one had noticed, and the humor of a situation or a sign. Nothing could give him more pleasure than to find the plate of a doctor Carabin or that of a dental surgeon named Boucherie, to associate that of the Dragon clinic with an adjoining tripe shop, to photograph a charcuterie located next to a café named "Aux Assassins" , tramps on the steps of the Ministry of Finance, or two film posters: one for How to Succeed in Love, the other for Landru." Patrick Marsaud