Maurice Bonnel (1923-2019) - "Bon Poulet de France" 1950's

Dimensions:

18cm x13


In good condition, on glossy paper, vintage photo, with handling marks and signs of wear, see photos for details, signed by himself.

This photo taken in Paris in 1950's, is a street photograph, as Maurice Bonnel defined himself: a photographer of the street, an amateur photographer, whose work is in the so-called "humanist" tradition of French photography.

This original vintage silver photograph comes from the photo album that Maurice Bonnel gave to his doctor in 1979, a photo protected and published by the author himself.

This is an exceptional document; only the photograph is for sale in this auction. The photos of the presentation of the handwritten text on the photo album and the photos in Patrick Marsaud's book "Le Paris de Maurice Bonnel 1950-1965" bear witness to its originality and provenance.

An amateur photographer in the so-called "humanist" tradition of French photography - like Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis and Édouard Boubat - Bonnel defined himself as a photographer of the street. He was able to capture the atmosphere of an era, the Paris of the 50s and 60s, often picking out a few piquant details that his mischievous eye, always on the lookout, would discover at random on a street, on the main boulevards or at the end of an alleyway. Bonnel's Paris is the Paris of childhood, the Paris of Jacques Tati's "Mon Oncle". Some of his photos were published in "Le Monde", "Le Canard enchaîné", the magazine "Noir et Blanc" and "Point de vue".



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