FANTASTIC, VERY RARE PHOTOBOOK from 1956 (!) about New York - with 107 often full-page photographs by with an early engraving of New York, on double page, at the beginning and at the end of the book. Mentioned here: Horacio Fernandez, New York in Photobooks, 2017, page 74-77. GREAT BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY by Ernst Haas (4), Henri Cartier-Bresson (10), Èdouard Boubat, incorrectly labelled as Eugène Boubat in the book (13), Werner Bischof (12) and others. EXCELLENT PHOTOGRAVURE PRINTING BY SAPHO. This auction is the FIRST REAL PHOTOBOOK HIGHLIGHT of the new year. PLEASE ENJOY the next 99 CAREFULLY SELECTED INTERNATIONAL TITLES by 5Uhr30.com. Other photographers are: Corsini, Jean-Pierre Darnat (4), Eliot Elisofon, Gjon Mili (2), Roger Parry (6), Keystone, Auro Roselli (34), Reginald Slaars, Standard Oil Co, Suzanne Szasz. This is a lot by 5Uhr30.com (Ecki Heuser, Cologne, Germany). We guarantee detailed and accurate descriptions, 100% transport protection, 100% transport insurance and of course combined shipping - worldwide. Éditions Tel (Gallimard) under the direction of Florence Malgraux, in cooperation with Jean-Pierre Rosier. 1956. First edition, first printing. Paperback with dustjacket. 240 x 305 mm. 112 pages. 91 black and white photos. Various photographers. Edited and text by Francoise Sagan. Designed by Jean-Pierre Rosier. Printed by SAPHO. Text in French. Condition: Inside fresh and clean with no marks and with no foxing. Outside the covers quiet fresh with normal trace of use; sensitive and fragile spine (like so often) with defects; missing parts at the top and at the bottom. Strong binding. Overall very good condition, Great book about New York - with famous photographers like Ernst Haas, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Èdouard Boubat or Werner Bischof. 'In 1955, the US edition of Bonjour, Tristesse (1954), by Françoise Sagan, rose to first place on The New York Times bestseller list. Given the success of the book, the magazine Elle organized a promotional tour for the author and gave it ample coverage. Sagan asked her friend Florence Malraux - who worked in the photography department of Gallimard - to accompany her. This was to be seed of the present photobook, conceived and edited by Malraux. New York was published in 1956 in Paris by Éditions Tel, an imprint affiliated with Gallimard. It contains 91 photographs and a text by Sagan. The cover highlights the name of the writer, while the photojournalists are mentioned only on the last page. Not all of the photos were recent: Roger Parry had been in New York in 1945 and Cartier-Bresson a year later. More recent were the photographs of Auro Roselli, who was moreover credited with the largest number of them. The book begins and ends with a nineteenth-century engraving of Manhattan, when only boats crossed the East River and the Hudson. The city’s insular nature is also evoked by the first and last photographs in the book, and by the images of the briges and piers. A city built on top of itself, in a ceaseless process of tearing down and rebuilding that multiplied the skyscrapers: „marvelous stone dandies“, as Sagan calls them. Different atmosphere are captured, from dawn to night: images enveloped in fog, which almost seem aquatints, like the double page of Bischof skyscrapers; luminous photos of the statue garden of the MoMa by Boubat; dense interiors with sharp contrasts of light in Gijon Mili’s images of Harlem nightclubs. The city is voracious, with a heart that beats faster than those of its inhabitants. Which is why, as Sagan writes, there is no place for the flaneur. But in fact, the bards, display windows, advertising, bustling sidewalks, variety of small trades, varied commercial alphabets, and animated scenes of street life give the lie to this perhaps rather Parisien condemnation. „What street corner does American begin on?“ asks Sagan, commenting on the colors, smells, and accents of Harlem, Chinatown, and tell day from night, a contrast resolved on the appealing dotted dust jacket, an effctive optical illusion halway between the rows of windows on a skyscraper and the ceaseless blinking of neon signs. In 1956 Sagan also published her second novel, Un certain sourire (A Certain Smile), dedicated to Florence Malraux. In New York, there is also a concealed dedication to someone who was perhaps more than just a friend. Malraux was well aware of the plots of Sagan’s books: two people fall in love, while a third looks on in silence and suffers. The situation may well be evoked by the beautiful double-page spread (pp. 38-39) with the photos of the New Year in Times Square by Ernst Haas and a young man alone at night by Cartier-Bresson. New York has been a scarce, inaccessible photobook, the text of which was reprinted in 2007 under the title Bonjour New York. It deserves a closer look.“ (text from 'Horacio Fernandez, New York in Photobooks') Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was a French artist and humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment. Cartier-Bresson was one of the founding members of Magnum Photos in 1947. In the 1970s, he largely discontinued his photographic work, instead opting to paint. Ernst Haas (1921-1986) was an Austrian-American photojournalist and color photographer. During his 40-year career Haas trod the line between photojournalism and art photography. In addition to his coverage of events around the globe after World War II Haas was an early innovator in color photography. His images were carried by magazines like Life and Vogue and, in 1962, were the subject of the first single-artist exhibition of color photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art. He served as president of the cooperative Magnum Photos. His book of volcano photographs, The Creation (1971), remains one of the most successful photography books ever published, selling more than 350,000 copies. Édouard Boubat (1923-1999) was a French photojournalist and art photographer. Boubat was born in Montmartre, Paris. He studied typography and graphic arts at the École Estienne and worked for a printing company before becoming a photographer. In 1943, he was subjected to service du travail obligatoire, forced labour of French people in Nazi Germany, and witnessed some of the horrors of World War II. He took his first photograph after the war in 1946 and was awarded the Kodak Prize the following year. He travelled internationally for the French magazine Réalités, where his colleague was Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, and later worked as a freelance photographer. French poet Jacques Prévert called him a "peace correspondent" as he was humanist, apolitical and photographed uplifting subjects. His son Bernard Boubat is also a photographer. Werner Bischof (1916-1954) was a Swiss photographer and photojournalist. He became a full member of Magnum Photos in 1949, the first new photographer to join its original founders. Bischof's book Japan (1954) was awarded the Prix Nadar in 1955.