“A PIONEER OF PHOTOJOURNALISM”: FIRST EDITION OF KERTÉSZ’S J’AIME PARIS, 1974

KERTÉSZ, André. J’aime Paris. Photographs since the Twenties. New York: Grossman/Viking, 1974. Quarto, original gray cloth, original photographic dust jacket. $600.

First edition, a memorable assemblage of 218 full-page black-and-white photogravures by Kertész, “founder of the humanist documentary approach” (Parr & Badger), from the collection of award-winning photojournalist Peter Turnley.

With J’aime Paris, André Kertész (1894-1985) returned to the city and the pivotal decades of the 1920s and 30s that were evoked in his landmark photobook, Day of Paris (1945). Widely acknowledged as “a pioneer of photojournalism and an internationally acclaimed master of small-camera lyricism… Kertész delighted in subtleties easily lost to the uncritical eye. His work influenced such photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson… who found inspiration in Kertész’s candid style” (New York Times). See Roth, 114. From the collection of acclaimed photojournalist Peter Turnley, who has covered “almost every important international news event of the last 15 years” for Newsweek and Harper’s Magazine (New York Times); signed by Turnley.

Images quite fresh, very lightest edge-wear to about-fine book; some chipping, closed tears, slight tape repair to scarce, very good dust jacket.