Rose Zehner & Willy Ronis: Birth of an Image.
Workshop Editions| N° d'inventaire | 26294 |
| Format | 14 x 20 |
| Détails | 109 p., illustrated, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782708253841 |
In the spring of 1938, during the strikes at Citroën, the photographer Willy Ronis produces a report for the magazine Looks in the Javel factory in Paris. He photographed Rose Zehner, an activist and worker, as she addressed a crowd of comrades. But he did not entrust this photograph to the newspaper's editorial staff and forgot about it.
It was only in 1980 that Willy Ronis, looking through his archives, found this photo. The following year, Humanity publishes it; the image then begins to circulate in the press and comes before Rose Zehner. She enters into a relationship with the photographer, while the general public discovers a photograph which, forty years later, will make Rose a figure of the workers' struggle and feminism.
From the great strikes of 1938 to the birth of an iconic figure in 1980, from Willy Ronis to Rose Zehner, Tangui Perron tells the unique story of this famous, long-forgotten photograph.
Accompanied in this book by some twenty other photographs by Willy Ronis, Rose Zehner's photo is the starting point for an investigation to understand the origin and destiny of an image. The author reconstructs a political, social, and cultural context, and traces the journeys of an activist and a committed photographer who, each in their own way, wrote a piece of our history.
In the spring of 1938, during the strikes at Citroën, the photographer Willy Ronis produces a report for the magazine Looks in the Javel factory in Paris. He photographed Rose Zehner, an activist and worker, as she addressed a crowd of comrades. But he did not entrust this photograph to the newspaper's editorial staff and forgot about it.
It was only in 1980 that Willy Ronis, looking through his archives, found this photo. The following year, Humanity publishes it; the image then begins to circulate in the press and comes before Rose Zehner. She enters into a relationship with the photographer, while the general public discovers a photograph which, forty years later, will make Rose a figure of the workers' struggle and feminism.
From the great strikes of 1938 to the birth of an iconic figure in 1980, from Willy Ronis to Rose Zehner, Tangui Perron tells the unique story of this famous, long-forgotten photograph.
Accompanied in this book by some twenty other photographs by Willy Ronis, Rose Zehner's photo is the starting point for an investigation to understand the origin and destiny of an image. The author reconstructs a political, social, and cultural context, and traces the journeys of an activist and a committed photographer who, each in their own way, wrote a piece of our history.