Chemins de la vie

Jean-Philippe Charbonnier
Chemins de la vie

Photographs: Jean-Philippe Charbonnier

Text: Philippe Soupault

Publisher: Editions du Cap

164 pages

Pictures: 70

Year: 1957

Comments: Hardcover with dust jacket as issued (very hard to find!), 275 x 215 mm. Gravure reproductions. Text in french. First edition, 1957. Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol.1, p.210 ; Auer Collection, p.367. Dust jacket with minimal tears on the edges. Otherwise copy in really great condition. Scarce in this condition and complete with the table of legends inside! Collectible copy.

Jean-Philippe Charbonnier was a french photo-journalist. All the photographs of this book looked like a manifesto of humanistic kind. They have been taken in reports, performed around the world, for the magazine Réalités (with Edouard Boubat and Jean-Louis Swiners) to which Jean-Philippe Charbonnier was attached from 1950. His work is here accompanied by a text from the surrealist poet and writer Philippe Soupault.