Famous+Photographer

1. = Willy Ronis =  Ronis was born in paris, his father was a Jewish refugee from Odessa, and his mother was a refugee from Lithuania, both escaped from the pogroms.Both of his parents job were related to art. His father run a photography studio and his mother was a piano player. Willy's interest was music and he wanted to be a composer,but because of his father's sickness, Willy had to take over the family business, so his music life had to been put on hold.He transfered his passion of music into the photography after he inherited the studio. Unfortunately, Willy's dad died in 1936. After his father 's death, Willy closed the studio and joined Rapho .His first photographs being published in Regards//.//In 1937 he met David Szymin and Robert capa, and did his first work for Plaisir de france. Ronis became the first French photographer to work for //Life.// In 1953, Edward Steichen included Ronis,Henri Cartier-Bresson ,Robert Doisneau, Izis, and Brassai in an exhibition at the museum of Modern Art titled//Five French Photographers.// //2.// .Ronis became the first French photographer to work for // .In 1979 he was awarded the Grand Prix des Arts et Lettres for Photography by the Minister for Culture.Ronis won the Prix nadar in 1981 for his photobook, //Sur le fil du hasard.// //.His famous shot is// //Nu provençal// (Provençal nude) ,taken in a house that he and Anne Marie(willy's wife) had just bought in Gordes showed Marie-Anne washing at a basin with a water pitcher on the floor and an open window through which the viewer can see a garden, this is noted for its ability to convey an easy feeling of Provençal life. Willy uses natural stuff to show his passion of photography.Despite stiff competition from Robert Doisneau and others, the //Oxford Companion to the Photograph// terms Ronis "the photographer of Paris par excellence".

//3.// Willy 's style is simply and clear, his photography based on daily life of French .Like he always says " compare to those buildings and landscape, I prefer photo crowd , people , daily life ,they are the resource of my imagination . Ronis' nudes and fashion work (for Vogue and Le Jardin des modes ) show his appreciation for natural beauty; meanwhile, he remained a principled news photographer, resigning from Rapho for a twenty-five year period when he objected to the hostile captioning by the New York Time to his photograph of a strike.

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//–Nu provençal// (Provençal nude) This is the most famous masterpiece of Willy Ronis Design elements:shape

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Design elements:Line willy use kid's curiosity to animals to take the shot, this is so ordinary in our lives, his photography is all from life.

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Except the first one is the famous shot of willy's photography. Others all look like pretty normal, if you do not keep an eye on those photos, you will think they are as normal as you think. But that 's what willy wants to tell us, things from our lives are always the best, you should use you heart to feel those photos. As we can see, all of those photos are black n white colour.

Good choice of images! 50/55