Synopsis
What you will find in this film
The testimony of Willy Ronis faced with his archives • The issues of the late 1940s • A report commissioned by Louis Aragon for Les Lettres Françaises • The words of Pierre Daix who experienced that day and published Willy Ronis' photos • Why Oradour, symbol of peace? • The mobilization of Louis Aragon, Elsa Triolet, Pablo Picasso for peace • What was expected of reporters at the time • Angles that interested Willy Ronis • The importance to him of staying away from the crowd • Unpublished images of the provisional village of Oradour in 1949 • Life resumes in the reconstructed village • Willy Ronis' opinion on the role of captions in the press • The 1994 publication of Les Lettres Françaises
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• PARIS RONIS - artist: Willy Ronis ; 2018 ; Flammarion ; bilingual edition
• WILLY RONIS BY WILLY RONIS: THE MASTER PHOTOGRAPHER’S UNPUBLISHED ALBUMS - author: Matthieu Rivallin ; 2018 ; Flammarion
• WILLY RONIS - authors: Alexander Gaude, Jean-Claude Gautrand, Markus Müller and Ann-Katrin Hahn ; 2013 ; Kehrer Verlag ; bilingual edition
• WILLY RONIS: LA VIE EN PASSANT - authors: Sylvia Bohmer and Matthias Harder ; 2005 ; Prestel ; bilingual edition
• WILLY RONIS - directed by Jean-Claude Gautrand ; 2005 ; Taschen
• WILLY RONIS - author: Paul Ryan ; 2002 ; Phaidon Press
• SUNDAYS BY THE RIVER - author: Noel Simsolo ; 1999 ; Smithsonian Books
• WILLY RONIS: PHOTOGRAPHS, 1926-1995 - author: Peter Hamilton ; 1995 ; Museum of Modern Art
• WILLY RONIS, 1934-1987 - author: Hiromi Nakamura ; 1991 ; Editions Treville
• ON CHANCE’S EDGE - artist: Willy Ronis ; 1991 ; Contrejour