beaux livres : photo, architecture, art

Pierre Jahan (1909-2003) was a photographer, but also an illustrator, draftsman, and painter, a contemporary of Sougez, Ronis, Doisneau, Kertész, Landau, Steiner… A member of the Rectangle group and then of the XV group, and a representative – not always recognized in his rightful place – of what photography is: an art of passage, an art of crossing, but also an art of deviations, an art where shadow can be the muse of another gaze, the proof of a singular attention to a state of life, a state of mind, a state of affairs…

This monograph covers the major projects that Pierre Jahan created throughout his career:

– les Gisants de la basilique Saint-Denis,

– la série des nus de Plain-Chant,

– la série La Mort et les Statues,

– Paris chante sa nuit,

– les puces,

– la vie bâtelière,

– la poésie du rail,

– le travail du verre,

– les études publicitaires,

– les œuvres surréalistes,

– l’exposition surréaliste de 1938 (images inédites).

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