Willy Ronis *1910 +2009 (prices signed later prints 30 x 40 cm: 2000 € - 7500 €)
Willy Ronis , born in Paris, act studies, reports, Street Photography, "photography Humaniste", member of Groupe of the XV and agency Rapho, numerous publications, gold medal on the Biennale 1957, Grand prix national kinds the 1979, Prix Nadar 1981.
Willy Ronis is member of the famous Triumvirats of French photographers, beside Henri Cartier Bresson and Robert Doisneau, which introduced a special kind of photographing. Together they found an informal, often humorous, to make sometimes ironical kind pictures are characterized by kongeniales cooperating of unrestricted sympathy in relation to humans and a documentary interest.
After the Second World War, when Cartier Bresson for the Magnum agency traveled by the world, Doisneau and Ronis, which worked both for the Rapho agency, concentrated to photograph the structure and the development of France.
In Willy Ronis earliest photographies one sees humans, who work on the country or in the factory. Its sympathy to the workers remained existing always as decisive element in its works.
After the war Ronis changed opinion over the society. In his pictures the individual from the crowd is emphasized, the caught tendencies is more multilayered and more multicolored.
Some its pictures became contemporary icons - against its actual intention e.g. Nu provencal , which shows its wife, when she washes herself in her summer holidays house their face over an old washstand. But the timelessness, the suggested Erotik of the picture and the seizable, clear representation of the atmosphere, the smell and the light as in a warm afternoon, make this work its Meistveroeffentlichten. An interest in the act photography pulls itself like a red thread by its works.
During more exact view of many photographies of Willy Ronis one that they become lively by their apparently which is missing perfection and their concise humor, recognizes e.g.. a buggy appears as disturbing element in a photo. This buggy stands beside a sailor, who embraces its friend straight before a ship. Which is mismatching felt otherwise as confusion and, here an incomparable tendency produces.
Exactly like Doisneau Ronis worked regularly for the left press, which reported on strikes and disasters. It was always mindful on the fact that its photographies more than only a general analysis of the unfairness of capitalism could be understood. When he worked in the photo agency, he noticed soon that he lost control of it, as his photographies were represented and published under which title them. Thus it left the agency Rapho 1955, because the photos were not used in its sense. Its verweigerung in principle such compromises to be received, affected its living costs; Orders came only rarely. Like already in the war Willy Ronis pulled again into the south and held themselves as a teacher over water, since the orders continued to leave.
However it continued its work for itself further. to 1970 it went back to Rapho and starting from the center of the decade began a new generation the importance of its works both in the historical and in the present context to recognize. Willy Ronis warm, sceptical eye addresses many humans. A place in history is in the meantime safe of the photography it.
Willy Ronis - important shows
1951
- New York - MoMA
1955
- New York - MoMA - Family of Man
1980
- Arles - RIP
1982
- San Francisco, USA, Focus Gallery
1985
- Paris, Palais de Tokyo
1990
- Lausanne, Schweiz, Musée de l´Elysée
1994
- Paris, Hotel du Sully
1995
- Oxford, Museum of Modern Art
2000
- Charleroi, Belgien, Museum für Fotografie
2000
- Köln, Deutschland, in focus Galerie
2000
- Kyoto, Japan, Museum of Contemporary Art
2001
- Prag
2002
- Köln, Deutschland in focus Galerie
2003
- Fribourg Schweiz
2003
- Leipzig, Kamera und Fotomuseum, kuratiert durch in focus Galerie, Köln
2004
- Aachen, Suermondt Ludwig Museum mit Leihgaben der in focus Galerie, Köln
2004
- Verona, Italien, Espace Scavi Scaligeri
2005
- Ausstellungstournee: Museen in Berlin / Iserlohn / Oldenburg / Stuttgart
2005
- Paris, Hotel de Ville
2006
- Centro Social y Cultural de la Fundación, ES, Retrospective Willy Ronis
- Museum Sankt Ingbert, DE, La vie - en passant
2007
- Peter Fetterman Gallery, US, A Retrospective of the Photographer in His 98th Year
- Kowasa Gallery, ES, El Humanismo de Willy Ronis
2008
- Le Château d’Eau, FR, Willy Ronis
- HackelBury Fine Art, GB, Mountains
2009
- Arles RIP, Frankreich, FOTOGRAFIE 1934-1998
- Eglise Sainte-AnneFR, rétrospective, Willy Ronis
- Jackson Fine Art, US, Early work, Willy Ronis
2010
- Musée de la Monnaie, FR, Willy Ronis
- CAP Centre atlantique, FR, Retrospective, Willy Ronis
- FORMA per la Fotografia, IT, Willy Ronis
2012
- Kathleen Ewing Gallery, US, Reflections of France, Willy Ronis
2013
- Dina Mitrani Gallery, US, Paris, Willy Ronis
2018
- in focus gallery, Cologne, D, Willy Ronis & Marc Riboud - France 1935 - 1985
- Pavillon Carré de Baudoin, FR, Willy Ronis par Willy Ronis
2004 Prestel publishing house: Willy Ronis
2005 Taschen publishing house: Willy Ronis
as well as approx. 30 picture volumes in French language and picture volumes, appeared in Japan, Italy and further countries.
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