Les yeux de l'âme - Izis Bidermanas

Israëlis Bidermanas (1911--1980), who worked under the name of Izis, was a Jewish-Lithuanian photographer who worked in France and is best known for his photographs of French circuses and of Paris.
Born in Marijampole, Lithuania, Bidermanas arrived in France in 1930. Izis became a major figure in the mid-century French movement of humanist photography — also exemplified by Brassaï, Cartier-Bresson, Doisneau and Ronis — with "work that often displayed a wistfully poetic image of the city and its people."
For his first book, Paris des rêves (Paris of Dreams), Izis asked writers and poets to contribute short texts to accompany his photographs, many of which showed Parisians and others apparently asleep or daydreaming. The book, which Izis designed, was a success. Izis joined Paris Match in 1950 and remained with it for twenty years, during which time he could choose his assignments.
Meanwhile, his books continued to be popular with the public. Among the numerous books by Izis, Gerry Badger and Martin Parr have especial praise for Le Cirque d'Izis (The Circus of Izis), "published in 1965, but bearing the stamp of an earlier era". Shot mostly in Paris but also in Lyon, Marseille and Toulon, the photographs are "affectionate and nostalgic, but also deeply melancholic" with "a desolate undercurrent", forming a work that is "profound, moving and extraordinary".

Music: Marin Marais (1656 -1728), La Rêveuse
Jordi Savall, viola da gamba

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[dirtyautomaton]

"Reality is more real in black and white."



[Vertigo1871]

@dirtyautomaton "Vivir, pero además / vivir consciente, / vivir como si solo / fuese real la vida."

[willychillyLA]

visa Bidermanų šeima išžudyta Lietuvoje 1941 metais. Karo pradžioje Marijampolėje nužudyti Izio tevai, vėliau Kauno gete - jo brolio šeima.

[cheyennefree]

un mondo che nn c'è più, ora stiamo perdendo a poco a poco la capacita di stupirci l'apatia e l'indifferenza fa parte del nostro quotidiano. bellissime foto :)