Willy Ronis, giant of French humanism

摘要

Music was a central part of his early life, perhaps because he was a sickly child and spent a lot of time in the family apartment, where his mother taught piano. ? can still see my mother teaching the piano to a young blonde girl,' he later said. 1As she played each note of the scale I jumped in the air. Always strongwilled and a fierce defender of photographers' rights, Ronis later felt he might have made things more difficult for himself at this time, and although he was able to re-structure his career as a freelance with commercial and fashion work, it was in a period when a younger generation of photographers were coming to the fore.