About This Image

Photographer's stamp on verso. Place and date, etc. in ink probably in photographer's hand. Doesn't glow under black light. and with early Ronis stamp.

Willy Ronis was born in Paris in 1910. He became a full-time photographer in 1945.

He joined Doisneau, Brassaï and others at the Rapho Agency.

Ronis was the first French photographer to work for LIFE Magazine, and Edward Steichen exhibited him at the Museum of Modern Art in 1953 in a show called Four French Photographers. He was also part of the Family of Man exhibit.

Ronis passed away on September 12, 2009.

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