WILLY RONIS

Articles, exposures and homages in all kinds rain on this great photographer. We propose to you a few selected pieces of its book: Derrière the objectif (Hoëbecke editions), a lesson of photography where Willy Ronis reveals the slides of several tens of his most known photographs.
Place at some “Photographs and Matter” and at the magic of Mr Ronis.

PATIENCE
I am like the fisherman, or like the hunter, I wait.

REFLECTION
Except rare exceptions, I does not put in scene, I negotiate the random one.

HASARD
A thing is the surprise of the chance, the another capacity to capture the effect of it.

FORM
Only a constant practice… will ensure a control (quite relative) of this global vision, without which the formal balance of the image is unrealizable in the short duration of the decision.

TIME
The products of my seventy years of catches are obviously marked of a certain subjectivity, under the influence of a context moral, intellectual, esthetic, etc It remains nevertheless that each time, there, in front of my three eyes, it is that which has interested me, which moved me and which, all ceasing businesses, I decided to save lapse of memory.

As a conclusion:
- What is what a successful photograph?
- That by which I knew to communicate the emotion which gave birth to it.