NIEPCE (Janine). - Lot 231

NIEPCE (Janine). This Changing World. The Reality of the Moment. Foreword by François Nourissier. Lausanne, La Guilde du Livre, [circa 1970]. Large quarto, publisher’s hardcover with an illustrated photographic dust jacket. A beautiful monograph dedicated to Janine Niépce (1921–2007), one of the leading figures of postwar French humanist photography. The book brings together a substantial collection of photographs taken from the 1950s to the 1970s, bearing witness to the profound changes in French society: the working class, rural life, industrialization, youth, May ’68, women’s liberation, leisure, demonstrations, urban transformations, and daily life. Foreword by François Nourissier. Published by La Guilde du Livre, renowned for the quality of its photographic publications, this volume features excellent heliogravure reproductions of Janine Niépce’s photographs. Condition: very good copy. Dust jacket slightly worn with a few traces of old adhesive tape visible on the white endpapers; interior in very fresh condition, with no foxing or annotations.