Photographer Profile ~ Pierre Jahan

thegeby.blogspot.com - Pierre Jahan (1909-2003) was a French photographer and illustrator best known for his surrealist images and photographs of Paris. He exhibited alongside such greats as Henri Cartier-Bresson , Man Ray Robert Doisneau , Willy Ronis to name a few.

"The long career of Pierre Jahan reflects independent behavior and even epicurean, and a tireless curiosity..."

Please visit his websiite here http://pierrejahan.free.fr/

"I'm always fascinated by the play of light - and chance. Like everything that is in the shadow beings and things take a sort of drift similar dream, dream or nightmare, ecstasy, fear, entr'ouvent the door of the fourth dimension in which can not be really believe I have always lived. This is all that I have, no doubt, led to photography "

~ Peirre Jahan

Statue graveyard Pierre Jahan

Nude study, ca. 1940s Pierre Jahan Photographer Profile ~ Pierre Jahan

Pierre Jahan

Pierre Jahan - Restaurant La Coupole, Paris, 1930

Pierre Jahan - Escalier prÃ¨s du Canal St Martin, Paris,1937 Photographer Profile ~ Pierre Jahan

Pierre Jahan

Pierre JahanParis by Night, Bobino “Music Hall”, rue de la GaitÃ© 14° 1936

Pierre Jahan

After the War, a new Louvre, transformed by major renovation work, gradually opened to the public between 1945 and 1947. And thanks to the skills and tenacity of those responsible for safeguarding cultural property, the museum’s major masterpieces returned to the palace, virtually unscathed. (Louvre)