"I never took a mean photo," Ronis in an interview with The Associated Press in 2005. "I never wanted to make people look ridiculous. I always had a lot of respect for the people I photographed."
"If I can't run, climb up onto a bench ... rush toward something I see far away that might interest me, it's over," Ronis said in the AP interview. Age, however, did not defeat Ronis. At 85, he went skydiving, snapping a photo of himself on the way down, his typical childlike joy showing through.
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Ronis, was inspired by Parisian street life, never the sensational, he tells me that people can recognise themselves in his photographs, because it is the everyday, he says, “First I am a Parisian, I was born in Paris, and Paris is maybe the most beautiful city in the world. Excuse me, but many, many people say that, and I agree, so I always have reasons to make pictures.”
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Ronis tells me about his technique, “It is always conducted by surprises, very often I have not got a definite plan or a definite purpose.” Ronis’ photographs always have meaning, he wants the photographs he takes to be understood, he continues, “I am not an intellectual, I work through instinct and intuition, in spite of the fact that sometimes thinking helps.”
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“My photography is physical, I have to be able to run fast, because I feel something is happening over there which can be interesting for me. And I have no time to waste, I have to be ready every time and that’s finished for me,” he explains.
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A feature of Ronis’s more modern nudes, is the absence, or obscured face of the model, this is due to the photographer preferring to use non-professional models, who are more comfortable not showing there faces. But what really interest's Ronis, is the female form, and the light upon the body, he feels that the face would distract from the really important issue of the “form.” Isabelle Huppert, the French actress who last year interviewed Ronis, when she was guest editing Madame Figaro, recently described his nudes in The Guardian Weekend magazine as “That little touch of grace which makes the difference between pornography and poetry.”
"If I can't run, climb up onto a bench ... rush toward something I see far away that might interest me, it's over," Ronis said in the AP interview. Age, however, did not defeat Ronis. At 85, he went skydiving, snapping a photo of himself on the way down, his typical childlike joy showing through.
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Ronis, was inspired by Parisian street life, never the sensational, he tells me that people can recognise themselves in his photographs, because it is the everyday, he says, “First I am a Parisian, I was born in Paris, and Paris is maybe the most beautiful city in the world. Excuse me, but many, many people say that, and I agree, so I always have reasons to make pictures.”
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Ronis tells me about his technique, “It is always conducted by surprises, very often I have not got a definite plan or a definite purpose.” Ronis’ photographs always have meaning, he wants the photographs he takes to be understood, he continues, “I am not an intellectual, I work through instinct and intuition, in spite of the fact that sometimes thinking helps.”
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“My photography is physical, I have to be able to run fast, because I feel something is happening over there which can be interesting for me. And I have no time to waste, I have to be ready every time and that’s finished for me,” he explains.
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A feature of Ronis’s more modern nudes, is the absence, or obscured face of the model, this is due to the photographer preferring to use non-professional models, who are more comfortable not showing there faces. But what really interest's Ronis, is the female form, and the light upon the body, he feels that the face would distract from the really important issue of the “form.” Isabelle Huppert, the French actress who last year interviewed Ronis, when she was guest editing Madame Figaro, recently described his nudes in The Guardian Weekend magazine as “That little touch of grace which makes the difference between pornography and poetry.”
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