Above Paris

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ISBN: 9781568986135
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Hardcover, 320 pages
29 x 16 cm
black & white
November 2006
€38,00 (excl. VAT)

Above Paris

The Aerial Survey of Roger Henrard

Jean-Louis Cohen

Between the years 1950 and 1972 pilot and photographer Roger Henrard (1900–1975) preserved the city he knew and loved from the seat of a single-engine American army surplus Piper cub. Henrard used a high-speed plate camera to systematically document the city from its outskirts to its center. His photographs shows Paris’s stations, museums, department stores, and housing projects, its urban tissue and interconnections – the tight-knit medieval districts as well as the rectilinear geometry of the Haussmanian boulevards.

Above Paris is Henrard’s remarkable study with over 350 beautifully printed duotones, grouped by themes such as the course of the Seine, the main roads, the stations, and the neighborhoods. Maps at the beginning of each chapter further help orient the reader and detailed captions and essays by Jean-Louis Cohen make Above Paris a must for anybody interested in Paris or urban design.