"The true Parisian doesn't love Paris, but he can't live anywhere else." — Alphonse Karr
Throughout the centuries, Paris has never ceased to fascinate, inspire, and move us. Yet, never before has a work attempted to capture the essence of the City of Lights with such precision, poetry, and luxury as this one. Paris by Paris, a masterful new work published by Assouline.
Following the international success of New York by New York This exceptional volume, authored by Ariel Wizman and Harold Cobert, with a preface by Frédéric Beigbeder, joins the prestigious "Legends" collection. Across nearly 370 pages, illustrated with over 300 rare and captivating photographs, it unfolds as a declaration of love for Paris through its artistic, social, and cultural transformations. From the Belle Époque to the jazz nights of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, from the studios of Montmartre to the effervescence of the New Wave, from the silhouettes of Dior, Courrèges, and Rabanne to the jubilation of the 2024 Olympic Games, each chapter awakens the buried memories of a city in perpetual motion. Kiki's Montparnasse, Picasso's Bateau-Lavoir, the years of the Occupation, the glow of the Moulin Rouge, and the rough cobblestones of the Rue Muller become scenes in a film in which Paris is the eternal heroine. Paris by Paris This is not simply a collection of images: it is a sensory journey, a literary and visual experience, a new way of feeling the city, inhabiting it, and dreaming of it. Available in French and English, the book is presented in a sumptuous case, befitting the myth it celebrates.
More than just a beautiful book, Paris by Paris is an invitation to rediscover the most visited capital in the world in an unexpected light: intimate, insolent, furiously alive.
Paris by Paris by Ariel Wizman and Harold Cobert
Assouline Publishing, February 2025
