{"title":"Virginie Chardin","description":"\u003cp\u003eVirginie Chardin’s works offer a vivid exploration of visual arts and cultural history, inviting readers to engage deeply with artistic legacies. Her writing often illuminates the lives and creations of influential figures, such as photographer Louis Stettner, blending biography with a keen eye for artistic detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e will find Chardin’s narratives rich with insight and sensitivity, revealing the subtle interplay between creativity and context. Her books provide thoughtful perspectives that enrich appreciation for both art and its makers.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"louis-stettner-by-virginie-chardin-9780500411322","title":"Louis Stettner","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe perfect primer on American photographer Louis Stettner.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBrooklyn-born Louis Stettner (1922-2016) first took up a camera as a teenager and went on to establish an extraordinary career that lasted almost eighty years. After photographing life on the streets of New York, he joined the famous Photo League and befriended Sid Grossman and Weegee. In the Second World War, he served as a combat photographer, and the fight against fascism strengthened his faith in Marxism and the working class.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLiving between New York and Paris, he amassed a huge body of work that combined elements of New York street photography with lyrical humanism in the French style. His subjects were many and varied: passengers on the subway and tourists in the streets, Spanish fishermen and American beatniks, protests and demonstrations, landscapes and trees. But no matter where he found himself, he looked for beauty in the everyday and never lost his fundamental compassion and solidarity with ordinary people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596795003116,"sku":"9780500411322","price":47.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/36442d577de22b90e84a3f9115b45e3a.jpg?v=1777955987"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/virginie-chardin.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}