It was with this book, Paris, that Robert Frank first compiled his images of Paris. Born in Zurich, he discovered the French capital in 1946. He stayed there for several days, staying with a cousin. A year later, he embarked for New York and returned to visit the City of Lights in 1947, which he photographed regularly until 1952. During one of his walks, he wrote on a collage of photographs: "The simplest things change if man makes contact with... even pissoirs! »