Heading: (Bidermanas, Izis, photographer)
Author: Charlet, Gaston G.
Title: Les Yeux de L'Ame. Interpretations poetiques de photographies d'Izis Bidermanas
Place Published: Paris
Publisher:Rougerie Editeur
Date Published: [1950]
Description:

[72] pp., comprised of 18 four-page folios, 16 of which have a printed poem and a loose photogravure plate reproducing a photograph by Izis Bildermanas. 25x21.5 cm (9¾x8½"), loose in printed paper folder, as issued. No. 57 of 300 copies. First Edition.

Presentation copy with full-page ink inscription by Cheret to Annette Jean Bercut Lust, on the first page (the blank recto of the limitation leaf), dated November 1950. ;Les Yeux de L'Ame is Bidermanas's first published work. His popular Paris des Rêves, which followed a similar format of combining poetry and photography, was published later the same year. OCLC locates only one copy, at the Bibliotetheque Nationale de France.

Gaston Charlet was the French poet and Politician from Limoges. There is Gaston Charlet street in Limoges. Annette Bercut, the recipient, was a professor of theater and French at the University of California Berkeley and the Dominican College in San Rafael, and the author of ;"From the Greek Mimes to Marcel Marceau and Beyond..." ;

Israëlis ; (Izis) Bidermanas was a Lithuanian-Jewish photographer who worked in France and is best known for his photographs of French circuses and of Paris and WWII scenes. He emigrated to France in 1930. In 1933, he established a photographic studio in the 13th Arrondissement of Paris. During WWII he fled occupied Paris, but was arrested and tortured by the Nazis. Freed by the French Resistance, he fought with the underground. After the war he returned to Paris where he became a major figure in the mid-century French movement of humanist photography. ;

Most likely Izis knew Gaston Charlet from the French Resistance. Izis and Charlet were both in the Limoges area during WWII. Charlet was also a socialist deputy. ;

Some sunning, creasing and light wear to folder; very good.