Abstract: When Doisneau comes to take a picture of the author of L’Homme foudroyé in Aix-en-Provence, in October 1945, their friendship crystallized on Paris’ suburbs. The poet and the photographer multiply exchanges: images will capture the light from which they live; text will go through the grey areas of an implacable reality. Published in 1949, with one hundred photographs and a fifty pages text, La Banlieue de Paris has lost nothing of its deeply moving humanity.
