Thread by @dean_frey

Remembering Paul Éluard on his birthday 🎂
📷 Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1944
The surrealist poet is looking at newly-liberated Paris from his balcony.

Man Ray's photograph of Paul Éluard & Pablo Picasso at the Hotel Vaste Horizon, Mougin, 1937
"With Picasso," said Éluard, "the walls come down."

Paul Éluard published "A Pablo Picasso" in 1944, and a number of other tributes to his friend followed.

Pablo Picasso at Paul Éluard's funeral in Paris, November 1952.
A moving photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Valentine Hugo
The Surrealist Constellation, 1932
Portraits of Paul Éluard, Andre Breton, Tristan Tzara, Rene Char, Benjamin Peret, Rene Crevel

Anna Riwkin took this famous 1935 photo of the leading lights of Surrealism.
Tristan Tzara, Paul Éluard, André Breton, Jean Arp, Salvador Dali, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, René Crevel, Man Ray
Today we're celebrating Éluard's birthday 🎂

Eileen Agar's photograph of Dora Maar, Nusch Éluard, Pablo Picasso & Paul Éluard on the beach, September 1937
@Tate

Paul Éluard & his second wife Dominique happen to be on the same plane with Willy Ronis, in February 1952.
"During the flight, a veiled ray of sunlight came for a moment to give the poet a superb light."
Ronis is always aware of the light!
Éluard died that November.

Another picture from the same shoot as the shot at the top of this thread, just after the Liberation of Paris:
Paul Éluard with his wife Nush with the photographer Lee Miller, at his house on the Boulevard de la Chapelle in Paris
📷 Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1944

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Paul Éluard at home, in his apartment on the Boulevard de la Chapelle, 1944
Taking a #PhoneCallFromPaul @Holdengrabe, perhaps? In another world.
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Studio Harcourt had the highest technical standards, but like most studio operations, there was sometimes a certain blandness & lack of individuality. But talented photographers like Raymond Voinquel worked there; I wonder if he might have taken this portrait of Paul Éluard, 1945

Izis (Israel Bidermanas)
Double Portrait of Paul Éluard, 1944
I've never done an Izis thread, but his birthday is coming up in January...