Text fr., engl. - „A Paris Match photo-reporter for 20 years, Izis was one of the great humanist photographers of his generation, alongside Brassaï, Cartier-Bresson, Doisneau and Ronis. His work was marked by a constant dialogue between images and words, a dialogue that showed him as something of a dreamer who was drawn to secondary viewpoints and secondary figures rather than the obvious or sensational. - Born in Lithuania, Izis fled to France and found his inspiration there. Part poet and part photographer, he offered a personal vision of a nostalgic and workingclass Paris that fascinated him. He wandered through the city alone and through chance encounters on street corners, he portrayed the Paris of his imagination, a Paris of timeless, dreamlike realism. - The City of Paris organized a retrospective of his work in 2010. Reporters Without Borders is now paying tribute to him in its latest photographic collection, which brings together some of his best-known work along with a selection of 40 previously unpublished photographs.“ (RSF press release).