Description: In a plain-spoken and amusing style, Peter Miller explains in his introduction that he got his start in photography when as a small-town Vermont lad, his hunting rifles were stolen and he used the insurance money to buy a camera. The Vermont deer were lucky, and so were lovers of great photography. Some years later he found himself stationed in Paris as a U.S. Army Signal Corps photographer. On-duty, he was obligated to snap pictures of generals glad-handing with one another, and countless PR-type pictures for Army newspapers. Off-duty, he'd slip out of uniform and walk all over Paris taking pictures: of American-style jazz clubs and their James Dean wannabes in the Latin Quarter, of vendors like the blind pencil seller and fortune teller Miss Kick on the Rue Mouffetard, of brawny men handling slabs of beef in Les Halles, of hobos who were eager to show off their tattoos to a wide-eyed American with a camera. Here is a stunning visual record of a young man's immersion in Paris at a time when that great city was just awakening from the devastation of World War II.

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