Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris
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Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris
- The black-and-white photographs, shot at night in available light, merge street photography and portraiture and are, by turns, glamorous and gritty. They capture a lost Paris, sleazy yet stylish
from Les amies de Place Blanche by Christer Strömholm – review
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- Over three days in October 1974, the French experimental writer Georges Perec sat in cafés and a tabac in a Parisian public square called Place Saint-Sulpice and jotted down everything he saw. His observations became a book called An Attempt to Exhaust a Place in Paris , in which he sought to capture the small details that often elude us: “that whi... See more
from Infra-ordinary People | Cara Blue Adams by Cara Blue Adams
Jenna Guarascio added
A reminder that while we assess culture we are also culture. The simple act of living is the participation.
ne of those would be the overlapping Parisian milieu that each occupied, frequently bumping shoulders at salons at which one could find such members of the cultural elite as Charles Baudelaire, Émile Zola and the painter Henri Fantin-Latour. Manet/Degas also shows how the two men would be among the few artists to remain and defend Paris during the
... See morefrom ‘It’s a Very Rich Story’: The Complicated Connection Between Manet and Degas by Veronica Esposito