Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------065ABB893B5779E6FA5BF558 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by mail.microserve.net id XAA25846 TTAbrahams@aol.com wrote: >=20 > Ah, Paris at any time. There was a big retrospective exhibition at the > European Centre for Photography this spring, I dont know if it is still > there, but they have great shows. Also all the FNAC stores have > photoexhibits. Pick up a copy of the french magazine " Photographie" or > "Photo", they usually list all the exhibits as does the daily paper " > Liberation". Maison de Leica is a camerastore on Boulevard Beaumarchai= s ( > Close to the Place Bastille) that caters to Leicaphiles. Stocks most > everything and has some good stuff in the used department. > Best photographic bookstore is " La Chambre Clair" on Rue St. Sulpice = ( > between place Odeon and Eglise St Sulpice. They stock now and used phot= obooks > in several languages and speak english to boot. > Snip... Don't forget the Mus=E9e Beaubourg (Pompidou Museum) which has (had) some HCB prints of other artists (Giacometti, Matisse) at work/play. You might also check this site: http://www.photo.fr/ which is the French version of Photo Magazine as well as other French travel and cultural websites. Particularly use Pariscope's weekly happening magazine (available at sidewalk kiosks for around 3-4 FrF) and their website (http://pariscope.fr/index.html) for upcoming cultural events.=20 The European Photography Museum (Mus=E9e Europeenne de La Photographie at 5/7 rue de Fourcy on the Right Bank near Metro St. Paul) was where the HCB exhibit was earlier this year. Their permanent collection is worth seeing even if the HCB is finished. Also, there were some wonderful prints of his that really hadn't been shown before and I thought the print quality, with the exception of one or two, was outstanding. It was nice to see what those older Leica lenses could do. Above all, as Tom mentioned, enjoy the city. Photograph it like crazy. It is one of the most beautiful, photogenic places on earth with a tremendous public life taking place in front of you instead of behind closed doors as is so often the case in the United States. There seems to be a certain tolerance for street photography that I've rarely found elsewhere (except in the Porte du Clignancourt flea market where I almost was thrashed for doing a grab shot from the chest of a three-card monte hustler). Love is everywhere. I still don't know if the woman straddling the man on the bench had any underwear on under her skirt but the ambiguity is there in my photograph. Who said bokeh is only visual? Go. Enjoy. Tell stories to us all. Carl S. - --------------065ABB893B5779E6FA5BF558 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Description: Card for Socolow, Carl Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit begin: vcard fn: Carl Socolow n: Socolow;Carl org: Socolow Photography adr;dom: Socphoto@microserve.com;;P.O. Box 594;Camp Hill;PA;17001-0594; email;internet: csocolow@microserve.net tel;work: 717-763-7760 tel;fax: 717-975-3354 x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version: 2.1 end: vcard - --------------065ABB893B5779E6FA5BF558--