And speaking of Paris... Last summer I got to see a great exhibition
at the Art Institute of Chicago, "Paris: Photographs from a Time
that Was" and just yesterday got the book based on the exhibition.
The intro, by David Travis, talks about philosophers and Einstein's
theory of relativity and the nature of time and Proust and the
origins of "snapshooting" and all sorts of fun stuff familiar to
readers of recent threads (flame wars?) on PDML.
The B&W photographs go from the mid-19th century through about 1950,
from people like Lartigue, Kretesz, Brassai, Doisneau, and HCB.
Wonderful stuff, and very thought provoking.
The book is _Paris: Photographs from a Time that Was_, published by
Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 2005, and is
readily available at a discount from Amazon.
*>UncaMikey
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