Kogan Gallery - Installer une forêt

Installing a forest

The photographers are outside on the sidewalk. 

The "forester" is installing a mural of trees on the back wall of a gallery.

The buildings are a reflection.

dreamy illusions

Kogan Gallery

96 bis, rue Beaubourg

75003, Paris

Joining James' Weekend Reflections

 

Les photographes en reflet

Three American Photographers

With an eye for reflections, usually those without the photographer, 

the three of us could not resist capturing the moment, a "selfie" of another type.  

Surely one camera would have been sufficient, but the overkill was pure delight.

We were specifically talking of James' Weekend Reflections meme 

that day in Paris, and so I join him today.  

Check out the other reflections here.  

James, this one was taken for you.

Rue Dussoubs

75002, Paris

Le Douze - des reflets

Window of le Douze

a window of bright, shiny objects, 

chandeliers, figurines, 

and even a photographer

le Douze

12, rue Jacob

75006, Paris

Bressaï - Pour l'Amour de Paris exposition

Bressaï - For the Love of Paris exhibition

November 8, 2013 - March 8, 2014

This free exhibit at Hôtel de Ville is a delight for photographers and everyone who sighs at the romance of Paris.  Even in the first week of opening, the wait was less than 15 minutes on a weekday in November.

The Brassaï, Pour l'amour de Paris

exhibition tells the extraordinary

story of the passion that has united 

for more than 50 years Brassai, the

writer, photographer and moviemaker,

to every nook and cranny of Paris,

but also to intellectuals, artists,

great families, prostitutes and little rascals.

In short, to everyone who defines the

legend of Paris.  Paris remains indeed

in the heart of his reflection, the

governing theme of his work.

(www.parisphoto.com)

Put this one on your list

Hôtel de Ville de Paris

Salle Saint-Jean. 5, rue de Lobau

75004, Paris

Wedding photos

This beautiful couple posed for photos on Ile Saint-Louis on the Quai d'Orleans.  

The temperature was a brisk, 

but the photographer moved quickly to get the desired photos.

The American photographer got her share of photos as well from above.

Bride and Groom

Quai d'Orleans

Ile Saint-Louis

75004, Paris

Jardin du Palais Royal - photo shoot

The fountain at

Jardin du Palais Royal

Cameras, light meter, script

It looks like a perfect spot to shoot a movie scene 

or the glossy cover of a fashion magazine

Jardin du Palais Royal

75001, Paris

Vernissage - Natasha Lythgoe "Opening"

Image copyright © Natasha Lythgoe - All rights reserved

Natasha Lythgoe "Opening"

Natasha Lythgoe is a young British photographer who has worked as a professional for the past 15 years and will have her first solo exhibition in Paris at Centre Iris beginning June 13 through September 15, 2012.   Over the past 8 years she has had nearly 1000 students in her photography courses from those who are new to photography to more advanced students.  She has a degree in fine art and is currently completing her MA in Photography.  

So, if you are in Paris this week, you have an opportunity to meet this artist at the vernissage as she welcomes you at Centre Iris on rue Saint-Martin.  Natasha and I have not met face-to-face but I am looking forward to the opportunity on my next visit to Paris.  How I wish that I was in Paris to join Natasha and many of you for this opening event. 

Tant pis pour moi.

Is it possible for a photograph to have an existence that generates a response, emotion or reflection of its own accord, rather than simply being a representation of elsewhere?

Imbued with Buddhist philosophies and practices, Natasha Lythgoe’s path has led her through spheres of dance and meditation. Through these practices, she explores re-embodiment, re-connection and the present moment.

Sensitive and sensual, viscerally grounded and at the same time transcendent, Natasha Lythgoe invites us to look beyond the trail of photography, so that we not only contemplate that which we are shown, but also experience physiological and psychological responses, and therefore our own personal, intimate relationship to the world at this point in time. The photographs thereby provoke a return to self and to self-awareness. They speak to our eyes of course, but we can also appreciate the images with our ears, feel them in our stomach and through our skin. This visceral yet transcendent quality impels us to reject the notion of photography as merely a process of depiction, and search for meaning behind and between the photographs themselves.

Traditional ways of exhibiting images with ideas of completion and sequential order simply don’t fit in this context. To understand the work fully one needs to view each image as part of a whole: the constellation of images within which it is being presented. Each series of images is neither definitive nor frozen in a permanent sequence, and this freedom of movement, this fluidity, creates a sense of free association, of interchangeable patterns.

As a result, this body of images which at first glance appears disparate, in fact forms together images which present the possibility of a subject, above and beyond that which is represented, and even beyond that which is being photographed. Bearing in mind this move away from photography’s indexical relationship to the world, a particular object within each image is not the main focus of attention.

This distance from what appears to be the ‘subject of’ a particular image, forms part of a theory of non-representation.

Natasha Lythgoe’s photography also employs an intellectual approach which is related to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of ‘deterritorialization’. This concept when applied to art, at the very least, becomes an exploration of not reducing work to the categories which make it make sense.

In Natasha Lythgoe’s proposal, nothing is defined - unless it is our perception of life, of nature, of the infinitesimal vibrations that run through our world.


Centre Iris... pour la photographie

238, rue Saint-Martin

75003, Paris



Le Petit Fer à Cheval

Two weeks ago, my husband and I arranged to meet Peter (Peter's Paris) and friend Isabelle for déjeuner at this café/bar in the heart of the Marais,

Le Petit Fer à Cheval (the horseshoe). 

It was the one coolish day of our visit and we enjoyed sitting in a warm corner. 

Do you know the special anniversary that is today?

It is the birthdate of an artist, one who left his mark on the world through his photography.  His amazing insight into children's street culture created visual stories of life in France.  His photography has had a revival since his death in 1994 and many of his portraits and street photos of Paris in the late 1940s and 1950s have become icons of French life.

Robert Doisneau

born 14 April 1912

Joyeaux anniversaire, Monsieur Doisneau

Le Petit Fer à Cheval

30, rue Vieille du Temple

75004, Paris

Hôtel de Ville

Photography exhibit at Hôtel de Ville

Not everyone was "toeing the line"

Hôtel de Ville

75004, Paris



Photo shoot or wedding?

I wish that I had spared the time to hang around and solve this mystery.

What are they doing?  Is it a photographer and an artistic statement or a wedding shot?

Thoughts?

Passage Boiton
75013, Paris

Sergei Loier - Photoquai 2011

On the last day of Photoquai 2011, an open-air exhibit along the Seine at Quai Branly, the dreary day was brightened by the nearly 400 photo images by 46 photographers from around the world.  I met Vreni (Verenas Paris Blog and Vienna Daily Photo) and we enjoyed the afternoon strolling through this free exhibit.

The above by Sergei Loier, a 30-something Russian, was my favorite.  As I remember, his models are all children from an orphanage, and by the time he concluded his photo project, all had been adopted.

What a treat to see this eclectic photo exhibit... on the very last day!

  

Photoquai 2011
musée du quai Branly
37, quai Branly
75007 Paris

Le photographe -- Fabien Breuvart

Inside le Marché des Enfants Rouge is this delightful and talented photographer, Fabien Breuvart.

To see more of Fabien Breuvart enjoy this video in which he spoke of his art in 2007. He has been supportive of the sans-papiers using his art medium and it was reported here (in English) in septembre 2008. In novembre 2009 at Paris Photo 2009 he pulled this incredible stunt that captured the crowd -- You will love the video even if you do not speak French!

Oh yes, I do see that twinkle in his eye and think that we will hear much more from him.