Last night I attended the opening of a new exhibit, “Les Parisiens sous l’Occupation,” color photographs by André Zucca, at the Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris. A fascinating, stunning collection: an exhibit not to be missed.
Zucca (1897 - 1973) was the only Frenchman to take color photos of Paris during the Occupation. During […]

Paris is not all about museums! It’s also a city that produces trash (each Parisian produces 3 pounds of trash everyday on average). What do we do with this trash? We burn it in one of the above factories, located right outside the the city limits. Needless to say that people in the suburbs do […]

Some people talk about the weather, most of us do nothing about the weather. Except for Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004). Witness his “Behind the Gare St. Lazare, Paris” (1932).
Cartier-Bresson, born in August, died in August, is ever present this August with scattered rain punctuated by downpours and occasional […]

Photo by Hughes Leglise-Bataille. Hugo* on Flickr.
*Bouquiner = to read (slang)

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Light show in Beaubourg by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, called “A la belle étoile”. The 10-minute show will be projected every night from 7pm to 8am until Feb. 26.
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