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The afternoon sun can create such pleasure and simultaneously such danger. Some of my favorite movies are from Jean-Pierre Melville and Jules Daassin--Le Doulos, Le Deuxieme Souffle, Le Flambur, and Riffi.
In actuality, this photograph was made in Frank's Gehry's building for the Fondation Louis Vuitton.
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Friday night one week before Christmas, we walked from the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, down the Av. des Champs-Élysées, through the Christmas Market (before the Berlin truck incident), through the Louvre, down and the Rue de Rivoli, and through the Marais, until we stopped at Benedict for dinner seated at the bar. It seemed like the entire city was out walking, shopping, and eating. Nothing says Paris quite like the Eiffel Tower and the traffic circle around the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile.
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One of the reasons we decided to visit Paris this December was because the Fondation Louis Vuitton is hosting an exhibition of a 130 works from the Sergei Shchukin collection that is part of the Hermitage Museum's permanent collection.
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it came as no surprise when I stumbled on an empty cafe displaying the album cover for Dexter Gordon's A Swinging' Affair. The album was recorded in 1962 by the late Rudy Van Gelder, but it was released in 1964 when Gordon had taken up residence in Paris as an expat.
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Always dressed stylishly, Parisian whether male or female, move with a grace down the streets as they head to their next rendevous.
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The smell of sulfur was everywhere.
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Saul Leiter's maxim: "Shoot through it"
Saturday morning, New York City, Central Park, Bethesda Fountain, Fall. The smart looking street musician caught my attention. Gotta love the scarf, glasses, and exquisite beard. Performing Cat Steven's Morning Has Broken to nobody, although his collection plate was overflowing with money. And then this couple arrived, hardly noticing the musician, but they certainly noticed each other.
