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Today I concentrated my efforts in one quarter of the cemetery for 3.5 hours. Never made it to Oscar Wilde's or Edith Piaf's monuments. Nor was able to help a nice lady find Chopin's grave. I did run into Collette. I also ran into one of the victims of the terrorist attack last year November at the Bataclan.
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As my jazz photographers know all too well, good night often depends on where you position yourself. I faced that conondrum tonight at Duc de Lombards, a jazz club located in what was once was Paris' Les Halles.
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Not much to say about this photograph. We were in the 16th Arrondissement, visiting Musée Marmottan Monet, which holds the largest collection of Monet paintings in the world, thanks in large part to Monet's last surviving son, who donated the paintings to the museum.
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Sometimes your best shot is behind you. I was standing outside a restaurant, looking toward the Eiffel Tower, which is probably one of the most photographed structures in the world. Evelyn saw what I was up to, and said, look at the reflection in the restaurant's front door.
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The Jeu de Paume has a fabulous exhibition entitled "Uprisings" running through January 15, 2017. The exhibit takes over the bulk of the exhibition space, covering two floors. It explores political uprisings, with lots of photography, video, and graphic art to make its points.
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Bad weather usually enhances a photograph of an iconic structure. This photograph was shot from the Printemps Department Store's 9th floor rooftop on a foggy, but somewhat balmy Sunday the week before Christmas.
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Paris street musicians always have something interesting to say. This trio was playing straight-ahead gypsy jazz (Irving Berlin's Dancing Cheek to Cheek in the movie Top Hat) as shoppers in the Marais walked and sometimes scooted by. Lovely.
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Picasso's cubism can be viewed as a reaction to the Impressionists. While they focused on brush strokes, he focused on volume. This photograph was made from the third floor of the Picasso Museum in Paris. The thick and wavy glass, together with all of its imperfections, account for the abstraction. Some of the photographs that I made while visiting the museum are reflections in plexiglass-glass display cases of the views from the windows. The building was just as interesting as the collections and exhibits that it houses.
