In Paris...

The New York Times has an article about the upcoming Paris Photo Festival here.

"...The wider cultural appreciation of photography that swept France in the 1970’s and 80’s was driven by literary theorists like Roland Barthes and Jean Baudrillard, not by a rejuvenating generation of artists. Virtually all of the famous 20th-century shots of Paris — by Eugène Atget, Brassaï, André Kertesz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Doisneau, Willy Ronis — were taken before 1960. To wander the city’s boulevards and alleyways is to bump into these yellowing images, though many of the sites have changed beyond recognition. Mondrian’s house, photographed by Kertesz in 1926, was torn down long ago, and even though many of the places he captured in the 20’s are still there — the staircase on Montmartre and the Fountain of the Medicis in the Luxembourg Garden — significant details are different."

—From "In Paris, Photographing a City That Has No Bad Side," by Richard B. Woodward for The New York Times.

The opening night of Paris Photo is on November 15, by invitation only. The fair will continue, with general admission, to November 19 at the Carrousel du Louvre, 99, rue de Rivoli, Paris. Visit www.parisphoto.fr for details.