Paris Photographs: "For ome time he had had the ambition to create a collection if all that which both in paris photographs and its surroundings was iristic and picturesque," wrote his friend Andre Cal-nettes.29 Photographe d'art, photographer of works of it, he called himself, and he hand lettered the sign "Doc-iments pour artistes" for the door of his fifth-floor apart-nent-darkroom at 31 rue Campagne Premiere. A great leal of his work was photographing the historic buildings if paris photographs in detail. He made a series of photographs of iron pill work, another of the fountains of paris photographs.
What sort of photographs were these prints, which caused so much commotion? Just plain, straightforward itographs. But such photographs! Different from the photographs usually seen at the exhibitions? Yes. How different? There's the rub. If you could see them for yourself, you would at once appreciate their difference. |
