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Now I know what I’ll be doing for the rest of my life… As soon as I get an iPad, that is. Which may now be sooner than I had thought because the Bibliothèque nationale de France has just released Gallica for iPad. And it’s free. The app contains 240,000 books, 880,000 magazines [...]
As part of a vigorous publicity campaign, the American Committee for Devastated France, a civilian relief organization, commissioned photographs and films designed to foster a humanitarian response to the plight of French refugees during and after the First World War. Full-page images ran in American newspapers and sets of prints were sold [...]
Photographer Janol Apin does a series of photos in the Paris métro consisting of visual puns based on the names of the stations. Above: one meaning of boulet is “ball and chain.”
Paris authorities are to cut the amount of advertising on city streets by 30% and ban all adverts within 50m of school gates.
Read the rest at The Guardian. Image, Simon Daval.
My last trip to Paris was about rediscovering the city’s artistic and architectural beauty. With my brand new digital camera and lenses, I wanted to focus on the details. In this case, as the album title suggests, the numerous faces that look at you everywhere you go.
See all the faces of Paris [...]
See JR’s work at the Pompidou Center right now, and don’t miss this chance to get your own GIANT passport photo printed out while you’re there (only until September 5th). JR encourages you to stick it on a building!
See more pics at Frenchies in Paris (article in French). We’ve covered JR on [...]
Female. Lesbian. Jewish. Born in the French provincial city of Nantes. Working with Surrealist motifs which were barely acknowledged as such by the Surrealists, who – for all their talk of revolt – regarded women as little more than exotic furniture.
Wouldn’t you much rather have living, breathing Paris in your pocket? Be able to see fresh photos taken by the people who live there every day?
If you have an iPhone (or iPod touch with a camera) you should download and install Instagram. It works like Twitter, kind of, only for photos. [...]
TED-winning French street artist/activist JR (whom we talked about here) shows up in Venice (or at least his work does). More at LA Weekly, including a Google map of LA locations of work from his The Wrinkles of the City series.
Image: Shannon Cottrel
Photographer couple Max & Charlotte have created a series of Where’s Waldo-inspired photos at iconic locations all over Paris. We’re not sure there actually is a Charlie to find in these photos, but it’s tons of fun to study the details.
Seen @pollyvous
Despite the crowds, the noise and the distinct odour of piss, I was in love. The kind of love which inspires one to risk life, limb and deportation to get up close and personal.
via sleepycity via BoingBoing
The Steins are responsible in many ways for the turn-of-the century revolution in the visual arts through their adventurous patronage, deep ties to leading minds of the era, and legendary Paris salon gatherings.
Buy Paris France by Gertrude Stein at the Francophilia Amazon Store.
via artdaily.org, image: Gertrude Stein by Picasso
Every year French lingerie company Aubade puts out a sexy calendar using some of the year’s ads. And you can download the calendar from the Aubade site! On this page, under Téléchargements, click Calendrier (couverture + les 12 mois).
Watch the amazing video of subversive photographer JR’s Women are Heroes project in Africa on the TED Blog, where you can read about this and his other powerful projects all over the world.
Image: Thriving Too
