Paris

It's been a while since I've written about Paris. I've spent many years wandering around this wonderful city looking for ready made images. Paris would show me what she wanted me to see and ...

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Paris makes Parisians. Come here often enough, treat Paris like a person, pay attention to what she tells you, and you eventually become a Parisian. After a while it even seems that Paris...

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Paris is called the “City of Light.” Does this immediately conjure up a vision of the Eiffel Tower in all her glory, sparkling nightly, every hour on the hour, flashing her long beams ...

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The first time I went to Paris we were strangers. We had never met, Paris and I. It had all the aspects of a blind date with a stunningly beautiful woman who didn’t speak my language. It...

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What can compare to walking along Quai de Montebello at night. The later the better, when it is quiet and the traffic is light. I like to approach it from Île St Louis, crossing Pont de l'A...

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What does it mean to have a true experience of Paris? Of anywhere or anything? Things are experienced all the time but not always in a way that becomes AN experience. We have AN experience w...

http://toutparis.blogspot.com/2016/01/experience-in-paris.html

All things come to an end. As someone said; “We are all going to die and we are the lucky ones.” In a few days I will have to leave Paris and yet I feel like one of the lucky ones. To ha...

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I write about Paris because I love being here. To write about it not only gives me great pleasure but also helps me understand why I love Paris. I think all of us have a place that is, in som...

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I love arriving in Paris on the last days of a season, especially the end of summer. There is a dynamic to it like watching a woman dress or undress depending on the season. In late October ...

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Paris, when you visit her often, has a way of making life elsewhere disappear. Past times spent in Paris just come together into one seamless experience. Part of that experience is continuin...

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What do I see in Paris that keeps bringing me back. I struggle to answer that, but the words don't seem adequate. I can't seem to say what I see there, although I feel it deeply. The beauty ...

http://toutparis.blogspot.com/2015/08/language-of-paris.html

UP and Around in Paris Exhibition Closing Today More the 40 of the silver prints on this blog are on display at Gallery 1448 located at 1448 E Baltimore St. Baltimore, MD The exhibiti...

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Is Paris a work of art? I contend that she is. The images I create of Paris are a demand for the meaning of what I am seeing. They establish fundamental meanings, meanings which wouldn't be ...

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35 of my Paris prints and a selection of watercolors are on display at Gallery 1448. The gallery is open on Saturdays and Sundays from 1Pm to 5PM through the month of June. I will be in the Gall...

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Paris. My version of paradise. Sometimes it blinds me and I forget that to a politician Paris is only a seat of government, to a farmer only a vast market for grain and meat and vegetables, ...

http://toutparis.blogspot.com/2015/05/to-me-paris-is.html

From my window I can see the Seine.. I can see Pont Neuf and the statue of Henry IV if I lean out the window just a little. To the left I can see all the way to Place St Michel and to the ri...

http://toutparis.blogspot.com/2015/04/i-spy.html

It's hard to draw a portrait while sitting in the lap of your model. I think I see Paris clearly only while she and I are apart. I leave for each visit full of ambition. This time I will abso...

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My eyes adored you. Waiting for the 96 bus on rue du Four, looking up at the unmistakable, yet infinitely variable roof lines, my eyes adored you. Walking along rue des Fossés St. Jacques, ...

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Places become associated with times. It's how traditions are born. Paris is about traditions. A visit to rue de l'Annonciation, the market street in Passy on Christmas Eve is a tradition for...

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Paris can tempt you in many ways. She helps you discover things, things about history things about art, things about living a good life, things about yourself. Paris is an event, more than a...

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“Nothing is written.” I read this phrase the other day and it stayed with me. It seemed to have a connection with my life here in Paris but I wasn't sure why it did. Then I went to see t...

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Time is luxury. Unlike money, time can't be saved, it just rushes by. Time in Paris is a special treasure. When you have lots of it you are rich beyond words. You can wander over to the Louv...

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The DeMedici fountain presents an illusion. The surface of the water doesn't appear level. Some people don't notice it. The first time I saw this fountain I was disoriented by the illusion, ...

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Anticipation. I wonder, if I lived in Paris full time, would she begin to seem plain to me? Would she perhaps, begin to fade? I am getting ready to go back, this time for ten weeks. Anticipa...

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