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Thursday 18 March 2010
By Hans-Josef Jeanrond on Thursday 18 March 2010, 11:30 - Expositions / Exhibitions
Friday 4 September 2009
By Hans-Josef Jeanrond on Friday 4 September 2009, 17:30 - Reflets-Réflexion
Travelling to Paris on 30 August provided the chance to catch the last day
of the Cartier-Bresson exhibition at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie.
(It is still under "current exhibitions", but it will no doubt be moved from
there soon: www.mep-fr.org)
Putting on Ferdinando Scianna ("La Géométrie et la Passion") at the same
time, did not do him much good: Even though there were some masterpieces in his
show, too (less than a handful), he clearly does not reach the level of
Cartier-Bresson. Cartier-Bresson's "géometrie" is more elegant and seems
completely effortless.
Coming out of the MEP (with queues even longer than when I went in - Cartier-Bresson still draws large crowds!), I strolled around Place des Vosges. Looking at the Galleries and shops, I was able to take another shot at my favourite theme of the moment: Reflections and "inside-out / outside-in". The bright sunshine projected the Place des Vosges into the Galleries and show cases, where it blended with the exhibited works.
Wednesday 12 August 2009
By Hans-Josef Jeanrond on Wednesday 12 August 2009, 17:40 - Reflets-Réflexion
As promised in the last posting, I come back to the topics of "inside-out /
outside-in” and "museum and the city". These topics will probably keep my
imagination busy for a while, and I will have to revisit places again and
again, in order to refine my images and come closer to what I would like them
to be.
Comments and proposals for improvements are very welcome.
Sunday 28 June 2009
By Hans-Josef Jeanrond on Sunday 28 June 2009, 11:05 - Paris
Even if you are "just" moving within a village, it's a gruelling experience.
And it is an interminable one: You don't hire a professional removal company,
since you only have to transport things over a mile, and in our case, you have
nearly 2 months to do it. (redecoration of two houses included).
This blog is not about the hassles of moving, the trouble of finding space for
things that have lived in your garages and cellars for many years - in a house
that does not have either; about the incompetence of telecoms companies and
Internet access providers, about the surprises of electric and water-pipes
installations, etc., otherwise this entry might be 100 pages long.
Let us just state that the exercise kept me from writing this blog, and from
photography in general.
Well not completely, as these images may prove.
Sunday 24 June 2007
By Hans-Josef Jeanrond on Sunday 24 June 2007, 20:20 - Paris
Les Halles - vue générale du
quartier
A market place since the 12th century, Les Halles have been rebuilt and
enlarged several times to allow for the constant growth of the city of Paris.
Before the current, mostly subterranean structure, the much regretted Halles of
Baltard were in fact the 19th century architect's second attempt: Napoleon III
did not like his first stone buildings at all, and told his prefect Haussmann
that he wanted much lighter structures, nothing but "large umbrellas".
Haussmann, a school friend of Baltard passed on the message and thus helped
Baltard to get his second chance. He went on to create the iron structures that
lasted for about a century before they were destroyed in 1971. "A massacre and
an urbanistic crime" according to journalist and architecture critic Francis
Rambert (in "Paris", sous la direction de Gilles Plazy, Editions Flammarion
2003, ISBN: 2-0801-11655)
Sunday 29 April 2007
By Hans-Josef Jeanrond on Sunday 29 April 2007, 17:20 - Paris
Before
returning to La Défense, let us look at yet another building by Ieoh Ming
Pei
Avant de retourner à la Défense, regardons encore un bâtiment de Ieoh Ming
Pei - probablement LE bâtiment emblématique de Pei.
Bevor wir wieder zu La Défense zurückkehren, werfen wir noch einen Blick auf
ein weiteres Gebäude von Ieoh Ming Pei, wohl das, mit dem er in der breiten
Öffentlichkeit am bekanntesten geworden ist.
(Click on the image to enlarge)