Paris Day 3
On our final day, we met Annie at the Pompidou for the Cartier-Bresson exhibit. The day was threatening rain, and seemed nasty, so I was happy to be inside. The exhibit itself was over 500 of his photos from throughout his life. He started as an artist, but concentrated on photography in his 20s. At first he was a Surrealist, then was very concerned with framing and the Golden Mean, and later as a photojournalist. He had an uncanny knack to find the correct moment to capture, the "decisive moment". One of his famous pictures of that period was a man jumping over a puddle, caught just at the instant in the air with a perfect reflection. His later works while traveling around the works concentrated on the daily rhythms of the lives of ordinary people. He also became an ardent Communist and photographed rallies and crowds. There was a movie he made with Paul Strand, which was remarkable in its visions of light and shadow. Another movie was made of him in a crowd, snapping pictures as he saw the shifting scene in front of him. Fascinating.
After lunch on the roof with great views of the Eiffel Tower and Sacre Coeur, we went to the permanent exhibit of modern painting. More old friends of Picasso, Leger, and others.
Afterwards, we made our way back to the store now that it was open. This is the new "in" place, and it looked like they were giving things away. Shopped out, we returned to the hotel to nap before dinner.
Stephen J. Rockower, MD
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On our final day, we met Annie at the Pompidou for the Cartier-Bresson exhibit. The day was threatening rain, and seemed nasty, so I was happy to be inside. The exhibit itself was over 500 of his photos from throughout his life. He started as an artist, but concentrated on photography in his 20s. At first he was a Surrealist, then was very concerned with framing and the Golden Mean, and later as a photojournalist. He had an uncanny knack to find the correct moment to capture, the "decisive moment". One of his famous pictures of that period was a man jumping over a puddle, caught just at the instant in the air with a perfect reflection. His later works while traveling around the works concentrated on the daily rhythms of the lives of ordinary people. He also became an ardent Communist and photographed rallies and crowds. There was a movie he made with Paul Strand, which was remarkable in its visions of light and shadow. Another movie was made of him in a crowd, snapping pictures as he saw the shifting scene in front of him. Fascinating.
After lunch on the roof with great views of the Eiffel Tower and Sacre Coeur, we went to the permanent exhibit of modern painting. More old friends of Picasso, Leger, and others.
Afterwards, we made our way back to the store now that it was open. This is the new "in" place, and it looked like they were giving things away. Shopped out, we returned to the hotel to nap before dinner.
Stephen J. Rockower, MD
Sent from my iPad
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