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Nairn’s Paris by Covers etc on Flickr.

Ian Nairn on Paris, from the year of “les événements”. Cover photo by Dennis Rolfe.

be young and shut up

Anti-Gaulliste poster by the Atelier Populaire, Paris, May 1968

via socialhistoryshop

sous les pavés…

Marc Riboud

Paris, May 1968.

Existentialists

Lilian Tonnaire, c. 1949

via ICM Photography for Collectors

the Barrière de Reuilly, which occupied the site of the present Place Félix Eboué

via Pour comprendre le 12e arrondissement : Le Quartier Bel-Air Sud)

Albert Decaris, Feux d’artifice sur la rive gauche, engraving, 1950

via Adventures in the Print Trade

ajourneyroundmyskull:

L’Enfer by Robert Doisneau, 1952

crashinglybeautiful: Brassaï, “La Librairie de la Lune [The Library of the Moon],” Paris, circa 1931-1943, Silver print

(from lushlight & liquidnight: via the Réunion des Musées Nationaux)

themagiclantern:

fhwrdh:

Un Coin, Rue de Seine

The Geotaggers’ World Atlas #3: Paris (by Eric Fischer)

morematter:

Rue de l’avenir, Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900

sealmaiden:

André Kertész

Ballet Ida Rubinstein, Paris 1928

 

Kertész was fond of the the popular acts appearing at Bobino, a variety theatre in Montparnasse, such as the mime Pomies or Clayton Bates – a dancer with a wooden leg. Occasionally, he was asked to photograph classical Ballet, in this case the dancers of the Ida Rubinstein Company, which visited Paris in 1928 and 1929

From André Kertész 55 published by Phaidon

sealmaiden:

André Kertész 1894-1985

Luxembourg Garden, Paris 1928

From Aperture Masters Of Photography

giorney:

Paris underwater, 1910

Poster for L’Hippodrome, Boulevard de Clichy

via DoubleM2