Sunday, July 26, 2009

Old Soul.

I am a lover of all things French--lucky to claim it as my last name as well--and always have been. All the fiction stories I've written since I was about seven years old have a contingency to be set in pre-revolutionary France (the epicenter of the world before Robespierre and the Reign of Terror came in and mucked everything up), and post-WWI-Belle-Epoque Paris.

Maybe that is why I am so drawn to the work of Brassai and Atget... there's something so beautiful and human in all of their photographs. Look at the post below for my personal favorite.

A piece of Atget's--"Boulevard de Strasbourg, c. 1912"


and another-- "Organ Grinder, c.1898"

1 comment:

RHS Flash said...

Very, very cool comments and interest. I need to read more and see more. cn