Paris, Paris: A Journey into the City of Light - Softcover

David Downie; Alison Harris

3.9

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9780976925101: Paris, Paris: A Journey into the City of Light

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976925109 ISBN 13: 9780976925101

Publisher: Transatlantic Pr, 2005

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Like all great cities and yet unlike any other Paris is alive and fluttering, it changes with the light, buffeted by Seine-basin breezes. This place called Paris is at once the imaginary land of literature and film, a distant view through shifting, misty lenses, and a vibrant contemporary city where a kaleidoscope of millions seems bent on the grand conspiracy of enjoying life. Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light paints a portrait in thirty perennial essays of the world’s favorite city.

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Review:

"Lifting the curtain (in some cases before the people inside expect it) is very much what this book is about..." -- John Baxter, Alliance Francaise Magazine, October 2005

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Paris, Paris is that rare object nowadays: a book of literate travel essays illustrated with striking B&W photographs.
Known for her photography work in the books of Sophia Loren, Marcella Hazan, Anne Willan and many other celebrities and cooks, Alison Harris is also a passionate chronicler in B&W of Paris’ streets. As Diane Johnson sees it, "Paris must be the most photographed place in the world, from Doisneau to Cartier-Bresson. These beautiful studies by Alison Harris extend that literature with a powerful formal talent. Her camera’s loving dissection of details that the busy traveler might not notice for himself, makes of this book a splendid object in itself, a sort of bibliophilic gem."

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