Paris is for lovers

I might as well state the obvious while doing the Paris pix.  Everywhere you look, there are people wandering Paris, their relationships in various states of perfection and disrepair.....

Hey hey hey, it's the Grand Palais

Grand Palis from Champs Elysee

window seat

halls

grand staircase

Helmut Newton exhibit

grand staircase

Grand Palais exterior

As we walked along the Champs Elysee, we noticed a rather interesting building towards the river.  It was the Grand Palais.  Next day, I realized the Helmut Newton retrospective was hung there. Newton was a German photographer busy for most of the middle of the 20th century.  I had wanted top see the Newtons as his wife had curated the show and it was extensive.  I had seen lots of Newton in books and mags, but never up close.

He is a very impressive photog.  He is like Lucien Freud in his existential tensions: they are of the same generation, and both recently died.

It was great to see his work.  The large nudes were inspired by police photos from the 1970s.  He did most of his shooting with a medium format Rolleiflex camera.  The really big prints are eight feet tall and they are grainy but fine nonetheless.  Pixel peepers today would dismiss him.  That is the sad state some photography has sunk to.

The light in the Grand Palais was fab.  I shot a bunch.

Paris et la Seine...part 1

We had great weather for our entire two weeks.  In Paris, it was overcast when it needed to be.  I love shooting water in overcast weather.  Thank you gods of the river!

Divine light on the Champs Elysee...part two

Here are the files cleaned up in LightRoom 4