Posts Tagged ‘black and white’
- Some more from Paris
“I need your arms”
I saw these Dries in Portland in June, in real life they are different shades of green, a dream on your feet .
- Gossip, July 6
Fantastic live as always.
- Paris
I went to the Avedon retrospective. The In the American West series blown up huge is arresting.
Then I saw the Annie Leibowitz show at the Maison Europénne de la Photographie, and it spoke to me on a more emotional level. I love feeling the tacit understanding between her and the people she photographs. She had a statement on the wall about how she admires Avedon’s work so much, but she couldn’t do studio pictures with only a white background and no environment, it’s just you and the other person and you have to talk to them to put them at ease. He was a master of talking but she doesn’t know how to do that with people when all she really wants is to stare at them.
Paris was seductive and too brief. I spent most of my time walking around the Marais, got to stay in a rooftop apartment from heaven, hung out with Solène from Portland in overpriced clubs with bad music and also great bars with great people, and had some very inspiring lunches (company-wise and food-wise).
Sorry for the weird scanning issues, I have no control over it right now!
- 4 days in Toulouse, Léa passait bientôt le bac de français
My sister Léa was taking French literature exams that week. She ended up having to discuss Baudelaire’s “Parfum Exotique”, which is one of my favorite poems.
She did very well.
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