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| The Palais Royal does jazz |
More than a week after the holidays, Paris lusciously bathed in Xmas lights; but still wept under the grey skies.
A big Dali exhibition at the Pompidou set the tone and set this writer off artistically, bastardizing everything from ancient masterpieces to vintage trash.
Hereby lies beauty - and distortion.
Soundtrack: Sous le Ciel de Paris by Edith Piaf.
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| The world according to Sartre: "The road to the Cafe de Flore was for me the Road to Freedom". |
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| Barbes-Rochechouart: Where once laid the infamous cabaret Le Chat Noir, in Boulevard de Rochechouart, now starts my exploration in the hedonistic map of Montmartre. |
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| Bibliotheque Nationale de France: The city's best photo exhibitions enveloped in an... urban Amazonian landscape. This month the amazing Louis Stettner and a 100 other photo masterpieces. |
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| The Niki de Saint Phalle fountain livening up the scene at the Pompidou |
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| Coups de coeur: Sculpture in Montmartre |
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| Melancholy sets in the Montmartre cemetary |
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| Dali at the Centre Pompidou: These shoes aren't made for walking |
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| Dali: Surrealism, anyone? |
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| More Dali... |
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| ...And more.. |
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| The Louvre: Ascend into the light |
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| Enki Bilal sees ghosts at the Louvre |
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| Artists unite |
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| Caution: Punk dog |
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| Paris eye |
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| Jardin des Tuileries: Colourful by day and by night |
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| Reve de Monuments exhibition: The Conciergerie does gothic |
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| Notre dame de Paris |
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| Librairie des Abesses: Books with a view |
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| Louvre revisited |
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| Le Bateau Lavoir: Modigliani, we salute you |
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| Notre Dame: Pas mal d' ambiance |
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| Au Bord de l' Eau: Food and lanterns on the Seine |
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| Nuit sacree: La Basilique du Sacre Coeur |
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| The classic Olympia sees the crowd swarm in |
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| Centre Pompidou: The tube a la francaise |
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| Pompidou-Notre Dame |
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| Xmas spirit at the Pompidou |
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| Reve de Monuments, encore |
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| Cranes.. Rooftops |
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| Paris, unhappy when it rains: "Quand il pleut sur Paris C'est qu'il est malheureux", sang Piaf (Sous le Ciel de Paris) |
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| Rochechouart Sacre |
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| The Louvre: Napoleon's shabby shack |
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| Montparnasse 1900: Taste of true Art Deco - even the creme brulee is a pure work of art |
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| Chine Machine: Vintage Montmartre |
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| True winner: Victoire de Samothrace (Winged Victory of Samothrace) oversees the Louvre |
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| The Eiffel Tower sinks into slumber |
Soundtrack: Sous le Ciel de Paris by Edith Piaf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOXzGtlLGgw
All photography by Danai Molocha
EXCELLENT!
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