Too many exhibitions, too little time.
Yet the citys museums and galleries abound with excellent art.
Here, the highlights.
Dress worn by Ewa Meissner, autumn-winter 1993 haute couture collectionPhotograph by Claus Ohm© Yves Saint Laurent © Claus Ohm – DR
Where one theme highlights the fluidity of sheer, another illustrates how it can be worked for structure.
She considered photography like static dance and [when modeling] interacted with her photographers.
Further on are exquisite images by Horst.
Nude portrait of Yves Saint Laurent for the of his first eau de toilette Pour Homme,Paris, 1971Photograph by Jeanloup Sieff© Estate Jeanloup Sieff
As chance would have it, Ernaux won the Nobel Prize for Literature once the project was already underway.
She writes this book as if making photographs; and in other books, photos are like prompts.
She also writes about her own memories as though they were photographs.
Erwin Blumenfeld, Lisa Fonssagriveswearing a Schiaparelli coat inmulticolored felt, bicorns Schiaparelli, forVogue France, December 1938Gelatin silver printPromised donation from the Archive ofTom Penn© The Estate of Erwin Blumenfeld 2023
I think its an under-analyzed part of her.
Did Ernaux have a favorite?
As the child looks to her mother, the mother looks out to the bleak landscape of similar buildings.
Fernand Fonssagrives,Lisa Fonssagrives, for Town and Country,New York, ca. 1947Gelatin silver printLoan from the Archive of Tom Penn© Estate of Fernand Fonssagrives
Fernand Fonssagrives,Lisa Fonssagrives, ‘Elan’ Noirmoutierbeach, France, 1935Gelatin silver printMEP Collection, Paris. Donation from theArchive of Tom Penn© Estate of Fernand Fonssagrives
Janine Niepce, H.L.M. à Vitry. Une mèreet son enfant, 1965Tirage gélatino-argentiqueCollection MEP, Paris. Acquis en 1983.© Janine Niepce / Roger Viollet
