How often have you stepped off the Paris metro, onto the platform and found yourself smiling? Or the doors open and a photo on the platform wall resembles someone’s key chain? These have actually happened to me. The answers all revolve around an extremely popular photo exhibit that will shortly …
The Jeu de Paume is host to the first retrospective in twenty-five years of the American photographer, Garry Winogrand (1928-1984). Winogrand is considered in the same league as the American photographers: Walker Evans, Robert Frank and Lee Friedlander. Winogrand captured a moment in life similar to French photographers, Robert Doisneau, …
If you wonder what a woman can accomplish in a century, visit the Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) exhibit at the Jeu de Paume. Not only was she a technician in the darkroom, a portraitist and a collector with foresight, she invented cameras to capture movement at MIT.
The Ai Weiwei exhibit “Interlacing” (“Entrelacs” in French) is upstairs at the Jeu de Paume until April 29. “Ai Weiwei is an architect, conceptual artist, sculptor, photographer, blogger, Twitterer, interview artist and political activist; a sensitive observer of current topics and social issues.” He is also a thorn in the side of the Chinese …