Paris Changing lecture at the LA Public Library tonight! · Apr 14, 10:26 AM
(left) Rue Norvins, 1899, Eugène Atget’
(right) Rue Norvins, 1997, Christopher Rauschenberg
Christopher Rauschenberg walked around Paris in Eugène Atget’s shoes re-photographing many of his predecessor’s original locations.
If a trip to the City of Light is not in your immediate future, our book and this lecture are the next best things.
Monday, April 14, 7 PM
Photo Lecture
Christopher Rauschenberg
Revisiting Eugène Atget’s Paris
Los Angeles Public Library
Central Library
Mark Taper Auditorium
Fifth & Flower Streets (Downtown Los Angeles)
MAP
Paris Changing features seventy-four pairs of images beautifully reproduced in duotone. By meticulously replicating the emotional as well as aesthetic qualities of Atget’s images, Rauschenberg vividly captures both the changes the city has under-gone and its enduring beauty. His work is both an homage to his predecessor and an artistic study of Paris in its own right. Each site is indicated on a map of the city, inviting readers to follow in the steps of Atget and Rauschenberg themselves.
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