{"id":16211,"date":"2009-07-01T14:50:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T19:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=16211"},"modified":"2009-07-01T14:55:29","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T19:55:29","slug":"paris-left-bank-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/paris-left-bank-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris from the Left Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I was searching my Paris files, just in by Fed Ex from Belgium, for street photos of Parisian women. I didn’t find any of those today, but (along with several missing Book of Blue sessions from England, praise the gods) I did find these two images from 2005 that convey the energy and scale of the city, particularly the part where I lived, the Left Bank. Both of these photos are in the 5th Arrond. I knew it was a past life thing, but I could barely stand to cross the Seine to the Right Bank, where you find things like the Marais and the Hotel de Ville (city hall, not a Marriott). It just felt strange there, and I later discovered that some of the places I liked the least had been the home of a mass grave with more than 7 million sets of human remains (now Les Halles; the bones, about 16 centuries worth, were stashed down in the catacombs circa 1750). I had one haunt on the Right Bank, the artist squat at 59 rue du Rivoli, one of the first places I hung out with Danielle Voirin. In the image above, the Seine is to the right side of the photo — toward the north. The street along the river changes names about every 100 feet and nobody knows what it’s actually called. The image below, taken a few minutes earlier or later, is a common scene you see night after night, dinner cruise boats going by. Notice how high the river wall is behind the boat. Difficult though it is to believe, there have been rare times when the city has actually flooded. The cafe downstairs from my apartment had a nice collection of photos of people being rescued on the city streets in canoes.<\/p>\n

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I was searching my Paris files, just in by Fed Ex from Belgium, for street photos of Parisian women. I didn’t find any of those today, but (along with several missing Book of Blue sessions from England, praise the gods) I did find these two images from 2005 that convey the energy and scale of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,1510,1801],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}