Fire Hydrant, Chalon-sur-Saone
Hydrant, Chalon Just a quick one-off of a very red, vibrant fire hydrant in Chalon-sur-Saone. It fits well within my series of ordinary objects, and it has a very sculptural quality to it.
View ArticleParis in October – Part 11 – more Trains
Some more transportation photos. In France, they have the national rail network, which has two grades of TGV-class trains: the long-distance, high speed trains (the one that goes from Paris to...
View ArticleParis in October – part 13 – Chalon-sur-Saone in Black and White – Shops
Here are businesses and storefronts in Chalon-sur-Saone. The old advertisement still visible on the wall of the building is on a street leading away from the old (2nd-16th Century) core of the town....
View ArticleParis in October – part 14 – More Chalon-sur-Saone
Here are a few more photos from Chalon-sur-Saone. The Niepce monument is the marker of the reason I took the trip in the first place – to visit the birthplace of photography. Nicephore Niepce invented...
View ArticleParis in October – part 33 – Chalon-sur-Saone, at night
I know, Chalon-sur-Saone is NOT in Paris. It is in fact several hundred kilometers from Paris, and about 120 kilometers from the Swiss border, on the river Saone, which feeds the Rhone. I stayed at the...
View ArticleParis in October – part 34 – Art Nouveau in Chalon-sur-Saone
On the Boulevard de la Republique there is this fascinating Art Nouveau building that stands out amidst its neighbors. Having spent 10 days in Barcelona, perhaps the global epicenter of Art Nouveau,...
View ArticleParis in October – part 35 – Chalon-sur-Saone, Rue De L’Oratoire
Joseph Nicephore Niepce was born in Chalon-sur-Saone on March 7, 1765 in a house at 9 (now 15 in the new address scheme) Rue De L’Oratoire. The house as it stands today is rather nondescript and gives...
View ArticleParis in October – part 36 – a Courtyard in Chalon
Around the corner from the Musee Niepce and the Chalon tourism office, I encountered this fascinating courtyard. Perhaps the single most surprising element was the massive bronze Laocoon statue in an...
View ArticleParis in October – part 37 – Chalon Odds and Ends
Here are some loose ends from my sojourn in Chalon-sur-Saone. You may remember the Valentin Paint ad in black-and-white – here it is in color. Valentin Paint Ad, Chalon The black-and-white version, as...
View ArticleOrdinary Objects
This is part of a series I’ve been working on – photographing ordinary objects we pass by on the street every day but take for granted. They are things we see but don’t see, and they may well vanish,...
View ArticleParis in October – Part 11 – more Trains
Some more transportation photos. In France, they have the national rail network, which has two grades of TGV-class trains: the long-distance, high speed trains (the one that goes from Paris to...
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