Sax at Paris-Plage

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Sax player, Paris-Plage
Port de l'Hôtel-de-Ville
Quartier Saint-Gervais, 4th arrondissement
Paris, July 2004

Petite Alsace

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Petite Alsace or cité Daviel
Rue Daviel
Quartier de la Maison-Blanche, 13th arrondissement
Paris, July 2004

Rue des Degrés

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Street signs and lamp post
Rue Beauregard / Rue des Degrés
Quartier de Bonne-Nouvelle, 2nd arrondissement
Paris, July 2004

Fontaine de la Porte Dorée

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Fontaine de la Porte Dorée
Place Edouard Renard
Quartier du Bel-Air, 12th arrondissement
Paris, July 2004

Dôme IMAX

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(Former) Dôme IMAX
Le Dôme
Puteaux, La Défense
Paris, July 2004

The Staircase

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The staircase
Puteaux, La Défense
Paris, July 2004

Tour Total

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Tour Total (Total Tower)
Place Jean Millier
Courbevoie, La Défense
Paris, July 2004

La Danse

La Danse (The Dance) by Shelomo Selinger, 1983
Passerelle des Reflets
Courbevoie, La Défense
Paris, July 2004

“This moulded white concrete structure, created in 1983, depicts four figures reproduced on each of the planters used to delimit the ‘lower’ square below the Esplanade. The originality of this artwork lies partly in the integration of the vegetation which, over time, seems to intertwine the figures in a perfect symbiosis.” (Les hommes de la cité, Paris La Défense)

Les hommes de la cité

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Les hommes de la cité (The men of the city) by France and Hugues Siptrott, 1991
Esplanade du Général de Gaulle
Courbevoie, La Défense
Paris, July 2004

“The eight sculptures in polychrome patinated bronze refer to the anonymous crowds of passers-by who can recognise themselves in a frozen eternity. The space below can be perceived as a primitive garden where men and trees rise towards the light. Six standing figures are gathered on a marbled space, while a seventh observes them from a perch. The last one is at the level of the RATP staircase leading to the platform of line 1 of the metro.” (Les hommes de la cité, Paris La Défense)

Tour Gan

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Tour Gan, 1974
Courbevoie, La Défense
Paris, July 2004

“Tour CB21, formerly Tour Gan, is an office skyscraper located in La Défense, the high-rise business district situated west of Paris, France. It was designed by celebrated American architect Max Abramovitz. Built from 1972 to 1974, the tower is 179 m (587 ft) tall at roof height. However, it reaches 187 m (614 ft) once including the antenna located on the roof. It is the fourth-tallest skyscraper in La Défense after Tour First, Tour Total and Tour Areva. Its ground shape is in the form of a Greek cross. In 1972, during construction, a protest campaign opposed the building of Tour Gan, which was deemed too tall and thus too visible from the historical center of Paris and particularly from the Champs-Elysées. Protesters demanded a reduction in height. However, those protests had no effect and the tower was completed at the planned height. Today, the main tenants are Suez Environnement and AIG France.” (Tour Gan, Wikipedia)

Tour Initiale

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Tour Initiale, 1966
Puteaux, La Défense
Paris, July 2004

“Tour Initiale (previously known as tour Nobel) is an office building located in La Défense business district just west of Paris, France. The 105 m (344 ft) Tour Initiale was the first office tower built in the La Défense district with its construction being completed in 1966. In 1988, the tower was given an internal renovation, and the new name of Tour Initiale. The Tour Initiale was designed by architects Jean de Mailly and Jacques Depussé and engineer Jean Prouvé who designed the building's glass facade. The tower uses curved glass on the building's corners, which, at the time of construction, was generally unknown in France and the glass had to be imported from the United States.” (Tour Initiale, Wikipedia)

Aux Morts des Beaux-Arts

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Monument aux Morts de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts
by Jean Boucher (sculptor) and Marcel Alexandre (architect), 1923
Cour intérieure, Beaux-Arts de Paris
Rue Bonaparte
Quartier Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 6th arrondissement
Paris, July 2004

L'Éternel bénissant le monde

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L'Éternel bénissant le monde, 1803
Cour principale, Beaux-Arts de Paris
Rue Bonaparte
Quartier Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 6th arrondissement
Paris, July 2004

Brumisateurs

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Brumisateurs, Paris-Plage
Voie Georges-Pompidou
Quai de la Mégisserie
Quartier Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, 1st arrondissement
Paris, July 2004

Pétanque

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Pétanque, Paris-Plage
Port de l'Hôtel-de-Ville
Quartier Saint-Gervais, 4th arrondissement
Paris, July 2004

“Pétanque is a sport that falls into the category of boules sports, along with raffa, bocce, boule lyonnaise, lawn bowls and crown green bowling. In all of these sports, players or teams play their boules/balls towards a target ball. In pétanque the objective is to score points by having boules closer to the target than the opponent after all boules have been thrown. This is achieved by throwing or rolling boules closer to the small target ball, officially called a jack but known colloquially as a cochonnet, or by hitting the opponents' boules away from the target, while standing inside a circle with both feet on the ground. The game is normally and best played on hard dirt or gravel. It can be played in public areas in parks or in dedicated facilities called boulodromes. The current form of the game originated in 1907 or 1910 in La Ciotat, in Provence, France. The French name pétanque (borrowed into English, with or without the acute accent) comes from petanca in the Provençal dialect of the Occitan language, deriving from the expression pè tancat, meaning ‘foot fixed’ or ‘foot planted’ (on the ground).” (Pétanque, Wikipedia)

Cleaning the Seine

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Dredger “Port Marly” (P 15830 F)
Between Pont Marie and Pont Louis-Philippe
Paris, July 2004

Monument à Gérôme

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Gérôme exécutant les Gladiateurs, Monument à Gérôme
(Gérôme Executing The Gladiators, Monument to Gérôme)
By Jean-Léon Gérôme, Aimé Morot
Musée d'Orsay
Rue de la Légion d'Honneur
Quartier Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin, 7th arrondissement
Paris, July 2004

“The taste for reality and historical truth taken to the extreme is manifest in the astonishing sculptural group, The Gladiators. This first sculpture by the painter Gérôme, long believed to be lost, was used by the artist's son-in-law, Aimé Morot, himself a painter and sculptor, to pay tribute to Gérôme. Morot portrayed his father-in-law in the process of sculpting The Gladiators, and so included the original group in his own composition. The group was installed in the gardens of the Louvre as a memorial in 1909. The portrait of Gérôme gives us a realistic picture of his working conditions: the smock, the tools he is holding, and his surprised glance at the spectator all suggest that he was interrupted in his work and caught in action as if by a snapshot. The gladiators themselves, a helmeted myrmillo and a retiary with his net, sculpted by Gérôme in 1878, are life-sized versions of the two gladiators he had painted six years before. Gérôme was famous for his Neo-Grec tastes and his Orientalism. A stickler for archaeological precision, he arranged for casts of antique gladiators' equipment to be sent from Naples and invested large sums in properties for his Parisian model.” (Monument to Gérôme, Musée d'Orsay)

L'Homme qui marche

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L'Homme qui marche by Auguste Rodin, 1907
Musée d'Orsay
Rue de la Légion d'Honneur
Quartier Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin, 7th arrondissement
Paris, July 2004

Les Quatre parties du Monde

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Les Quatre parties du Monde soutenant la sphère céleste by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 1874
Musée d'Orsay
Rue de la Légion d'Honneur
Quartier Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin, 7th arrondissement
Paris, July 2004

La Ville de Nantes

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“La Ville de Nantes” by Jean-Antoine Injalbert
Musée d'Orsay
Rue de la Légion d'Honneur
Quartier Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin, 7th arrondissement
Paris, July 2004

Petit Pont

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Petit Pont (Little Bridge)
Paris, July 2004

“The Petit Pont (Little Bridge) is a bridge crossing the River Seine in Paris, built in 1853, although a structure has crossed the river at this point since antiquity. The present bridge is a single stone arch linking the 4th arrondissement and the Île de la Cité, with the 5th arrondissement, between quai de Montebello and quai Saint-Michel. The Petit Pont is notable for having been destroyed, at least thirteen times since its original inception during Gallo-Roman times to the mid-19th century. It is served by the Metro station Saint-Michel.” (Petit Pont, Wikipedia)

Jules Bastien-Lepage

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Jules Bastien-Lepage by Auguste Rodin, 1889
Musée Rodin, Hôtel Biron
Rue de Varenne
Quartier des Invalides, 7th arrondissement
Paris, July 2004

Balzac

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Balzac by Auguste Rodin, 1898
Musée Rodin, Hôtel Biron
Rue de Varenne
Quartier des Invalides, 7th arrondissement
Paris, July 2004

Le Penseur

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Le Penseur by Auguste Rodin, 1903
Musée Rodin, Hôtel Biron
Rue de Varenne
Quartier des Invalides, 7th arrondissement
Paris, July 2004

Les Trois Ombres

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Les Trois Ombres by Auguste Rodin, 1902
Musée Rodin, Hôtel Biron
Rue de Varenne
Quartier des Invalides, 7th arrondissement
Paris, July 2004

La Cariatide tombée portant sa pierre

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La Cariatide tombée portant sa pierre by Auguste Rodin, 1883
Musée Rodin, Hôtel Biron
Rue de Varenne
Quartier des Invalides, 7th arrondissement
Paris, July 2004

Claude Lorrain

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Claude Lorrain by Auguste Rodin, 1892
Musée Rodin, Hôtel Biron
Rue de Varenne
Quartier des Invalides, 7th arrondissement
Paris, July 2004

Ugolin

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Ugolin by Auguste Rodin, 1909
Musée Rodin, Hôtel Biron
Rue de Varenne
Quartier des Invalides, 7th arrondissement
Paris, July 2004

Grande Ombre

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Grande Ombre by Auguste Rodin, 1902
Musée Rodin, Hôtel Biron
Rue de Varenne
Quartier des Invalides, 7th arrondissement
Paris, July 2004

Musée Rodin

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Musée Rodin, Hôtel Biron
Rue de Varenne
Quartier des Invalides, 7th arrondissement
Paris, July 2004

“The Musée Rodin in Paris, France, is a museum that was opened in 1919, primarily dedicated to the works of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. It has two sites: the Hôtel Biron and surrounding grounds in central Paris, as well as just outside Paris at Rodin's old home, the Villa des Brillants at Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine. The collection includes 6,600 sculptures, 8,000 drawings, 8,000 old photographs and 7,000 objets d’art. The museum receives 700,000 visitors annually. While living in the Villa des Brillants, Rodin used the Hôtel Biron as his workshop from 1908, and subsequently donated his entire collection of sculptures – along with paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir that he had acquired – to the French State on the condition that they turn the buildings into a museum dedicated to his works. The Musée Rodin contains most of Rodin's significant creations, including The Thinker, The Kiss and The Gates of Hell. Many of his sculptures are displayed in the museum's extensive garden. The museum includes a room dedicated to the works of Camille Claudel and one of the two castings of The Mature Age. The gardens around the museum building contain many of the famous sculptures in natural settings. Behind the museum building are a small lake and casual restaurant.” (Musée Rodin, Wikipedia)

Jean de Fiennes

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Jean de Fiennes by Auguste Rodin, 1887
Musée Rodin, Hôtel Biron
Rue de Varenne
Quartier des Invalides, 7th arrondissement
Paris, July 2004