Geoffrey James: Centre Culturel Canadien. (Paris).(Brief Article)

Who hasn't wanted, just once, to be alone with Paris? One of the great laboratories of modern sociability, the City of Light also awakens, at least in certain foreigners' hearts, the intermittent desire to merge, unaccompanied, with the weight of its past. Canadian photographer Geoffrey James seems to have felt something of the sort.

The far-from-picturesque images he shot there in 2000 suggest that, if he worked in the pale light of early morning when no one else was around, it wasn't only because he wanted to capture the pure forms of architecture without human obstruction. One ...

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