Week 7

This week we looked at some work by Braisse who was a Hungarian photographer working in France. He is one of my favorite photographers because of his amazing photos of Paris. Looking at his photos of the Folies-Bergere and scenes from cafes and subways it's impossible not to know that they are taken in Paris. His photos have so much personality and character that make it easy to identify the location. In his pictures from Paris he takes on the role of a true Parisian and captures seemingly random moments. Nothing is posed, it's all real. His night shots are especially haunting because there is something alive about them. The viewer can almost feel the fog coming out of them. As soon as I started going through his photos I felt like I was back in Paris. He's just able to capture so much of that Paris-feeling that it amazes me. I really like his photo "Lovers in a Bistro" because of the way the two lovers are looking at each other. Paris is the "City of Romance" and when I visited Paris over the summer I saw so many couples that were in that same trance.