Metropolitain : A Portrait of Paris
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There's a magnificent colored glass skylight pictured on a double spread in this book that was photographed not in a cathedral but a department store. On the very next page is the highly distinctive tower of a steam laundry. Such is Weinreb's uncanny eye -- and lens -- for the details that escape most people. The boulevards, bridges, palaces and archways that Parisians prize are here, but so are the weird and wonderful things they often take for granted about their great city, like the skull with bat's wings that sits on the corner of a tomb in the Pere-Lachaise cemetery. Weinreb has special fondness for the many gargoyles that decorate the keystones of arches.
From the Publisher
Composed of a sequence of images punctuated by a series of essays which explore Paris through its architectural features and materials, this book focuses on both famous landmarks and lesser-known, anonymous buildings.
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Metropolitain: A Portrait of Paris,Matthew Weinreb,Matthew (Photographer) Weinreb,Fiona Biddulph,Phaidon Press,0714831565,Antiques & Collectibles,Antiques/Collectibles,Art,History - Specific Styles,History Of Architecture,International Architecture - European,Photography,Subjects & Themes - Travel - World/Europe,Art / Design / Decorative
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