Brigitte Bardot, 1958.
Nicolas Tikhomiroff / Magnum
Louis Daguerre’s Boulevard du Temple, 1838,
the earliest known photograph of a human being.
The image shows a street, but because of the over ten minute exposure time the moving traffic does not appear. At the lower left, however, a man apparently having his boots polished, and the bootblack polishing them, were motionless enough for their images to be captured.
Paris, 1950.
Rene Burri / Magnum
Sacre Coeur Basilica shot from a hotel room on Place des Abbesses, Paris.
Raghu Rai / Magnum
La patrouille des pigeons givrés by Hughes Léglise-Bataille on Flickr.
Avenue de l’Observatoire, Paris, 1934.
Brassai
Paris, 1969.
Elliott Erwitt / Magnum
It would not be a huge leap for me to turn this into an Erwitt blog.
Paris, 1948
Tore Johnsson
Paris, 1992.
Josef Koudelka / Magnum Photos
