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Some Early Paris Photos |
Most of these photos were taken between 1970 and 1973 with an old box camera that my friend Dottie Benjamin gave me when I left Greensboro in 1968. I certanly don't qualify the photography as exceptional, but the results are a nice memento for me of a time which no longer exists. Much of the Paris I saw over 40 years ago has disapeared along with my youth. I usually asked permission to photograph, but most of the subjects are people I never knew.
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All of the above snapshots where taken in the neighborhood around the Buttes Chaumont park where I worked for the translators. It was more like my home area than the more sophisticated Champs-Elysées where I rented a room. Madame Garcia, the woman in the top righthand picture(and above middle), was the gardienne of the building where I worked. Like many gardienne-concièrges of the period, she worked for next to nothing in exchange for a miserable room in the building. She invited me to share a potato omelette one evening, and I --quite oblivious to the fact that concièrges were feared and hated and hardly spoke to the residents, let alone invite them for dinner-- had no idea this represented a sacrifice, that she was even poorer than I was.
Mrs. Davis bis
Les Deux Magots Café, St Germain des Près
Pascal and Rico, rue Marignon. No cafe-bar was complete without a pinball machine.
Monsieur Dupuy-Dutemps and his son, my first landlord in his Hitchcockian apartment
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