Tag Archives: Paris

Christophe Maout’s city of light

By eyecurious | Published: 31 January 2011
Paris earned the nickname of ‘ville lumière‘ (City of Light) from having been an ideological home to the age of enlightenment and for it’s famous street lights. Like these lights, the 19th century Haussmanian architecture of the city has come to typify the French capital in most outsiders’ imagining of the city. So Christophe Maout‘s vision [...]
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The mus-mus @Paris project

By eyecurious | Published: 1 September 2009
The mysterious mus-mus collective have just launched their @Paris project online. The project was based on the idea of finding out how photographers today see Paris and think about the Paris they see.” There are some big names in here (Stephen Shore, Alec Soth) but also a lot of discoveries. I did find a lot [...]
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mus-mus @Paris project

By eyecurious | Published: 23 May 2009
It seems like Paris may be having a bit of a revival as a photographic subject with Eggleston’s Paris commission for the Fondation Cartier and now this: mus-mus, the mysterious people behind the @600 project, are back with the @Paris project. As for @600, this project will collect images of Paris by photographers from all [...]
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