Video: Parisian retro photography: the city of love in pictures by Paul Almasy
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Paris is called the city of love and romance. Hungarian photographer Paul almasy presented an amazing collection of retro photographs that capture random episodes from the life of Parisians. Most of the photographs were taken in the middle of the twentieth century, so that a special atmosphere of carelessness, tenderness and warmth carried through half a century reigns in the photographs.
Paul Almasy has dedicated his life to photography. For 60 years of work as a photojournalist, he has traveled all over the world, and in his collection there is a huge number of photographs in which you can see people from different parts of the world. Gender, age, nationality and social status do not really matter to Paul Almasy. The main thing is emotions, genuine and sincere. These are exactly what you can see in his Parisian photo cycle.
It seems that Paul Almasy himself is in love with Paris to madness, because he created a real ode to this city, to praise its inhabitants, to show quiet streets and noisy embankments, to give the viewer an opportunity to touch the amazing French culture, to learn more about the lifestyle of the townspeople.
In funny photos from Paul Almasy you can see simple everyday joys: improvised orchestras of self-taught guys in city parks, dancing right on the street, couples in love … All this is the enduring beauty of Paris. French charm is not subject to the force of time and circumstances, and a photo cycle from Paul Almasy is a breath of fresh air, a breath of a light breeze of romance and dizzying love!
By the way, not all photo walks in the streets of Paris are so cheerful, for example, melancholy and sadness reign in the brooding photo cycle by Joanna Lemanska. Well, we, the audience, can only choose which of the emotions will be more to our liking.
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