Lab in Paris

[Emmanuel BIGLER]

Hi!

Normally I would recommend to all LF aficionados visiting the Old Paris to devote at least one half day to Carnavalet Museum.

Carnavalet museum as an institution was one of the customers of Eugène Atget. The museum's collection is rich of 4,000 original photographs by Atget. Unfortunately, the museum is now closed for repair and will not re-open before the beginning of year 2020.
Si this information is for general use, or for a future visit!
http://www.carnavalet.paris.fr/en/homepage

Visitor's entrance, administration
Hôtel Carnavalet
16, rue des Francs-Bourgeois
When speaking a bout a historical building, "Hôtel" in France does not mean at all a hotel but a rich mansion. So do not ask for accommodation at Hôtel Carnavalet

Rue des Francs-Bourgeois is located in the heart of the Marais district. So even if the Carnavalet Museum is closed, I warmly recommend to walk from Bastille Square to the Pompidou Museum of Modern Arts through Place des Vosges (one of the most magnificent square in Paris) and rue des Francs-Bourgeois. In this street, close to Carnavalet Museum, you have the National Archives, where exhibitions are often organized related to the history of Paris and France.
But Carnavalet museum ranks#1 as far as the history of Paris is concerned, with an emphasis on the revolutionnary period (1789-1799).

For the time being, Carnavalet Museum being closed, you can have a look at a virtual Atged gallery organized for internauts by the French National Library (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, BNF) here.

http://expositions.bnf.fr/atget/expo...lle1/index.htm

But of course nothing replaces the direct vision of an original contact albumen print by Atget!

[MartinP]

If you are in France around the right time, perhaps a week of holiday at the end of your trip, the Rencontres Arles opening week is the first week of July. The hotels were booked up last Autumn but you can probably still find a campsite in order to discover that eight or ten hours a day for a week is not enough time to visit all the exhibitions. If you go there, arrange to get the Professional all-week, multi-entry ticket. Don't forget the night 'projections' and to visit one of the evening photographic presentations held in the 1700 year old amphitheatre. Quickest and cheapest travel from Paris might be a cheap airline to Avignon and then a short bus-ride. Enjoy Paris too, of course!

[dodphotography]

Hi!

Normally I would recommend to all LF aficionados visiting the Old Paris to devote at least one half day to Carnavalet Museum.

Carnavalet museum as an institution was one of the customers of Eugène Atget. The museum's collection is rich of 4,000 original photographs by Atget. Unfortunately, the museum is now closed for repair and will not re-open before the beginning of year 2020.
Si this information is for general use, or for a future visit!
http://www.carnavalet.paris.fr/en/homepage

Visitor's entrance, administration
Hôtel Carnavalet
16, rue des Francs-Bourgeois
When speaking a bout a historical building, "Hôtel" in France does not mean at all a hotel but a rich mansion. So do not ask for accommodation at Hôtel Carnavalet

Rue des Francs-Bourgeois is located in the heart of the Marais district. So even if the Carnavalet Museum is closed, I warmly recommend to walk from Bastille Square to the Pompidou Museum of Modern Arts through Place des Vosges (one of the most magnificent square in Paris) and rue des Francs-Bourgeois. In this street, close to Carnavalet Museum, you have the National Archives, where exhibitions are often organized related to the history of Paris and France.
But Carnavalet museum ranks#1 as far as the history of Paris is concerned, with an emphasis on the revolutionnary period (1789-1799).

For the time being, Carnavalet Museum being closed, you can have a look at a virtual Atged gallery organized for internauts by the French National Library (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, BNF) here.

http://expositions.bnf.fr/atget/expo...lle1/index.htm

But of course nothing replaces the direct vision of an original contact albumen print by Atget!

I booked a two week air BB in the Marais area!


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[Bernard_L]

If you are in France around the right time, perhaps a week of holiday at the end of your trip, the Rencontres Arles opening week is the first week of July. The hotels were booked up last Autumn but you can probably still find a campsite in order to discover that eight or ten hours a day for a week is not enough time to visit all the exhibitions.

Information. After the opening week, and until September, the exhibitions are still there, and it is less crowded. No need to resort to a campsite. More possibilities and cheaper if you stay outside the old city and accept to walk 10-15min at the beginning and end of your visiting day.

Opinion. The photography summer in Arles is becoming more and more a social event. I was already annoyed by the "semi-pro" type visitors, in the exhibitions and at the café terraces, wearing ostensibly their red-dot camera. Now the large railway maintenance center, an industrial waste host to a sizeable part of the exhibitions, has been bought by investors and a building is being erected by the design of... Frank Gehry. More luxury brands are buying shops.
And, I usually spend 1.5 day to visit all the exhibitions; not a packed week.