Mallet-Stevens April 24, 2007

Critique welcome, thanks.

I'll start with this post-modernist building caught in all its rich geometric beauty. This is an image that is hard to deconstruct since it seems to lodge firmly in the right brain, a kind of poetry for the eyes that is very hard to explain in rational terms. I can say the visual ingreients create a balanced and very tasty dish.

A very classy shot. You and Jack have an affinity for such crisp captures.

It has a great aesthetic form, the way you have cropped and composed it creates a perfect composition of special beauty. Nice to see you posting again, Laurent

Thanks. This is part of an entire street in Paris whose buildings were designed by the French architect Mallet-Stevens in the 20s. Mallet-Stevens was a great architect whose name is unfortunately not so well-known among the public as some others among his fellow colleagues of the same era, such as Le Corbusier for instance. This small quiet street that looks like part of a village in the very heart of Paris (16th arrondissement), is really a very pleasant place.

 

This is a repost from a series I did in April 2007. It hadn' t attracted so many comments then so I deleted it a while ago. I'm reposting all my pictures right now because It's fine for me to see them all together again as part of the small photographic diary I've been making over the last few years.

I do know Mallet-Stevens!!! And though his work, and name, are not as recognizable as other architects from the same period; he was really an artist who influenced many peers, and architects of generations to be.

 

.....as for your photo, what can I say, except that, as usual it is a wonderful achievement in composition, honoring the building and its forms, in a fantastic way.

 

Cheers,

 

Juan Carlos, thanks for digging into my portfolio and commenting on this one. Very much appreciated. Glad you like Mallet-Stevens too. Cheers !