Parisian Fields

As I browsed the Paris1970 images described in my last blog, I spent a long time studying the photographs taken in the Bercy wine entrepot before its demolition.

Two summers ago, I participated in a project to photograph our Toronto neighbourhood as it looked in 2024.

I was having lunch with my friend Mireille in a pleasant bistro when I became aware of a commotion at the next table.

May is holiday time in France.

In 2022, our friend Patrice, a restoration architect who has contributed several ideas and themes to this blog, contacted us to ask for help in rescuing and restoring a painting in the parish church of Island in Burgundy.

Let it never be said that archival research is dull.

I have recently returned from a 10-day research trip to Paris for a book on Charles Barbier.

On a blustery January day, two friends and I set out to walk the route of the Bièvre river across the Left Bank.

It’s January 19.

When our friend Mireille in Paris asked me to research the descendants of Valentin Haüy, the man who pioneered education for blind children, my first reaction was, “Wait – he had children?”