Paris from a different angle
March 13, 2007
“Paris on the Seine”
Bruno Requillart
The Silver Eye Center for…
“Paris on the Seine”
Bruno Requillart
The Silver Eye Center for Photography
1015 E. Carson St
Through May 26
Free admission
Along the banks of the Seine River in Paris, a few joggers whiz past flocks of pigeons as they leap into flight. As the river flows lazily past the Louvre, Notre-Dame and the Musee d’Orsay, weeping willows sway quietly in the breeze. Further down the river, a secondhand bookstall defines the architecture as the rows of books stacked side by side mirror the buildings behind them.
These black-and-white photographs by Bruno Requillart are part of the “Paris on the Seine” exhibit featured at the Silver Eye Center for Photography. Requillart is a French photographer who aims to capture “the poetry of the instant