Daffodil Seller // Une vendeuse de jonquilles © CHANT WAGNER 2017 Daffodil Seller // Une vendeuse de jonquilles Right now, the business of selling daffodils is going strong. Streets of Paris are speckled with yellow, round, bobbing bouquets of...
Paris Photo Archives
The Subterranean Cloying Sweetness of the 70s-80s as a Precursor Sensation to the Alpha Gourmand, Angel by Thierry Mugler (1992) + The Role of Karl Lagerfeld
Shower of Stars - Angel by Mugler Angel in Photographs Inspired by Perfume © CHANT WAGNER Re-Examining a Forgotten Facet of Perfume History of the 1970s-1980s, Before Mugler Angel - My Very Personal Essay Current wisdom has it that...
Iris Silver Mist in Photographs Inspired by Perfume {Paris Street Photography}
Iris Silver Mist - Visual Alphabet © CHANT WAGNER Iris Silver Mist in Photographs Inspired by Perfume I took this picture - and realized afterwards that I might have been influenced by the floating name in my head of...
Sneaking a Smoke // En Griller Une in Paris Moods // Climats de Paris {Paris Street Photogaphy}
Sneaking a Smoke // En Griller Une in Paris Moods // Climats de Paris A man sneaks a smoke under the rain, at the border line between the cover of the underground métro and the open street......
Gentleman - Old Style // Monsieur - Vieux Style in Paris Moods // Climats de Paris {Paris Street Photography}
Gentleman - Old Style // Monsieur - Vieux Style in Paris Moods // Climats de Paris © CHANT WAGNER 2017 Gentleman - Old Style // Monsieur - Vieux Style in Paris Moods // Climats de Paris Paris on a...
The Love Merchant // La marchande d'amour {Paris Street Photography}
La marchande d'amour // The Love Merchant © CHANT WAGNER 2017 The presence of this belle-de-jour in broad daylight in the middle of a normal street - save for its history and half-open activities - made me think of...
Happy International Women's Day! Joyeuse Journée Internationale des Femmes {Blotter Notes} {Paris Street Photos}
Half-eaten woman - and this pose? There's a lot to be said about this image by the YSL campaign. For now, you want to say No Comment © CHANT WAGNER 2017 Happy International Women's Day! Joyeuse Journée Internationale des...
Hello Spring! Cherry Blossoms & Fir {Paris Street Photography}
Cherry Blossoms & Fir © CHANT WAGNER The mild weather today felt like sunny, clement wintertime. And then, I spotted a cherry tree with small blooms and buds. Definitely, springtime. It had decided to settle in early......
Roses & Golden Crown by the Window in Paris in February {Paris Street Photography}
Roses & Gold Crown by the Window in Paris in February © CHANT WAGNER A month after the Epiphany, a golden crown still sits by a bouquet of roses in a Parisian interior letting passerbys take a glimpse of...
Movie Review of La La Land by Damien Chazelle {Movie Reviews & Musings} {Paris Photo} {Cultural Notes}
Film Review of La La Land La La Land by Damien Chazelle (2016) released in 2017 in France, opens on a close-up of a dancer, who purposefull and consciously in non-post-racial America was chosen for her brown skin and...
Happy Valentine's / Good-Vibes Day! Joyeuse Saint Valentin ! {Paris Street Photography}
Beef Hearts / Coeurs de boeuf lors de La Nuit Blanche 2016 © CHANT WAGNER Wishing you a very happy Valentine's / Good-Vibes Day to you and your loved ones! Love is multifaceted - like perfume, and photography. A...
Almost Black & White // Chasing the Cross Series 3 {Paris Street Photography}
Almost Black & White // Chasing the Cross Series 3 © CHANT WAGNER 2017 It's interesting to photograh in color a palette of blacks, whites, grays and transparencies (lavenders & greens are very pale) - because it could fool...
Jesus on the Cross: Real Color Oppositions, False Social Oppositions // Chasing the Cross Series 2 {Paris Street Photography}
Jesus on the Cross: Real Color Oppositions, False Social Oppositions ≈ Jésus sur la croix : vraies oppositions de couleurs, fausses oppositions sociales // Chasing the Cross Series © CHANT WAGNER 2016 During the holidays 2016, a large Christ...
Mimosa in Winter in Paris ≈ Mimosa l'Hiver à Paris {Paris Street Photography}
Mimosa in Winter in Paris ≈ Mimosa l'Hiver à Paris © CHANT WAGNER 2017 "Un peu de soleil dans la grisaille..." (A bit of sunshine in the grey weather...) "Quel beau mimosa !" (What a beautiful mimosa!) I answer...
City Moods ≈ Climats urbains // Apache {Paris Street Photography}
City Moods ≈ Climats urbains // Apache // Street Art © CHANT WAGNER 2017 A January view of Paris at night, under the rain. This graffiti makes you think of the early 20th century movement which defined the type...