>Re:PHOTO Peter Marshall - Thoughts on Photography
Description: Atmospheric black and white photographs of Paris by Peter Marshall.
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Quai de Jemappes / Rue Bichat, 10e, Paris, 1984
My first visit to Paris was in 1966, but I only took a single film and dropped it complete with camera into the lake at Versailles - not a good start! Since then I've returned many times, for holidays, to take photographs and in several recent years for Paris Photo and Le Mois de la Photo. But whatever I've gone there for, I've always taken photos.
My first published portfolio of work in a magazine in 1974 included several pictures of Paris from the previous summer, and in the mid-80s my second one-person show was ' Paris Revisited ' and in part a homage to one of the great photographers of Paris, Eugene Atget , in whose footsteps I was at times very conscious of treading. The pictures for this were taken in 1984. There is a considerably wider selection of the black and white pictures from this trip under ' Paris Revisted ' on this site.
>Re:PHOTO Peter Marshall - Thoughts on Photography