![]() ![]() In fact, the Tennessee native once claimed that, at the time he got the assignment, “I didn’t know where France was, let alone Paris.”īut when he came upon a young painter in Montmartre (slide #6 in this gallery, and Clark’s personal favorite photo from his entire career), he found it “so beautiful that I just started shooting. Even in the age of the atom bomb, she is as indestructible as the river.įor his part, like countless travelers before him through the centuries, Ed Clark fell under the spell cast by the great, gorgeous city. This is the Paris that neither Germans nor GIs could change. Most of the pictures were taken in mist or rain, when the sharp, clean lines of the city’s spires and the bridges pierce through a curtain of gray. The Paris is the Paris of the Parisians and of anyone else who will take her. The Parisians themselves, meanwhile, were “cold, hungry, confused and tired above all, tired too busy keeping themselves alive to bother much about entertaining. age back in 1831, and while thanks to technological advances wonders have moved. The pictures he made there chronicle not the cheerful, bawdy Paris of the popular imagination, but a place that, as LIFE told its readers, was a “grim and depressing disappointment” for any visitors expecting the Paris of Maxim’s, the Ritz, the Folies Bergère, the Moulin Rouge and the city’s other legendary, libidinous diversions. The Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust is custodian to both the bridge. ![]() In early 1946, photographer Ed Clark journeyed to Paris (“the grand courtesan of all cities,” LIFE called the ancient town) to record the look and the feel of the French capital less than a year after the end of World War II. Age of Wonders III -75 29.99 7.49 Age of Wonders: Planetfall Deluxe Edition Content Pack -50 12.99 6.49 Age of Wonders II: The Wizards Throne -75 9.99 2.49 Age of Wonders: Planetfall Pre-Order Content -50 4.99 2.49 Age of Wonders -75 5. ![]()
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