8 Passages Parisiens
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
8 Passages Parisiens
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
Eight Parisian Galleries. Paris, France
Composition of Passages Parisiens comprised by, left to right and top to bottom, Passage Jouffroy, Passage des Panoramas, Passage Verdeau, 2nd Passage Jouffroy, 3rd Passage Jouffroy, Galerie Vero-Dodat, Galerie des Varietes and Passage du Grand-Cerf.
The covered passages were an early form of shopping arcade built in Paris, France during the first half of the 19th century. By the 1850s there were approximately 150 covered passages in Paris but many were lost during Haussmann's renovation of Paris. Only a score or so of passages remain, all on the Right Bank .
These covered passages always connected two streets, were all paved, covered with glass-ceilings, artificially illuminated at night (initially with gas lamps) and were privately owned. As they were devised for the high and upper-middle class to spend their time and money when the weather was foul and the streets were muddy, the passages held cafes, shops and restaurants, all highly ornamented and decorated.
Nowadays, a hidden treasure in Paris, antiques dealers and unique shops (old books, postcards, collectors' cameras, etc.) have set up in those passages, in perfect communion with the romantic decoration and lighting of these tiny holes in time.
As for Paris... what can one say about the City of Light that has not already been said...?
Other versions and combinations of these passages and many more views of Paris one copy-paste away in my Gallery at http://westonwestmoreland.com/collections/paris
Weston Westmoreland.
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June 1st, 2021
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