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Truth in (French Fasion) Advertising

filthy light thief — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:40:03 -0800

Campaigning MP Valérie Boyer, a member of Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party, has put forth another controversial bill to address the role of the fashion industry media in portraying healthy body images. Boyer, who wrote a government report on anorexia and obesity, is currently proposing "health warnings" on digitally altered photographs of people, stating that the image was "digitally enhanced to modify a person’s body image." The previous bill supported by Boyer and others came in April 2008, when France's lower house of parliament passed a bill that would make it a crime to promote "excessive thinness" or extreme dieting,. The bill would empower judges to punish with prison terms and fines of up to €45,000 any publication (including blogs), modeling agency, or fashion designer who "incites" anorexia. That bill, which followed closely after key members of the French fashion industry signed a government-backed charter, came under fire from fashion designers and some politicians. French fashion and politics weren't at the front of this effort, with Madrid's fashion week turning away underweight models in 2006, facing concerns that girls and young women were trying to copy their rail-thin looks and developing eating disorders.

Normandy: Then and Now

Ufez Jones — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:41:43 -0800

Normandy: Then and Now Photographs of Normandy in 1944 meticulously juxtaposed with how the area looks today by French historian Patrick Elie.

Jock Sturges

Joe Beese — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:42:36 -0800

Line of Beauty and Grace: A documentary about Jock Sturges (both links NSFW)

Les Parisiens sous l’Occupation

homunculus — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:11:03 -0800

Paris under the Occupation, in color. L'exposition Zucca divise le public

Romani portraits

madamjujujive — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:26:07 -0800

The Roma Journeys - contemporary photographs of Roma life in Hungary, India, Greece, Romania, France, Russia, and Finland by Joakim Eskildsen. For more photo essays and info on the Roma, see two superb prior posts by plep and taz.

Zut alors!

monju_bosatsu — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 21:51:54 -0800

Photos of Paris during the 1910 flood. More. Yet more.

The Rockets Rouge Glare

jonson — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:07:37 -0800

In the South of France you'll find the fortified city of Carcassonne, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and a classic example of the medieval fortified city. Built upon the ruins of forts that predate Christianity, Carcassonne is one of the most photogenic places I've ever seen, never more so than on Bastille Day, when the city sets the night sky ablaze. A full gallery of Carcassonne fireworks can be found here.

River Art

tellurian — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:15:08 -0800

Ahmad Nadalian's work can be found all over the world. He is an artist that carves symbols on rocks and then leaves them at the site where they were created (sometimes burying them).

Le Force est forte avec celui-ci

jonson — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:52:26 -0800

French photographer Cedric Delsaux takes pictures of Star Wars characters (in figurine) and superimposes them onto French architecture, with interesting results.

Color Photographs of the French Army in WW1

pandaharma — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 04:48:58 -0800

Color Photographs of the French Army in WW1 (via MemeFirst)

Copyright to the Revolution

hairyeyeball — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:23:59 -0800

Copyright to the Revolution (translation): "On Wednesday, 9 July 2003, the superior court of Paris banned a poster campaign launched by the group Reporters Without Borders to protest the totalitarian policies of Cuba. This campaign, designed by the agency Rampazzo & Associates, was built around an iconic image of Ernesto Che Guevara, inspired by the original image by the Cuban photographer [Alberto] Korda. The decision came in a suit brought by Diane Diaz Lopez, the late photographer's daughter, accusing the organization of misappropriating the original image taken by her father." The poster reads: "Welcome to Cuba, the world's largest prison for journalists." Korda had sued in 2000 to prevent use of the image in an Absolut vodka campaign. An article at Uzine (French) shows how the image in question was composited.

Patrick Durand's Photographs

MiguelCardoso — Fri, 04 Jul 2003 04:34:41 -0800

The Vertically Inclined Photographer: Shooting Paris, Rome, the French Riviera and the Loire Valley from a low-flying plane is Patrick Durand's photographic obsession. It's an interesting flat alternative to Horst Hamann's [click on "Gallery" and go to "New Verticals"] tall vertical New York. There's something very exciting about looking at familiar sights from an unfamiliar point of view. [Both sites very, perhaps too Flash.]