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Doors, stone, glass and water: Paris on foot, from the Louvre to the Seine.

Photographs by Will Fullerton 3 min read
The Seine
Photographs by Will Fullerton

Paris is a city you walk. The Métro gets you to the corner; the rest is on foot, and the rest is the point. These photographs were made that way, over a few days in September: doors and their ironwork, the Louvre from outside and in, the Seine, and the pavement underfoot.

A corner, a Métro sign, and the first light of the morning.
A corner, a Métro sign, and the first light of the morning.
The bistro on the corner.
The bistro on the corner.
A street narrowing toward the sun.
A street narrowing toward the sun.
Haussmann’s Paris: the corner building, the balconies, the trees.
Haussmann’s Paris: the corner building, the balconies, the trees.
A blue door and its lion.
A blue door and its lion.
A door’s medallion, cast in iron.
A door’s medallion, cast in iron.
The allée in the Tuileries.
The allée in the Tuileries.

The Louvre is a palace before it is a museum, and the pyramid is the one modern thing allowed in its courtyard. From below, the old stone shows through the glass; from the stair inside, the sky.

Under the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel.
Under the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel.
The Louvre, the pyramid, and the queue.
The Louvre, the pyramid, and the queue.
A wing of the Louvre.
A wing of the Louvre.
Carved in stone.
Carved in stone.
The pyramid, from below.
The pyramid, from below.
Inside the pyramid: the stair, the glass, the sky.
Inside the pyramid: the stair, the glass, the sky.
A gilded gate.
A gilded gate.
The staircase.
The staircase.
A colonnade across the avenue.
A colonnade across the avenue.
The Arc de Triomphe.
The Arc de Triomphe.

What stays is not the monuments. It is the particular blue of a door and the lion on it, a car parked where a car has always been parked, and a date stamped into a paving stone, which is as good a souvenir as any.

A Citroën DS in the Place Vendôme.
A Citroën DS in the Place Vendôme.
A stag in a window.
A stag in a window.
Behind the clock at the Musée d’Orsay.
Behind the clock at the Musée d’Orsay.
The Seine.
The Seine.
Stamped in the pavement: Paris, 12·09·25.
Stamped in the pavement: Paris, 12·09·25.

Photographed on Leica by Will Fullerton.

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