July 29, 2016
Paris One Forty: Week Three
For 140 days in 2014, Jessica Helfand tweeted an image a day about her observations. Herewith, the third week of her visual diary.
Gargoyles as emoticons — all carved into the same facade on Avenue Paul Doumer in the 16th. But no flying buttresses. pic.twitter.com/WpsUhxbiPs
— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) September 2, 2014
A memorial to those who died in World War I is to children, because that’s what they were, those young men. Children. pic.twitter.com/F9hgehM8fq
— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) September 3, 2014
The façade of just another building on the Rue Montmartre — once headquarters to an evening paper. Before news feeds. pic.twitter.com/MpDNpeaXls
— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) September 4, 2014
“Bis” often indicates a second address where there was once only one. They’re visual hiccups on the streets of Paris. pic.twitter.com/dWNNRJEp2H
— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) September 5, 2014
We all create as we breathe, but artists feels themselves creating, actions all-involving, pain a source of strength. pic.twitter.com/Tm865I1Vto
— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) September 6, 2014
Valves. Hygienic Apparatuses. And Heated Bathrooms! An abbreviated visual history of French sanitation in typography. pic.twitter.com/d22wlOYtgu
— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) September 7, 2014
Dramatic “art moderne” letterforms on a 1935 post office, near Bastille. But who was this “J. Buktet” —the architect? pic.twitter.com/Mrbn7WnxsS
— Jessica Helfand (@ParisOneForty) September 8, 2014
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