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The French photographer, Robert Doisneau, is widely known as a member of the humanist photography movement of the middle 20C. He was also a street-photographer, and is famous nowadays for his image, Le Baiser de l’hotel de ville (1950). Doisneau … Continue reading →

In a recent interview, the US artist Alex Katz made an interesting point about the painting of Paul Cezanne… I am conscious of Cezanne’s clumsy, overworked surfaces – his problems with human volumes – but on the train ride back … Continue reading →

The BBC continued their series of curated musical archive shows with a sofa-based discussion between Cerys Matthews and Val Wilmer about the cultural impact of the delta blues. You can watch the programme on iplayer, here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bpb14f It’s well-worth watching. … Continue reading →

Here is a picture of the restaurant car of theFrench railway SNCF flagship service between Paris and Nice, called Le Mistral. This is from the period of modernisation at the end of the 1960s. The evident formality of the whole … Continue reading →

Here is a screen-grab of some of my recent image uploads onto this blog. I love this kind of visual overview of what has been built up over a period of time. Like a virtual mood-board…

Here is a lovely poster by Massonet for the electrified railway service between Bruxelles and Charleroi.

This is lovely. It’s a map of the French railway system in 1976, made for SNCF. Rudi Meyer is a genius of map design. He was taught in Basel by Armin Hofman and Emil Ruder. In France, he has worked … Continue reading →

Here is a lovely model, in O gauge, of the French electric loco for the SNCF Trans Europe Express service between Paris and Toulouse. It’s called Le Capitole. The model is from Lombardi, Italy. I posted about this train before, … Continue reading →

Here are two posters with the same message

Lovely packaging