Paris For Christmas

Photo by Peter Turnley

It's not an official TOP print sale, but our friend Peter Turnley is having a holiday sale of the most popular of his fine art prints of Paris, at significantly discounted prices.

The selection is broader than it has been in our sales, and includes several new images. See the pictures.

If you're one of the many people who have ordered one of these fine prints through us in the past, I don't have to tell you that they make outstanding gifts. The prints are expertly crafted archival pigment inkjet prints using the very finest materials. The image quality is outstanding and the LE (life expectancy) of the physical prints is likely to be measured in the hundreds of years. And they'll be beautifully packaged. Just add wrapping paper.

Peter has generously offered to share a bit of his profit if you indicate you heard about the sale from TOP (there's a drop-down menu at the bottom of the sale page.)

The grand tradition
I have the new picture reproduced above, and the older print of the French gentleman reading a newspaper in a bistro is prominently displayed on my kitchen/dining room wall, effectively in the very middle of my house.

Peter has lived in Paris for more than 40 years, using it as his base for his top-level photojournalism career. His romantic and beautiful Paris work, which he deliberately undertook as an antidote to having to photograph (and witness) war and suffering the world over, embodies his humanity, goodwill, and fellow-feeling—all that is right and beautiful about humanity. It is part of the great tradition of the romantic street photographers of Paris that includes Willy Ronis, Brassaï, André Kertesz, his friends and colleagues Robert Doisneau and Henri Cartier-Bresson, and his late good friend and mentor Édouard Boubat.

Check it out!

Mike
(Thanks to Peter and Laura)

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[Andrew Lamb]

"It is is part of the great tradition of the romantic street photographers of Paris that includes Willy Ronis, Brassaï, André Kertesz, his friends and colleagues Robert Doisneau and Henri Cartier-Bresson, and his late good friend and mentor Édouard Boubat."

Wow. Photographic tradition doesn't come much greater than that.

[Stan B.]

Did he just happen to get THE shot on someone's fashion shoot? Whatever the back story, that picture just fills one with love of: travel, youth and romance. Can't stop looking at it...

[Khürt Louis Williams]

The woman in the hat appears to have walked through some deep water and remained dry.

[Tom Bell]

I bought his book on Paris for my daughter Molly a year or two back. I would love to go on Peter's Paris Photographers Tuition but sadly feel I am too much of an amateur.
For me his photos of Paris bristle with the energy of that amazing city. I stay there with french friends and love the place, its atmosphere and its style and Peter captures it with images that are fleeting but stay in the mind.Wonderful.

[HBernstein]

Oh my god, his work is superb!

[Earl Dunbar]

Mike -- you know me; le sigh

[Brian]

Tom wrote:

>> I would love to go on Peter's Paris Photographers Tuition but sadly feel I am too much of an amateur.

Tom, if you're able to be in Paris anyway then I'd say you shouldn't hesitate. You can't be much more of an amateur than me and Peter's course was a good experience and well worth doing.

[Mike]

I really treasure the two I have. Certainly highlights in my (modest) photography collection.