Two Friends' Updates

Two longtime friends o' TOP have some news to share:

Peter Turnley has recently been honored by two public shows in Paris, France. The show "A Love Letter to Paris" has been up at L'Hotel de Ville (the Paris city hall) where it is closing in a few days, but the other, at La Belle Hortense, 31 Rue Vieille-du-Temple, a wonderful literary wine bar in the Marais, will be up until until Oct. 30th. Peter also has an excellent new book coming out (I've seen the digital maquette), which I will tell you about when it drops.

Ctein has been hard at work restoring his archived TOP columns from the original Blogger site, which has been down and off the web since my unfortunate misunderstandings with Amazon Canada in March of 2020, the month that COVID-19 really hit. Most helpful is something I wish I had here—a titles page. He intends to republish his columns from this TypePad site as time goes on, too. Take a look! Very nice.

Mike

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Featured Comments from:

David L.: "The L'Hotel de Ville is the Paris city hall, a municipal building. This adds to the importance of Peter Turnley’s exhibit. I have always loved his photography and happy for him with this recognition."

Mike replies: Thanks. I added this to the post.

Jeff: "You wrote: 'I've seen the digital manque.' Maquette?"

Mike replies: Sheesh, I'm losin' it. Thanks. Fixed now.

Grant: "WARNING! Do not click the 'a titles page' link. Oh this is good. This is really good. I may never get up from my computer again. THANK YOU CTEIN!"

Comments

[BWJones]

Oh! If I get bumped from my flight through Paris coming up (1hr layover in CDG, so entirely possible), I'll head into town to see Peter's show!

Good to know the back story on Ctein as I never really understood why that went away and was never recovered.

[Richard Parkin]

Good work by Ctein. Title pages are useful! For example you have a useful “Categories” sidebar but clicking on one produces just a fairly impenetrable succession of full articles rather than a list of titles and dates. I’ve no idea how much work would be invoked or even if it is possible on TypePad though it seems a fairly basic thing to me.

[Albert Smith]

Looking forward to seeing details about Peter's new book. I bought his Covid book and while the photography is excellent, the subject matter is still too recent which makes it hard to pick up. Just a few pages in and I'm reminded why 2020 is a year I'd rather forget.

Here's hoping the next book is more pleasant.

[Calvin Amari]

Wow. And when was the last time I perused Ctein’s images, elsewhere on the linked site? Glad to see the compedia is ever expanding. I bought an eclipse print God knows how many years ago.