DID YOU KNOW?….nicknamed “La dame de fer” (the iron lady) when built for the 1889 Exposition Universelle (World Fair), the Tour Eiffel faced massive opposition from Paris’ artistic and literary elite. The ‘metal asparagus’, as some Parisians snidely called it, was almost torn down in 1909 but was spared because it proved an ideal platform […]
View post →“True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.” – Â Jean Cocteau Reportage drawing by Michele Bedigian
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