For the past few years I have been photographing images of angels which I have seen all over Paris. These angels - sculpted as friezes on buildings, cast in bronze decorating fountains and churches, carved in wood and perched atop a doorway – are everywhere. At the entrance to a park, over the sundial of a university, ornamenting a defunct railroad headquarters: in the most unexpected places, the angels are there. Looking up in amazement while strolling through Paris, I began to wonder why there are so many angels, in so many different forms and throughout every century. This is the question I explore in my book, Guide to the Angels of Paris: Looking up in the World’s Most Beautiful City.
Coming soon, I hope you will join me as I continue my astonishing discoveries in the cities of the world - Looking Up in London, Vienna, Barcelona, Prague and everywhere else the angels have alighted. It’s a voyage about art, life, urban and social history, architecture and humanity.
My first article, The Angel of the rue Turbigo, has been printed in the following blogs:
Lonely Planet - Parisien Salon - EyePreferParis
Contact me for speaking engagements. Photographic reproductions and notecards of angels available soon.
