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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2014 10:49:15 GMT
I need to look at things more closely next time.
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Post by htmb on Apr 30, 2014 17:48:51 GMT
I need to read back through your whole report again, so please forgive me if you've already mentioned this information. It appears that I can get to the gardens by taking line 10 all the way to its Bologne-Pont de Saint-Cloud end. Is that correct?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2014 18:09:44 GMT
Yes, and the entrance to the gardens is right across from the metro exit, less than half a block away.
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Post by htmb on Apr 30, 2014 18:14:09 GMT
That sounds easy enough. Thank you.
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Post by htmb on Apr 30, 2014 21:31:49 GMT
And now that I've read through the whole report once again I see your metro photos! Super.
Your photographs are marvelous and the history presented at the beginning does make this report even more interesting. There looks to be an infinite number of photographic opportunities. I certainly plan to add a visit to my list!
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Post by lugg on May 26, 2014 9:25:12 GMT
Stunning gardens- so glad you went back at a time that allowed us to see the azalea hill in bloom.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 21, 2022 16:50:06 GMT
It was with great pleasure that I returned to the Albert Kahn gardens today, but I feel that I will have to return to make a report specifically in the Museum Zone because after six years of renovation, the museum has increased enormously in importance. It just reopened this month with a huge new building and a number of auxiliary buildings that were not used in the past and which are brilliant additions. At the same time, the little area of Japanese tea pavilions has disappeared (the former " village japonais"), eaten by the new structure. Not a major loss, I suppose, but such things always cause a little surge of nostalgia.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 21, 2022 16:58:05 GMT
The building for the new museum is quite modern. In our new covid world, entry times are limited and numbered, but I have hope that we will return to the old world soon, because nobody paid the least bit of attention to my entry time even though I bought the very last ticket for that time. The turnstile scanned my QR code and I joined the crowd.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 21, 2022 18:53:14 GMT
I'll just show a few photos of the museum since I will need to return to see it better.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 22, 2022 12:34:31 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 22, 2022 12:40:12 GMT
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Post by htmb on Apr 22, 2022 14:20:53 GMT
Such a lovely place! I can’t wait to return and see the gardens again.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 22, 2022 15:40:18 GMT
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Post by mich64 on Apr 22, 2022 18:01:50 GMT
Beautiful to see some of the blooms already. Looks like a lovely place to stroll around for a few hours already. The museum looks quite interesting.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 22, 2022 18:22:05 GMT
In the past, there were a number of buildings in the gardens that were not open to the public. This has changed. The first one I visited was the Fabrique des Images (the image factory) which displays some of the photographic material that was used by Kahn and his assistants, who are presented by press cards on the wall.
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Post by bjd on Apr 22, 2022 18:34:14 GMT
The museum looks fascinating. I love seeing those old photographs.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 23, 2022 6:07:05 GMT
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Post by bjd on Apr 23, 2022 6:29:40 GMT
The plates might actually be in the boxes. One year at a junk place (Emmaus) in Besançon, we found a bunch of boxes of smallish photographic plates in old cigarette boxes. That was in the early 1980s, the plates were from just before WW1 and were still in good condition. I don't know where they had been in the intervening 70 years but probably not stored in climate-controlled conditions.
At the time I was interested in learning to develop photographs so I printed quite a few of them: mostly family pictures of a well-to-do family somewhere in France, nannies with small children, women skiing in long dresses and some men in army uniforms. Extremely interesting.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 23, 2022 15:02:26 GMT
Like Albert Kahn, I have a passion for the forests of the Vosges mountains, even though he was from the Alsace side and my family was from the Lorraine side. I just took a few photos of the Vosges section of the gardens since I abundantly photographed them in the past.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 23, 2022 16:27:50 GMT
An excellent report on a lovely place. Thanks!
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 23, 2022 17:53:01 GMT
I will try to return on a cold and rainy day so that I can devote more time to the museum.
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Post by lugg on Apr 23, 2022 19:18:12 GMT
Wow - what an interesting place to visit - not just a garden but a museum too. The best of both worlds for sure. Love the bluebell photos - but the photo of the white daisies ? and the white tulips is fabulous.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 24, 2022 0:55:38 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Apr 28, 2022 13:19:15 GMT
Beautiful place and so interesting. I loved the 'white on white' beds with what I think were Shasta daisies and white tulips. I found the modern building fitted in very well with its surroundings.
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