Impatient Parisians

Impatient Parisians

Photograph

Erich Lessing

Maker
Austrian, 1923–2018

Impatient Parisians

New Wealth in the Old World


1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7 1/16 × 9 3/8 in. (18 × 23.8 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0201
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Europe's Wealth) 3/62 16) IMPATIENT PARISIANS wait out a traffic \ jam on the Avenue de l'Opera. Circulating by car \ in Paris, where the streets were laid out for carriages \ several centuries ago, can be a traumatic experience. \ Credit: Erich Lessing © 1962 MAGNUM PHOTOS
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