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...Paul Baskett does not presume to know Paris. He wasn't born there, nor is he an American expatriate who smokes in the Rive Gauche cafes. He doesn't even speak the language. However, his luminous, magical photos, exhibited at the Newton Free Library, do manage to capture an encounter with Paris that is beyond picturesque...
...include images of all the famous, celebrated sights of Paris, including the Eiffel Tower, the Luxembourg Gardens, the Tuileries, cavernous depths of the numerous cathedrals, and typically French cafes. Not one of them is cliched. Just as the subject of each photo has a feel of early morning freshness, Baskett's approach to his work as a whole is drenched in originality...
...Baskett does not compare himself to Atget or Brassai; their tradition of exploring and exposing the very skin and bones of Paris inside is not his own. Instead, "These photographs concern small moments and transient feelings, ephemera that may never have existed outside [a] single morning's ramble...
...Baskett's strengths lie in his innovative angles and his combination of dramatic color and black and white. His colors often seem unreal due to burning techniques. Baskett does not accept the palette nature lends him; his own lens is more selective. This manipulation is most evident in his picture of a bright red, luminous French cafe, surrounded by a bright whiteness...
...getting their daughter Susan to transfer her studies from Wellesley to Aix-en-Provence, a saving of about one-third. "I've lived here so much more comfortably than at Wellesley," agrees Susan. "There I pinch every penny. Here I can eat out." Says another Wellesley student, Virginia Baskett, newly returned from Greece: "Half our class is missing, studying abroad...