Paris Solstice: A visual art project touching on themes of history, society, astronomy, and technology

Abstract

‘Paris Solstice’ is a visual art project touching on themes of history, society, astronomy, and technology. Research and travel for two papers I undertook in 2000 and 2001 were the unintentional beginnings of ‘Paris Solstice’. This new series about images, in colour process, gelatine silver, and digital formats, merges two different sets of photographs: views over the rooftops of Paris and photographs of nineteenth-century scientific tables. My ongoing interest in aesthetic, documentary, and conceptual aspects of photography is reflected in ‘Paris Solstice’.