Away Ten Years: Photographs Preface At the end of March 2001, I leſt Providence, Rhode Island to make my home in Paris. Now I have been away from America for ten years. To celebrate that occasion, I selected these images. I limited the selection to images of the Old World. I took most of them, if not all of them, but sometimes you cannot be sure. The camera gets passed around. I do have them all, so they are mine. Now this selection is also yours. I have tried to create images. This is not a documentary of where I have been and who I have been with. Whatever it is I use to record all of what I see, it is not a camera. Everything is moving and changing, be it people, clouds, or objects carved in stone. The camera has the peculiar power to make everything stop. I began with film in a Nikon SLR camera. The Nikon SLR became digital. This year, the images were made with an iPhone. Paul Kahn March 2011 35 Avenue Junot, Paris, France photo: Dominique Negel May 2002
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Away Ten Years:Photographs
Preface
At the end of March 2001, I left Providence, Rhode Island to make my home in Paris. Now I have been away from America for ten years. To celebrate that occasion, I selected these images. I limited the selection to images of the Old World. I took most of them, if not all of them, but sometimes you cannot be sure. The camera gets passed around. I do have them all, so they are mine. Now this selection is also yours.
I have tried to create images. This is not a documentary of where I have been and who I have been with. Whatever it is I use to record all of what I see, it is not a camera.
Everything is moving and changing, be it people, clouds, or objects carved in stone. The camera has the peculiar power to make everything stop.
I began with film in a Nikon SLR camera. The Nikon SLR became digital. This year, the images were made with an iPhone.
Paul Kahn March 2011
35 Avenue Junot, Paris, France photo: Dominique Negel
May 2002
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39 Avenue Junot, Paris, France
January 2003
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Saint Denis, Le Square Suzanne Buisson , Paris, France
January 2003
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Statue de Turenne enfant, Rue de Turenne , Paris, France
March 2003
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Zack Kahn and the twins, Frolois, Burgundy, France
April 2004
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Looking inland from Cape Gris Nez, near Calais, France
June 2004
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Ilana Kahn, Rome, Italy
June 2004
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Grafitti, Vilnius, Lithuania
July 2004
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Lavaudieu, Haute-Loire, France
August 2004
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Krzysztof Lenk, Krakow, Poland
January 2005
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Romanesque doorway, Eglise Saint Pierre, Aulnay, Charentes, France
May 2005
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Romanesque facade corner, Eglise Saint Jacques, Aubeterre-sur-Dronne, Charentes, France
May 2005
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The sin of Lust represented on the doorway to a monastery, Joseph escaping from Potiphar’s wife, Poitou-Charentes, France
May 2005
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Lion exhaling the breath of life, Romanesque church facade, Poitou-Charentes, France
May 2005
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Child in Parc Monceau, Paris, France
August 2005
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Making blood sausage, Morvan, France
May 2006
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Moth, Saint-Leger-sous-Beuvray, Morvan, France
May 2006
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Camp, Khentii, Mongolia
August 2006
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New Buddhist stupa, north of Jargalthaan, Khentii, Mongolia
August 2006
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Mural painting, Erdene Zuu, Kharkhorin, Mongolia
August 2006
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Mural painting, Erdene Zuu, Kharkhorin, Mongolia
August 2006
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Niece and nephews playing in Doljin’s van, Mongolia
August 2006
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Herdsman giving directions, Mongolia
August 2006
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Detail of Buryat tanka by Osor Budajev (1886-1937), c. 1930s, History Museum of Buryatia, Ulan Ude, Russia
August 2006
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Crossing to Orkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Russia
August 2006
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Doorway, Khuzhir, Orkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Russia
August 2006
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Coffe Bar, road to Irkutsk, Russia
August 2006
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Oysters, Cancale, Brittany, France
January 2007
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Notre Dame, Paris, France
January 2007
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Rocks, Normany, France
January 2007
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Greenhouse installation, Helsinki, Finland
January 2007
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Dominique Negel approaching G-lov(v)e Box installation, Talinn, Estonia
January 2007
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Grand Canal, Doge’s Palace, Venice, Italy
July 2007
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Venice, Italy
July 2007
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Woman photiographing herself in the early hours of the morning, Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy
July 2007
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Workman moving a bridge through the Grand Canal at night, Venice, Italy
July 2007
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Pilgrims’ grafitti, Church of Saint Anthony of Padova, Padova, Italy
July 2007
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Astonomical clock, Palazzo dei Carraresi, Padova, Italy