Paris Vertical

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66 duotone photographs Text in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish Award-winning photographer Horst Hamann's vertical reconnaissance trips through the world's most beautiful and romantic city have yielded an astonishing array of images in this stunning pictorial tribute to Paris. Sensitized to vertical perspectives since publishing his best-selling New York Vertical and equipped with a new panoramic camera, he painstakingly set up shot after shot, often finding himself precariously balanced off Notre Dames gargoyles, the balconies of the Pompidou Center-even the Eiffel Tower. His stark black and white compositions offer unique vertical reinterpretations of some of Europe's most recognizable cityscapes. Horst Hamann has become famous during the last twenty years for his panoramic photography. His internationally acclaimed and widely exhibited photographs of New York have been published in the best-selling New York Vertical (teNeues) and, more recently, in One Night on Broadway. Born in Germany, he is now based in New York. A unique pictorial tribute to Paris by the award-winning photographer of New York Vertical Stark black and white compositions that offer stunning vertical reinterpretations of some of Europe's most recognizable