Paris Captured: Postcards from the Golden Age (1890-1914)

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Paris Captured
Postcards from the Golden Age (1890–1914)
A Gallery Exhibition from the Leonard Pitt Collection

April 1 through May 15, 2010
Gallery open 12–6 Monday through Saturday, closed Sunday

Reception, book signing, and illustrated talk by Leonard Pitt
Wednesday, April 7, 6 p.m.

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
—Ernest Hemingway

The invention of the postcard in 1869 sparked a communication revolution equal to the birth of email in our own day. The postcard industry boomed in fashionable Paris, with Parisians and tourists alike enthralled by this quick, informal way of sending messages and hand-tinted photographs of the city they loved. At the turn of the century, France was producing one million cartes postales a day.

Castle in the Air invites you to view a Paris captured at the height of this golden age. Berkeley collector Leonard Pitt shares over 70 postcards showing life in the city’s boulevards, streets, shops, dance halls, and cafés. Pitt’s accompanying notes take viewers on the ultimate nostalgia trip, revealing social and architectural details of a Paris that has, for the most part, vanished.

Leonard Pitt is the bestselling author of Walks Through Lost Paris, Paris Postcards: The Golden Age, and the forthcoming Paris: A Journey Through Time. He will give a talk and book signing at the Paris Captured opening reception the evening of April 7.

“A Studio for the Imagination,” Castle in the Air’s shop and classroom have inspired local and visiting artists since 2001. Castle in the Air’s new gallery in the upstairs loft quite literally takes the inspiration to new heights and provides a venue to showcase current and historical works.

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