Feature Of Paris Shoppin: At the opposite end of shopping's social scale is the wondrous week-1 end Flea Market (Marche aux Puces) at the Porte de Clignancourt, wh you can pick up all sorts of junk and occasional real treasures. In the i die register of shopping is the Hotel Drouot, France's central auctioi house, on rue Drouot, near boulevard des Italiens. The auctions are ex-] citing to watch even if you don't feel up to coping with the competitia of expert buyers. A special and very alluring feature of Paris shoppin is the open-air stamp market that flourishes under the trees of the Champ filysees, between place de la Concorde and the Rond-Point.
One more word about perfumes. Great fragrances are as rare great wines, for most blends lose their potency after a time.
That's one reason why the feature photography field remains comparatively uncrowded, despite its obvious advantages over spot news coverage. It's easier for the cameraman to come up to the standards of news photography than to those of feature photography. There are many photographers perfectly capable of doing features, and who would like to do them, who never get into the field for the simple reason that they don't ever see the opportunities all around them for feature pictures. They lack the knack, something akin to the "nose for news" mentioned in the previous chapter, to recognize feature picture material.
The Selective Shopper on the Prowl Paris is a shopper's heaven, especially if the shopper is on the distaff side. It is an expensive heaven, in these days, notably excepting perfumes, which are far cheaper in Paris than in America, but the cost doesn't seem to frighten tourists away. Paris est toujours Paris.
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