Product Description
by Alain Bali (Author)
It is no surprise that the world below the surface of Paris, in fact its "negative", has created over the centuries a great number of urban legends. Since the Middle Age, from 220 miles of obscure quarries have been extracted hundred tons of stone to build the City of Light. In these galleries left empty, have been dumped 6 millions of human remains. They have scared everyone away except smugglers, thieves, freedom fighters and revolutionaries, who always found in Paris's belly a perfect place to hide. PARIS UNDERGROUND is the most extensive and fascinating journey in this underworld. But there is much more: catacombs, quarries, metro subway system, sewers, WW2 bunker, canals, prison, secret laboratories and many bizarre places to be discovered. Welcome to this unexplored territory.
Author Biography
Photographer Alain Bali's dangerous, evocative and erotic work reflects time spent in Beirut, Paris, Tokyo and LA. Utilizing both black and white and color, photographic artist Alain Bali captures the anticipation and aftermath of destruction, using classical photographic equipment and formats, enhanced by digital retouching techniques. Many images document the anarchistic impulses of the punk music era, as well as the ruin of war. A sense of danger and surreal dread permeates Bali's work, whether creating portraits of veiled Lebanese women processing local hashish on a concrete floor, a rare glimpse into the secretive world of hash makers of the central Valley or posing MADMEN". Welcome to the underbelly of the Hollywood dream, channeling nudes around a supernaturally turquoise swimming pool, where even the sunlight seems subterranean."
