Afternoons were quiet on those intimate streets, and as I walked I could feel my father's love for his life on Bank Street.
But while Atget was drawn to Paris's narrow, intimate streets, he was similarly pulled by the romance of the city's gardens.
It is the ultimate Corbusian city, rigid in format and old-fashioned in conception, based on the grids and set squares of super-planners, and on grand symbolic buildings rather than intimate streets.
And, of course, there is the aforementioned "boy racing," making our intimate little streets extremely dangerous and potentially lethal and drowning us in noise pollution caused by the constant thump and hiss of the inhumanly fast rave music that the drivers of these vehicles seem to use as inspiration.
8 p.m. 3) ACT THREE Sacramento has a vibrant theater scene, judging by the well-chosen productions at the intimate B Street Theatre (2711 B Street; 916-443-5300; www.orgreettheatre.org).org
Yet the expansive setting somehow appears curiously remote within the relatively intimate George Street space.
(Woolfe) Classical Music David Amram (Monday) The ebullient Mr. Amram — a veteran of all kinds of music scenes, classical and otherwise — brings his inimitable show to the intimate Cornelia Street Café, playing alongside Kevin Twigg, John de Witt and his son Adam Amram.
Some — like "El Jaleo," the fiery picture of a flamenco dancer, and "Fumée d'ambre gris," a spooky white-on-white depiction of a young Moroccan woman at a censer — will be familiar to many Americans, but others, like the wonderful, roughly painted architectural studies from Morocco and the intimate Venetian street scenes, may not be.
His uncomfortably intimate New York City street portraits from 1916 (which he shot, somewhat reluctantly, with a hidden camera lens) are renowned for portraying the alienation of modern life but what's equally interesting is how they prefigure the portraiture he went on to make.
In an intimate Geary Street space, Gregory Lind consistently offers some of the best exhibitions in the city.
The handsomely appointed if out-of-the-way theatre -- which opened in 1915 as the Neighborhood Playhouse and was home to the intimate Grand Street Follies series -- is festooned in cotton-wool cobwebs, with a corpse or two enshrouded in the closed-off side sections.
