Paris by Bike – A Journey in Black and White Film Photography
Toby Vandenack’s photographs of Paris and New York are recognized around the world through art prints and posters published and sold in over 70 countries.
Paris by Bike is a series chronicling three solo cycling trips in Paris, spanning the 1980s to the early 2000s. Many of my most popular posters and art prints are the result of those two-wheeled excursions. I have biked hundreds of miles in and around Paris including all twenty arrondissements, with a few curious encounters along the way. Paris was not as bicycle-friendly then as it is today. I swear, autobus and taxi drivers had a daily quota on cyclists!
Henri Cartier Bresson was one of my early inspirations in photography. I had to go to Paris; then again, and again. I’m not the first photographer to be captivated by photographing Paris, but I may have had the most fun doing it. La vie est belle!
Keep on biking, stay safe my friends.
Museum Quality Gelatin Silver Prints
Works purchased through this website are original silver gelatin prints handcrafted to museum-quality standards, signed certificate of authenticity included.
The gelatin silver photographic process dates back to the 1880’s. Most modern (non digital) black and white photographs are gelatin silver prints, which refers to light-sensitive silver halide particles suspended in a gelatin layer on high-quality paper. The light-sensitive paper is exposed to light passing through a negative. The latent image is then “developed out” by a chemical process consisting of developer, stop bath, and fixer. A fourth chemical step, selenium toning, is completed for enhanced appearance and archival permanence of the final photograph.
