<p><span>Stark photos of post-war Paris taken</span> by Ed Clark for Life in 1946 (Source: <a href="http://life.time.com/culture/paris-photographs-black-and-white-pictures-of-the-city-of-light-1946/?iid=lb-gal-viewagn#14">Time</a>).</p>
<p><span>Life magazine wrote at the time:</span></p>
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<p><span>The Paris [of Clark’s photos] is the Paris of the Parisians — and of anyone else who will take her. She is unadorned, somber and beautiful. Most of the pictures were taken in mist or rain, when the sharp, clean lines of the city’s spires and the bridges pierce through a curtain of gray. This is the Paris that neither Germans nor GIs could change. Even in the age of the atom bomb, she is as indestructible as the river. (Source: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/25/photos-paris-1946_n_4339456.html?utm_hp_ref=canada&ir=Canada">HuffPost</a>)</span></p>
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