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Photo by @williamalbertallard // Taken in 1988

I have often thought that Paris displays more interestingly attractive women than other cities
I’ve seen. In June of 1988, while working on the Paris fashion assignment, I was having a cafe.
creme at the Relais Odeon, the bistro on Boulevard Saint-Germain that for over a hundred years
has sat next to the entrance of a centuries-old cobblestoned street, the Cours du Commerce
Saint-Andre.
In the Relais Odeon I saw a lovely dark-haired girl at a nearby table situated just
inside the bistro’s terrace. She seemed lost in melancholy. I think she was alone. I thought she
was beautiful and I tried discretely to make a picture of her from where I sat. I don’t normally
use telephoto lenses, but I may have had a 90 mm on my Leica. I made only two exposures.
When I look at the picture now, I find the tilt of her head and the way the light, colored by the
surrounding warm decor of the bistro, falls on her face and her lovely lips, revealed a natural
beauty that still transfixes me.
It attracted me so much at the time that it wasn’t until I got back
home, maybe a month or so later, to see my film and to look at that picture, that I thought that
sitting at the table next to the solitary young woman was the film director Martin Scorsese with
an associate next to him. It appears they were looking at something, maybe reading a script, a
contract…who knows? And who cares? It was the lovely raven-haired beauty that I was looking
at that day and I still take great pleasure in seeing her. Of course, when I do, I sometimes wonder
where she is now, 29 years later.

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