This was a grabbed shot, almost literally, as I was waiting for a metro which was arriving at a rate of knots and I just managed to snatch this before turning to jump into the carriage and nearly tripping over one of those trailing-behind-doggy-style suitcases which would have been pretty spectacular, I can tell you.

It's just a poster of course and, unusually for me, you can't see anything in this shot but the poster. BUT... it's more interesting than that!

First of all, it's an ad for the snobby Galeries Lafayette just round the corner from the Opéra. Their trademark signature is some slogan or other slashed across the ad in edgy graffiti-style handwriting. In this case we can see the 'HOM' of 'HOMME', complete with said monsieur.

The guy is topless, for some reason best left to somebody else's conjecture, and he's rather perplexedly holding a book called 'The Consumption Society'. I haven't the slightest idea what point they are trying to make, but the best bit is what some wag has scrawled across the book cover, extending the title to read 'The Consumption Society takes you for idiots'! Marvellous.

~ November 2007 - Slide Show ~