Place Pigalle

Our paths crossed for the last time in October 2022 at Place Pigalle at Pike Place Market.

But watch as Melville’s hand-held camera trails Bob in his trench coat and fedora, or follows a garbage truck around the Place Pigalle like a ball in a roulette wheel.

Then he crossed over to the Right Bank and stopped at Place Pigalle.

For years in the 1950s, Ms. Evans was a fixture at the Place Pigalle, a burlesque house in Miami Beach.

One can, of course, display a Place Pigalle post card in a gallery with the Botticelli Venus, and classify them both as “nudes”.