little poems

Spleen de Paris.



ou, a "botanist of the sidewalk".

"The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world 'picturesque.", Sontag, On Photography.

para ver, Le Spleen de Paris, Shifting Perspectives.

num pequeno desvio de The Painter of Modern Life. e nem de propósito para o tema do flaneur, street photographer: a NY de Stanley Kubrick. o 'flanerismo' com nova-já velha explosão virtual e tecnológica. a massificação de Baudelaire, como o museu imaginário de Malraux, não podiam antever a dimensão de tudo isto.