Two old photographs of long-dead plants coming back to life in a new plant's vase.
Breathing archive
Passage intertemporel
Signe de circulation détourné, image trafiquée au service du trafic intertemporel. Note: the archival image (representing a view on the Ile Saint-Louis) is a glass diapositive that I found in a flea market, bearing no mention of the author's name.
Les charmeurs d’oiseaux
… se donnent rendez-vous au Jardin des Tuileries. The bird charmer from 1930 still has secrets to teach...
Atemporal antiques
This is part of a new project: a photographic time-blender mixing archival images and photographs I have taken. Being a historian, I didn't step in this new direction without caution. Even though manipulating old photographs might seem disrespectful, I decided that it is all a matter of how the manipulation is being done and that,... Continue Reading →
Le café-roulette
Captured by the camera on what was probably an extraordinarily quiet morning of 1911, the terrace of this café displayed an arrangement of chairs and prices suggestive of a flattened roulette table. It's as if this moment of strange stillness more than 100 years ago was gambling its own preservation... and it won. The source for... Continue Reading →
Memories ex libris
The multitude of voices arising from these tiny books is astounding: they seem to have circulated fluidly among owners, from individuals to institutions, from one city to another, from the status of mandatory school readings to that of precious collectibles. A vortex of numbers (dates of reading and offering, prices), of titles and names catches... Continue Reading →
Life in Jerusalem
A walk through the Old City.
Golden sand
Since it's been snowing a lot on this blog lately, here is a much needed sunny note with ancient shades. Important update (February 20, 2015): It turns out that this post from December 2014 was a prophetic vision. 🙂 Read the news here: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/18/divers-find-priceless-trove-of-gold-coins-off-israels-mediterranean-coast
Winter trip
This series of images in motion was taken last January on a train trip from New York to Montreal, during a cold spell which froze the Hudson River and Lake Champlain. This parade of blurred contours is best accompanied, I think, by Costin Miereanu's L'ombre double (The double shadow) from the Cinquième voyage d'hiver (5th Winter Trip) for... Continue Reading →
Odds and Lens 