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January 15, 2015January 21, 2015Adina Ruiu

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 […]

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