fortuitous encounters of words and sights
Two very different archival findings came together in dialogue. The first is an interwar family photo found at the flee market, which caught my eye because of a little girl's glowing expression of joy. She is sitting, together with a sister (most probably) and older family members in the barn, close to a cute choir... Continue Reading →
Mobile, modern, oriented toward the street and focused on the moment, the phone camera longs for domestic, classic and slow-descending sunsets.
Quelques instants de contemplation devant une gravure botanique sur les volets battants d'une maison auvergnate. © Adina Ruiu 2015
One of the pleasures I had walking in Montreal was to admire the lovely games the Northern sun liked to play on brick buildings, and the mysterious manmade mechanisms for which I had to find a purpose. Like what I chose to see as a memory tube in the second picture here, a spatiotemporal channel... Continue Reading →
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.
… se donnent rendez-vous au Jardin des Tuileries. The bird charmer from 1930 still has secrets to teach...
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 →
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 →
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
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