Le flaneur — Ming Thein | Photographer

From Wikipedia: “Flâneur (pronounced [flɑnœʁ]), from the French noun flâneur, means “stroller”, “lounger”, “saunterer”, or “loafer”. Flânerie is the act of strolling, with all of its accompanying associations. A near-synonym is boulevardier.” A holdover from the class divides of 19th and early 20th century in Europe when the gentry could spend their time engaged in […]

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Over / About StreetLife — Ronald Puma | PhotoBlog

Uit het leven gegrepen / Taken from real life / Aus dem Leben gegriffen All the world’s a stage (William Shakespeare) La vie est absurde (Albert Camus) About time and people passing by Das Leben ist ein Theater Pictures of ordinary madness ============================================ Toelichting Nederlands: Op deze website staat de serie StreetLife. De serie bestaat uit […]

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Bus Stop — Liminal Narratives

We rarely see them. Or rather, we see but fail to acknowledge. They inhabit a shadowland of the banal, the unremarkable, the unnoticed. Concealed in their own mundanity, they gently erase themselves from view. Yet in Christopher Herwig’s remarkable Soviet Bus Stops, these drab artefacts of lane and street are re-invented, as Jonathan Meades observes […]

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