Genius Loci de Paris"... The term "Genius Loci" means "the atmosphere of the land" or "the spirit of the land"... Atget's photographs are superimposed on current photographs to reveal the "Genius Loci" hidden in the gaps of 100 years, The new image overlaps the photo taken by Atget in 1901 and the photo taken in 2019. Rue de l'Hôtel de ville, Paris, 4th arrondissement/62 Rue de l'Hôtel de ville,4e Paris There are still chairs and tables on both sides of the terrace in front of the entrance, just as there were in Atget/Ager's time. South of Paris City Hall, rue Hôtel de l'Hôtel de Ville is an approximately 500 meter long boulevard along the Seine River. The restaurant is located in the middle of the street, facing the Seine. Atget photographed the entrance of this store in 1901. One photo book annotates it as "Cafe, 62 rue l'Hotel-de-Ville," but upon further inspection, we can confirm that the endorsement on Atget's photograph reads "Cabaret, 62 rue l'Hotel-de-Ville. In those days, the restaurant not only served drinks, but also sang and danced inside. The past and the present are mixed on the same screen, creating an image that transcends time and space. ◆Support (backing), materials (colorants, etc.), technique, etc. The support (backing) is made of low-gloss paper specially designed for photographic inkjet printing. The support (backing) is made of a low-gloss paper specially designed for photographic inkjet printing, and output by a printer using 10-color pigment ink. （The street corner photos taken by Atget have the address of the location where the photo was taken written on the back of the print. Fortunately, many of the street addresses still remain, and the street scenes often remain to some extent as they were in those days. However, the atmosphere there is quite different, and one is forced to wonder what Atget felt there. Many of his street corner photographs are taken with a large-format camera that uses a glass dry plate to correct the perspective of the buildings. The use of this function corrects the way the tops of buildings appear narrower than they are. Since the cameras we are currently using do not have a "blurring" function, the images I take are corrected on the computer to bring them closer to the images of the azure buildings. After overlaying the images of Eugene Atget and myself, I then created a composite image by emphasizing the symbolic elements that remained in the two images. Eugene Atget (1857 - 1927) was a French photographer. Born in Bordeaux in 1857, he moved to Paris in 1878 and entered a theater school, but dropped out due to military service. In 1890, he returned to Paris to sell his "documentaries for artists. He restarted his life as a photographer. His systematic photographs of the old Paris streets were purchased not only by painters but also by the Bibliothèque de Paris and the Musée Carnavalet. After his death, Man Ray's assistant, Berenice Abbott, collected his works and later sold them to the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1968. In 1968, they were sold to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and his work was widely disseminated to the public.
