Genius Loci de Paris"... The term "Genius Loci" means "the atmosphere of the land" or "the spirit of the land"... The photographs taken by Atget in 1899 and the current ones are superimposed to reveal the "Genius Loci" hidden in the gap of 100 years, A new image overlaying the photo taken by Atget in 1899 and the photo taken in 2019. Saint-Séverin Church, Paris, 5th arrondissement/Église Saint-Séverin, 5e Paris (November 2019) Saint-Séverin Church is located in the 5th arrondissement, just across the left bank of the Seine from the Ile de la Cité. The church's origins date back to the 6th century. Atget/Agier photographed the church in 1898. The area around the front of the church has been rezoned and the sidewalks have been widened. The past and the present are mixed in the same image, creating an image that transcends time and space. ◆Support (backing), materials (colorants, etc.), technique, etc. The support (backing) is a 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 church of Saint-Séverin, where this work was shot, was built around the 6th century, as described in the "Detail of the work" section. It was destroyed by Norman invaders in the 9th century, but was later rebuilt. It was again destroyed by fire in 1448, when three-fourths of the church was destroyed. In 1837, the church of Saint-Pierre-Auboeuf, which had been built in the 13th century on the island of Cité, was moved to Atget, and through repeated rebuildings and expansions, it has been transformed into a mixture of different styles from different periods. Atget photographed the Saint-Séverin church and its surroundings from around the end of the 19th century to the 20th century, documenting the changes in the streetscape. The street corner photographs taken by Atget are marked on the back of the prints with the street number where they were taken. Fortunately, many of the street addresses remain today, and many of the street scenes remain to some extent as they were then. 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. This function corrects the way the tops of the buildings appear narrower. Since the cameras we are currently using do not have a "blurring" function, the images I take are corrected on a 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 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.
