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 1906 and the photo taken in 2019. The Passage Beaujolais is located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, at the corner of Rue Beaujolais and Rue Montponsier. A 10-meter alley and a few steps lead west to rue Richelieu. Passage" is literally a way out. The past and the present are mixed on the same screen, creating an image that transcends time and space. Support (support), materials (colorants, etc.), technique, etc. The support (support) is made of a low-gloss paper specially designed for photographic ink-jet 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 "Passage Beaujolais," where this work was shot, is convenient for passing through the Rue de Richelieu from the west to the north via the Rue Beaujolais. The path is conveniently only about 200 meters long. However, because it is a private road, the entrances and exits to the two streets are closed on Saturdays and Sundays, making it impossible to pass between them. If you don't know this, you will be forced to make a slight detour. The street corner photos taken by Ajé are marked with the street address 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 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. The use of 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 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. His work is now widely disseminated to the public.
