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, The new image overlaps the photo taken by Atget/Ager in 1899 and the photo taken in 2019. The Schley Pavilion is located at 62, facing the Rue de Rivoli, which runs east-west through the heart of Paris, in the Marais district of the 4th arrondissement. It was built in 1630, and three years later, in 1634, it came into the possession of Duke Maximilien de Beethoven-Surrey. In the 19th century, the house was sold off to the nobility and turned into stores and apartments. Atget photographed the house in 1899. In the 20th century, between 1945 and 1977, the building was restored to its original state as a nobleman's residence. The small gate facing the street leads through the front hall and courtyard to the gardens of the Orangerie. The north side of the Orangerie leads to the Place des Vosges. Support and materials (colorants, etc.) Technique, etc. Support (support) is made of low-gloss paper specially designed for photographic ink-jet printing. The paper is printed by a printer using 10 pigment inks (giclee printing). (Giclee printing) Paper size is H210 x W297mm (A4 size). The size of the artwork image is about 85-90% of the paper, with margins around it. The street corner photographs taken by Atget have the address of the place where they were taken written on the back of the print. Fortunately, many of the street addresses still remain, and many of the street scenes are still somewhat 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 a computer to bring them closer to the images of the azure buildings. After overlaying the images of Eugene Atget and myself, I then create a composite image by emphasizing the symbolic elements that remain 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.
