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 1924 are superimposed on the current ones to reveal the "Genius Loci" hidden in the gap of 100 years, A new image overlaying a photo taken by Atget in 1924 and a photo taken in 2019. Atget/Adjeh photographed this street on a rainy day in 1924, three years before his death. It was three years before his death. Looking left at Notre Dame Cathedral and heading east along the Rue Tournelle on the left bank of the Seine. The street that turns south before the Archevêche Bridge, which extends from the eastern end of the Ile de la Cité, is rue Bievres. Two photographs of this street appear in the photo book "ATGET PARIS/HAZAN" (ATGET PARIS/Libroport). One of them was taken from 22 rue Bièvre, facing north. The wet and narrow street shines like a mirror. ◆Support (backing), materials (colorants, etc.), technique, etc. The support (backing) is a low-gloss paper specially designed for photographic inkjet printing. The paper is printed by a printer using 10 color pigment inks (Giclee printing). (Giclee printing) Paper size is H210 x W297mm (A4 size). The size of the image is about 90% of the paper, with margins around the image. The street corner photographs taken by Atget have the address of the place where the photograph was 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 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 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.
