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. In the 4th arrondissement of Paris, go up to the ground level from the Saint-Paul metro station to reach the Rue de Rivoli. Walking in the direction of Place de la Bastille, you will see Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis church on your right, then turn right on Rue Saint-Paul, and Rue de l'Egenaire is 100 meters down the street. The street is not really a street, but an L-shaped alley of only 30 to 40 meters long. The entrance is a tunnel-like structure on the first floor of a typical Parisian building. The entrance is like a tunnel in the ground floor of a typical Parisian building, but once you pass through the tunnel, the sky opens up, and at the corner of the L-shaped alley is an old well that is no longer in use. Atget photographed this charming alley many times from various positions. ◆Support (backing), materials (colorants, etc.) Technique, etc. The support (backing) is made of fine-gloss paper specially designed for photographic inkjet 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 image of the work is about 90% of the paper, with a margin 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 have been preserved 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 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 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.
