PHOTOGRAPHY AS SINGULAR AS ITS SITE

 

THE SIGN ANNOUNCED THE SHOW OF PUPPETS AT THE "LAVOIR MODERNE PARISIEN"

So I went there.

The wash-house where Emil Zola's The Drinking Den begins. More later.

An found a reception space, a bar, a salon, stairs lined with photographs of Africans from the 1960's...

...puppets... 

... and clothes left from a show of African fashion:

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An interview was being filmed for an event that began a few minutes later:

It used African objects of the 1950's and 1960's...

...for people to invent stories about themselves, and take away photos of those imagined lives:

A radio station had announced the event and the room was always full.  

 

Mali's Fatoumata Diabaté invented the game and describes it on Le studio photo de la rue.

So while looking for one kind of creativity

I found another that was as original,

not to mention a site to which we will return.

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Next,

Theater that makes the street the stage...