PHOTOGRAPHY AS SINGULAR AS ITS SITE

 

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

So I went there...

            The wash-house where Emil Zola's sets The Drinking Den's key scene. 

...and found a reception space, a bar, a salon... 

...stairs lined with photos of long-ago photos of Africans...

Then I found the puppets... 

...and clothes 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 keep photos of those imagined lives:

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

The room was always full.  

 

So while looking for one kind of creativity

I found another that was as original,

plus a site to which we will return.

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Next,

Theater that makes the street the stage