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Flânerie, a Mala of Photographs Hardcover, $64,95
“The flâneur has no specific relationship with any individual, yet he establishes a temporary, yet deeply empathetic and intimate relationship with all that he sees–an intimacy bordering on the conjugal–writing a bit of himself into the margins of the text in which he is immersed, a text devised by selective disjunction.”
“As a member of the crowd that populates the streets, the flâneur participates physically in the text that he observes while performing a transient and aloof autonomy with a “cool but curious eye” that studies the constantly changing spectacle that parades before him. As an observer, the flâneur exists as both “active and intellectual”. As a literary device, one may understand him as a narrator who is fluent in the hieroglyphic vocabulary of visual culture. When he assumes the form of narrator, he plays both protagonist and audience–like a commentator who stands outside of the action, of whom only the reader is aware, “floating freely in the present tense”.
Large Format Landscape 13×11 inches (33×28 cm) 66 pages