Sunday, February 10, 2008

Interpretations


According to which source you consult, the people in this famous Atget photo are either viewing an eclipse, watching the famous magician Aristide Nambuli fly over Paris, or posing for a surrealist experiment still a few decades in the future. Though Atget called the photograph "L'Eclipse", such an metaphorical title is bound to be ambiguous and open to interpretation.

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