flaneuse
Photographic impressions of a female solitary traveller in the UK and continental Europe. 1991-1998
"The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes… The flâneur is not attracted to the city’s official realities but to its dark seamy corners, the neglected populations—an unofficial reality behind the façade of bourgeois life that the photographer ‘apprehends,’ as a detective apprehends a criminal."
Susan Sontag, On Photography
“I’ve seen enough. The vision can be met on any street corner.
I’ve had enough. Sounds of cities in the evening and in the sunlight, and endlessly.
I’ve learned enough. The pauses in living. - Oh Sounds and Visions!
Departure in new affection and other sounds.”
— From: “Departure” by Arthur Rimbaud, from the book Illuminations, Guernica Editions, 1990, translated by Daniel Sloate, page 41.