The Japanese photographer, strongly inspired by the French photographer Jean Eugène-Atget, walked in the city of light with his camera, from south to north, from east to west in 2011. He sought the images of Paris that he saw in films like Under the Roofs of Paris (1930), Quatorze Juillet (1933) by René Clair, or those of the 60s, Breathless (1960) by Jean-Luc Godard, Paris Is Burning ?(1966) by René Clement, The Adventurers (1967) by Robert Enrico. Also photographs of the great giants, like Willy Ronis, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Izis, Brassai, Robert Doisneau and obviously Jean Eugène-Atget were a source of his creation. A corner of town where the face of a coffee waiter has not changed since he saw it in films or in photographs of the time. He took photos as if he took the sketch (sketch) to record the images of Paris with his own perspective. Thirty works, selected from photographs in Paris Sketch (2012), will be exhibited.
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