Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.
Paul Cronin • Werner Herzog – A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin
Flâneurs like Baudelaire meandered through the streets, alleys, and glass-roofed arcades of Paris, partaking in what Balzac called “the gastronomy of the eye.” On a bench, you become a stationary flâneur (something of a contradiction in terms). Instead of strolling through the world, the world strolls by you.
Evan Puschak • Escape into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions
She has come to see, too, the universal in the specific. “All the months that I had been filming, I’d thought that there were so many ways of living, of inhabiting the park,” she says. “I wanted to know as many configurations as possible, all the strange and unique ways. But lately, as I went over the scenes again and again, smoothing their edges, ... See more
Cara Blue Adams • Infra-ordinary People | Cara Blue Adams
