Say cheese» is not, one suspects, a phrase overused
by flaneur photographer Beat Streull in his covert quest for fleeting facial expressions that reveal an urban state of mind.
DIY here) / / Custom Dyed Bedding
by Flaneur / / Wall Art DIY by Sarah Sherman Samuel / / Bench by CB2 / / Rug from esalerugs.com / / Nightstands by West Elm / / Sconces by Cedar and Moss / / Pendant is vintage find similar here / / Vases from West Elm
Not exact matches
Expanding on — and more expediently dramatizing — the philosophy of monotony that characterizes his earlier film El Custodio, Moreno wanders the streets, apartments, and rural suburban roads around the Argentine metropolis
by way of a scrawny
flaneur protagonist, Boris (Esteban Bigliardi), who's ejected from his terminally bored girlfriend's loft in the daintily circuitous dialogue of the opening sequence.
I don't think we're essential to the city
by any means — no guide is, and in fact we like the idea of people discarding all kinds of guides and just mooching around and discovering the city like the Parisian
flaneurs, or the modern psychogegraphers.
The story is lead
by the protagonist, Traveller, who sees himself as a modern - day
flaneur and extends his leisurely strolls to also experiencing the city
by night in order to induce a greater intensity and anxiety of urban architecture.
Wilson is also a sort of California
flaneur: in Los Angeles, one absorbs visual information through a car window as much as
by walking.
This facile tactic — one artwork loosely related to the convolute, plus one text, then repeat — persists throughout the show: four photos of mannequins in shop windows
by Lee Friedlander, each titled New York City and taken in the late aughts, illustrate «The
Flaneur»; Mike Kelley's aluminum light fixture, modeled on his childhood home in Detroit and casting an ominous, unfriendly glow, serves as an inconsequential helpmeet to «Dream City and Dream House, Dreams of the Future, Anthropological Nihilism, Jung»; Good Hand Bad Hand (2010), Rodney Graham's photographic diptych mounted on lightboxes of a stone - faced man playing poker is used in concert with «Prostitution, Gambling.»
Catherine Opie's «The Modernist» through February 17 Regen Projects, Los Angeles
By Mario Vasquez A «
flaneur» is defined in the dictionary as «an idle man about town.»
These pedestrian hubs were characterized
by bustling retail, restaurant and commercial activity and were the stomping grounds of the
flaneur, the leisurely connoisseur of urban Paris.
Or perhaps it's like being a
flaneur and letting your eye be caught
by whatever lures there are as you stroll through town.