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Flaneur (Surrealists)
Brassai / Joan Miro / Breton’s Nadja (1928) /Vito Acconci / Sophie Calle / Francis Alys / Marcos Luytens / Dennis Adams
Brassai, Nuits Parisiennes (in Minotaure 7, 1935)
Brassai, Paris de nuit (1933)
Brassai, “Bébé à la crème éclipse,” 1933-34
“Les cheminées de suie,” 1931
Joan Miro, “Lady Strolling on the Rambla of Barcelona,” 1925
“The Gentleman,” 1924
More pages from Breton’s Nadja (1928). Photographs commissioned from Jacques-André Boiffard.
Flaneur Now
Vito Acconci
“Following Piece,” Oct 3-25, 1969
Sophie Calle
“Suite vénitienne,” 1980; Set of 81 elements (55 b/w photographs, 23 texts, 3 maps), variously presented in book form and gallery form
“La Filature” (The Shadow), 1981. English version : set of one text, one color photograph, 29 b/w photographs partly assembled in groups, 11 texts.
Francis Alys
“The Collector,” 1990-92;
“Zapatos Magneticos,” 1994;
“The Leak,” 2002;
“The Nightwatch,” 2004;
Marcos Lutyens
"In Touch," Pompidou Center, Paris, 2014
Dennis Adams
"Outtake" (1998), still and excerpt from 134 minute single-channel video of a performance on Berlin's Kurfurstendamm
"Freeload" (2004), excerpt, aluminum and steel column fitted with two video cameras, two monitors, two single-channel videos.
“Double Feature” (2008), photo series — Spliced from Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (1959) + Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers (1965)
“Walking on Wolves” (2011), installation, featuring stills from José Luis Borau’s film Furtivos (Poachers), 1975
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