Downtown Flaneur Zoltán Hajtmanszki - Photographs of Budapest, 1985-2003

Flâneur is the French term for a wanderer, a common Parisian figure at the turn of the last century, but flâneurs are everywhere, in every giant modern city, for the flâneur is a professional walker who spends his hours and days walking the streets of the capital. The flâneur is a bohemian, independent, generally an artist, but surely the most sensitive kind: one who looks at the whole of life as art. These people have a feeling for their city, and they are standard elements of the cityscape. The flâneur observes the details of the landscape and makes notes of his city. Flâneurs are symbols of personal freedom. They are not pieces of the big machine, but somehow they can exist and be creative in it. The flâneur is a lucky chosen one, living by improbably simple rules. But the flâneur doesn’t think about that, doesn’t ask why he wanders so easily while everything else is so hard. The flâneur practices an uncertain profession, but embraces it with an open heart. A student of human life, the flâneur sees reality in atmospheres. The flâneur’s self-assigned task is not to understand or explain reality, but to display it, to record as many views of it as possible. These multiple views offer the flâneur a still but solid space for meditation, inspiring him to work. What is this work for? Who knows? I don’t know. I’ve never known. I’m a flâneur. I take my walk.

Kiadó:

Exposed Books

Kiadás éve:

2003

Kiadás helye:

Budapest

Nyomda:

HTSART

ISBN:

963212622X

Kötés típusa:

kemény papír kiadói borítóban

Terjedelem:

199 oldal

Nyelv:

angol

Méret:

Szélesség: 25.50cm, Magasság: 24.00cm

Kategória:

Történelem helytörténet, honismeret

Művészetek fotóművészet

Idegennyelv Nyelvek angol