From ville-montpellier.fr

Le Monde this weekend has a article on the photographs of a grocer from the village of Kabylie, that were once lost and now (obviously) found again. Here's a little information about the images via google's authentically foreign sounding translation software (they've been working on the this-isn't-my-first-language translation algorithm for a while now). What is quite beautiful about the images is the sense of another place and another culture contiguous to ours and different - nothing terribly radical in that thought, but its nicely represented here.

As a westerner, the soft, calm lighting schema, the tonality of the images together with some of the subjects makes it reminiscent of the C19th colonial practices, but others present themselves something nearer our time, or as something more casual than the exposures or circumstance of C19th photographer would allow. This throws the western viewer's own historical consciousness into relief, which often genuine colonial images don't. In part this is because they are images from a man in Algiers - not some expedition to 'document' and frame the people of another culture, so if they contain any vestiges of colonial thinking, its embedded in an intersubjective complex between the photographer (having grown up in a late-colonial situation) and me (with my history of the dispassioned western eye).

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