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rottenphoenix:

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liquidnight:

Édouard Boubat

Little Girl with Dead Leaves

Paris, France, 1946

“‘Little Girl with Dead Leaves’ was indeed my first photograph.

But where are our first photographs?

These lights that shine in our childhood memories.

I was walking through the Jardin du Luxembourg after the war, in 1946. I had a Rollei camera that I’d bought by selling my big dictionaries. I was still twenty years old, I was a poet, I was in love. And of course, I wasn’t thinking about any of that at all. When your life is all ahead of you, all you want to do is live. And then years have passed by; the leaves fall every autumn. You don’t say no to beauty, you don’t say no to opportunity. When you’ve found something once, can you ever give it up again? The photo just happened.

Just one. A very pale negative developed in a makeshift lab. Am I still twenty years old today? Am I still in love? If I say yes, I still have a chance of finding that light.

I sometimes walk through the Jardin du Luxembourg and I have never seen another little girl dressed in dead leaves. Every little girl is a little girl for the first time and everyone and everything I meet are just as I saw them for the first time. There is no such thing as a first photo. There are only new photos. The light is brand new today.”

—Édouard Boubat, Paris, France, 1992

From Édouard Boubat: A Gentle Eye

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alittlestringaroundmyfinger:

another film still from the Rodarte x Maggie Cheung Collection short film by Wing Shya.