Walking Paris Streets with Eugene Atget

Bogaerts is an empathetic miniaturist whose insight into art is matched only by his caring about people and their situations amidst modern life. —Nicholas Birns

For those who have gazed upon Atget’s haunted images of the solitary and the lonely and have wondered about their arrested lives, writer Greg Bogaerts brings Atget’s denizens of the streets to flickering life. The short stories, petites vignettes, give each nameless character a fully realized moment as if a ghost had materialized. Some are given names and the latent image of their existence rises from Atget’s glass plate, flickers into view and then we turn the page of the photo album, compelled to read the next evocation brilliantly imagined by Bogaerts. Like Atget, the author is the consummate flâneur, the observer who wanders the streets in search of that which has been lost. With each character, each street view, a story comes into focus as Bogaerts creates a fascinating universe that parallels Atget who passed this way a hundred years ago. —Jeanne S. M. Willette

Eugène Atget considered his photographs documents, and while they stand on their own as such, Bogaerts gives us that extra bit of humanity behind the lampshade vendor, market porter and rag picker we yearn for when we look at them. —M. E. Parker

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