Anyone who is seriously interested in the art of photography must also be familiar with the old methods of production, even if, on the surface, every smartphone can take pictures today. That is the difference between taking a snapshot and photography. And it can be experienced here in the former train station of Carlux. Even in between. If you take a break here.
Category
🦄
KreativitätTranskript
00:00Here where no train stops anymore and where there is a bicycle path on the former railroad
00:17track, there is a remarkable museum displaying the works of Robert Doisneau, whose photographs
00:23are now owned by the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Victoria and Albert Museum
00:28in Britain, and the Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
00:51How was the Robert Doisneau Station project born?
00:54It was the photograph of the platform of the Karlou train station that gave me the idea
00:58of making this place, which was the property of the community of communes, into a place
01:02to welcome tourists.
01:10Because this photo of 1937 on the platform of the station was the very beginning of the
01:15paid vacations in France and thus the very beginning of the tourist industry which today
01:19makes live in great part the Perigord.
01:29So based on this idea, I went to meet Robert Doisneau's daughters in Paris, in Montrouge,
01:34who still manage their father's photographic heritage.
01:43And so I obtained permission to use photos taken during a vacation in the Perigord to
01:47show them here in this station, which is now our tourist office of the community of
01:51the Pays de Fenelon communes.
02:02And we also added a photographic gallery where we present the photographic art of young artists
02:07of the region.
02:18And we realized that there was really a wealth of young artists of photography and that despite
02:22the presence of the photo everywhere, especially cell phones, but the photographic art still
02:35remains the sure value of our culture and heritage here that we put in presentation
02:40to the Robert Doisneau station.
02:42At the time Robert Doisneau was making his photographs, finding subjects and getting
02:48an interesting angle on them was only half the job.
02:52Analog photography and acetate film also require knowledge of how to make negatives from the
02:56exposed film and then the work that everyone can admire, the print.
03:01Only the work with a camera and the completion of the work in the darkroom together make
03:05the works of art that are exhibited here.
03:08For the young there is a corner where virtually the workflow of making an analog photograph
03:13can be recreated.
03:15For those who are then seriously interested in this profession, must also be familiar
03:19with the old ways of production, even if today ostensibly every smartphone can make pictures.
03:26That is the difference between snapping a picture and photography.
03:30And that can be experienced here in the former Karloo train station.
03:35Even in between when you take a little break here.