Word: meudon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with a box camera into which a glass plate negative had to be inserted before every shot. The Leica, a lightweight instrument with film on a frame-advance roll, enabled photographers to catch slices of life on the wing. For Kertesz, it made possible subtle and serendipitous pictures like Meudon, a strangely arresting image in which a man is simply crossing the street in one direction while a train passes by over-head, going the other way. It makes no "narrative" sense; it offers no conventional beauty, but it fascinates...