thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 10月13日 02時35分

Photo by @williamalbertallard // Behind the museum visitor and to the viewer’s right, is a small portrait of Pierre-Auguste Renoir done by his friend Frederic Bazille; a painting of the brilliant young Impressionist in a quite casual pose, seated, legs and knees drawn up. The other painting behind the visitor is larger. Young Boy with A Cat by Renoir, is of a naked youth, almost chalk white in complexion, leaning in a relaxed pose, snuggling his face against a white cat, his hands clasped similarly to those of Renoir in Bazille’s portrait.

In my viewfinder I was constructing an image of the two paintings, waiting to see if some observer would somehow fit into the frame and for just a moment, a museum visitor stood staunchly in front of the paintings, looking at me. I quickly made an exposure. It wasn’t until later when looking at the one frame I’d exposed of him – that I realized how closely he resembled Renoir in the painting on the wall behind him. His face, his high forehead, the beard, even his jacket. One can even find a resemblance between my subject’s face and that of Renoir’s Young Boy with a Cat. It is if the three of them – the subjects of the two paintings, each a century and a half old, and the lone contemporary visitor standing a few feet from me – were related by blood.

Sometimes a person thinks they have perhaps ruined a picture they see me making by not stepping away, out of my view. They duck and become apologetic. Often I was actually waiting for them to enter the frame, hoping they would complete the picture. In this case I wanted to include this man. I know when they fit in and when they don’t; I feel it. Here, even though it is but an instant of juxtaposition, the museum visitor certainly did complete the picture. I just didn’t realize immediately how very well. Serendipity and Paris, leading me to a flâneur’s reward.

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