Pont Neuf, 1949
Brassai’s night photos
Photographing Paris at night, Brassai wanted to be raised
to the level of object: the world is richer than I,
the wall speaking to him in graffiti chipped from a childish drawing
of interlocking hearts only seeming symbolic, only seeming impossible.
On such days reification attracts as the whole city spreads out before you,
metempsychosis not from flesh to flesh, but (from where he stood
his large camera before him) into bridges across the Seine.
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