330 - Daguerréotypes

Eavesdropping at the Movies · Dec 14, 2021 · 22m

In 1975, caring for her infant son and unable to spend much time away from home, Agnès Varda turned her camera on her neighbours on her street, Rue Daguerre in Paris. In Daguerréotypes - the title a pun on the photographic process for whose inventor the road is named - she both observes them at work, running their shops and providing their services, and asks them questions about their lives, discovering where they're originally from (most are not Paris natives) and how they met their husbands and wives. It's a gentle, relaxed form of portraiture, one that combines imagery of the…