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Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off the banal obviousness of this ancient architecture to inject it with the most pristine intensity.

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Louis Aragon
Age: 85 †
Born: 1897
Born: October 3
Died: 1982
Died: December 24
Art Critic
French Resistance Fighter
Historian
Journalist
Novelist
Physician Writer
Poet
Politician
Louis Andrieux
Albert de Routisie
Arnaud de Saint Romain
François la Colère
Novel
Intensity
Intervenes
Strange
Gates
Trashy
Cities
Architecture
Inject
Makes
Draws
Illustrations
Way
Ancient
Banal
Photography
Pristine
City
Illustration
Streets
Squares
Obviousness

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