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Rebirth Of The Flaneur

Posted by: Kilgore Trout

18 April 2006 - 7:00am

The art of the flaneur -- wandering aimlessly around the city, observing its daily rhythms -- has been revived by photobloggers.

Maisonneuve urban affairs columnist Christopher DeWolf takes a look at the flaneur, the dandyish boulevardiers who wandered aimlessly around nineteenth century Paris, observing the city and its inhabitants. Flaneurism was dealt a blow by car culture and suburbanization, but lately, it seems to have made a comeback. Can part of the credit for this revival be given to photobloggers? "Today's flaneur is the photoblogger," writes DeWolf. "Wandering around town, snapping photos of places and faces, these men and women are urban ethnographers, observing and interpreting the city around them."

Full Story: The Urban Eye: The flaneur is alive and sauntering in the modern metropolis
Source: Maisonneuve, April 17, 2006
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