Le Piéton de Paris a Jakarta

Seeing an exhibition in the open space here in Jakarta is just like expecting Madonna lets photographer take her wrinkle eyes picture, pretty rare (almost never). Until one lovely afternoon, last May, I saw more than a dozen pictures exhibited in an old park (built by Dutch) in central Jakarta. Each picture (150x180cm) stood back to back under the shade of trees.

This was very nice, amid Jakarta stressful traffic. The weather luckily was good, the sky was almost cloudy, some visitors seems enjoying togetherness with friends, some other was just busy with their minds. I led my step closer to every pictures. My feeling gone a little romantic as I saw a picture of 15 children hand in hand crossing Rue de Rivoli in Paris (shoot by Robert Doisneau, 1978). They were in sephia color, what could be more melancholic than that color? Other pictures? Here they are...

Les tablier de la rue de Rivoli (Robert Doisneau, 1978)

Bal et rejouissances pendant le bal de la fete nationale du 14 Juillet 1928 (Meurisse)

Seeberger

L'avenue des Champs-Elysees et L'arc de Triomph (Neurdein)

dans le quartier des Halles , la rue Mondetour (Eugene Atget)

Paris Animee , Le Pont des Arts (Claude Marie Ferrier)

The pictures stand back to back