Flâneur

by Bob Bovin

The flâneur was a literary figure in the 19th century France, and part of the picture of the streets of Paris. The word flâneur led the mind to the independent man, as the city's explorer or the connoisseur of the street. The flâneur became an important symbol for scholars, artists and writers. A close synonym was seen in a boulevardier.Flâneur's pursuit of an aesthetically adapted observation has brought the term into the literature of photography and especially street photography. Today's street photographer can be seen as a modern development of the urban observer described in 19th century The flâneur was then described as a passionate photographer who preserves the slightest traces of the changed reflections of things, the movements of the people, and the public spirit.The flâneur becomes in the twentieth century, with ever smaller cameras in hand, a wandering discoverer of the city's landscape, with these ever-changing conditions for life. Bob Bovin is a flâneur living in the old university town Lund in Sweden. All pictures shown here are made from this town.

76 pages, Paperback

Published December 5, 2018