#for once u r the tourist! but ur also the spectacle

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Louis w the camera. claudia w the diary..

#coming back to this #yn. #iwtv s2 #louis de pointe du lac #claudia #something about the common belief in the west & the value of the written/textual/photographic as ‘objective’ & true #being a proof that ur surviving the different ages u encounter #the shift from jim crow new orleans to post ww2 paris #for once u r the tourist! but ur also the spectacle #bc black american culture particularly new orleanian black culture is the ‘trend’ in europe. jazz clubs. #CLUB DAKAR. #armand loving louis bc he sees him as a tether to the ‘age’. #claudia’s collection of the written word. asserting her own existence and how she brings Death. #The belief that black ppl had no ‘capacity for the written word’ v claudia being so proximate to the book. #she talks to the book! its her friend. #shes always on the verge of death if u think abt it