Pediatrician In The Markham

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Un photographe était entré dans un jour au Condé Rien

Patrick Modiano, in "Les Inrockuptibles", shortly after publication of

Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue . do not look distinguished clients. The same age, same dress neglected. He wore a coat too long for him, canvas trousers and heavy boots military. He had taken many photos of those who attended the Conde. It had become a regular too and, for others it was as if he was taking family photos. Much later, they released an album devoted to Paris with the simple caption names of clients or their nicknames.

Patrick Modiano: In the coffee lost youth

Ed van der Elsken: self-portrait, Paris, in the early 1950s

© Ed van der Elsken / Nederlands Foto Museum