[Summer 2000]
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Summary
Asselin recalls the various modem figures of the walker and the modalities of their aesthetic contemplation. The photographer bears a resemblance to the Baudelairean figure of the flâneur, torn between aestheticization of his marginality and the incontrovertible realities of the world of the marketplace. He is forced, a little like a ragpicker, to recycle the aesthetic values of his images for that marketplace.