King Charles' Town
Jul. 23rd, 2007 10:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
franceslievensOn the day our first King took the oath we walk up the hill to the convent. It's in disguise. Inside we encounter Mexico and the U.S.A. like it once was: in black and white and sometimes on rollerskates. Most pictures have something unconcerned. America is still the best place to be and go to. Girls wear their tiny shorts and are happy with their bodies. Men walk past them, look back, because the girls are pretty. Life is good.
Outside the sun is shining in between days of incessant rains. The old kingly town, heir to empty factory buildings and people on the dole, show a little of its previous glamour. If only for a while one forgets that when the grey takes over this town what it was before: a dark and dank place where living is more about surviving.
"So Long. Vivre l'Ouest américain 1970/85" and "La Frontera, Mexique 1974", photographs by Bernard Plossu until September 23, 2007 in Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi.
Outside the sun is shining in between days of incessant rains. The old kingly town, heir to empty factory buildings and people on the dole, show a little of its previous glamour. If only for a while one forgets that when the grey takes over this town what it was before: a dark and dank place where living is more about surviving.
"So Long. Vivre l'Ouest américain 1970/85" and "La Frontera, Mexique 1974", photographs by Bernard Plossu until September 23, 2007 in Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi.
