Burnished balaustrades

Now that I walk with a stick, I am much more appreciative of the simple, inconspicuous things in life.

Above: "Cutler Footway" shown yesterday Below: Beare's Stairs in Caldwell St, Darlinghurst

Channeling Atget

An exhibition of the photographic work of Eugene Atget (1857-1927) commenced yesterday at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The images in the exhibition focus on small trades, shops, streets, ornaments, interiors, vehicles, gardens, and the River Seine. Sydney is the final city for this exhibition, having already visited Madrid, Rotterdam, and Paris. It shows until 4th November.

His general note is a lyrical understanding of the street, trained observation of it, special feeling for patina, eye for prevailing detail, over all of which is thrown a poetry which is not 'the poetry of the street', or 'the poetry of Paris', but the projection of Atget's person. Walker Evans, 1931

My two images here are the stairs up either side of the old tramway bridge, known as the 'Cutler Footway', which links Darlinghurst and Paddington.