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Arts feature

Geoff Dyer on the poetry of motels

22 June 2019

9:00 AM

22 June 2019

9:00 AM

It’s to be expected. You take photographs in order to document things — Paris in the case of Eugène Atget in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the shacks of the American south in the case of Walker Evans in the 1930s — and these documents then acquire a quality of elegy.

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