Mensen bekijken vanachter boekenstalletjes op de kade de hoge waterstand van de Seine in Parijs 1910 - 1911

G. Dangereux made this little photograph called 'Mensen bekijken vanachter boekenstalletjes op de kade de hoge waterstand van de Seine in Parijs,' and it's like a postcard from another era. I can imagine Dangereux setting up their camera along the Seine. What kind of conversations might they have overheard while capturing the high water? You can see the bookstalls all lined up and people curiously watching the river rise. They must have thought, “Wow, Paris is really getting a bath!” It's funny, but maybe Dangereux was thinking about how water can be so powerful, like a big, watery hand reshaping the city. Or maybe they were just like, "This is a cool shot, gotta capture it!" Either way, it’s a slice of life, a moment frozen in time. And in a way, every artist is doing that, trying to catch a piece of the world and share it. It’s like we’re all sending each other postcards across time, saying, “Hey, look what I saw!”