00:00Here where no train stops anymore and where there is a bicycle path on the former railroad
00:17track, there is a remarkable museum displaying the works of Robert Doisneau, whose photographs
00:23are now owned by the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Victoria and Albert Museum
00:28in Britain, and the Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
00:51How was the Robert Doisneau Station project born?
00:54It was the photograph of the platform of the Karlou train station that gave me the idea
00:58of making this place, which was the property of the community of communes, into a place
01:02to welcome tourists.
01:10Because this photo of 1937 on the platform of the station was the very beginning of the
01:15paid vacations in France and thus the very beginning of the tourist industry which today
01:19makes live in great part the Perigord.
01:29So based on this idea, I went to meet Robert Doisneau's daughters in Paris, in Montrouge,
01:34who still manage their father's photographic heritage.
01:43And so I obtained permission to use photos taken during a vacation in the Perigord to
01:47show them here in this station, which is now our tourist office of the community of
01:51the Pays de Fenelon communes.
02:02And we also added a photographic gallery where we present the photographic art of young artists
02:07of the region.
02:18And we realized that there was really a wealth of young artists of photography and that despite
02:22the presence of the photo everywhere, especially cell phones, but the photographic art still
02:35remains the sure value of our culture and heritage here that we put in presentation
02:40to the Robert Doisneau station.
02:42At the time Robert Doisneau was making his photographs, finding subjects and getting
02:48an interesting angle on them was only half the job.
02:52Analog photography and acetate film also require knowledge of how to make negatives from the
02:56exposed film and then the work that everyone can admire, the print.
03:01Only the work with a camera and the completion of the work in the darkroom together make
03:05the works of art that are exhibited here.
03:08For the young there is a corner where virtually the workflow of making an analog photograph
03:13can be recreated.
03:15For those who are then seriously interested in this profession, must also be familiar
03:19with the old ways of production, even if today ostensibly every smartphone can make pictures.
03:26That is the difference between snapping a picture and photography.
03:30And that can be experienced here in the former Karloo train station.
03:35Even in between when you take a little break here.
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