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"If one may dare add to Charles Baudelaire’s flâneur, and to Walter Benjamin’s Lumpensammler (ragpicker), another figure of modernity capable of transfiguring the mundanity of the world, the photographs of Adrien Boyer conjure up the presence of the street-sweeper. Bent to his task yet with mind free to wander, a character who reveals the possibility of contemplating what no one thinks of looking at… Far from the romantic flâneur inspired by the tempo of his strolling, unlike the ragpicker/poet gleaning the refuse of history, the street-sweeper is a Sisyphus who wins his freedom by …