| Daguerréotypes | |
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| Directed by | Agnès Varda |
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| Cinematography | Nurith Aviv |
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| Distributed by | ZDF |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Daguerréotypes is a 1976 Frenchdocumentary film directed byAgnès Varda. The film consists of vignettes capturing life on Rue Daguerre, a street inParis where Varda lived.
At the time of filming, Varda was caring for her two-year-old son and could not travel far from her home. Consequently, the entire film was shot within a 90-metre (300 ft) radius of her residence, the maximum length of the electric cables powering her equipment.[1]
The film profiles various shopkeepers and residents of Rue Daguerre, many of whom came from outside Paris or even outside France. Each subject is asked a series of three recurring questions: "Where did you come from?", "When did you get here?", and "Why did you come?"[2]
The titleDaguerréotypes is a pun referring both to the street Rue Daguerre—named afterLouis Daguerre, the inventor of thedaguerreotype photographic process—and to the idea of "types". In a voiceover, Varda describes the subjects as her "types", referencingtypologies as both a photographic and social concept. The film critiques these systems of classification, and several scenes feature subjects posed in the style of 19th-century portrait photography.[3][4]
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