No matter whether it’s Paris or Istanbul. I do not photograph cities, but an imaginary city that inhabits each megalopolis. It is the product of the man’s excesses, his genius, his madness. The city exceeds the overflow. She is about to devour us.
Floriane de Lassée
“The Nymph caught the Dryad in her arms.”
The New World Fairy Book
Howard Angus Kennedy
Illus. by H.R. Millar
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1904.