‘The French Detective’: How a Camus captured the absurd after Louvre heist
A man who shares his surname with the philosopher who taught the world to accept meaninglessness had, without intending to, captured the Absurd in motion. The coincidence is almost too poetic: a Camus photographing a moment that Albert Camus might have written—a stranger in a hat, detached from the chaos, calmly existing as meaning collapses around him.
