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The Village Photographer

  • Felix Bazalgette--The New York Review of Books
  • published date: 2026-09-03 12:00:00 UTC

Madeleine de Sinéty sloughed off her aristocratic upbringing and spent her life capturing small-town life in Brittany and Maine.

One July day in 1972, a French photographer named Madeleine de Sinéty got stuck in traffic on her way back to Paris from the countryside. “I left the jammed highway for a small country road,” she lat… [+4390 chars]