Found this while in the midst of reading about Toulouse-Lautrec – Henri Riviere’s théâtre d’ombres. The details – the artistry – in this flowering of shadows are as refined and ravishing as a piece by Satie . . . I have no French, sadly, but this looks like a great site to happily explore Monsieur Riviere’s work

What I find comforting and thrilling both is the knowledge that this form of theater never dies, but ebbs and rises, sinks and flows and flowers, again and again. Newer technologies never replace it; the romance of the shadow is still there, still strong.