“There are pools and pools. Private swimming pools, which were once an outward sign of wealth, but which nowadays constitute the development of the most banal of suburban pavilions with guaranteed “swimming poolables” grounds, noisy and populous municipal swimming pools where the bodies mingle in a happy disorder of diving and strong smells of chlorine. Pools open in the summer, covered in winter but mostly for a use value.”
– Dominique ROUX, semiologist and historian of photography, lecturer, teacher and former head of the documentation center of “La Galerie du Château d’Eau” (Toulouse)
