Thierry Bouët sends us his Swimming Pools, accompanied by this text.
A swimming pool is an essential installation when you like conditioned air and by extension conditioned water. The subject is not new since my first good photo of a swimming pool dates from 1986 during a fire in the Grasse massif in the south of France.
My travels have never allowed me, with regret, to come across swimming pools in cold countries. On the other hand, on several occasions I discovered overcrowded pools, witnesses of high temperatures. All the holes in the series are therefore located below the Loire and under multiple meridians.
A swimming pool has the advantage of not harboring any animal or plant life. The bottom is as clear as that of a bathtub without the risk of a bad encounter. Swimming is therefore guaranteed peaceful in an amniotic temperature.
An anecdote was told to me by a friend. For its charge of impertinence, I have never forgotten it. It would have made a great picture.
In a family home, the grandfather demanded that when he got up from his nap, no one had bathed in the pool for around fifteen minutes. The body of water had to be flat like a parquet floor at Versailles. When the master of the house came out of his bath, the pool reopened its doors for dives and somersaults.
Thierry Bouët
Thierry Bouët Photographic Fund
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