The Parasols of Deauville have been photographed many times over the years. They are a recurring motif that puts a photographer to the test. A subject like this forces you to look for a novel approach, even though it always seems the same. This is a reflection on the insistence of perception, on the variations of light, on the unexpectedness of the pattern, on the astonishment of encountering what has not been seen before.
The attention paid to the architecture of shapes and colors in space led me to question photography as a subject in itself. I focused on the materiality of the image in this artform said to be without material, questioning its ability to render the tactility of the fabrics and sand, the smoothness of the sky, depending on the hours and days, everything bathed in the fine light of the seaside.
EXHIBITION
Les parasols et Présents et absents
John Batho
Until September 21st, 2014
Promenades photographiques
41100 Vendôme
