franck bohbot

Bibliothèque de l'Hôtel de Ville II

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While Bernd and Hilla Becher, the initiators of German objective photography, dedicate their work to the frontal photography of industrial installations, French photographer Franck Bohbot experiments with an equally exacting protocol that enables him to draw up an inventory of cultural sites. The systematic frontal and centred view of his subjects offer a documentary dimension based on typologies. It is precisely this systematism and the notion of the overview that confers an artistic and majestic dimension to the photographer's works. Belonging to the "House of Books" series that the photographer began in 2011, this image represents the H?tel de Ville library in Paris. Franck Bohbot thus turns away from cold architectural photography, offering us instead these wonderful representations of sites of memory, knowledge and education. At the crossroads between the monumental and the intimate, books have replaced humans as the main protagonists of his supernatural images, resembling spacecraft.

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