franck bohbot

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About the artwork

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 emblematic neighbourhoods in the cities he travels through. The systematic frontal and centred views 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 his works. With this photograph of New York, the photographer immerses us in the residential neighbourhood of Brooklyn. While a series of skyscrapers emerge in the distance, drawing an artificial horizon, soccer players dominate the foreground. The subtle saturations evoke a nostalgic atmosphere that brings to mind the firmly rooted tradition of leisure activities in American culture.

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