Stars

15 July 2013 Benoît Labourdette  2 min

Series of photographs.

The long obturation photographs at night with camera movements produce drawings, often very aesthetic visual universe, because of the continuity of the lines thus formed, which produce a visual “automatic” almost harmony. We can judge this type of photography “easy” or formalist because not at all based on social experience, or psychological or symbolic...

In fact, they are simply contemplative photographs, offering a sensory experience in which we must choose to open. This is not a form of narration that suggesting is a form of contemplation of the complexity of the world, that the movement in this case, lights in the sky and the camera can create forms evocative of something else that the imitation of reality as perceived without photography.

In this sense, it is like a kind of mechanical subjectivity, possibly disturbing, because questioning the human “author”, which is then explicitly a passageway between the movement of the world and its expression frozen by the mechanical device.

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