Julien CHAPSAL
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Summer, so impatiently awaited… At last… summer… Head full of my own memories, I travelled the length and breadth of France photographing people on holidays. Catching classic scenes, with special attention to posture, gesture, bearing. And revealing, sometimes, a kind of strangeness. Not so much to document my epoch. More to achieve painterly, timeless images. Images everyone could make his own. Along the way, names came to me as I worked, like travelling companions: Edouard Manet, Duane Hanson and Edward Hopper in the visual arts, Jean-Marie Le Clézio and Marguerite Duras – their early works – in literature. For photography, I took pleasure in imagining I could reconcile Martin Parr and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Yet I claim no exemplars, no specific influence other than a commitment to the arts that transcends photography. On the other hand, a technical approach: working almost… almost in the old way… in medium format, using film, catching on the fly the moment when each element finds its place in the frame; at a time when this kind of image, taken by someone else of my generation, would more likely have its origins in mise en scène or digital montage. The challenge of taking photographs and the delight that comes with it are an integral part of my approach. These are my summer pictures.
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