Title: Belle Lurette
Artist: Pascal Bastien
Mediapop Editions, 2019
Softcover
165 x 230 mm
44 pages
First edition
ISBN: 9782918932895
Lying down on the ground in the summer grass, looking at the sky to smell the air of the moment and then, from time to time, throwing a glance to the right and to the left to realize that everything is there, under our eyes, since a long time... The world gives itself to whoever knows how to observe it, to whoever knows how to simply take the time to "pause" the look.
Pascal Bastien is an adult who has kept the curiosity to see and the pleasure to have fun with photography. His world is smiling, both sweet and quietly crazy. "It doesn't matter" he says with his images: it doesn't matter about the dentist session, it doesn't matter about the too new, too flashy and ill-fitting suit, it doesn't matter about the socks with holes in them, it doesn't matter about the coffee that overflows and splashes into the coffeepot, and it doesn't matter if the shot that records it all is ultimately a bit blurry either. On the contrary, it's rather funny and moving, he certainly thinks, with his back bent over his 6×6 camera: the antidote to gravity is the wandering of the mind, the part given to chance and the lightness of the gesture that knows how to seize the camera at the right moment.
- From the publisher’s website
Lying down on the ground in the summer grass, looking at the sky to smell the air of the moment and then, from time to time, throwing a glance to the right and to the left to realize that everything is there, under our eyes, since a long time... The world gives itself to whoever knows how to observe it, to whoever knows how to simply take the time to "pause" the look.
Pascal Bastien is an adult who has kept the curiosity to see and the pleasure to have fun with photography. His world is smiling, both sweet and quietly crazy. "It doesn't matter" he says with his images: it doesn't matter about the dentist session, it doesn't matter about the too new, too flashy and ill-fitting suit, it doesn't matter about the socks with holes in them, it doesn't matter about the coffee that overflows and splashes into the coffeepot, and it doesn't matter if the shot that records it all is ultimately a bit blurry either. On the contrary, it's rather funny and moving, he certainly thinks, with his back bent over his 6×6 camera: the antidote to gravity is the wandering of the mind, the part given to chance and the lightness of the gesture that knows how to seize the camera at the right moment.
- From the publisher’s website
