Back To The Arcade by Franck Bohbot (2023)
Specifications
- Hardcover
- Essay by Raymond Gaston
- 300 x240 mm
- 164 pages
- 148images
About the Prints
- Each print is in an edition of 20 numbered and stamped copies
- Signed byFranck Bohboton verso
- Printedon Hahnemhle Pearl paper
- 29 x 19.5 cm
- 0.5 cm white border
About
In his series Back to the Arcade, Franck Bohbots mastery of color, and ability to frame a narrative is on full display. Through his lens, arcades open to the viewer like a tightly woven short film, noire-esque even. There is a feeling of criminality within the photos, as if youve found your way into a speakeasy, where acts are taking place hidden, fringe, and celebrated by those lucky few able to produce the password for the doorman. And in the midst of this are the machines themselves: grouped together in collections by those obsessed with them, tantalizing to touch, to play. Bohbots eye shows us this side of Los Angeles, where current-day inhabitants have grouped together to experience the arcane, to be solitary yet in groups, to revel in the fantastical pursuit of dreams. All of this is bathed in Bohbots unique light, much like the city of Los Angeles itself, a place where joy chases the sun, and when it sets, the occupants of the city find the hidden places.
Back to the Arcade is a masterful series that captures time. The time it takes for Bohbots fully opened lens to record the scant light inside each arcade. The time
the subjects of the photos spend in front of each machine. And the idea of time itself, seemingly standing still inside these arcades.
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