Le Touquet, France, 1984.
"In the late nineteehtn century, Europe's coastal areas underwent a process of intensive and uncontrelled development that varied in character from one place to another, often with bizarre results. While I was in Le Touquet, in northern France, working on my photography commission for DATAR, I came across this amazing juxtaposition on the sea-front of two buildings from different periods, one in late nineteenth-century eclectic style, the other of an extreme rationality. An early foreshadowing of the language of deconstruction, perhaps?"
Extraído del volumen dedicado a Basilico, incluido en "5 Great Innovators of Photography", una pequeña cajita de cinco volúmenes editada por Phaidon Press Limited en 2001. Los otros cuatro volúmenes están dedicados respectivamente a Eadweard Muybridge, Daido Moriyama, Eugene Atget y Gustav Le Gray.
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