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Rana,
my daughter, was 4 years old in 1998. One summer night, I showed her the
clouds which were crossing the sky and hiding the moon. Once the moon had
completely disappeared behind the dark clouds and
there was no light left in the sky, she said to me: "Daddy,
pull out the moon once more "! Later she would find out that Dad was
not almighty, but one year later, this photograph was for me a way of
giving her the moon! Zara my assistant and I worked several days to set up
the scene. We put a large light box (cumulite) behind the
perforated background so as to evoke the small stars. Rana was
exposed once by a low-angle light, structured and slightly blue and
jelly-like
to suggest the moon. Then, for the 15 minutes while Rana was
playing outside, in
perfect obscurity, I left the obturator open and, with the light, I
painted the basket, the stars and the moon (made of papier-mâché and
hung by invisible strings). Later, Laurent Bardet, a friend of mine and
graphic designer, inspired by this photograph, created the logo "
Blue-up ".
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