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In Search of Piétons: A Photo Documentary is a non-fiction photographic work written by Bill Bolton. The author was intrigued when he discovered that the illuminated pedestrian crossing signs found throughout France were not all the same. When he had discovered over 20 different designs for these signs, he decided to make them the subject of a photographic project. Bolton still has a love of photography made with film rather than digital cameras, even with the challenges film photography can pose, especially when dealing with a subject this difficult to photograph properly. Using a step-ladder and tripod to get a straight-ahead view of his subjects, Bolton spent two years dodging traffic while he created double-exposure prints of the red and green versions of each crossing sign.
Bill Bolton's non-fiction photographic work, In Search of Piétons, will delight fans of film photography and may tempt digital photographers to take up the more demanding and exacting art form that is film photography. While I currently use a digital camera, I still have my old Nikon and Canon cameras and felt that Bolton's story was quite inspiring. I found his detailed account of how he set up his pictures and determined the exposures of the pictures to be fascinating, and I appreciated the Exposure Parameter tables he provides in the appendix. The photographs are marvelous! I was amazed at the variety of the images and soon found myself picking out my favorites. My first would have to be Victor, the man with the hat, but Olivier, Denis and Guillaume also caught my eye. These fanciful and artistic images seem from an entirely different world from the forbidding red hand crossing sign seen at most likely every traffic light in the US. Bolton discovered art in something as prosaic as an illuminated crossing sign, and his work is a joy to behold. In Search of Piétons is most highly recommended.
