These photographs were taken in the 1920s through the 1970s. They have one detail in common, which reminds us of the history of amateur photography: the shadow of the photographer.
Art collector Jean-Marie Donat appropriated this incongruity, choosing only images in which the shadow appears wearing a hat and assembling his findings in the book Predator. The effect of repetition created by imagining this series becomes its subject: the same man looms, always and everywhere.
Art collector Jean-Marie Donat appropriated this incongruity, choosing only images in which the shadow appears wearing a hat and assembling his findings in the book Predator. The effect of repetition created by imagining this series becomes its subject: the same man looms, always and everywhere.
