History of the book cover
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In August 2005, Vartan came to see me to ask me if I would be willing to take a photo of a fig tree to illustrate the front page of his book. One morning he took me to the home of the former director Jean Pierre OGEDA, to whom he had given a shoot from his father's fig tree. But stuck between a wall and a garage, this emotionally symbolic tree was very difficult to photograph and unfortunately could not illustrate the cover of the book...
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After searching all over the region, I finally found, in the middle of a garden at the entrance of Saint Tropez, a pretty fig tree...
After having cut it out with Photoshop, to erase all the environment of the fig tree and keep only the tree...
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...I stuck it on a slightly cloudy blue sky, taken from the beach of l'Escalet...
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Then from this montage, the publisher's graphic designer cropped the image, added a foot, some sky and finalized the cover with the title and the border...
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And here is the final cover with a pretty Tropezian fig tree on a ramatuellois sky...
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