Background
Claude Batho was born on June 1, 1935 in Chamalières, Auvergne, France.
Claude Batho was born on June 1, 1935 in Chamalières, Auvergne, France.
Claude Batho attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris 1955-1957 and received a diploma in applied arts in 1956.
Claude Batho went on to work in the archives at the Bibliothèque nationale de France where she met her husband, John Batho, also a photographer.
Her black-and-white photographs, published in Le Moment des Choses, document details of the inside of her home: a broom leaning against a wall, a fading bunch of flowers, her little daughter asleep on the couch, all represented with surprising intensity, evoking a feeling of nostalgia and sadness. Her images of Claude Monet's garden at Giverny, taken in October 1980, shortly before she died, also include glimpses of her family, almost as if their fleeting figures were included by accident. The square-shaped prints contrast sharply with the formats of Monet's own works.
Claude Batho died of cancer when she was only 46.
(French Edition)