<p>The TLC Chinese Theatre, I, Los Angeles, California, 2014</p>

The TLC Chinese Theatre, I, Los Angeles, California, 2014

Photograph by Franck Bohbot, Institute

A night at the cinema: reviving the glamour of old Hollywood

Born out of photographer Franck Bohbot's imagination, these cinematic pictures of American movie theaters will remind of you of the power of old films.

Photographer Franck Bohbot is a master of interior and exterior spaces. Whether it’s his attention-grabbing photographs of French pools, grand libraries, or humble basketball courts, for me, it was hard to decide which photo series to interview him about. In the end, I gravitated toward his pictures of American movie theaters because they seemed to evoke a familiar narrative—old Hollywood and the golden days of film.

It’s no easy feat to take an empty space—devoid of people, animals, or weather—and make it shine, but every theater comes to life in Bohbot’s imagination. He originally became interested in the visual arts through cinema before his interests turned to photography, which is now one of his great passions. While working on

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