Through his photographs, Claude Batho (1935−1981) focused on the simplest objects that made up his daily life, on familiar landscapes, on his close entourage. The apparent simplicity of the representations gives way to sensitivity, to a silent beauty, often associated with black and white silver prints. This simplicity becomes poetry and triumphs over banality. A woman's gesture, Claude Batho's photography reads like a diary whose subjects are not the extraordinary moments of existence, but the insignificant and ultimately immutable moments.