Noël’s interest in America’s starkest shapes of beauty began years ago. According to his artist statement, “Though a less-than-stellar student in geography, French photographer Rémi Noël has been obsessed with the ‘America’ of Jack Kerouac, Edward Hopper, and Robert Frank since his early school years.“
The ghosts of Americana artists past are certainly visible in Batman’s lonely life as a vagrant. Who knew Batman was such a misanthrope?