The first monograph drawn from Basilico's 1984-85 campaign along the Normandy coast, presenting 37 photographs made on public commission for the DATAR. Published to accompany a 1990 exhibition in Bolzano, the catalogue collects Basilico's own first critical rereading of that early commission, built around an essay he wrote for the occasion, "For a Slowness of the Gaze". He describes abandoning any artificial or contrived way of building an image: given an exceptional vantage point, he writes, it becomes enough to look "normally", leaving nature and light to represent themselves. The book was followed by several later, expanded editions as the Bord de Mer project grew into one of Basilico's most widely shown and republished bodies of work.