通过在强烈的阳光下用长镜头拍摄,巴科特将圣马克卢教堂华丽的哥特式立面改造成了一片深深的阴影和在哥特式窗格上播放的光的图案。雨果对这些照片的热爱无疑源于人们认识到,这些照片表达了一种高度浪漫化的中世纪观点——这种观点深受雨果自己的作品和哥特式建筑的诗意绘画的影响。
By photographing in strong sunlight and with a long lens, Bacot transformed the flamboyant Gothic facade of the Church of Saint-Maclou into patches of deep shadow and patterns of light playing on Gothic tracery. Hugo's love of such photographs surely stemmed from a recognition that they articulated a highly romanticized view of the medieval—a view deeply colored by Hugo's own writings and poetic drawings of Gothic architecture.