Bernard Plossu

photographer

Bernard Plossu is a French travel photographer born in 1945 in Vietnam. He began his photographic journey in 1958 with travels to the Sahara and later spent significant time photographing in Mexico (1965-1966), California (1967-1977), and New Mexico (1977-1985). In 1975, during African travels, he developed a simplified 'styleless' photographic approach using a 50mm lens on a 35mm camera. He returned to France in 1985 and has since lived in La Ciotat. His work is characterized by its focus on landscapes, travel, and the observation of light and space across various regions including Africa, Mexico, Andalusia, and Europe.[1,2]

Themes

  • travel
  • landscapes
  • light
  • nomadic life

Works by Bernard Plossu

  • Les Paysages Intermédiaires 1988 · Contrejour / Centre Georges Pompidou · book · French ISBN 2859490805 Retrospective exhibition catalogue.
  • Le Voyage Mexicain 1980 · book · French Published fifteen years after his stay in Mexico.
  • African Desert 1987 · University of Arizona Press · book · English
  • Bernard Plossu's New Mexico 2006 · The University of New Mexico Press · book · English
  • L'Europe du Sud contemporaine 2000 · Images en Manoeuvres Editions · book · French
  • Nuage-soleil: L'image funambule, ou, La sensation en photographie 1994 · Marval/Centre Photo Lectoure · book · French

Exhibitions

  • 1988 Les paysages intermédiaires Musée national d'Art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris solo
  • 1987 The African Desert Museum of Contemporary Art / National Museum of African Art, Chicago / Washington, DC group
  • 1997 Bernard Plossu Fotografia IVAM Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderna, Valencia solo
  • 2007 Rétrospective au musée d'Art moderne et contemporain Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg solo

Awards

  • 1988 Grand prix national de la photographie France
  • 2008 Premio international award of photography CRAF and Unione Industriali della Provincia di Pordenone

References

  1. Bernard PLOSSU link
  2. Bernard Plossu link