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Bernard Plossu's New Mexico - by Gilles Mora (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Bernard Plossu, born in Vietnam in 1945, is one of today's best-known French photographers.
- Author(s): Gilles Mora
- 175 Pages
- Photography, Subjects & Themes
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About the Book
A remarkable collection of New Mexico images by one of today's best-known French photographers.Book Synopsis
Bernard Plossu, born in Vietnam in 1945, is one of today's best-known French photographers. His photos reflect locales he has visited all over the world: Senegal, Turkey, Poland, Mexico, Guatemala, and the American West. The photographs here were taken by Plossu in the late 1970s and are images of New Mexico--where the sun, the dust, the rain, the mud, the wind, the snow, the altitude (7,000 feet), and the smells forge a uniqueness.
"Bernard Plossu has given us a remarkable record of our own Southwest as seen through the eyes of a Frenchman. . . . The viewer knows what Plossu is saying by the immediate impact followed by slow release. There are no clichés here. His subtle images must be teased from the data he provides. It is our own Southwest but seen in a new light from another point of view. We can learn and enjoy from all three: the images, the photographer, and what they release in us. We also learn that our teacher--and all good photographers teach--is far from conventional." --from the Foreword
Review Quotes
"Plossu elevates to the extraordinary those ordinary moments in our lives that we've probably taken for granted."