Aquarelles dessinées

Discover the world through the eyes and brush of Françoise Nuñez in this book, “Aquarelles dessinées”. A passionate photographer and artist, Françoise has captured the essence of places as diverse as Syria, Ethiopia, Tunisia, and Andalusia, transforming her experiences into delicate and deeply personal watercolors.

Born in Toulouse and of Spanish origin, Françoise began her photographic career in 1975, training in black and white printing and assisting iconic figures of French photography. Her marriage to Bernard Plossu and their travels have enriched her work with an international dimension.

This book brings together a selection of 33 small-format watercolors (10 x 15 cm) created with the meticulousness that characterizes Françoise so well. Each watercolor depicts Syrian street scenes in shades of subtle grays and blues, or portraits of daily life in Ethiopia in brown tones, bearing witness to her ability to capture the emotion and beauty of the cultures she encountered.

Bernard Plossu, in his preface, describes these works as “true little wonders” – photographic, but also imbued with a simplicity that never falls into easy exoticism. Rigorous and demanding, Françoise has always sought to convey the pure emotion of her discoveries, far from the overly familiar everyday.

Released

27/06/2024

Collection

Hors Collection

Format

240 x 200

Français

Relié couverture cartonnée

33 aquarelles

48 pages

ISBN : 978-2-35046-627-9

25,00 €Buy

Aquarelles dessinées

Françoise Nuñez

Bernard Plossu

Françoise Nuñez

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Born in Toulouse, Françoise Nuñez loved photography and travel, passions she shared in osmosis with her husband Bernard Plossu and their two children, Joaquim and Manuela. After being assistant to Jean Diezaide, she then tirelessly continues her personal way towards elsewhere. She publishes a dozen books, and is represented by the Camera Obscura gallery. She died in 2021 at the age of 64.

Bernard Plossu

Photographe

Plossu Bernard, born in South Vietnam in 1945, he grew up surrounded by photographs of the desert taken by his father when he went skiing on the dunes of the Sahara in 1937 with Roger Frisian-Roche. Modesty, sensuality, emotion, joy, here is what is the “sap” that already permeate the images of the self that landed in Mexico in 1965 and 1967 to join his grandparents. Travel as a Mexican issue 15 years later its editor Claude Nori. A book that, as the creator of Ed. Contrejour has become a sort of bible for a generation suddenly uninhibited by his freedom of tone and its intimate and poetic vision.