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Avant l’âge de raison

Bernard Plossu regularly photographed her children "Before the age of reason", while gleaning their verbal expressions striking: I spoke to my stomach! ; One day I want to become a baby, I want to take my shadow, Dad, you’ll soon be old! ; T’as seen as I am an artist too? ; Do I have changed since I have 5 years? ; The church believes that it touches the sky! ; Pink, you can do with roses, That’s when you died, so there’s nothing to do …
In the book is structured so the images and words gathered over the years of innocence.
Photographer atypical Bernard Plossu trace from his 1963 solo, outside reporting, photography and visual modes. "It does not take a photograph, one sees, then share it with others, wishes to clarify Bernard Plossu. I practice photography to be one floor with the world and what happens. Apparently my poetic images are not incurred. But the practice of poetry is it not also resist the stupidity? "

Coproducer

Neuf-Lize Vie/CAP, Brest/Imagerie, Lannion/Le lieu, Lorient

Released

27/10/2008

Collection

Hors Collection

Format

175 x 240

Relié couverture cartonnée

82 duo tone photos

96 pages

ISBN : 978-2-35046-149-6

30,00 €Buy

Press review

05/02/2009 Déclic Photo (Déclic Photo)

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.