To mark the 1,000th anniversary of the abbey church at Mont-Saint-Michel, this book presents a collection of photographs by Bernard Plossu.
Bernard Plossu. Le Mont-Saint-Michel
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To mark the 1,000th anniversary of the abbey church at Mont-Saint-Michel, this book presents a collection of photographs by Bernard Plossu.
This book looks at the extraordinary destiny of this site and examines the spell it exerts on the millions of tourists and pilgrims who pass through it every year. Mont-Saint-Michel also raises questions about our history, our roots and our future: what does this building have to say to us a thousand years on? What remains of its sacred dimension? How do we unravel the threads of history? This book does not pretend to answer all the questions, whether collective or personal, but rather to offer the reader a journey based on a previously unpublished set of photographs by Bernard Plossu taken on a single day in 2012, on overcast and rainy days, creating the special atmosphere that the photographer is so fond of.
This set of photographs shows their peregrination towards the church crowning the mountain. The monument appeared to him as the symbol of "a metaphysical truth" so hard to find in our world. During a stop at the summit, the sun shone down on a flooded terrace that had become a mirror. Plossu remembers a suspended moment, a kind of unreal escape that seemed to last an hour or two, even though they had been there all day. "Just a few hours, but the need to immortalise them was obvious. Even the most famous places always have something that magically reveals itself when you visit them. More than any other, Mont-Saint-Michel is one of them.
A commemorative book as much as an interior journey, it is accompanied by texts by art historian Damien Sausset.
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Data sheet
- Number of pages
- 72 pages
- Size
- 17 x 23 cm
- Language
- French
- Technique
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2023
Plossu (Bernard)
Born in Vietnam in 1945, Bernard Plossu occupies a unique place in the international photography scene thanks to his ability to explore the world on foot. Considered the leader among traveling photographers, he began his career in 1956 during a trip with his father to the Sahara. This was followed by numerous reports in Mexico, the American West, India, Africa, and Europe.
Immediately recognized for the relevance of his vision, he creates sensual images with motionless and silent vibrations that speak to us of the softness of bodies, matter, surprising configurations of objects, and above all, the obviousness of landscapes that are often desert-like and sometimes abstract. Through an intimate style comparable to poetry, he quickly gained renown, enabling him to exhibit his work in the most important museums in France and Europe from the 1980s onwards. He is recognized as the last of the great French photographers of the 1960s, whose black-and-white and sometimes color images (Fresson process) are now present in several institutions and feature in numerous publications considered to be true artist's books. He has produced more than 400 photography books during his career. For Bernard Chauveau Édition, he completed his tour of the Breton islands, which he began several years ago, searching during long walks for the very essence of these landscapes from which humans seem to be excluded.
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