Bernard Plossu, photographe
Bernard Plossu (born in 1945), a migratory photographer, has been travelling the world since his first trip to the Sahara with his father in 1958. He has worked in black and white since 1975. A lover of 50 mm lens, he immortalises the Far West of America, California, Mexico, etc. In his youth he wanted to become a filmmaker and his photos bear the traces of his love of films.
Bernard Plossu calls himself a "photographer of females" and, like his master Édouard Boubat, captures the world through bodies, intimately yet modest and respectful. He photographs women with neither vulgarity nor voyeurism, even though they may not be aware of it. From behind, they offer to the photographer and the world their "neck and hair, evidence of [their] beauty".
Interview by Alain Bergala, Brune/Blonde exhibition manager, 5 September 2010.
