Birds - Bernard Plossu

A traveler-migrator, as he calls himself, Bernard Plossu has been roaming the world for years, capturing through his lens fleeting moments where birds are caught in full flight forming immense clouds, standing alone in the middle of a stretch of water, balancing on electric wires or even gliding solitarily among the treetops. Flight fascinates the photographer, from the intoxication of the speed of swallows to the hypnotic immobility of large birds of prey letting themselves be carried by the wind at altitude. He shows fragments of the world, a world where birds reinvest our space.

The essay by ornithologist Guilhem Lesaffre evokes a fundamental aspect of the life of birds: migration, highlighted here with the photographs of Bernard Plossu.

This work and that of Pentti Sammallahti inaugurate the collection Des oiseaux celebrating, through the eyes of different artists, their immense presence in a world where they are today weakened.

Presentation: Hardcover, fabric texture

Photographer: Bernard Plossu

Text: Guilhem Lesaffre

Publication date: October 31, 2018

Format: 20.5 cm × 26 cm × 1.4 cm, 108 pages

Weight: 625 g

Publisher: Editions Xavier Barral

ISBN: 9782365111898

French only