La Main Donne, 2024. First edition. Softcover, 108 pp., 60 b/w illustrations, 200 x 240 mm. Photographs by Bernard Plossu.
Bernard Plossu is undoubtedly one of the greatest French photographers, who left his mark on so many photography enthusiasts with his Mexican Journey or his Andalusian Swallows, his subtle black and white in gray, his Fresson prints...
At the end of the 1970s, he spent several years in Andalusia, near Almeria, with his wife Françoise Nuñez and their two children. “The best years of my life”, as he likes to say. It is this happy period that this book traces. Family moments, peaceful desert landscapes, scenes of life in the surrounding villages. Everything here exudes love, well-being and serenity. It is also an opportunity to show images never before published, photographs as he lives, with great freedom. And it is precisely this freedom that this book wants to show. A book like a manifesto according to Bernard Plossu
