Go West (Inscribed)

Bernard Plossu
Go West (Inscribed)

Photographs: Bernard Plossu

Text: Marc Saporta

Publisher: Éditions du Chêne

120 pages

Year: 1976

Comments: Softcover, 27 x 20 cm. Colour pictures. Text in French. In good condition with a crease and a fold on the cover. Inside in very good condition. Nicely inscribed by Bernard Plossu.

Bernard Plossu first visited the United States in 1966, travelling from Mexico, where part of his family had settled and where, a few years earlier, he had begun to explore filmmaking and photography in Chiapas. Bill Coleman, one of his closest friends, acted as his guide and host.

From 1966 to 1974, these were years of discovering American society and making numerous encounters, particularly with the leading figures of American counterculture. From 1974 to 1985, he immersed himself deeply in the American West. In 1977, he even settled in New Mexico and started a family there, until his irrevocable return to France in 1985.

“In photography, you don’t capture time, you evoke it. It flows like fine sand,
endlessly. And the changing landscapes do nothing to alter that. You don’t take a
photograph; you ‘see’ it, then share it with others. I practise
photography to be on a level footing with the world and what is happening.”

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