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[nilhg's idea about photographer] Philippe Plisson

  • 17-07-2008 5:34pm
    #1
    Calina
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭


    following on from this post here:

    Philippe Plisson is by some distance my favourite photographer.

    You'll find his own website here.

    I first came across his work in a poster gallery in Brest in Brittany. In truth, I went in there to pick up some pictures by a guy called Jean Guichard who is very famous for a sequence of photographs of a lighthousekeeper standing at the open door of one of the French lighthouses just before the lighthouse was engulfed by a huge wave.

    This picture was hanging on the wall. And this one. And I didn't have very much money and there was no way that I could afford to buy a load of prints by Jean Guichard and by Philippe Plisson and I was just lost.

    After much deliberation, Jean Guichard's repros stayed in the gallery and I left with the two Plisson shots. I have some of his posters from the tourist authority in Brittany, and I have a couple of his books and quite a few of his postcards.

    I love pictures which depict the different moods of the sea, of water. And I adore pictures of lighthouses (in fact, I have a lighthouse fetish which means that I am prone to picking up lighthouse related bits and pieces). I love the changing face of Plisson's shots. He might be best known for pictures of lighthouses in stormy conditions but another of his photographs which really, really appeals to me is this one of the Glenan Islands.

    One of the books of his which I own is fascinating because for every single photograph in it, he gives the film equivalent of EXIF data. In many ways, it's scary too.

    Despite working one particular aspect of life - mainly the sea - he does things that I just think are amazing. It would never have occurred to me to do something like this - for example. And I can't get my head around his pictures of tall ships. Although this is not my favourite, it is the best selling lighthouse print in the world at the moment.

    A few years ago I was in his gallery in La Trinité/Mer and saw a print of this on photographic paper (as opposed to a repro). If I were to get engaged, I would prefer that as an engagement present to a ring. It is one of my favourite photographs.


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  • #2
    nilhg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,185 ✭✭✭nilhg


    Thank you Calina, this is very much as I had imagined it, hopefully some other folks will consider it worth joining in.

    I'm going to have to take some time to have a look through Phillippe's site and galleries, but I'm already impressed, he's a brave man to go out in the conditions shown in some of his work.

    Incidently, I'm already coming up against on of the reasons that trying to do something like this over the internet may not work, the size and quality of photos available.


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