Birds. Paolo Pellegrin.
EXB Workshop - Editions Xavier Barral| N° d'inventaire | 25062 |
| Format | 20.5 x 26 |
| Détails | 104 p., 44 black and white photographs, publisher's cloth binding. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782365113120 |
This new series by Paolo Pellegrin celebrates the eleventh title in the Birds collection. A photographer from the Magnum agency best known for his reports documenting political, economic and ecological upheavals, his curious mind leads him to focus his lens on sometimes more contemplative subjects, where nature plays a major role. Thus, during a stay in Japan in 2019, Paolo Pellegrin, who had gone to witness the cherry blossoms, was more struck by the majesty and aerial ballet of a colony of black kites flying over the Shimogamo temple, a 7th - century Shinto shrine, in the heart of a bamboo forest.
He manages to capture the movements of this colony of eagles circling close to his lens. Their dazzling speed is captured in tight frames: the birds seem to emerge from the frame or rush out of it. The choreographies follow one another: solo, in duet, or in group, these fascinating birds of prey seem to glide through space.
This book is part of the Des oiseaux collection, which celebrates, through the eyes of various artists, their immense presence in a world where they are now weakened. Ornithologist Guilhem Lesaffre offers a new essay to accompany each photographic corpus. For this book, he tells us the story of the mythology of these birds of prey, the fascination they have exerted through the ages in the artistic field, and their way of life, with a particular interest in the species of black kites photographed by Pellegrin.
Titles in the collection include: Albarrán Cabrera, Graciela Iturbide, Leila Jeffreys, Rinko Kawauchi, Michael Kenna, Yoshinori Mizutani, Byung-Hun Min, Paolo Pellegrin, Bernard Plossu, Pentti Sammallahti and Terri Weifenbach.
This new series by Paolo Pellegrin celebrates the eleventh title in the Birds collection. A photographer from the Magnum agency best known for his reports documenting political, economic and ecological upheavals, his curious mind leads him to focus his lens on sometimes more contemplative subjects, where nature plays a major role. Thus, during a stay in Japan in 2019, Paolo Pellegrin, who had gone to witness the cherry blossoms, was more struck by the majesty and aerial ballet of a colony of black kites flying over the Shimogamo temple, a 7th - century Shinto shrine, in the heart of a bamboo forest.
He manages to capture the movements of this colony of eagles circling close to his lens. Their dazzling speed is captured in tight frames: the birds seem to emerge from the frame or rush out of it. The choreographies follow one another: solo, in duet, or in group, these fascinating birds of prey seem to glide through space.
This book is part of the Des oiseaux collection, which celebrates, through the eyes of various artists, their immense presence in a world where they are now weakened. Ornithologist Guilhem Lesaffre offers a new essay to accompany each photographic corpus. For this book, he tells us the story of the mythology of these birds of prey, the fascination they have exerted through the ages in the artistic field, and their way of life, with a particular interest in the species of black kites photographed by Pellegrin.
Titles in the collection include: Albarrán Cabrera, Graciela Iturbide, Leila Jeffreys, Rinko Kawauchi, Michael Kenna, Yoshinori Mizutani, Byung-Hun Min, Paolo Pellegrin, Bernard Plossu, Pentti Sammallahti and Terri Weifenbach.