Guy Hersant, a photographer in the countryside. Saint-Jean-Brévelay.
Watermarks| N° d'inventaire | 23781 |
| Format | 17 x 22 |
| Détails | 168 p., paperback with flaps. |
| Publication | Landebaëron, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782350464978 |
By opening a year-long project in June 1983 in Saint-Jean-Brévelay and the surrounding communes of Morbihan, the photographer Guy Hersant was responding, as a neighbor from Lorient at the time, to a commission from the BPI of the Pompidou Center in Paris. At that time, the Breton countryside was rustling under the wind of a modernity that had been sweeping in since the sixties in land consolidation, mechanization, free stalls and milking parlors, corn silage, livestock buildings that freed themselves from the old farm architecture, the de-habitation of young farmers from the old ones, cooperatives, and the Common Agricultural Policy of what was still the European Economic Community.
The photographic mission aimed to bear witness to this major shift in agricultural Brittany, the beginnings of which had already been observed in the commune by the CNRS Rural Sociology Study Group - a partner organisation in the project with the BPI - starting in the 1960s.
By opening a year-long project in June 1983 in Saint-Jean-Brévelay and the surrounding communes of Morbihan, the photographer Guy Hersant was responding, as a neighbor from Lorient at the time, to a commission from the BPI of the Pompidou Center in Paris. At that time, the Breton countryside was rustling under the wind of a modernity that had been sweeping in since the sixties in land consolidation, mechanization, free stalls and milking parlors, corn silage, livestock buildings that freed themselves from the old farm architecture, the de-habitation of young farmers from the old ones, cooperatives, and the Common Agricultural Policy of what was still the European Economic Community.
The photographic mission aimed to bear witness to this major shift in agricultural Brittany, the beginnings of which had already been observed in the commune by the CNRS Rural Sociology Study Group - a partner organisation in the project with the BPI - starting in the 1960s.