Françoise

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The book Françoise is a tribute to Françoise Nuñez, photographer and life companion of Bernard Plossu. Through 75 photographs, it traces a life devoted to image-making, travel, and human connection.

Françoise and Bernard shared a nomadic existence, journeying through Mexico, India, Turkey, Greece, and Andalusia—capturing light and fleeting moments with a unique sensitivity. Through Bernard’s lens, Françoise appears as muse, accomplice, and witness to a world in constant motion.

This book is more than a portrait of a woman—it also evokes an era, a way of living and photographing, where the image becomes memory, a trace of fleeting humanity. Between captured moments and inhabited silences, it celebrates a gaze and a presence, rooted in a pared-down, emotional aesthetic.

An essential work for lovers of photography and travel stories, and for those interested in Bernard Plossu’s work and his singular relationship to time and the image. This book is both an intimate and universal testimony, where absence becomes presence, and every photograph resonates as an ode to light and the moment.

Released

05/05/2025

Collection

Hors Collection

Format

170 x 240

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75 photos duotone

96 pages

ISBN : 978-2-35046-644-6

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Bernard Plossu

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Plossu Bernard, born in South Vietnam in 1945, he grew up surrounded by photographs of the desert taken by his father when he went skiing on the dunes of the Sahara in 1937 with Roger Frisian-Roche. Modesty, sensuality, emotion, joy, here is what is the “sap” that already permeate the images of the self that landed in Mexico in 1965 and 1967 to join his grandparents. Travel as a Mexican issue 15 years later its editor Claude Nori. A book that, as the creator of Ed. Contrejour has become a sort of bible for a generation suddenly uninhibited by his freedom of tone and its intimate and poetic vision.