Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Damir sent me a message today that gave me a link to this website.
I found Yann's actual website through there and I was blown away. He started out as an animal photographer, and later turned to aerial photography.
He has produced over 60 books of his landscape photographs taken from helicopters and balloons Yann Arthus-Bertrand's work has often been published in the National Geographic magazine.
His works have both political and aesthetic connotations, and have been exhibited in public spaces all over the world.
In 1991, he founded the Altitude Agency in Paris, a photographic library that specializes in aerial photography. It is the only one of its kind.
In 2000, Arthus-Bertrand created an exhibition with a collection of 100,000 photographs taken in 76 countries which make up his Earth from the Air exhibit. Some of these have been published in his book 365 days: Earth from the Air and exhibited in London, Singapore, Poland, The Netherlands, Finland and elsewhere.
Arthus-Bertrand is a member of the "Académie des Beaux-Arts de l'Institut de France".
One of Arthus-Bertrand's most well-known photographs is of the 'heart' of Voh in Ne Caledonia, which he has used as the cover of several of his books: The Earth from the Air and Earth from Above.
(excert curstey of Wikipedia)

These photographs are amazing. I will do this someday no doubt about it.

Check it out here.

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