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Albert Plécy (26 August, 1914, Wormhout – 1 May 1977 Les Baux-de-Provence) was a French journalist, painter, photographer and filmmaker, specialist in the language of the image. He was, along with Jacques Henri Lartigue and Raymond Grosset, one of the three emblematic founders of the association of Gens d'images.
Biography
Alber Plécy was born on August 26, 1914 in Wormhout in the North.[1][2][3]
He was wounded in combat as a WW2 correspondent during the Italian campaign, Compagnon du Général Alphonse Juin (future Marshal of France), and established the Armed Forces cinematographic service and was on the team of former the French Foreign Legion who founded Point de vue at the Liberation, a publication of which he became editor-in-chief in 1946[3] then of Parisien libéré[3].
Within Point de vue-Images du monde, from 1953 to 1977 he hosted the “Permanent Photo Show” in which he paid tribute to photographers and illustrators.[4]
Albert Plécy died on May 1, 1977 (aged 62) 5 in Baux-de-Provence.
Gens d'images
He created Gens d'images on October 15, 1954,[5] then the Niépce Prize in 1955,[6] then the Nadar Prize, as well as a television program with Michel Tournier, Chambre noire.[7]
Les Journées internationales de photojournalisme
In 1959, he launched with Raymond Grosset and in conjunction with the association "People and Culture", Les Journées internationales de photojournalisme ('International Photojournalism Days') at the University Centre of Saint-Exupéry in Boulouris. Amongst the participants were Jean Dieuzaide, Pierre Gassmann, and Jacques Henri Lartigue.
In 1960, the Journées took place again in Boulouris; in 1961 in San Pellegrino; then from 1962 in Porquerolles, at the Mas du Langoustier. In 1974, the 14th and last Journées were held at Fort St. Agathe.
New aesthetics
In 1963, he created Esthétiques nouvelles, an image consulting firm.
La Cathédrale d’Images
He is the founder of the 'Cathedral of Images' in the white limestone quarries of Baux-de-Provence, renamed Carrières de Lumières in 2012, after its closure at the initiative of the municipality, finally formalised on January 19, 2018 for the illegal termination of the commercial lease of Cathédrale d'Images.[8]
Bibliography
- The elementary grammar of the image, Paris, École Estienne, 1968 (1st ed. 1962).
- The photo, art and language: The elementary grammar of the image, Paris, Marabout, 1975 (1st ed. 1971) (revised edition of La grammaire élémentaire de l'image).
- Albert Plécy, Hommes d'images, Actes Sud, 1997
- Gérard Blanchard and Jean-Claude Macquet, 'Hommage à Albert Plécy', Communication et languages, vol. 34, no 1, 1977, p. 122
- Claude Renaud, "Testimony of Claude Renaud on Albert Plécy, founder of Gens d´images", in "L'Histoire", Les Gens images, 2014.
References
- ^ Plécy, Albert (1914-1977) BnF 140579180.
- ^ Plécy, Albert (1914-1977) (notice IdREF (030272637) (in French) http://www.idref.fr/030272637.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help). - ^ a b c "Albert Plécy, l'homme d'images" (html). actes-sud.fr (in French). Actes Sud. June 1997. Retrieved 5 March 2016..
- ^ 'Le Salon permanent d'Albert Plécy', in : Laure Beaumont-Maillet, Françoise Denoyelle and Dominique Versavel, La Photographie humaniste, 1945-1968, BnF, p. 45-46.
- ^ Gens d'images (France) BnF 118696749.
- ^ Prix Niepce BnF 162553759.
- ^ Chambre noire (Paris. 1961) BnF 38490026q.
- ^ Cour d'appel d'Aix en Provence, arrêt au fond, n° 2019 / 333, 27 juin 2019.