Simple forms, fractal figures, muted, dull or vibrant colours, prickly, downy, bristly or waxy sheaths, fleshy, velvety organs, extravagant architectures – cacti and succulents have been a source of ...

Photographer Bernard Plossu spent much of his 20s and 30s zigzagging across Mexico while leading a bohemian life of romancing women, listening to Jazz music, and lounging with friends on the beach, ...

In 1973 John Szarkowski, the director of the department of photography at MoMA, published one of the most influential essays in the whole history of this discipline. It is entitled Looking at ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. French photographer Bernard Plossu likes to get around. Born in Vietnam in 1945, he grew up in Paris and took his ...

Arizona, 1979 Between 1974 and 1985, French photographer Bernard Plossu was deeply immersed in the American west. A new exhibition, The American Years: Unpublished Images 1966-1985 is at the Galerie ...

Photography – from classic tools of the trade to image – forms an intriguing joint exhibition at the Boca Raton Museum of Art.“The Prigozy Camera Collection” and “Bernard Plossu: The African Desert” ...

Two young women sit at a cafe. One idly reaches out to touch the other one's hair while the eyes of the woman being touched close in pleasure or exhaustion. Click! Bernard Plossu's photograph is ...

30.5 x 23.9 cm. (12 x 9.4 in.) ...