Anita Conti
La Dame de la Mer
Authors : Jean Loup Pivin, Laurent Girault-Conti, Pascal Martin Saint Leon
Editor : Revue Noire
Date : 1998
ISBN : 2 909571 351
Size : 24 x 32 cm
Langage : French
192 pages
Photos from the North Seas to the African coasts, from cod fishing to shark fishing. Beautiful and terrifying photographs of the sea and fishermen by the first French woman oceanographer.
Alongside the writing, this book reveals the woman photographer, whose gaze is entirely turned towards the desire to feel, understand and bear witness through photography to the sources of life of which the sea and its men, the sailors, would be the primary emblems. Tender and acute, the look is human, intimate, sincere, loving. Images full of courage and energy on the deep meaning of the elements and the fight of those who confront them, without any other sensationalism…