Yann Arthus-Bertrand

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Yann Arthus-Bertrand in 2006 at the exhibition "Earth from the Air" in Rouen, France.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand (born March 13, 1946) is a renowned and internationally-recognised French photographer. He originally specialised in animal photography, but later turned to aerial photography of subjects in many locations across the world. 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 New Caledonia, which he has used as the cover of several of his books: The Earth from the Air^[1] and Earth from Above^[2].

[edit] Awards

Légion d'honneur – for photographic achievements on the environment.

[edit] References

^ Arthus-Bertrand, Yann (1999-10-25). The Earth from the Air. Thames & Hudson Ltd. ISBN 050001955X.
^ Arthus-Bertrand, Yann (August 2002). Earth from Above. HNA Books. ISBN 0810934957.