Yann Arthus-Bertrand

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Yann Arthus-Bertrand, 2009

Yann Arthus-Bertrand (born March 13, 1946 in Paris ) is a French photographer , journalist , reporter and environmentalist . He works as a photo journalist in the field of sports and nature. His spectacular aerial photographs in books and films made him internationally known.

Life

Yann Arthus-Bertrand comes from a family of medalists and jewelers. At first he worked as an assistant director and also appeared as an actor in two feature films (1965 and 1970). In 1976, the qualified biologist, who had managed an animal park in France, lived with his wife Anne for three years in the Kenyan Masai Mara National Park to take photographs of the life of a lion family. In order to be able to finance these behavioral studies, he rented the hot-air balloon used for observation purposes to tourists and discovered his passion for photography from a bird's eye view . Further photo reports followed, he took part in a total of ten car rallies Paris-Dakar , the tennis tournaments of the French Open , the annual Salon international de l'agriculture in Paris and also photographed the zoologist Dian Fossey with the mountain gorillas in Rwanda.

Arthus-Bertrand publishes in internationally renowned magazines such as Paris Match , Le Figaro Magazine , stern , Geo , Airone , Life and National Geographic . For the first time in decades, he used the perspective "from above" in an illustrated book about Paris.

Commitment to environmental protection

1993 Arthus-Bertrand started from the UNESCO -sponsored project Earth from above ( Earth from Above ), a photographic and cinematic inventory of the earth. He had a selection of these pictures exhibited outdoors on the boulevards of Paris. The large-format pictures, some of which were attached to the wrought-iron fences of the Jardin de Luxembourg , were also illuminated at night. Conceived as a traveling exhibition , these recordings were shown in 110 cities.

In 2004 the corresponding, almost one-hour film, The Earth from Above, by director Renaud Delourme, was released.

In 2005 Arthus-Bertrand founded the non-governmental organization GoodPlanet , an environmental organization that was converted into a foundation in 2009 . Aside from various information campaigns about environmental protection, Arthus-Bertrand launched two main projects:

  • The Action Carbone project enables societies, institutions and individuals to calculate and offset their greenhouse gas emissions.
  • In the internet project 7 Billion Others , Arthus-Bertrand is concerned, in addition to his previous pictorial representations of the interaction between man and nature, now also to let people have their say, especially with regard to their - essential for behavior towards nature - Life experiences, ideas, fears, hopes and wishes. To this end, he and six other cameramen filmed around 6,000 people (around 1 ppm of the world population) in 75 countries over the course of four years (2003–2007)  answering forty identical questions, such as: For example: “What did you learn from your parents?” “What do you want to pass on to your children?” “What tests did you have to pass?” “What does love mean to you?”, “What is war, in your opinion ? ”Or“ What do you think happens after death? ”. Many of the corresponding answers can be viewed on the Internet in the form of short videos - translated into French or English depending on the language selected.

2009 his biggest movie came home (meaning "our home, the earth"), the first fully filmed from the air world documentary in feature length , of a commitment to nature conservation is understood and as a " tribute to Mother Earth." What Arthus-Bertrand actually wants to show with this documentary is the change, the deformation and the destruction of the planet by humans. Like Al Gore - with his film An Inconvenient Truth  - Arthus-Bertrand is also convinced that film is the right medium to shake people up and make them aware of this. In order to be able to achieve this goal as far as possible, Arthus-Bertrand insisted from the start that the film should be freely available to everyone after completion without film rights - especially on the Internet.

Awards

Works

  • Lions. Texts by Anne Arthus-Bertrand. Mosaik, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-576-10308-2 .
  • Morocco. A portrait in aerial photographs. Texts by Anne Arthus-Bertrand. RV, Ostfildern 1994, ISBN 3-575-22014-X .
  • Critters. Texts by Alain Raveneau. Müller Rüschlikon, Cham 1994, ISBN 3-275-01099-9 .
  • Greece from above. Texts by Janine Trotereau. RV, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-575-22018-2 .
  • New York. A portrait in aerial photographs. Text by Jon Tauranac. RV, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-575-22020-4 .
  • Peter-Matthias Gaede (ed.): The earth from above. A project of the century. Frederking and Thaler, 1999, ISBN 3-89405-408-5 .
  • Cats. Texts by Danièle Laruelle. Heyne, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-453-18643-5 .
  • Dogs. Texts by André Pittion-Rossillon. Heyne, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-453-18646-X .
  • The earth from above - told for children. Texts by Hubert Comte. Knesebeck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-89660-117-2 .
  • The earth from above. Day after day. Knesebeck, Munich.
  • Horses. Texts by Jean-Louis Gouraud. Frederking and Thaler, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-89405-632-0 .
  • Turkey from above. Texts by Janine Trotereau. Knesebeck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-89660-250-0 .
  • Profession: Photographer. Between heaven and earth. Biography. Texts by Sophie Troubac. Knesebeck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-89660-210-1 .
  • France from above. Text by Patrick Poivre d'Arvor . Knesebeck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-89660-347-7 .
  • Home - recognize, inform yourself, ask, understand, act. Knesebeck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-86873-114-9 .
  • Home - We save our earth. Text by Isabelle Delannoy. Knesebeck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-86873-147-7 .
  • 6 milliards d'autres - Un portrait exceptionnel de l'Homme aujourd'hui. Relasisation Sibylle d'Orgeval and Baptiste Rouget-Luchaire. Éditions de La Martinière, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-7324-3799-6 .

Movies

  • The earth from above - around the world with the photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand . France 2004, director: Emilio Pacull, German first broadcast: July 3, 2006, WDR
  • Home . Documentary, France 2009
  • Paris seen from the sky. Artistic short film, France 2010
  • Planet Ocean , with Michael Pitiot, 2012
  • Metz and the country seen from the sky. Artistic short film, France 2013
  • Human . Documentary. France 2015
  • Terra. Documentary. France 2015

Web links

Wikiquote: Yann Arthus-Bertrand  - Quotes
Commons : Yann Arthus-Bertrand  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The earth from above . German film trailer (2 minutes)
  2. ^ GoodPlanet.org ( Memento June 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) - Board of the environmental organization
  3. ↑ GoodPlanet.org
  4. ↑ action carbone - determining, reducing and compensating for CO 2 emissions ( memento of the original dated June 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.goodplanet.org
  5. ↑ GoodPlanet.org Association  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.actioncarbone.org  
  6. ↑ Greenhouse Gas Emissions Calculator  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.actioncarbone.org  
  7. ↑ Süleyman Artiisik: The life of the other six billion . Welt Online , May 30, 2007
  8. ↑ 6 billion Others - a GoodPlanet project by Yann Arthus-Bertrand ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English France)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.goodplanet.org
  9. ↑ Internet project: 6 milliards d'Autres (English, French)
  10. ↑ See also under works the corresponding book 6 milliards d'autres (from October 2009 also available in English translation)
  11. ↑ Internet project: 6 milliards d'Autres (French) Ref. Questions first YOUR TESTIMONIES / VOS TEMOIGNAGES , then select QUESTIONS , or project (green)
  12. ↑ Peter Zander: Home - Documentary film shows the earth from above , 18 still images and film trailer (2 minutes) on Welt Online , June 5, 2009
  13. ↑ a b c Gerald Traufetter: Homage to Mother Earth . Spiegel Online Wissenschaft, May 30, 2009
  14. ↑ Site officiel du film Home
  15. ^ Paris, view from above; full movie, by Yann Arthus-Bertrand (Video) Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  16. ↑ Metz and the Messin pays, view from above , full movie, by Yann Arthus-Bertrand (Video) Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  17. ↑ http://www.human-themovie.org/fr/
personal data
SURNAME Arthus-Bertrand, Yann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French photographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France