Yvonnig

Yvonnig is a Photographe French which saw and works with Paimpol (Coast-with Armor) in Brittany. Since long years it surveys the Breton coasts to collect indiscibles and the most fugitive lights. Photographer now recognized, it created a style well with him. It is well the mark of a large artist.

The light and time

He received in heritage two elements which seem essential today. A large Country father , bequeathed a lamp to him “storm”. That which it used the evening to go to see the horses. The other large father, Clock making of his state, gave him a fob watch. “The light and time: which beautiful heritage for a photographer”, remembers Yvonnig, a small bit of mischievousness in the voice. Photographer is a vocation which will be born very early at his place. It collects initially the images with passion for the simple pleasure of the eyes. Eyes which give a direction to the life. It evokes, indeed, the memory of a member of its family recovering the sight only three months before dying. Importance of the eye… This eye which collects the light in the magic of its more beautiful appearances. Yvonnig contemplates nature and can find there what the others do not see. At this point in time it decides “to make images”. Three years of training follow to the French Institute of Photography. Two years of studies in history of art with Rennes then military service in the Air and sea in the capacity as photographer. And then, the arrival with Paimpol in the middle of the years 1970. It is there that it installed its workshop, street Georges-Brassens. For all these years, it has looked at the landscapes much. He learned how to know them. He knows that “by east wind the sea is turquoise color, by wind of west, it is emerald. ”

Calm and serenity

In the photographs of Yvonnig, not of artificial light, not of filter. The natural light only, in all its splendor. It is necessary to be there at the good moment to be entitled to this intimacy with it. To be in permanent day before, that can be acquired only by the practice. A practice made of long years look at the world. The artist takes the photograph with his eye before taking it with his apparatus. “I close the eyes when I start. ” The result is there when a sight in black and white reveals the atmosphere wrapping the wearing of Loguivy-of-the-sea by one morning calm. A Fishing business in a boat without being concerned with the photographer. An impression of fluidity, silence and serenity emerges from this almost unreal universe. A landscape which changed well into twenty years. “Today, the boats are not any more the same ones. ” Obvious Human dimension: “they are people of the corner to work. ” It is still this image taken just after a storm on Loguivy, a halot of light seeks its road between two clouds. Any event of nature mobilizes the photographer. “These plates of Goémon S at the water surface lit by a sunstroke. ” One rare moment: “two minutes afterwards, it is finished! ”. Yvonnig is able to give with precision the conditions of the catch of sight. Moment of the year. Day. The morning early? Loguivy under snow. “It snows. It is necessary to go there. It is too important. It is beautiful! ” One morning of happiness!

In love with Gauguin

Yvonnig composes with the lines of the landscape. A sinuous way, corn fields under the rain. This rain which creates reflections on the road. “I adore contrasts. ” It can reveal sublimes gradation colors in the magic of the lights of September. All the elements have their place. “One cannot cheat and remove a disgracieuse thing. It is necessary to compose with it. ” As these electric lines which surround a rainbow. It give force and originality to the image. The angles should well be chosen. Yvonnig composes like a painter. But not question of borrowing the techniques of painting. To make a photograph as one would make a table. Photography with its particular characteristics. It is completely autonomous. The artist knows the history of Article well It read Élie Faure. In love with the work of Gauguin, it was also interested in the behavior of the light and the color by studying the Traité colors of Gœthe. All its photographs find their origin in the perfect knowledge of the Breton coasts. A great availability with regard to nature. The comprehension of the behaviors of the light and the color. For the remainder, two apparatuses for two formats: 24x36 and 6x6. Films of 50 ASA for a very good definition. No the filter, not of handling in laboratory… The natural light and it only…

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Maintenance published in the Press of Armor of the Thursday, August 14, 2003.

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