woensdag, juli 23, 2003
Earth from the Air seen by Blind people, a new show by French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, offers blind people the chance to enjoy his work. The open-air exhibition is based on "Earth from the Air", a display of Arthus-Bertrand's photographs and later a book that sold more than two million copies and has been translated into 19 languages. The show opened Tuesday in the gardens of London's Natural History Museum alongside the giant photographs which thousands of visitors have admired over the past year.
Blind visitors can feel their way one by one through the 30 black and white pictures created out of a special material called cellulose acetate and placed on a massive rectangular structure next to the originals. A guide describes the shapes, the colours and the shadows as visitors discover the raised contours with their fingers.
Arthus-Bertrand is ecstatic: "To do that for the blind is an absolute dream for me because it makes me feel I am doing something useful. The exhibition was done to show that all of us including the blind are responsible for our earth."
Bron: Agence France-Presse.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Blind visitors can feel their way one by one through the 30 black and white pictures created out of a special material called cellulose acetate and placed on a massive rectangular structure next to the originals. A guide describes the shapes, the colours and the shadows as visitors discover the raised contours with their fingers.
Arthus-Bertrand is ecstatic: "To do that for the blind is an absolute dream for me because it makes me feel I am doing something useful. The exhibition was done to show that all of us including the blind are responsible for our earth."
Bron: Agence France-Presse.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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