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Yann Arthus-Bertrand          

Photographer & Videographer

Yann Arthus-Bertrand is perhaps the best known aerial photographer on the planet. He has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide of his seminal photo essay Earth From Above, a decade-spanning attempt to photograph all the vistas of the planet from the sky, whether by helicopter, hot air balloon, or anything else that flies.

Arthus-Bertrand seeks to uncover the story behind the landscape, not just create a pretty picture. Indeed, his subjects are not always photogenic -- his prints show poverty and strife as well as green tranquility; and everywhere in his work is the encroaching hand of humanity and its enterprise. He keeps close track of the coordinates of his locations, so other photographers may track their progress over time.

His newest project takes a different view -- focusing more closely on the people who live on this planet. Called 6 Billion Others, the project was a centerpiece of Pangea Day 2008.

With Luc Besson, he is working on the feature-length documentary Boomerang, to be shot in 60 countries.

"Yann Arthus-Bertrand is an aesthete with the soul of a moralist. He uses the beauty of the world to beguile you into a photograph in which a larger lesson awaits. His lesson is about the planet in jeopardy."

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Aerial Views from Around the World By Yann Arthus Bertrand
Mar 12, 2014 ... Aerial Views from Around the World By Yann Arthus Bertrand Presentation Transcript. Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island, Manhattan, New York, ...
Yann Arthus-Bertrand Shows the Beauty of Planet Earth as You've ...
Nov 24, 2013 ... Yann Arthus-Bertrand's colorful pictures aren't abstract artworks; they are actual photographs of the earth! In a new book called Earth From ...
Review: 'Earth From Space' by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and 'Cosmos ...
Jan 9, 2014 ... I was looking at two panoramic vistas of the Martian landscape - dirt as red as Georgia's studded by rocks with a lapis blue sheen - when I was ...
27 Amazing Aerial Photographs by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Jun 10, 2013 ... aerial-photography-yann-arthus-bertrand-1. Heart in Voh. aerial-photography- yann-arthus-bertrand-23. Autumn Forest in the Region of ...

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