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Olive Trees - Jacques Berthet (English, French, Paperback)
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Olive Trees - Jacques Berthet (English, French, Paperback)
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Back-lit in the morning, the olive tree differs greatly in
appearance from in the afternoon or at sunset, each time offering
new perspectives as well as new photographic collections. Jacques
Berthet has long been interested in the olive tree. The idea of
studying them came to him during a photography project which took
Berthet all around the Mediterranean: from the Alentejo region in
Portugal to the Pleistos Valley at Delphi, passing through Kabylia,
Tunisia, to the Middle East, in Israel and the West Bank. In his
photography, Berthet opts for black and white to distance himself
from botany and move closer towards sculpture or drawing, opting
for backlighting to single out the chosen tree against the backdrop
of the olive grove which remains bathed in light. The olive tree
has remained a significant influence in the everyday life of
cultures around the Mediterranean. In ancient poetry and writing,
it is the most venerated of trees. The Greeks made it a sacred tree
(particularly for its oil, used in lamps), and so have the people
of Tunisia and Algeria in more recent times. In Islamic cultures,
it is the cosmic tree, the centre and the pillar of the world,
symbolising universal man. What sets the olive tree apart from many
other species is that no two trees look alike, and its fate is
closely linked with that of man. Text in English and French.
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