Bernard Plossu's New Mexico

Bernard Plossu, born in Vietnam in 1945, is one of today's best-known French photographers.

His photos reflect locales he has visited all over the world: Senegal, Turkey, Poland, Mexico, Guatemala, and the American West.

The photographs here were taken by Plossu in the late 1970s and are images of New Mexico - where the sun, the dust, the rain, the mud, the wind, the snow, the altitude (7000 feet), and the smells forge a uniqueness.