Pluie et Vent.
Photographs by Abbas Kiarostami.
Editions Gallimard. 2008.
189 pages
On a stormy day of 2007, Abbas Kiarostami decided to escape from Tehran: "I took my bag, not forgetting my camera. It’s been raining since yesterday evening, punctuated by lightning, but this will not make me change my mind, quite the contrary.”
From the shelter of his car, the Iranian filmmaker takes on the fly photos of urban landscape and countryside. This series is seen through the rain dripped windscreen of his car. Color images, but dominated by gray and black.
Filmmaker, photographer and poet, Abbas Kiarostami was born on 22 June 1940 in Tehran. It is acknowledged that, since the early 1990s, he is one of the great figures of contemporary cinema. Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1997 for The Taste of Cherry, two years later he received the Special Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival for The wind Will Carry Us. His photographs have been exhibited around the world, including London, Victoria & Albert Museum and New York, MoMA, and in 2007-2008, the Center Pompidou in Paris and in five Chinese cities.
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