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Beautiful Photos of Mexico From Half a Century Ago
Bernard Plossu was the country's Kerouac, telling stories through his seemingly aimless travels.
French travel photographer Bernard Plossu traveled to Mexico for the first time in 1965. Raised on the imagery of French film and Westerns, Plossu was blown away by the landscapes and people he came across, shooting everything he saw during his many return trips.
Plossu began publishing in the 1970s, and turned the bulk of his work into a travel book later that decade. After moving across the border to the U.S. in 1977, Plossu continued this trips across the border. But his later work lacked the Kerouac-ian focus on strangers and settings that make him so special.