The Transhumance of Marcel Coen

In 1951, after four years of captivity in Germany, a young freedom-loving photographer, Marcel Coen, decided to follow a transhumance, from the Crau plain to the Mercantour pastures : « I was happy among these simple people leading their animals to the mountain ; the slow march, the music of all the bells makes you bathe in an unreal world and literally cuts you off from existence ». It is, with the feeling of witnessing the millennial spectacle, of men and animals deeply united to the spaces they cross, the same fullness that he expresses in his photos. Commented here by its own travel diary, extended with analyzes on the influence of these photos and what they say today, this book appears while transhumance accesses the intangible heritage of Unesco.

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