Albert Plécy
Albert Plécy (26 August 1914, Wormhout – 1 May 1977, Les Baux-de-Provence) was a French journalist, painter, photographer and filmmaker, specialist in the language of the image. He was, along with Jacques Henri Lartigue and Raymond Grosset, one of the three emblematic founders of the association of Gens d'images. Biography Albert Plécy was born on 26 August 1914 in Wormhout to mother, Marcelle (née Dehaene 1887–1981) and Frédéric Plécy, corporal in the 8th Territorial Infantry Regiment, killed 18 October 1916 in Péramy during the Meuse–Argonne offensive when Albert was two and his elder brother four. During the Second World War, he was a second lieutenant, seconded in 1943 to the French expeditionary force, and at the request of General Alphonse Juin, he became the head of the Army Cinema Service (SCA) in the theatre of foreign operations in Tunisia, Corsica and during the Italian campaign (1943–1944), when he was wounded. He worked as a photographer, in collaboration with ciné cameraman Raymond Méjat, and was editor of the newspaper of the combatants of the African Army. Upon Liberation he was on a team of the French Foreign Legion who founded Point de vue, a publication of which he became editor-in-chief in