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.

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 1946[3] then of Parisien libéré.

For each episode a photographer was interviewed on their imagery; the series featured, amongst others, Maurice Baquet, Robert Doisneau, Bill Brandt, Brassaï, Denis Brihat, Édouard Boubat, Izis...[12] In 1959, he launched with Raymond Grosset and in conjunction with the association "People and Culture", Les Journées internationales de photojournalisme ('International Photojournalism Days') at the University Centre of Saint-Exupéry in Boulouris.

Plécy established the 'Cathedral of Images' in the white limestone quarries of Les Baux-de-Provence, in 1975; it was a novel and, for the time, advanced production of luminous frescoes of automatically changing imagery on the white stone walls from dozens of carousel projectors, with accompanying soundtrack, that enveloped the contours of the walls and the ceiling of the quarry, producing a 3-dimensional vision, with actors, and the viewers themselves, being illuminated and integrated into the vividly coloured imagery.

After its closure on 21 September 2010 at the initiative of the municipality, it was renamed Carrières de Lumières in 2012, formalised on 19 January 2018 against the illegal termination of the original commercial lease.