Raymond Depardon photographs the gorgeous French countryside in all of its contradictions: shimmering and bleak, lively and secluded
During the 1990s and 2000s, French photographer Raymond Depardon (born 1942) crisscrossed rural France with his 6x9 view camera. In the photographer’s words: “To photograph and film farmers means entering their private lives and creating relationships of trust over many years.”
From this exploration of the agricultural world, he made black-and-white photographs that tell the story of the land, the people, manual labor, the isolation and fragility of small farms, but also the beauty of the French countryside. Sunlit scenes of sheep on secluded hillsides and spacious old small towns are juxtaposed with the same scenes in wintertime where those same towns and hillsides offer up new contrasts such as between untouched snow and the dark earth agitated by farmers and their livestock just feet away.
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Thursday, November 19 at 12PM EST, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presents photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon in conversation with MoMA curator Clément Chéroux and Magnum Cultural Director Pauline Vermare for the virtual launch of Depardon's new monograh, Rural. The conversation will be in French with English subtitles, broadcast on Fondation Cartier's Instagram and Facebook accounts. continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 14 x 11 in. / 124 pgs / 86 duotone. LIST PRICE: U.S. $50.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $70 ISBN: 9782869251625 PUBLISHER: Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris AVAILABLE: 12/8/2020 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: NA ONLY
Published by Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris. Text by Raymond Depardon.
Raymond Depardon photographs the gorgeous French countryside in all of its contradictions: shimmering and bleak, lively and secluded
During the 1990s and 2000s, French photographer Raymond Depardon (born 1942) crisscrossed rural France with his 6x9 view camera. In the photographer’s words: “To photograph and film farmers means entering their private lives and creating relationships of trust over many years.”
From this exploration of the agricultural world, he made black-and-white photographs that tell the story of the land, the people, manual labor, the isolation and fragility of small farms, but also the beauty of the French countryside. Sunlit scenes of sheep on secluded hillsides and spacious old small towns are juxtaposed with the same scenes in wintertime where those same towns and hillsides offer up new contrasts such as between untouched snow and the dark earth agitated by farmers and their livestock just feet away.
