Raymond Depardon

Raymond Depardon
Raymond Depardon in 2012
Born Raymond Depardon
(1942-07-06) 6 July 1942
Villefranche-sur-Saône, France
Occupation Photographer, photojournalist and documentary filmmaker
Spouse(s) Claudine Nougaret

Raymond Depardon (French: [də.paʁ.dɔ̃]; born 6 July 1942) is a French photographer, photojournalist and documentary filmmaker.

Photographer

Depardon is mainly a self-taught photographer, as he began taking pictures on his family's farm when he was 12. He apprenticed with a photographer-optician in Villefranche-sur-Saône before he moved to Paris in 1958.[1] He began his career as a photojournalist in the early 1960s. He travelled to conflict zones including Algeria, Vietnam, Biafra and Chad. In 1966, Depardon co-founded the photojournalism agency Gamma. In 1973 he became Gamma’s director. From 1975 to 1977 Depardon traveled in Chad and received a Pulitzer Prize in 1977. The next year he left Gamma to become a Magnum Photos associate, then a full member in 1979. In the 1990s, Depardon went back to his parents’ farm to photograph rural landscapes in color, and then in 1996 published a black and white road journal, In Africa.[2]

In May 2012, he took the official portrait of French President François Hollande.[3]

Director

Depardon is also the author of several documentary shorts and feature films. His approach as a director is influenced by cinéma vérité and direct cinema. In 1969 he made his first film (about Jan Pallach) and he has directed 16 films since then. In 1979 he received a George Sadoul Prize for his film Numéro Zéro. In 1984 Depardon made his first fiction film, Empty Quarters. Other notable examples include 1974, une partie de campagne, on the 1974 presidential campaign of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Reporters (1981) and New York, N.Y. (1986), both winners of the César Award for best short documentary, La captive du désert (1990), nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival,[4] and Délits flagrants (1994), which won awards for best feature documentary at the César Awards, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Joris Ivens award) and the Vancouver International Film Festival.

At the 2000 Kraków Film Festival, Depardon received the Dragon of Dragons, a lifetime achievement award.

Publications

  • Errance
  • La Solitude Heureuse Du Voyageur: Précédé De Notes
  • Glasgow
  • Le Tour Du Monde En 14 Jours. 7 Escales, 1 Visa. 2008. ISBN 978-2757811382.
  • Adieu Saigon
  • Beyrouth, Centre Ville: inédit
  • Manicomio: Secluded Madness
  • Paris Journal
  • Paysans
  • PPP: Photographies De Personnalités Politiques
  • Afriques
  • villes, cities, städte
  • Le Desert Americain
  • Désert, Un Homme Sans L'occident
  • La terre des paysans
  • Un moment si doux
  • La France de Raymond Depardon
  • Berlin
  • Manhattan Out
  • Depardon Voyages
  • Bolivia
  • En Afrique
  • Détours
  • La ferme du Garet
  • Return to Vietnam
  • Depardon Cinéma
  • 100 Photos Pour Defendre La Liberté De La Presse
  • Native Land
  • San Clemente
  • Repérages

Filmography

  • Venezuela (1963)
  • Israel (1967)
  • Biafra (1968)
  • Jan Palach (1969/I)
  • Tchad 1: L'embuscade (1970)
  • Yemen: Arabie heureuse (1973)
  • 1974, une partie de campagne (1974)
  • Tchad 2 (1975)
  • Tibesti Too (1976)
  • Tchad 3 (1976)
  • Dix minutes de silence pour John Lennon (1980)
  • Numéros zéros (1980)
  • Reporters (1981)
  • Piparsod (1982/I)
  • San Clemente (1982)
  • News Items (1983) (French: Faits divers)
  • Les Années déclic (1984)
  • Empty Quarter (Une femme en Afrique) (1985)
  • New York, N.Y. (1986)
  • Urgences (1988)
  • Le Petit Navire (1988) – short film
  • Une histoire très simple (1989)
  • Contacts (1990)
  • Captive of the Desert (French: La captive du désert (1990)
  • Contre l'oubli (1991) (segment "Pour Alirio de Jesus Pedraza Becerra, Colombie")
  • Contacts (1990) – short film
  • Cartagena (1993) – short film
  • Face à la mer (1993) – short film
  • Montage (1994)
  • Délits flagrants (1994)
  • À propos de Nice, la suite (1995) (segment "Prom, La'")
  • Paroles d'appelés (1995) – short film
  • La Prom' (1995) – short film
  • Lumière and Company (1995) (French: Lumière et compagnie)
  • Malraux (1996)
  • Afriques : comment ça va avec la douleur ? (1996)
  • Amour (1997) – short film
  • Paris (1998)
  • Bolivie (1998) – short film made with Claudine Nougaret
  • Un amour qui m'irait bien (1998) – vidéo clip de Véronique Sanson
  • Muriel Leferle (1999)
  • Emmaüs Mouvement (1949-1999 : Emmaüs a 50 ans) (1999)
  • Déserts (2000) – short film
  • Profils paysans: L'Approche (2001)
  • Un homme sans l'Occident (2002)
  • Chasseurs et Chamans (2003) – short film
  • Quoi de neuf au Garet? (2004)
  • 10e chambre, instants d'audience (2004)
  • Profils paysans: Le Quotidien (2005)
  • To Each His Own Cinema (French: Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence) (2007) – a collection of short films, Depardon's contribution being Cinéma d'été (Open-Air Cinema)
  • Cinéma d'été (2007) – short film
  • Profils paysans: La vie moderne (2008)
  • Donner la parole (2008)
  • La France de Raymond Depardon (2010) – short film made with Claudine Nougaret
  • Au bonheur des maths (2011) – short film made with Nougaret
  • Journal de France (2012)
  • Les habitants (2016)
  • 12 jours (2017)

References

  1. ↑
  2. ↑ Raymond Depardon Steidl Publishing.
  3. ↑ Les coulisses du portrait officiel de François Hollande
  4. ↑ "Festival de Cannes: Captive of the Desert". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
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