Raymond Depardon

Raymond Depardon (2012)

Raymond Depardon (born July 6, 1942 in Villefranche-sur-Saône ) is a French photojournalist and filmmaker .

biography

Depardon was born on his parents' farm. In 1956 he began an apprenticeship with a photo optician in Villefranche-sur-Saône and took a correspondence course the following year to obtain the professional title of opérateur photographe . In 1958 he became an apprentice and then assistant to Louis Foucherand in Paris. In 1960 Depardon joined the Dalmas agency. On September 3, 1960, a report published under his name appeared for the first time in Paris Match . From March 1962 to August 1963 he did his military service as a war correspondent in the Algerian war . He worked for the military propaganda magazine TAM ( Terre Air Mer ). In 1964 he documented the Vietnam War . Together with Hubert Henrotte, Hugues Vassal, Léonard de Remy and Gilles Caron , he founded the photo agency Gamma, which existed until 1999, in 1966 . In the following years he worked in crisis areas such as Biafra , Cambodia and Chad . For his report on Chile he won the Robert Capa Gold Medal in 1973 together with his colleagues Chas Gerretsen and David Burnett . His report from Chad, which was written from 1975 to 1977, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize . He left Gamma in 1978 to join the Magnum photography agency .

His first short film was about the Prague student Jan Palach in 1969 , who set himself on fire in protest against the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact forces . His first full-length documentary 1974-Une partie de campagne showed Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's election campaign for the French presidency. This film was banned for decades at the instigation of Giscard d'Estaing because it too clearly exposed the discrepancy between the private person and the presidential candidate. It was only premiered in 2002 under the name 50.81% . In addition to his documentaries, Depardon has also made some feature films.

Depardon's photographs have been exhibited in numerous galleries in France and around the world, including New York, Rotterdam, Budapest, Zurich, Mexico City and Amsterdam. In addition to the awards already mentioned, he received the Grand Prix National de la Photography in 1991 and the Prix ​​Nadar in 2000 . He received the French César film award in various categories in 1982, 1986 and 1994. In 2007, Depardon was responsible for Cinéma d'Eté , a three-minute short film that featured the work of 32 other directors, including Theo Angelopoulos , David Lynch and Roman Polański who formed the cinematic anthology Chacun son cinéma . The film was produced on the occasion of the 60th birthday of the Cannes Film Festival . A year later, Neue Zeiten (2008) was released in French cinemas. The portrait of agriculture in the Cevennes that was threatened with disappearing over a period of ten years earned Depardon the renowned Louis Delluc Prize .

To date, Depardon has published over 40 books and made more than 45 films.

In 2012 Depardon made the official presidential portrait of François Hollande .

Filmography (selection)

Ian Palach (16 mm, color, 12 min), 1969 Tchad 1, l'Embuscade (16 mm, color, 12 min), 1970 Yémen Arabia Féliz (16 mm, color, 19 min), 1973 1974 - une partie de campagne (35 mm, color, 90 min), 1974/2002 Tchad 2 et Tchad 3 (16 mm, color, 40 min), 1975/76 Tibesti Too (35 mm, black, 40 min), 1976/77 Numéro Zéro (16 mm, color, 90 min), 1977 10 Minutes de Silence pour John Lennon (16 mm, color, 10 min), 1980 Reporters (35 mm, color, 90 min), 1981 San Clemente (16 mm, bw, 90 min), 1982 Piparsod (16 mm, color, 26 min), 1982 Faits Divers (35 mm, color, 108 min), 1983 Les Années Déclic (35 mm, black, 68 min), 1984 Empty Quarter (Une femme en Afrique) (35 mm, color, 90 min, feature film), 1984/85 New York, NY (35 mm, bw, 10 min), 1986 Le Petit Navire (35 mm, b / w, 6 min), 1987 Urgences (35 mm, color, 104 min), 1987 La captive du Désert (35 mm, color, 90 min, fiction), 1990 Une Histoire très simple (35 mm, black, 4 min), 1990 Contacts (35 mm, bw, 13 min), 1990 Carthagena (Conte l'Oubli) (35 mm, color, 13 min), 1992 Face a La Mer (35 mm, color, 3 ½ min), 1993

La Prom '(A propos de Nice, la Suite) (35 mm, color, 12 min), 1994 Délits Flagrants (35 mm, color, 95 min), 1994 Parole d'Appelés (35 mm, b / w, 30 min), 1995 Montage (35 mm, black, 8 min), 1995 Malraux (35 mm, color, 5 min), 1996 Afriques: comment ça va avec la douleur? (35 mm, color, 165 min), 1996 Muriel Leferle (35 mm, color, 70 min), 1996 Amours (35 mm, bw, 10 min), 1997 Bolivia (35 mm, color, 5 min), 1997 Paris (35 mm, bw, 95 min), 1998 Profils Paysans: l'Approche (35 mm, color, 90 min), 2000 Déserts (35 mm, black, 10 min), 2000 Chasseurs et Chamans (35 mm, color, 32 min), 2002 Un Homme sans l'Occident (35 mm, b / w, 105 min, feature film), 2003 10e Chambre-Instants d'Audiences (35 mm, color, 105 min), 2004 7x3 (35 mm, color, seven short films a 5 min), 2004 Profils Paysans: Le Quotidien (35 mm, color, 90 min), 2005 Quoi de Neuf au Garet? (35 mm, color, 10 min), 2005 Cinéma d'Eté (3 min, short film from Chacun son cinéma ), 2007 New times ( La Vie Moderne , 35 mm, color, 88 min), 2008 Les habitants (84 min), 2016 12 days ( 12 jours , 87 min), 2017

bibliography

• Les Fiancées de SaÏgon , Cahiers du Cinéma, Paris 1986, ISBN 2-86642-036-5 .
• (with Frédéric Sabouraud) Depardon / Cinéma , Cahiers du Cinéma, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-86642-125-6 .
• Paris Journal , Éditions Hazan, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-85025-948-9 .
• Errance , Éditions Points, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-02-060419-1 .
• (with Alain Bergala) New York , Cahiers du Cinéma, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-86642-455-7 . - Contains among others by Raymond Depardon: Correspondance New-Yorkaise (the photo series published in July – August 1981 in the Liberation), by Alain Bergala: Les Absences du Photographe .
• 1968 , Éditions Points, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7578-0714-9 .
• Afrique (s) , Éditions Points, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-7578-1801-5 . - In addition to numerous photographs, it contains excerpts from the commentary on Depardon's film Afriques: comment ça va avec la douleur? .

more publishments

SOS Sahara, 1961 Jeux Olympiques de Mexico (with Yves Nouchi ), 1968 Chili: Special Reporter-Objectif, 1973 Chili (with Chas Gerretsen and David Burnett ), 1974 Gilles Caron Reporter, 1977 Tchad, 1978 Notes, 1979 Le Désert Américaine, 1983 San Clemente, 1984 Hivers, 1987/96 Vues, ​​1988 La Pointe du Raz, 1991 Sites et Jeux: Les Jeux Olympiques d'Hiver a Albertville, 1992 La Colline des Anges, Retour au Vietnam (with Jean-Claude Guillebaud ), 1993/2006 Return to Vietnam, 1994 Les Routes du Lait, 1994 La Ferme du Garet, 1995/97 En Afrique, 1996 La Porte des Larmes, back Vers l'Abyssinie (with Jean-Claude Guillebaud ), 1996 Voyages, 1998

La Solitude Heureuse du Voyageur, 1998 Silence Rompu, 1998 PhotoPoche, 1999 Corse (with Jean-Noël Pancrazi ), 1999/2004 Détours, 2000 Loisirs, 2000 Reves de Désert (with Titouan Lamazou ), 2000 A Tombeau Ouvert (with Josée Landrieu ), 2000 Visa V, 2002 Désert, un Homme sans l'Occident, 2002 Piemonte: Una Defizione Fotografica, 2003 06 Alpes Maritimes, 2003 Paroles Prisonnieres, 2004 Jeux Olympiques, 2004 Images politiques, 2004 7x3, 2004 Raymond Depardon: Photographers Filmer, 2005 Photographies de Personnalités Politiques (with Jean Lacouture ), 2006 La Solitude Heureuse du Voyageur précéde de Notes, 2006

• Documentary film initiative in Filmbüro NW (ed.): Raymond Depardon, Irrfahrt. Texts for the documentary. (Series: Texts on Documentary Film, 9) Transl. Marcus Seibert; Vorw. Werner Dütsch. Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2016

Web links

• Raymond Depardon at Magnum
• A normal photography time online, June 15, 2012
• Raymond Depardon in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Cristina Baron, Lucie Moriceau-Chastagner (ed.): Raymond Depardon 1962/1963 photographe militaire . Éditions Gallimard / Ministère des Armées (ECPAD), Paris 2019, ISBN 978-2-07-283851-4 , pp. (Monograph) .
2. ↑ Tim Caspar Boehme: Raymond Depardon on the documentary “12 days”: “They are like poets” . In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 13, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed June 15, 2018]).
3. ↑ cf. Le Prix Delluc 2008 à "La vie moderne" by Raymond Depardon . SDA - Service de base français, December 12, 2008 2:14 PM CET
4. ↑ L'Elysée présente la photo officielle de François Hollande