Raymond Depardon. Modern life

Piedmont (2001)
17 black and white photographs

Raymond Depardon came to Piedmont "like a neighbor". In the countryside and in the peri-urban areas, in the villages and towns, the artist shapes a mental landscape interwoven with memories and reminiscences of his French rural culture.

Communes (2020)
15 black and white photographs

This new series was released in summer 2020 in the southern French regions of Aveyron, Lozère, Gard and Hérault.

Glasgow (1980)
19 color photographs

In 1980, in response to a request from the Sunday Times Magazine, Raymond Depardon made a series of color photographs of Glasgow, a city that seemed to him “the polar opposite of his photography”.

Manhattan Out (1980)
45 black and white photographs

In the winter of 1980, Raymond Depardon arrives in New York. Without a specific purpose, he decides to walk all day, with the Leica around his neck, imposing the rule of not lifting it towards the face, leaving it hanging on his chest and thus reserving the surprise of a deliberately unsolicited shot.

New York, N.Y. (1986)
Black and white film

For Raymond Depardon “New York is a city you always go back to”. And that's exactly what he did in 1986, when he made a ten-minute short film based on three shots taken from the Manhattan Out series.

La France (2004-2010)
44 color photographs

For six years, Raymond Depardon devoted himself to the challenge of photographing contemporary France. Choosing the color and the large format of a 20 x 25 camera, he sets out in search of an ordinary and everyday France, far from the romantic clichés, the picturesque and the monumental.

Rural (1990-2018)
86 black and white photographs

Rural is a trans-generational portrait, the result of a work carried out by Raymond Depardon, for almost thirty years, in French rural communities.

San Clemente (1977-1981)
56 black and white photographs

The famous San Clemente series concludes the exhibition itinerary, completed by an excerpt from the film made in 1980.

San Clemente (1980)
Black and white film (excerpt)

In 1980 Raymond Depardon returned to San Clemente Island, accompanied by Sophie Ristelhueber. For ten days, on the eve of the closure of the psychiatric hospital, he follows the wandering of the mentally ill, their anguish and the dismay of their loved ones, exploring the frontiers of madness, its ambiguity and complexity.