Raymond Depardon is a French photographer and filmmaker renowned for his humanist documentary style, capturing rural life and political events.
Artist Biography
Raymond Depardon
France
B. 1942
EnquireRaymond Depardon co-founded the Gamma agency in 1966 and joined Magnum Photos in 1978. He gained international acclaim for his reportage, including the 1974–77 kidnapping of François Claustre in Chad, and for documentary films such as ‘Une Partie de Campagne’ (1974) and ‘San Clemente’ (1981). Over his career, he has made eighteen feature-length films, published forty-seven books, and earned numerous awards, while leading institutions like Musée d’Orsay (Paris), Centre Pompidou (Paris), MoMA (New York), the Getty Museum (Los Angeles), and the V&A Museum (London) have acquired his work. In 2016, he further influenced photography as artistic director of the Rencontres Internationales d’Arles.
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