Raymond Depardon

Une collection de photos, appuyée de petits textes assez autobiographiques - où est-ce l'inverse?
Je navigue entre attendrissement, regret d'une certaine qualité de vie et soulagement de ne pas vivre dans des conditions qui sont à mon sens à la limite de l'inacceptable de nos jours. Ça m'interroge - aussi, bien sûr - sur ce que la France fait de ses paysans qui la nourrissent.

For the exhibition The Desert presented in 2000, the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain asked six artists to go off into the desert and produce a work that would reflect their vision of it. The works executed for the occasion reveal the contradictions of the desert: a space of unity and contrast where the static contrasts with the perpetual movement of the dunes shifting in the wind. Threatened with obliteration and disappearance, the urgency of capturing the trace of the desert show more finds an answer in photography and drawings.
This book offers a set of previously unpublished works by Raymond Depardon, William Eggleston, Titouan Lamazou, and Andrei Ujica. show less

One of the most intriguing books in the range of what Frank van der Stok and I called 'The Past in the Present'.

Organized around a series of historical and contemporary works, this catalogue examines the ways photography and films have represented the desert since the 19th century. Among the artists included are Herge, Friedlander, Thesiger, Viola and Pasolini.