Depardon, Raymond (Nombre personal)

His Chili, circa 1973.

Depardon, c1998: t.p. (Depardon) p. 601 (b. 1942)

Rêve de déserts, 2000: t.p. (Raymond Depardon) second-to-last p. (b. in Villefrance-sur-Saône; cinematographer and photographer)

Magnum Photos website, viewed October 7, 2024 (Raymond Depardon; born in France in 1942, began taking photographs on his family farm in Garet at age 12; apprenticed to a photographer-optician in Villefrance-sur-Saône, he left for Paris in 1958; joined the Dalmas agency in Paris in 1960 as a reporter; in 1966 he co-founded the Gamma agency, reporting from all over the world; he covered the kidnapping of French ethnologist François Claustre in northern Chad 1974-77 as a photographer and filmmaker; alongside photography, he began to make documentary films by 1974; joined Magnum in 1978, became a full member the following year, and is now a contributor; took part in the DATAR project in the French countryside, 1984; did the first of three films devoted to the French rural world in 1998; as part of a Fondation Cartier initiative for contemporary art, he made an installation of films on 12 large cities, shown in Paris, Tokyo and Berlin 2004-2007; in 2006 he was invited to be artistic director of the Rencontres Internationales d'Arles; has made 18 feature-length films and published 47 books) https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/raymond-depardon/

IMDb, October 7, 2024 (Raymond Depardon; photographer, journalist and filmmaker; born July 6, 1942, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône (Burgundy), France, into a family of farmers; went to Paris in 1958, wishing to be a photographer; established his own agency, Gamma, together with three reporters in 1966 'not for money but for the freedom'; won a Pulitzer for photography in Chad) https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220019/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm