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Raymond Depardon - Communes

Raymond Depardon - Publisher Fondation Cartier - Ouvrage relié - 128 pages - Text in Bilingue Français / English - Published in 2021

Communes is a photographic essay by Raymond Depardon on the villages of the French Mediterranean inland region. Witnesses to history, these villages have long been abandoned, threatened by the “Nant concession”, a shale gas extraction project.

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Model 9782869251694
Artist Raymond Depardon
Author Raymond Depardon
Publisher Fondation Cartier
Format Ouvrage relié
Number of pages 128
Language Bilingue Français / English
Dimensions 360 x 285
Technique(s) 80 black-and-white photographs
Published 2021

After the inhabitants’ protestations, the project was finally abandoned in 2015. The villages have once again turned into living places, with their cobbled streets and old houses with jagged facades and scanty windows. Timeless havens of peace, where tranquility and cool prevail.

This new photo book gathers Raymond Depardon’s most recent series: the 80 black-and-white photographs that compose it were taken after the first lockdown, during the summer of 2020, in the south of the Massif Central in the French departments of Aveyron, Lozère, Gard, and Hérault. The book includes a text by Salomé Berlioux, president of the association Chemins d’Avenirs, the first association accompanying thousands of young people from rural areas in France.

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