ECPAD (Defense audiovisual communication and production facility) is publishing L’Indochine of Raoul Coutard.
Before signing the lighting for the film À bout de souffle and becoming the most emblematic director of photography of the Nouvelle Vague, Raoul Coutard was a military photographer in Indochina.
Between 1951 and 1954, equipped with his Rolleiflex, he photographed, for the Army Press Service, the soldiers of the French Expeditionary Corps. During operations in the forests and along the rivers, he bore witness to the fighting, to the care given to the wounded, and to the capture of Viet Minh partisans. He also went out to meet the indigenous populations, making portraits of the inhabitants of Saigon and of the ethnic groups of the high plateaus, documenting through images their ways of life and their traditions. Initially conceived for propaganda purposes, his pictures became documentary and already reveal a very sure sense of composition and a great mastery of light.
Introduced by photography historian Linda Garcia d’Ornano, the one hundred and thirty-eight photographs in this volume, supplemented by previously unpublished documents, tell the story of the birth of a gaze.
L’Indochine de Raoul Coutard
Naissance d’un regard, 1950-1954
ECPAD
21 x 21 cm
Approx. 700 g
Price: 19 euros
https://boutique.ecpad.fr/livres/105-l-indochine-de-raoul-coutard.html
