The Galerie Magnum‘s new exhibition celebrates the prolific career of Raymond Depardon, an iconic figure in French photography. With some forty prints from a dozen major series, the exhibition retraces various journeys and projects that have marked the artist’s work, in both black and white and color.
Raymond Depardon: Passages pays tribute to one of the great witnesses of our time, whose silent narratives and inner journeys profoundly influenced his contemporaries, as well as subsequent generations of photographers.
Emblematic series such as Errance, La France, Correspondance New-Yorkaise, and Communes are presented alongside works less well-known by the general public. Together, they reveal the sensitivity, commitment, and poetry of Depardon’s view of the world. A member of the Magnum Photos agency since 1979, the man who defines photography as “the praise of each moment” has constantly documented reality with a rare humanity. Whether he captures the effervescence of a city like New York, the silence of a deserted landscape, or the dwellings of the rural world from which he comes, his work breaks free from the constraints of reportage to achieve a profoundly introspective dimension.
The prints on display portraits or landscapes, color or black and white testify to the richness of Depardon’s photographic language, as well as the diversity of the places, atmospheres, and people he photographed, always with humility and accuracy.
As Bruno Racine wrote in the preface to La France: “Depardon’s geography is unique, arbitrary, personal, deliberately born from ‘the pain of the frame’ and the ‘joy of light’.”
Raymond Depardon : Passages
Until July 26, 2025
Galerie Magnum
68 rue Léon Frot
Paris 75011
www.magnumphotos.com
All works on display are available for sale, please contact the gallery staff directly, or write to the following email address: [email protected]
