On September 30, 2024, La Poste issues a stamp illustrated with a photo of Raymond Depardon, French photographer and director.
The stamp will be sold in prerelease on Friday September 27 and Saturday September 28 at:
PARIS (75)
Le Carré d’Encre, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., 13 bis rue des Mathurins, 75009 PARIS (Cancellation until 5 p.m.).
Raymond Depardon will host a signing session on Friday September 27 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
From September 30, 2024, it will be sold in many post offices, by subscription or by mail to Philaposte Service Clients Commercial Z.I Avenue Benoît Frachon, BP 10106 Boulazac, 24051 PériGUEUX CEDEX 09, by telephone on 05 53 03 19 26 and by email sav- [email protected] at the Musée de La Poste, 34 boulevard de Vaugirard, 75015 Paris by reservation with your tobacconist and on the website www.laposte.fr
From October 1, 2024, it will be sold in the “Le Carré d’Encre” store.
Technical information
Photo: © RAYMOND DEPARDON / MAGNUM PHOTOS
Printing: rotogravure
Stamp format: 52 x 40.85 mm
Presentation: 9 stamps per sheet
Circulation: 448,200 copies
Face value: €2.58 Lettre Verte 100
Date stamp layout: Valérie BESSER
Layout: Valérie Besser, photo © RAYMOND DEPARDON / MAGNUM PHOTOS
Born in 1942 in Villefranche-sur-Saône (Rhône), Raymond Depardon occupies a unique place in the field of contemporary image: filmmaker as much as photographer, he puts the still image and the animated image at the service of a unique writing. He was the co-founder of the Gamma agency in 1966.
From 1974 to 1977, as a photographer and filmmaker, he covered world news, including the hostage-taking in northern Chad of ethnologist Françoise Claustre. At this time he made his first films. He joined Magnum Photos in 1979, and continued major reporting and publishing books. After the success of his film Reporters, in 1981, he participated in 1984 in Datar’s photographic mission on the French landscape while continuing his career as a filmmaker (Faits divers, Urgences, La Captive du Desert).
From 1987 he shared his artistic passion with Claudine Nougaret, his wife, sound engineer and producer. Honored with the Grand Prix national de la Photographie in 1991, he received the César for best documentary film for Délits flagrantes four years later. He undertook a long photographic and cinematographic work devoted to the French rural world. He won the Louis Delluc prize with the film La Vie moderne in 2008.
In 2011 he exhibited at the BnF his work of four years on the roads, entitled La France de Raymond Depardon.
In 2012, the year of the theatrical release of the film Journal de France, he produced the official portrait of the President of the Republic François Hollande.
In 2013, the exhibition Un Moment Si Doux presented at the Grand Palais (Paris) was a great success and was repeated in 2014 at the Mucem.
In 2022 he launched two major exhibitions, one jointly with Kamel Daoud, His eye in my hand, Algeria 1961-2019, at the Institute of the Arab World (Paris) and Communes, at the Pavillon populaire in Montpellier. In 2023, in Shanghai, the major exhibition Modern Life met a large audience, the same year he won the Lucie Award for all of his photographic work.
In 2024 his photos from the Olympic Games were on display in the streets of Paris. He is the winner of the BnF 2024 prize rewarding all of his work.
Raymond Depardon has directed 21 feature films, all of which were noticed at the biggest festivals, has published more than 70 photography books and is present in numerous photographic collections of the most prestigious museums.
