Signed; Raymond Depardon - Notes - 1979

Exceptionally signed first page copy with silver-colored handwriting by Raymond Depardon (born 1942), unique and untraceable on the internet whether signed or unsigned. 40 pages and 32 black-and-white photographs, texts in French by Raymond Depardon. Soft cover illustrated in beige-beige/bistre (no dust jacket as issued). Book in excellent condition.

Raymond Depardon confides in us: “As with Notes, my first defining book, there is always room for a beloved woman at the edge of the frame, as if I were photographing my desire and the landscape returned to me a self at last at peace.” (https://www.etonnants-voyageurs.com/Raymond-Depardon-La-solitude-heureuse-du-voyageur.html)

“It is with the book Notes (Arfuyen X, 1979) that Raymond Depardon inaugurates a photographic form that has made his success, an art of editing without equal between photos and intimate written confessions. The images are at the heart of current events, taken during the wars in Lebanon (his famous Phalangist fighter, in Beirut) and in Afghanistan. But Depardon favors ‘weak moments,’ on the margins. These are reinforced by the words in which Depardon confides his doubts, his fear, his fatigue, speaks of the woman he loves, admits he missed a photo—or rather let it slip away. This cult 44-page brochure, which looks modest, published by a poetry publisher, is sold out. On the cover, a glacial airport hall; a call to travel, a distance also from the ‘profession’ of photojournalist—he has just left the Gamma agency, which he co-founded in 1967, for Magnum. (Michel Guerrin, Le Monde, November 11, 2000)

Book from my personal collection, in excellent condition, kept with the greatest care. Very effective protected shipping and guaranteed international tracking. In case of multiple purchases, possibility of grouped shipping with reimbursement of any excess postage paid via Paypal.

0.150 kg. excluding packaging