Signed; Raymond Depardon - Notes - 1979

Exceptionally signed copy on the initial page with silvery handwriting by Raymond Depardon (born 1942), unique and unattainable on the Internet, whether signed or unsigned.
40 pages and 32 black-and-white photographs, texts in French by Raymond Depardon.
Softcover illustrated in beige-bistre color (no dust jacket as issued).
Book in excellent condition.

Raymond Depardon tells us: « As with Notes, my first foundational 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 finally peaceful self." (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 made his success, an art of editing without equal between photos and written, intimate confessions. The images are at the heart of current events, taken in the wars of Lebanon (his famous Phalangist fighter, in Beirut) and Afghanistan. But Depardon favors the '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 that he missed a photo — or rather that he let it slip. This cult 44-page brochure, which looks unimpressive, published by a poetry publisher, is sold out. On the cover, a glacial airport hall; a call to travel, also distancing himself 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 utmost care. Very effectively protected shipping and guaranteed international postal tracking. In case of multiple purchases, possibility of grouped shipping with a refund of excess postage paid via PayPal.

0,150 kg. excluding packaging