Profils paysans: L’approche
Raymond Depardon: Humanity in Focus
February 20 - March 4
In this moving group portrait of French farmers in their stables and at their kitchen tables, Raymond Depardon captures their everyday trials and tribulations while also depicting the emergence of a bond between documentarian and subject.
The question of portraiture is present throughout Raymond Depardon’s films and photographs, but this theme receives an especially thorough treatment in his group portrait of French farmers in their stables and at their kitchen tables. Little by little, Depardon’s subjects reveal something of themselves, their everyday trials and tribulations captured by Depardon sensitively yet not sentimentally. In its expert depiction of the emergence of a bond between documentarian and subject, L’approche is a key work by Depardon, one that sheds new light on his oeuvre and methodology to date.
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