San Clemente
Raymond Depardon: Humanity in Focus
February 20 - March 4
Raymond Depardon’s gripping account of the last days of a psychiatric hospital on the brink of shutting down, reminiscent of Frederick Wiseman’s Titicut Follies, allows viewers access to a world hidden from the public. Preceded by Contact.
Reminiscent of Frederick Wiseman’s Titicut Follies (1967) and Forugh Farrokhzad’s The House Is Black (1967), Raymond Depardon’s gripping account of the last days of a psychiatric hospital on the brink of shutting down allows viewers access to a world otherwise hidden from the public. Portraying the everyday routines of the hospital’s patients, their body language and facial expressions that speak to otherwise inexpressible emotional turmoil, Depardon follows his subjects’ individual fates with strict observational distance and enormous compassion, fitting Nan Goldin’s edict that photography be “not about a style or a look or a setup. It’s about emotional obsession and empathy.”
Preceded by:
Contact
Raymond Depardon, 1990, France, 13m
French with English subtitles
Nearly a decade later, Depardon returns to the photographs he took at San Clemente and muses on the philosophical burden of choosing the “right” image.
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