By Raymond Depardon and Claudine Nougaret
Travelling alone, internationally acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon spent six years capturing his home country with a large format camera. This long, solitary road trip provided fertile ground for the creation, with his long-time partner and collaborator Claudine Nougaret, of a remarkable travel journal.
The journey returned Depardon to important places from his past as a reporter¡ªChad, Venice, Cannes¡ªand to a wealth of previously unseen footage from his archive: an interview with Jean-B¨¦del Bokassa, film of Jean-Luc Godard, extraordinary glimpses of private and public life.
Intimate, compelling, revelatory, JOURNAL DE FRANCE offers a unique portrait of a country and its landscapes, an overview of a truly illustrious career and a fascinating resume of the development of the photographic art over the past half-century.
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