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The subject isn't always a help to the photographer, it's like handcuffs.

Raymond Depardon

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Raymond Depardon
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: July 6
Cinematographer
Documentarian
Film Director
Journalist
Photographer
Photojournalist
Screenwriter
Television Director
Villefranche-sur-Saone
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When the American documentary filmmaker Donn Alan Pennebaker wanted to do a film on Dylan, Dylan asked him what he'd already done, and Pennebaker answered, Nothing except shots in the street. Dylan asked to see them, and he agreed to let him do the film.
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I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it.
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I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image.
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I like to be on my own when I look at my contact sheets, because I'm often disappointed... But as years go by we become proud of our old contact sheets. They are a tool that allows us to fight against time.
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I don't regret the numerous pictures of Brigitte Bardot, but I'd rather have a good photograph of my father.
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