This coffee table art book presents a collection of b&w photos taken in Bolivia during the period 1997-2008, by French photographer Raymond Depardon. The book includes a brief introduction by the photographer, in French, English, and Spanish. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
The fruit of five different trips to Bolivia between 1997 and 2015, the photographs collected in this book reveal a long-unchanged Bolivia, where the rural and indigenous populations live primarily from the land. Depardons black-and-white photography highlights the harsh beauty of the landscape, the ravaged faces of the peasants, the omnipresent silhouettes of women and the magic of ancestral traditions.
From the desert plains of Salar de Uyuni and the mountain village of Tarabuco to the serenity of Lake Titicaca, Depardon takes us on a journey filled with humanity, culminating in the discovery of Vallegrande, in the footsteps of Che Guevara, whose image has had a lasting and profound impact on the collective memory.
A stark portrait of Bolivia as seen through the lens of Magnum photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon, published in association with the Fondation Cartier
Raymond Depardon: BoliviaFrom the desert plains of Salar dUyuni and the mountain village of Tarabuco to the serenity of Lake Titicaca, Depardon takes us on a journey filled with humanity, culminating in the discovery of Vallegrande, in the footsteps of Che Guevara, whose image has had a lasting and profound impact on the collective memory.Filmmaker, photographer, and international journalist, Depardon holds a unique place in the field of the contemporary image. In 1967, he cofounded the Gamma Agency, and in 1978, he joined the Magnum Agency for whom he would carry out reports all over the world through the beginning of the 1980s. While continuing to practice photography on a daily basis, he later turned his attention to documentary film.
