A. Action walking, traveling constantly (cf. wandering ). The long wanderings of Israel through the desert world was coming to an end it? (THARAUD, next Year, 1924, p. 266).
B. Action walking aimlessly at random. Do seeks more goal now your endless wanderings (Gide, Fed. Terr. , 1897, p. 244): As the servants
Abraham, the shepherds of the mountain are dedicated to the care of their flocks, and attached to the wandering their animals.
This wandering, Raymond Depardon seeks to define a path through to both literary and photographic.
For him, it lies in the quest for acceptable location, but also in developing a photographic eye. He therefore, random routes, avoiding especially to create a route to better establish its loss, thus avoiding the places he knows or which is no longer easy to make sure of one thing: the lack of tags , displacement without an anchor, a look at the world asked for guidance only.
He justifies his choice of a format that is precisely not the landscape, no doubt he takes what he sees as if they were still human.
It is difficult to say what really Wandering and is the negative self-evident. Certainly, this is not a story that tracks the testimony of the event. It does not, contrary to his work on The Farm Garet, of an autobiographical work. So we know what that Wandering not. Remains to be said if the author seeks neither the fact nor its origins, nor perfection of form, is still a quest that takes place there, conducted in a calm and determination, obstinacy perhaps.
is readily admits some corners as the "own", they are not necessarily having attended, albeit briefly, but because we found there instinctively. Some like, others not. The ugliness has no limit in this course, despite the highly smoothed images. There is as much as supermarket car parks mythical places, and the most popular images are not necessarily the most anticipated. The wandering seems to inhabit these spaces that we no longer see, no towns or rural areas, between the two stripped of meaning.
How Depardon moves in what sense, drawing any trace, no one knows, not even him. Nevertheless: we follow it, and continue to lose, meetings are held.
E rrance , Raymond Depardon, Le Seuil, coll. Points (one pocket with photos, yes), 2004.
The photographs reproduced here are disgusting, sorry Raymond.
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