Depardon. Paris Journal

Paris journal is a keyword I have invented to classify the photographs I have taken without any particular subject. Here it is not about work or family photographs. My photographs are done for the pleasure in the course of my travels around the city. I have never changed my route in order to take a photograph of this book. I have stopped to frame my picture, have waited for some seconds, perhaps, but not much longer!” [...] Over the last years, the advent of new high velocity equipment has contributed to the desecration of street photography. I have gathered here together almost thirty years of photographs taken in Paris, photos taken at random from my travels, my meetings, without particular history, according to the mood of the day ... In the meanwhile, I have reread my notes, made choices, established links, and used quotes ... Raymond Depardon