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Chapter Five studies celebrated grand reporteur Raymond Depardon’s foray into the world of large-format landscape photography in his important series, La France de Raymond Depardon (2010). Depardon’s project revolves around an inherent tension opposing two distinct ways of seeing France. This tension echoes a fractured politics in French society. For while the hundreds of photographs that Depardon made in and around villages and towns across the Hexagon between 2004 and 2010 might at first seem to project a conservative, nostalgic view of a sclerotic nation in decline and resistant to change, they in fact challenge this retrograde vision and hint, instead, at a more expansive, inclusive, and open approach that embraces what France has become and hints to where it is headed. |
