INTERVIEW – His photos of the Olympic Games, from those of Tokyo to those of Montreal, are installed all summer long in the streets of Paris. Back to image.
Depardon is a French monument of photography. Round, tanned, with very blue eyes, at the age of 81 he agreed to take to the streets of Paris. The Olympic Games in Tokyo, Mexico, Munich and Montreal, from 1964 to 1976, at the most beautiful of the gesture, at the most incredible of the image. The 8 photos of Depardon, immense, cover 200 m2 at 1,000 m2.
From the athlete Lee Evans, activist in 1968 for the rights of black Americans (at City Hall), to Mark Spitz, to the 7 gold medals in Munich, in 1972 (on the ring road, Porte de Brancion), from 10/10 by Nadia Comaneci in Montreal (187, rue Saint-Honoré), in 1976 to the invention of the “Fosbury flop” by the American Dick Fosbury in Mexico in 1968 (2, place Gambetta), the time is to surpassing oneself. And freeze frame. Cross meeting with Raymond Depardon and his son Simon, who accompanies the photos of a film.
LE FIGARO. – What is your Olympics story?
Raymond DEPARDON. – My first games were those in Tokyo in 1964. I was very young…
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