Picturing Glasgow: Raymond Depardon in conversation
Picturing Glasgow: Raymond Depardon in conversation
College of Arts School of Modern Languages / Stirling Maxwell Centre for the Study of Text / Image Cultures
Date: Thursday 05 November 2020
Time: 17:00 - 18:30
Venue: Online
Category: Public lectures, Academic events
Speaker: Raymond Depardon
Website: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/picturing-glasgow-raymond-depardon-in-conversation-tickets-125720999895
**Additional tickets are now available for this event**
In 1980, following a commission by The Sunday Times, French photographer Raymond Depardon travelled to Glasgow where he went on to produce a stunning collection of images of life in the city.
Often stark in character, and uniquely combining elements of colour, light and composition, the photographs capture the effects of deindustrialisation and the housing policies of the era on the people of the city. Yet they simultaneously reveal something of the enduring resilience and sense of community among Glaswegians, and have children’s experience of their homeplace at their core. Showing a cityscape that has been altered repeatedly - and sometimes controversially - in the course of its modern history, they offer an evocative and emotionally powerful glimpse of a Glasgow of which only traces remain today.
Depardon’s photographs were not ultimately published by The Sunday Times and were unknown to the public until a retrospective of his work at Paris's Grand Palais in 2013. They eventually appeared in a volume published by Le Seuil in 2016.
Taking place on Thursday 5th of November at 5pm, this interview is a rare opportunity to hear Raymond Depardon speak about the genesis of the project, the position of this collection in his body of work, and the power of the photographic image to capture people and place.
This Zoom interview will take place in French with English translation and will be recorded.
Registration for this event has now closed, but to mark the event a short film, Present Past: Glasgow in photographs, presents Raymond Depardon’s photos alongside work by other figures in the history of photography in Glasgow: Thomas Annan, Oscar Marzaroli and contemporary photographer Chris Leslie, who reflects on this history and his own photographic practice:
For any questions regarding this event, please contact: greg.kerr@glasgow.ac.uk.
A member of the Magnum Photos cooperative, Raymond Depardon is one of world's most important living photographers. He is also a celebrated photojournalist and filmmaker, with a career spanning multiple decades, during which he has worked in numerous war zones around the world, on presidential campaigns and documenting social life in cities and countryside in his home country, France.
The panel will consist of Dr Greg Kerr and Dr Paul Melo e Castro of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures as well Dr Andy Stafford of the University of Leeds.
The event is supported by SMLC’s Stirling Maxwell Centre for the Study of Text/Image Cultures and the Alliance française de Glasgow.
William Boyd's essay 'Raymond Depardon’s Grisaille Vision of 1980s Glasgow' (Magnum Photos website, showing a number of the photos):
Trailer for Journal de France (a 2012 documentary by Claudine Nougaret and Raymond Depardon offering an introduction to Depardon’s life’s work as photographer and filmmaker as well as a portrait of France past and present)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4w1aSFQBdE&ab_channel=DistribFilmsUS
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