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Overview"Raymond Depardon arrived in New York in the winter of 1980. He was visiting a friend who had just taken up a job in the city and to kill time he strolled around the streets with his Leica. He decided to take pictures without ever looking through the camera's viewfinder, working incognito in the nooks and crannies of New York. He amassed two or three rolls a day but at the time was thoroughly disappointed with the results. Depardon never mentioned the work to anyone and only decided to unveil these ""blind"" pictures twenty-seven years later. He was surprised to discover that most of his subjects were aware that they were being photographed. Their knowing glances towards the camera lens imbued with a pretence of indifference immortalises the very spirit and charm of this, the ultimate city. Raymond Depardon, born in 1942 in Villefranche-sur-Saône, is a film-maker, photographer and journalist. Co-founder of the agency Gamma in 1967, he travelled the world as a photojournalist and began making documentaries in the Direct Cinema tradition. In 1978 he joined Magnum Photos. In 1991 he was awarded the Grand Prix National de la Photographie and his work Délits flagrants won the César for best documentary film in 1995. He has made eighteen feature films and published about forty books. He lives in Paris. Paul Virilio, born in Paris in 1932, is a Senior Professor at the École Spéciale d'Architecture of Paris and was formerly Director and Head of the same institution between 1968 and 1998. After his first philosophical essays, he became the director of the collection Espace Critique by éditions Galilée in 1973. He was awarded the Grand Prix National de la Critique in 1987. In 1990, he became the course director at the Collège International de Philosophie when Jacques Derrida was the principal. In 1992, he became a member of the Haut Comité pour le logement des défavorisés, presided by Louis Besson. As an urban designer and an essayist, specialising in strategic questions about new technology, Virilio, has published widely in France and abroad. He has been a supporter of the association Non-Violence XXI, ever since its creation in 2001. He lives in La Rochelle." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Raymond Depardon , Paul VirilioPublisher: Steidl Publishers Imprint: Steidl Verlag Dimensions: Width: 29.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.730kg ISBN: 9783865217042ISBN 10: 3865217044 Pages: 120 Publication Date: 26 January 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock Table of ContentsReviewsManhattan Out is rich as a time capsule... it produces a cautious enjoyment, never entirely inseparable from the question of how much of this is really interesting and how much is nostalgia, which reliably tells more about the viewer and her present than an image can account for the past.--American Suburb X Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |