Following a commission from the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Raymond Depardon made a series of films—seven in 2004 and five in 2006—in Rio de Janeiro, Shanghai, Tokyo, Berlin, Moscow, Addis Ababa, Cairo, Buenos Aires, New York, Johannesburg, Dubai, and Paris. Manned with a vertical camera, an Aaton movie camera, and ten boxes of Kodak A-Minima 5-minute film, Raymond Depardon gave himself three days for each city. The catalog published for the exhibition at the Berlin Museüm für Fotografie in 2006 is a compilation of the photographs that the artist took during his brief stay in these cities. Seen with the eye of a traveler, they present his pronounced fondness for snapping the moment, when all the world is a stage.

Raymond Depardon, Villes/Cities/Städte
Publisher: Fondation Cartier pour l´art contemporain, Paris, 2007
Hardback, 17 x 22.6 cm, 296 pages, 278 color illustrations
Trilingual version French / English / German
Distribution outside of France: Steidl, Göttingen
ISBN: 978-27427-6764-9
Price: 38 euros