Passages

One man sits astride the Berlin Wall. His legs hang against the painted concrete. Above him the sky takes up most of the frame. Raymond Depardon made the photograph in West Berlin in 1989, as the Wall came down.

At Galerie Magnum, some forty prints from around ten series brought together six decades of work. Prints from Errance, Correspondance new-yorkaise, Communes and La France shared the walls. Seen alongside the Berlin photograph, these series also ask where the photographer stands: close enough to see a gesture, or far enough away to show the street around it.

From Errance

Errance was one of the series represented in Passages. These two photographs come from the atelier’s files for the book.