Raymond Depardon "Sunday, November 7th, 1982. I wake up in a wooden house by the Pacific Ocean. I enjoy a breakfast with lots of good things, pancakes, honey… I am in the Big Sur community. I wonder what I am doing (...)
here, but this is less depressing than Paris, it is sunny. In a couple of days I will need to show San Clemente. Venice seems far away… Olivier was buried three days ago." From the book The American Desert. Big Sur. California, USA. 1982. © Raymond Depardon | Magnum Photos
Raymond Depardon "I am going to finish a trip / a disrupted journey. Less than ten days before his death, Olivier and I went together to California, where he was invited by his friend Jean-Luc Leon to help to edit (...)
a film. I had decided the day before his departure to go to Los Angeles with him. I wanted to be there for his first trip to America. We only had one week to visit a desert that we didn’t yet know." From the book The American Desert. USA, 1982. © Raymond Depardon | Magnum Photos
Raymond Depardon "Salt Lake City. Sunday, November 28th. The temple. Am I in love? I am surprised by my own question / no, I don’t think I am / maybe with a voice in my head the voice is important! To make a romant (...)
ic movie! A Mormon with perfect French tries to convert me / I catch the first flight to the East / to New York." From the book The American Desert. Mormon temple, Salt Lake City. Utah, USA. 1982. © Raymond Depardon | Magnum Photos