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The American Desert: an Elegy to Friendship

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Raymond Depardon USA. Colorado. Denver. 1982. © Raymond Depardon | Magnum Photos
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 (...)
Raymond Depardon "Tourists at Universal Studios." From the book The American Desert. Los Angeles. California, USA. 1982. © Raymond Depardon | Magnum Photos
Raymond Depardon "The trip was too short, we had to go back, we promised we would, the editing needed to start. We headed back through Las Vegas and the Death Valley." From the book the Amercian Desert. Monument Va (...)
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 (...)
Raymond Depardon "These are white people and their industries / there are 12 million unemployed people in the United States." From the book The American Desert. Denver. Colorado, USA. 1982. © Raymond Depardon | Magnum Photos
Raymond Depardon USA. New Mexico. White Sand. 1982. © Raymond Depardon | Magnum Photos
Raymond Depardon USA. Colorado. Denver. 1982. © Raymond Depardon | Magnum Photos
Raymond Depardon USA. Colorado. Denver. 1982. © Raymond Depardon | Magnum Photos
Raymond Depardon "A picnic. The desert is private and only a few dunes are nationalized." From the book The American Desert. White Sand. New Mexico, USA. 1982. © Raymond Depardon | Magnum Photos
Raymond Depardon USA. New Mexico. White Sand. 1982. © Raymond Depardon | Magnum Photos
Raymond Depardon USA. New York City. Central Park west. 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 (...)
Raymond Depardon "Wednesday 1st of December. I have missed my flight. I don’t want to come back here anymore. Why are the United States always such an ‘untouchable and reserved’ territory?" From the book The Americ (...)
Raymond Depardon "Alamogordo. This is where the first nuclear weapons were tested. Sophie is in Beirut/ Jean is in Bilbao. Am I still a journalist?" From the book The American Desert. Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA. 1 (...)
Raymond Depardon USA. Arizona. Sun City. 1982. © Raymond Depardon | Magnum Photos
Raymond Depardon "I drive up to Santa Fe / thankfully a few adverts are here to remind me that I am in the country of Western movies." From the book The American Desert. New Mexico, USA. 1982. © Raymond Depardon | Magnum Photos
Raymond Depardon USA. California. 1982. © Raymond Depardon | Magnum Photos
Raymond Depardon "8 am. A prostitute on Las Vegas Boulevard." From the book The American Desert. Las Vegas. Nevada, USA. 1982. © Raymond Depardon | Magnum Photos
Raymond Depardon USA. New Mexico. 1982. © Raymond Depardon | Magnum Photos
Raymond Depardon USA. New Mexico. Taos. 1982. © Raymond Depardon | Magnum Photos
Raymond Depardon USA. November 22nd, 1982. © Raymond Depardon | Magnum Photos
Raymond Depardon "Monument Valley, the most beautiful one… " From the book The American Desert. Monument Valley. Utah, USA. 1982. © Raymond Depardon | Magnum Photos
Raymond Depardon USA. California. 1982. © Raymond Depardon | Magnum Photos