Fine Print: Los Angeles and vicinity. USA, 2008-2015 Paper size:16 x 20 in (40 x 50 cm) Raymond Depardon’s La Correspondance New-Yorkaise

Raymond Depardon’s La Correspondance New-Yorkaise was published in the Libération newspaper in France

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The thirty-year civil war – a chaotic period known as “The Troubles” – officially began in 1968 but the bubbling violence which marked it was laden with deep-rooted divisions

It was a pivotal moment both in French photography and in Depardon’s career

Following in his brother Robert Capa's footsteps

Fine Print: Los Angeles and vicinity. USA, 2008-2015 Paper size:16 x 20 in (40 x 50 cm) Raymond Depardon’s La Correspondance New-YorkaiseThe images of this serie begin in the desert east of Los Angeles and move west through the city, ending at the Pacific. This general westward movement alludes to a thirst for water, as well as the original expansion of America, which was born in the East and which hungrily drove itself West until reaching the Pacific, thereby fulfilling its manifest destiny. The people, places, and animals in the book did exist before Halperns camera, but he has sewn