A little Bar-Tabac-Presse draped in lot-Atery ads on the corner of a run-down street; a freshly built yet deserted roundabout beside green fields; three empty plastic chairs lined up inside the window of a boucherie-charcuterie. Such humdrum details of everyday small-town France have been captured in 36 giant colour photographs by Raymond Depardon, a French film-maker and photographer, currently on display in a gem of an exhibition at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, part of the Paris photo season. Not for Mr Depardon the dreamy France of cobblestones and cathedrals. Since 2004 he has regularly travelled the back roads of the country, starting on the windswept northern beaches near Calais, packing his old wooden view camera and sleeping bag into the back of his van.
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