Right from the very start Raymond Depardon has photographed political figures. He has chosen 91 of these photos, some from his news coverage and others form meetings of ‘a more personal nature’, selecting as many foreign as French figures, from both the left and right wings of politics. If this book reflects, through the portraits, the last 35 years of political life, from Allende to Goukouni Weydeye, President of Tchad, from Martine Aubry to Dominique de Villepin, its interest is chiefly in showing the evolution that political photography has made during this period, from the way in which the...