Willy Ronis, autoportrait d’un photographe by Michel Toutain AND Les années Déclic by Roger Ikhlef

– Willy Ronis, autoportrait d’un photographe by Michel Toutain, 2003, (55′)

For seventy-six years, Willy Ronis photographed himself every year. The first self-portrait was taken when he was sixteen the last, at the age of ninety-two. These self-portraits create the framework for this film, in which Willy Ronis talks about himself, his art and his career. He shares stories of the moments before pressing the trigger and analyses some of his best known photographs which sealed his place in photographic history.

– Les années Déclic by Roger Ikhlef, 1984 (65′)

In Les années déclic (The Declic Years, a pun on the sound of a camera shutter), Depardon presents himself—photographs taken over twenty years; excerpts from his films; and, behind it all, his image—for consideration, creating a powerful, lonely, and gripping autobiographical tour. Depardon’s examination of issues and questions in photography and journalism permeates his work, prompting Cahiers du cinéma’s Louis Marcorelles to write of Depardon’s auteur complex. The camera is his alter ego, a mirror along the road as Stendhal said of the novel, and a mirror in the Cocteau tradition, Narcissus’s perfect tool.