Staring Back - Couverture rigide

Marker, Chris

 
9780262083652: Staring Back
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ISBN 10 : 0262083655 ISBN 13 : 9780262083652
Editeur : The MIT Press, 2007

Synopsis

Photographs by one of French cinema's most influential and enigmatic artists.

Any new film and any new book by French filmmaker Chris Marker is an event. Marker gave film lovers one of their most memorable experiences with La Jetée (1962)—a time-travel montage set after a nuclear war that inspired Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys (1995). His still camerawork is not as well known, but Marker has been taking photographs as long as he has been making films. Staring Back presents 200 black-and-white photographs from Marker's personal archives, taken from 1952 to 2006. Some of the photographs are related to his classic films (which include Le Jetée, Sans Soleil, ¡Cuba Si!, and The Case of the Grinning Cat), others are portraits of famous faces (Simone Signoret, Akira Kurosawa), but most are pictures of people Marker has encountered as he has traveled the world (an extra who appeared in Kurosawa's Ran, a woman seen on a street in Siberia). The central section of the book contains a series of photographs documenting political protests Marker has witnessed, including the march on the Pentagon in 1967, the events of May 1968 in Paris, and the tumultuous 2006 demonstrations protesting the French government's proposed employment policies. The photographs are accompanied by several unpublished texts by Marker, including the English language text of The Case of the Grinning Cat and Marker's annotations for some of the photos. The book—which appears in conjunction with an exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University—also includes essays by Wexner Center curator Bill Horrigan and art historian Molly Nesbit.

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À propos de l?auteur

Chris Marker (born in 1921) is one of French cinema's most influential artists.

Bill Horrigan is Director of Media Arts at the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University.

Molly Nesbit teaches at Vassar College. She is a contributing editor at Artforum and is the author of Atget's Seven Albums and Their Common Sense.

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Éditeur
The MIT Press
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262083655
ISBN 13 
9780262083652
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
165
Éditeur
Horrigan Bill
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