BOLTANSKI Christian (Paris 1944 - 2021)
Hamburg - Paris, Edition [Lebeer] Hossmann / Sonnabend Press, 1972, 19,7 × 14,6 cm, pp. [32], typographic cover, with 32 black-and-white photographic images taken by Annette Messager and numbered in print using Roman numerals. Each image is accompanied by an explanatory caption. Edition of 500 unnumbered copies. Copy containing two 4-page booklets with English and German translations of all 32 captions. Despite the childhood dates in its title, the photographs were made by Annette Messager in June 1972. The book therefore offers a retrospective construction of autobiography rather than a set of surviving childhood snapshots. Images and explanatory captions acquire the appearance of evidence, while the gap between the dates evoked and the moment of photography raises questions about how memory is reconstructed and made credible.
[Bibliography: Calle 2008: p. 27].
BOLTANSKI Christian (Paris 1944 - 2021)
Hamburg - Paris, Edition [Lebeer] Hossmann / Sonnabend Press, 1972, 19,7 × 14,6 cm, pp. [32], typographic cover, with 32 black-and-white photographic images taken by Annette Messager and numbered in print using Roman numerals. Each image is accompanied by an explanatory caption. Edition of 500 unnumbered copies. Copy containing two 4-page booklets with English and German translations of all 32 captions. Despite the childhood dates in its title, the photographs were made by Annette Messager in June 1972. The book therefore offers a retrospective construction of autobiography rather than a set of surviving childhood snapshots. Images and explanatory captions acquire the appearance of evidence, while the gap between the dates evoked and the moment of photography raises questions about how memory is reconstructed and made credible.
[Bibliography: Calle 2008: p. 27].
