Staring Back
$67.82
- Hardcover
165 pages
- Release Date
3 August 2007
Summary
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 Jetee (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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262083652 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262083655 |
| Author: | Chris Marker, Bill Horrigan, Molly Nesbit |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 165 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2007 |
| Weight: | 1.02kg |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 279mm x 25mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
The authentic quality of witness that attends Marker’s reflections and pronouncements in his cinematic work is evident in the two hundred photographs in this collection…Accompanied by text in Marker’s inimitable voice, the collection stands as further testimony to his commitment to record not just social struggle but the poetry behind it.
—The New YorkerWhat [these photographs] do demonstrate abundantly is Marker’s endless curiosity about human (and animal) physiology, and the shy, seductive promise of what Buber called the I-Thou encounter.
—Film CommentAbout The Author
Chris Marker
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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