"The starting point for the book was a box containing a number of photographs which Christian Boltanski found at the flea market. They show Geo Harly, a little-known artist aof the pre-war period, during a performance and with his mother and brother: a clown in his professional and private life, a mediocre artist but nice guy" --from Christian Boltanski: Catalogue: Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera 1966-1991.