10 Portraits Photographiques de Christian Boltanski, 1946-1964
  • artists' book
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • staple bound
  • black-and-white
  • 21 x 13.5 cm.
  • [20] pp.
  • edition size 500
  • signed and unnumbered

10 Portraits Photographiques de Christian Boltanski, 1946-1964

Christian Boltanski

10 Portraits Photographiques de Christian Boltanski, 1946-1964

description

Artists' book featuring photographs that claim to be of Christian Boltanski at ages 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 14, 17, and 20: "All the photographs were taken one afternoon by Annette Messager, near the waterfall in the Parc Montsouris in Paris. Only the last photograph really portrays Christian Boltanski, but at the age of 28, not 20." -- from Catalogue: Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera 1966-1991. Text in French.

references

"Livres" by Christian Boltanski. Paris / Köln / Frankfurt, France / Germany : AFAA / Jennifer Flay / Walther König / Portikus, 1991.
No. 28 in "Christian Boltanski : Catalogue: Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera, 1966-1991" by Christian Boltanski, Jennifer Flay, Günter Metken. Köln / Frankfurt, Germany : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König / Portikus, 1992, pp. 74 - 75.
"Esthétique du Livre d'Artiste 1960 / 1980" by Anne Moeglin-Delcroix. Paris, France : Jean-Michel Place / Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1997, pp. 189.
"Christian Boltanski : Artist's Books 1969 - 2007" by Christian Boltanski, Bob Calle. Paris, France : Éditions 591, 2008, pp. 26 - 27.
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