Chris Marker was a French artist, director, photographer, writer, translator.
He is mainly known in the image realm for his movies "La jetée" and "Sans soleil".
In the photobook world, he is mainly known for "Coréennes", initially published in 1959 by Editions du Seuil and re-published in 2018 as a facsimilé (with additional texts) by L'Arachnéen, and "Le dépays" (Herscher, 1982).
''Portrait de Chris Marker et de Guillaume-en-Egypte, son avatar-chat'' (© Les Films du jeudi) taken from an article on Libération Next.
La Jetée (*DVD / Blu-ray / Book*)
Presentation by Potemkine: |translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " In the aftermath of the Third Wolrd War, which made the planet redioactive, a handful of survivors is trying to make it, hidden in the undergrounds of a destroyed Paris. « X », a man tormented by a vague memory of witnessing the death of a man on the Orly airport observation platform...
.Back in stock. This book is a facsimilé edition (identical format) of the original published in 1959 by Editions du Seuil. However, there is an additional afterword by Chris Marker written for the publication of the Immemory CD-Rom in 1997, and a "Note à la présente édition" ("Note to the new edition") by Sandra Alvarez Toledo. All texts are in French...