Staring Back

Chris Marker, Bill Horrigan (Director of Media Arts, Ohio State University), Molly Nesbit , Molly Nesbit

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English

MIT Press
03 August 2007

Individual photographers; Photographs: collections

Series: The MIT Press

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 photographs from Marker's personal archives, taken from 1952 to 2006. Some of the photographs are related to his classic films (which include Le Jetee, Sans Soleil,

Cuba Si!, and The Case of the Grinning Cat), others are portraits of famous faces (Simone Signoret, Akira Kurosawa), but most are pictures of people Marker has encountered as he has traveled the world (an extra who appeared in Kurosawa's Ran, a woman seen on a street in Siberia). The central section of the book contains a series of photographs documenting political protests Marker has witnessed, including the march on the Pentagon in 1967, the events of May 1968 in Paris, and the tumultuous 2006 demonstrations protesting the French government's proposed employment policies. The photographs are accompanied by several unpublished texts by Marker, including the English language text of The Case of the Grinning Cat and Marker's annotations for some of the photos. The book-which appears in conjunction with an exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University-also includes essays by Wexner Center curator Bill Horrigan and art historian Molly Nesbit.

By: Chris Marker
Contributions by: Molly Nesbit, Molly Nesbit
Edited by: Bill Horrigan (Director of Media Arts Ohio State University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 279mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1.021kg
ISBN: 9780262083652
ISBN 10: 0262083655
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 165
Publication Date: 03 August 2007
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Staring Back

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 Yorker