"Mordant and confounding, this one-of-a-kind portrait of five individuals who attend two-to-five film screenings per day has achieved cult success for its brazen exploration of cinephiles’ most compulsive tendencies." Screening free for the week @ Le Cinéma Club

Cindy Sherman: Retrospective. Cindy Sherman (American, b. 1954) is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential artists in contemporary art. photoblog1965.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/c... #photobooks #photography #photo #fotografie #blog #portraitphotography 📷 📸 #cindysherman

Enjoyed listening to Arnaud from The Everyday Press and Hlib from Biblioteka talk about artists’ books, libraries, and the politics of publishing! monocle.com/radio/shows/...

A collection of the Letterform Archive's ephemera — from chopstick wrappers to transit tickets to product labels to punk flyers to calendars

Paul Lukas shared a nice write-up about the show:

The legacy of visual symbolism carries through Thread Memory, where archival material isn’t neutral; it’s radically local. Images are drawn not from state institutions or foreign-held collections “like the Library of Congress”, notes the curator but from families.”Palestine through Palestinian eyes”

film strips from “Broadway by Light,” William Klein's first cinematic project in 1958.

It pays to be a nudge. My obit of Mario Vargas Llosa — in all his literary complexity and right wing facho tendencies — is up. www.latimes.com/world-nation...

‘Too original for just one medium’: Agnès Varda’s Paris photographs - The esteemed film director began as a photographer, capturing the postwar freedom of Paris – a exhibition at the Musée Carnavalet now presents her as a part of the city’s creative history www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...

This exhibition looks wonderful. (In the '70s I lived one street away from Varda's atelier & shopped at the rue Daguerre market, but never knew she was there, alas.)

It's that time -- please share! lithub.com/submissions-...

A very timely long read, with a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers: on.ft.com/4fWX6pR

In 2021, Comme des Garçons worked with Chris Marker’s archive to create limited-edition catalogs and installations in NYC and London. Curated by Rei Kawakubo, the project wove together Marker’s photography, films, and text, drawing from the Cinémathèque française and his Staring Back exhibition.

We are excited to announce that Inpatient Press has joined the MIT Press as a distributed partner! To celebrate this news, we sat down with founding editor Mitch Anzuoni to discuss his work and publishing philosophy: https://buff.ly/49nuK6h #publishingnews

A league of their own: Girl’s baseball team, coached by Tlingit photographer George Johnston. Photographed by Johnston at Nisutlin River, Yukon in 1941. From ‘Unter Der Mitternachts Sonne.’ BlanketToss Under Midnight Sun (German edition)

BOTD Jean Luc Godard! We remain in awe of his 15 feature run, 1960-7 More: @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/post... @szacharek.bsky.social: time.com/6212979/jean... @samadams.bsky.social: slate.com/culture/2022... @justincchang.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

The July 1960 issue of DU Magazine is dedicated to Jean Cocteau. For me, it feels like an early take on yellow press home stories—intimate glimpses with a touch of flair. What really draws me in is the assemblage of images on his desk, especially the many photos of Picasso.

Tacita Dean, La Bataille d’Arras, 2001 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1121113

The Icelandic pop star Björk's new installation at Centre Pompidou in Paris uses animal sounds to help people understand what's lost and what we stand to lose as a result of human-caused climate change.

Còmic sobre Varda dibuixat per Chris Marker (circa 1955).

Luigi Ghirri's Omaggio a (Homage to) Walter Benjamin, was published in 1989 in the Italian design and architecture magazine Ottagono. The portfolio consists of sixteen plates of twenty-five color photographs of Paris taken between 1972 and 1987, edited and designed by Ghirri himself.

Exciting find. This 1973 Fernsehfibel is packed with 64 interactive boards. Designed for use in preschools, schools, and homes, these sheets aim to promote a changed use of the television medium and to critically engage with it.

Tanaquil Le Clercq, one of the great 20th-century ballerinas, published this whimsical book in 1964 after polio ended her career. It tells the story of Mourka, her lively cat, through her witty writing and photos by Martha Swope, the renowned photographer of the New York City Ballet.

A really gorgeously illustrated piece (or two) from @chunkingbooks.bsky.social here of great interest to #skystorians and those working on 20th century #bookhistory, I think! chunkingbooks.com/chris-marker...

1960's Ottagono Magazines Designer/s: Bob Noorda / Unimark designreviewed.com/designer/bob...

In 1955, Chris Marker and Juliette Caputo co-edited a stunning book on Fellini’s La Strada for Éditions du Seuil, blending film stills, illustrations, and text. It features essays by André Bazin and interviews with Giulietta Masina and Fellini.

Great essay on Ballard. Worth your time.

This is a fantastic starter pack full of 150 books, journals, press, publishers, and publications. 📚💙

For her first appearance on television, Agnès Varda captures a portrait of Brassaï on Rue Daguerre in Paris.

Bringing statues back to life with the help of "Statues Also Die" by Alain Resnais and Chris Marker and "African folktales & sculpture" from the Bollingen series with photos by Walker Evans and Eliot Elisofon.

notebook 6 is here soon (and available to preorder via subscription) 🎈 theme is “expressions of youth” 🐣 articles on screening experimental films for children, bootleg movie merch, youth workshops, online gore, and more. artists inc. nikita lavretski, fox maxy, amalia ulman… mubi.com/magazine

Thoroughly enjoyed this!

Check out this great starter pack to Archives and Library Special Collections on Bluesky by @mrcwarwick.bsky.social! ⬇️ go.bsky.app/4EpKvv2

Founded at the peak of second-wave feminism, the Women’s Studio Workshop has since expanded from a grassroots organization in a framehouse to a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that’s hosted hundreds of residents.

I highly recommend his podcast, Ways of Hearing, which explores the nature of listening in our digital world. www.radiotopia.fm/showcase/way...

In 1972, John Berger won the Booker Prize, donating half to the British Black Panthers and using the rest to create A Seventh Man with Jean Mohr. This genre-defying book tells migrant workers’ stories through independent words and images. Nearly 50 years on, it remains a vital call for solidarity.

Hey, Chris Marker fans out there! I got this book recently and it's just gorgeous. You can find a PDF of the original (impossible-to-find) French edition online but the sheer quality of printing, &c. here is just exceptional (Film Desk Books, 2024; #skystorians) www.filmdeskbooks.com/shop/p/le-de...

"Bookstores are places, too, that can interrupt the flow of publishing’s culture industry by showcasing books that customers might not otherwise see. The art of handselling is a beautiful thing." thebaffler.com/latest/books...

The Cure to Perform Rare Intimate Concert for BBC Broadcast on Halloween

👇 www.e-flux.com/journal/147/...

The Fall/Winter 1946-1947 issue of Twice a Year, published shortly after Alfred Stieglitz’s death, was dedicated to his memory. Reflecting the post-World War II context, this issue featured Stieglitz’s Equivalents cloud photograph, symbolizing a quest for human transcendence amid the atomic age.

Utterly fantastic, well worth your time reading this weekend. Gift article - Sasha Weiss, "The Prince We Never Knew" (NYT): www.nytimes.com/2024/09/08/m...

Such sad news- RIP German artist Rebecca Horn (1944-2024), who in the 1970s began creating works that explored the body's limits & extensions in space

Here we are again: #tatortkunst ist wieder da. Ab heute in der DLF-App - und in jedem guten Fachgeschäft für Podcasts. #Deutschlandfunk #truecrime

just read this wonderful piece by Max Goldberg on Chris Marker www.filmcomment.com/blog/the-owl...