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Rare books, visual culture. Rare Book Dealer & Publisher Based in Bilbao and run by Sören Schuhmacher Latest catalog on #chrismarker chunkingbooks.com

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“Bibliomania: A Preface to CHRONOVISOR” opens Friday @filmlinc.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
A text translated into English hovers over an Italian report: “A machine has been invented that photographs the past.”
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poorly heir @poorlyheir.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
RIP Ben Morea. This Chris Marker film shows the time Morea and others broke into the Pentagon during an anti-war protest. vimeo.com/239333605
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The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (1968)
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of what became known as The March on the Pentagon October 21, 1967 Washington, DC Here's a description of this film from Fandor's site On October 21, 1967,...
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prada 丰 meinhof @prada-meinhof.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Helmut Herbst (1969) “The one-hour 35mm film DEUTSCHLAND DADA was made in 1968/69 in the form of a dada alphabet. [...] Outstanding: the statements & performances of the Dadaists Raoul Hausmann, Richard Huelsenbeck & Hans Richter who were still alive at the time.” www.ubu.com/film/herbst_...
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
How Chantal Akerman, Jean-Luc Godard, other legendary filmmakers managed to fund their art.
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How Legendary Filmmakers Funded Their Creative Lives
The Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman wasn’t born into any special artistic lineage. Growing up, she was, in the words of a friend, “a lower-middle-class nobody whose father owned a clothing store.…
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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Remembering Alexander Kluge … www.criterion.com/current/post...
Alexander Kluge, and of course, behind him, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, in Munich in 1975.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
"The hulking older brother to Polaroid’s iconic folding SX-70, the Instant Land measured 64x105x150cm, weighed ~90kg + [printed] 50 x 60cm photos in 60 secs. Rather than taking it out into the 🌍, one needed to bring the 🌍 to it. Ghirri happily obliged, bringing with him suitcases full of props..."
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Last chance to see: rare, giant Polaroids by Luigi Ghirri
A 90kg Polaroid camera demanded that Luigi Ghirri brought the world to the photo studio. With the help of his trusty suitcase full of props, he wasn't far off
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
"...what a 'museum of errantry' might be: not encyclopedic, not chronological, not something that promotes a fixed vision of culture, not a monument to a past..., but a constantly shifting archive [of] communication across borders + language barriers, of mvmnt that doesn’t seek to claim territory."
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
"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
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CINEMANIA a film by ANGELA CHRISTLIEB & STEPHEN KIJAK
Five movie-obsessed individuals in New York detail their compulsive watching habits and moviegoing rituals.
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Thomas Schulz @bilderwald.blog · 09/06/2025
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
© Cindy Sherman / Courtesy Thames and Hudson© Cindy Sherman / Courtesy Thames and Hudson
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Chunking Books @chunkingbooks.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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/...
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Art books at the Warburg Institute and Tate  - Monocle
We explore the genre of art books at a new exhibition at London’s Warburg Institute, which explores art publishing and...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
A collection of the Letterform Archive's ephemera — from chopstick wrappers to transit tickets to product labels to punk flyers to calendars
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Ephemera
Letterform Archive’s collection of ephemera aims to outlast its impermanent nature and provide endless design inspiration.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Paul Lukas shared a nice write-up about the show:
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Finally, a Museum Exhibit of Trade Catalogs!
I’ve collected vintage trade catalogs for years. Now they’ve gotten the museum treatment at one of America’s most famous institutions.
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Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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”
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In Thread Memory, photography of Palestinian tatreez resists forgetting - 1854 Photography
Making use of the Palestine Museum’s large digitised collection, Rachel Dedman curates photographic context to visual heritage not “limited to colonial collections”
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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
film strips from “Broadway by Light,” William Klein's first cinematic project in 1958.
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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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...
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Mario Vargas Llosa dies at 89: Nobel laureate from Peru was the last of 'El Boom' novelists
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for decades, has died, his son said Sunday.
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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
‘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...
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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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.)
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Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
It's that time -- please share! lithub.com/submissions-...
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Submissions are open for the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize.
Literary Hub is pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the ninth annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, which awards $1,000 for “an outstanding book collection conceived and b…
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
A very timely long read, with a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers: on.ft.com/4fWX6pR
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The last days of Walter Benjamin
Hounded by the Nazis, the great philosopher took his life in 1940, leaving several mysteries unanswered
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Chunking Books @chunkingbooks.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
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.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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: buff.ly/49nuK6h #publishingnews
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A conversation with Mitch Anzuoni, editor of Inpatient Press
We speak with Mitch Anzuoni of Inpatient Press, which joins the MIT Press this month as a distributed partner.
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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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)
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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...
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Appreciation: Jean-Luc Godard, a master of cinema who changed the medium forever
In a six-decade career that included "Breathless," "Week-end" and "Goodbye to Language," the unaccountably great and inventive artist always managed to tick off all the right people.
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Chunking Books @chunkingbooks.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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.
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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Tacita Dean, La Bataille d’Arras, 2001 botfrens.com/collections/14375/cont…
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Presented by the artist 2002
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NPR @npr.org · 24/11/2024
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.
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A new installation lets you hear extinct and endangered animal sounds, thanks to Björk
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.
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Maties! @matiestp.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Còmic sobre Varda dibuixat per Chris Marker (circa 1955).
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Chunking Books @chunkingbooks.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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.
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Chunking Books @chunkingbooks.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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.
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Chunking Books @chunkingbooks.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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.
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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...
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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · 24/11/2024
1960's Ottagono Magazines Designer/s: Bob Noorda / Unimark designreviewed.com/designer/bob...
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Chunking Books @chunkingbooks.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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.
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Gav @antihippy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Great essay on Ballard. Worth your time.
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📚 Twisted Haus Reads @twistedhausreads.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
This is a fantastic starter pack full of 150 books, journals, press, publishers, and publications. 📚💙
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Chunking Books @chunkingbooks.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
For her first appearance on television, Agnès Varda captures a portrait of Brassaï on Rue Daguerre in Paris.
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1954 : Agnès Varda et Brassaï rue Daguerre | Archive INA
YouTube video by INA Paris Vintage
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Chunking Books @chunkingbooks.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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.
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m.t. @mattlloydturner.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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
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Igor Levit @igorpianist.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Kultur- und Finanzpolitik at it’s best. Glückwunsch. Glückwunsch…
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Chunking Books @chunkingbooks.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Thoroughly enjoyed this!
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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Check out this great starter pack to Archives and Library Special Collections on Bluesky by @mrcwarwick.bsky.social! ⬇️ go.bsky.app/4EpKvv2
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 17/11/2024
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.
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How the Women's Studio Workshop Shakes Up the Art of Bookmaking
What started as a small feminist arts collective has grown to host hundreds of residents and publish countless books under its own imprint.
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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 17/11/2024
I highly recommend his podcast, Ways of Hearing, which explores the nature of listening in our digital world. www.radiotopia.fm/showcase/way...
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Chunking Books @chunkingbooks.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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.
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
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...
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
"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...
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Bookselling Out | Dan Sinykin
“The Bookshop” tells the story of American bookstores in thirteen types. Its true subject is not how bookstore can survive, but how they should be.
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Chain of Flowers @craigatcof.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
The Cure to Perform Rare Intimate Concert for BBC Broadcast on Halloween
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The Cure to Perform Rare Intimate Concert for BBC Broadcast on Halloween — Post-Punk.com
The Cure are set to perform a rare, intimate concert for BBC Radio 2 on October 30, but it appears that only UK residents can apply for tickets. Held at…
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