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Toulouse: Galerie Municipale Du Chateau d'Eau, 1987. 8vo (21x21cm), staple-bound with illustrated paper wrappers. 20pp. Text in French. Wrappers with mild handling wear; slight overall toning. Content clean and sound. Very good.

A rare exhibition catalog of Agnès Varda's 1987 exhibition in Toulouse at Galerie Municipale Du Chateau d'Eau. The catalog gives an overview of Varda's photographic work, with images from her beginnings at T.N.P., documentary work, and photographs made in conjunction with her films, such as La Pointe Courte and Salut les Cubains.

London: Freedom Press, 1967. 8vo (21x14cm), staple-bound with illustrated paper wrappers. 161-193pp. Text in English. Slight rubbing to spine. Near fine.
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Anarchy Magazine, an influential anarchist publication (1961-1970) by Freedom Press, featured avant-garde designs by Rufus Seger. Issue 76 stands out with an interview by Chris Marker with striking workers at Rhodiaceta factory, Besançon in 1967, marking a precursor to the May 1968 events. This issue also inspired Marker's film, 'A bientôt j'espère', leading to the formation of Groupe Medvedkine, a collaborative film group. This edition is a rare printed record of the '68 movement's onset, also covering topics by notable contributors like Paul Goodman, John O'Connor, and more.

Artsept was a little-known periodical published in 1963 by the writer and film critic Raymond Bellour. Due to financial problems only three issues were published. With an editorial board consisting in particular of Raymond Bellour, Jean Cayrol, Armand Gatti, Jean-Louis Leutrat, Jean Michaud and Bernard Pingaud, Artsept's mission was to manifest film as the seventh art, embracing all other arts in their discourse. Each issue was dedicated to a specific topic, the first one to "real cinema", the second to "cinema and truth", and the last one to "love".

On the cover of the first issue of Artsept appear the names of Cayrol, Colpi, Durand, Gatti, Marker, Resnais, and Varda. This reads like the "Who's Who" of the Left Bank Group and already indicates a different approach to film than André Bazin's famous Cahiers du Cinéma. Each issue contains a comprehensive filmography and bibliography of the filmmakers who appear as authors or subjects in Arstept.
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