Christian Boltanski 1944 France
Sans-Souci (1991)
This book is a haunting meditation on the bonds of history, in the format of a 1930s family photo album with 56 b&w photos. Published on the occasion of an exhibition. 16pp, 22 x 29cm, hardcover. Edition of 2000. Portikus, Frankfurt am Main and Walther König, Köln.
Bury, Stephen 1995, Artists’ Books The Book as a Work of Art. 1963-1995, Scolar Press, Aldershot.
Flay, Jennifer (ed.) 1992, Christian Boltanski : Catalogue, Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera 1966-1991, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. no. 77
Wey, Deborah and Weitman, Wendy 2006, Eye on Europe : prints, books, and multiples / 1960 to now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
White Shadows (1991)
A strip of photographs of paper cutout figures white on black evoking spirits, skeltons, and dancers in a macabre dance. 14 pp. 15 x 20 cm, concertina book in box. Edition 500. Bayou Books, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.
Flay, Jennifer (ed.) 1992, Christian Boltanski : Catalogue, Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera 1966-1991, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. no. 79
Le Club Mickey (1991)
Imschoot, Uitgevers, Gent, Belgium.
Flay, Jennifer (ed.) 1992, Christian Boltanski : Catalogue, Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera 1966-1991, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. no. 73.
Wey, Deborah and Weitman, Wendy 2006, Eye on Europe : prints, books, and multiples / 1960 to now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Archive of the Carnegie International 1896-1991 (1991)
The 84 pages of this book contain a list of all participants of the Carnegie International from 1896-1991. It was published on the occasion of the 1991 Carnegie International in Pittsburg, where Christian boltanski showed a related work. Edition 2,000, 100 include signed photograph. The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
Flay, Jennifer (ed.) 1992, Christian Boltanski : Catalogue, Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera 1966-1991, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. no. 80
Diese Kinder Suchen Ihre Eltern (1994)
In German with preface in English, French and German.87 pp., approximately 80 b&w illustrations. Gina Kehayoff Verlag, Munich.
Kaddish (1998)
Kaddish is divided into four sections: Menschlich, Sachlich, Oertlich, Sterblich (human, objective, locality, mortality). In Kaddish, which is the Jewish prayer for the dead, Boltanski presents 1142 b&w photographs of people, objects, places and the dead from pre/during/and post World War II. The images printed on very thin paper are intentionally blurred, just as our memories become blurred with time. 27.0 x 22.5 x 5.5 cm. Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, with Gina Kehayoff Verlag, Munich.
Parr, Martin and Badger, Gerry 2006, The Photobook: A History volume II, Phaidon Press Limited, London.
Scratch (2002)
A “scratch it” book. Only by the slow and borning process of scratching to remove the silver surface are the shocking images revealed. The process is something akin to draging up forgotten memories. 5 pages covered front and back with silver surface, interleaved with tissue. 15 x 22 cm. One opened and one sealed copies held. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Cologne.
La Vie Impossible (2001)
Denis Diderot names three possible ways of creativity: the real person, the person invented by the author and the person hovering in the author’s mind. In La Vie Impossible Christian Boltanski follows Diderot’s adage by answering a hundred imaginary questions about himself. In this “autobiography” by the artist, the answers take the form of pictures from his mind, and are presented in photo and text collages on see-through paper. 21 x 27 cm. 200 pp. Heavy black paper with text screenprinted in silver and 100 see through pages with images overprinted in black. Anhaltische Gemaeldegalerie Dessau, Dessau; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln.
Les Habitants du Louvre (2009)
Christian Boltanski and Jacques Roubaud
A game of mix and match – 80 cards with images of authors and artists who are represented in the Louvre collection. The cards have been cut into two, and it is up to the viewer/player to marry them or not. 80 cards accompanied by book in box container 24.5 x 19.0 x 6.5 cm. Collection holds No 16 of 40 signed by Boltanski and Roubaud and numbered by hand. Éditions Dilecta, Paris