Marguerite Duras’ “L’homme atlantique” [Atlantic Man], here in the German translation, is a text about literary and filmic approaches to the topic of “memory.” For the book project, pictures are taken with time exposure in an attempt to photographically implement memory. By contrast, Duras moved away from the image in her eponymous film “L’homme atlantique,” instead choosing the color black and/or a black screen. Marguerite Duras: “My work on the disappearance of images shapes the film right from the first image, from the first word. (…) I believe blackness is buried in all of my films, underneath the image. Throughout all of them, I was always only attempting to reach the deep flow of the film, finally free from the permanence of the image.”

26 black and white photographs, photo-typesetting (Futura), offset printed, coated paper, printed cloth-covered boards, 44 pages, 28 × 22 cm, 50 numbered and signed copies, Offenbach/Main 1987, (sold)

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