Item #24610 L'an 2000: Une Anti-Histoire de la fin du Monde. André Decouflé, contributor Chris Marker.
L'an 2000: Une Anti-Histoire de la fin du Monde
L'an 2000: Une Anti-Histoire de la fin du Monde
L'an 2000: Une Anti-Histoire de la fin du Monde
L'an 2000: Une Anti-Histoire de la fin du Monde
L'an 2000: Une Anti-Histoire de la fin du Monde
L'an 2000: Une Anti-Histoire de la fin du Monde
L'an 2000: Une Anti-Histoire de la fin du Monde
L'an 2000: Une Anti-Histoire de la fin du Monde
L'an 2000: Une Anti-Histoire de la fin du Monde

L'an 2000: Une Anti-Histoire de la fin du Monde

Paris: Gallimard, 1975. 12mo, 226 pp, trade paperback.

A strange and beautiful work of time travel, written by the noted sociologist, historian of the Paris Commune, and "prospectiviste" Decouflé. Written in 1975, the book envisages what the year 2000 would be like, 25 years in the past. The vision of 2000 in the book turned out to be an alternate history, at least in this branch of history, and Decouflé's disappointment with how the year 2000 would deviate from his vision lead to his gradual withdrawal from the public sphere and career as a "prospectiviste".

This book is notable for in that there is another book nestled within the asserted book, and that book was written by Chris Marker, who at the colophon is credited with the photomontage on the cover - a striking image of a photograph by Marker of a detail from Lucas Cranach the Elder's painting Adam and Eve, nestled onto the glass visor of a USIS photograph of an astronaut made during the first moon landing. Marker also seems to have been responsible for creating an apocalyptic standalone sequence of 24 appropriated or found images, divided into four sections - Violences, Qui Vivra, Pollution, and Mythologies, with some of the images credited to Archives Marker - a beautiful montage which reads as a film, and which is strongly reminiscent of his use of found imagery in La Jetée and other films.

Very good with light wear. Item #24610

Price: $25.00