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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.

L'An 2000 : une anti-histoire de la fin du monde by André Clément Decouflé was published twenty-five years before the year 2000. With the new millennial approaching the world was forced to think about it's future. At the time L'An 2000 was published in 1975, André Clément Decouflé was the director of the Laboratoire de Prospective Appliquée
in Paris, whose research focused on social foresight, which aims to prepare the future through a rational and holistic approach. L'An 2000 brings together a really astonishing collection of literature dealing with the prediction of the future.

Most of the books in the collection were written in the middle of the 20th Century and offer at the same time a great insight of this era itself. The list of references is long and includes books, like the influential environmentalist text A Blueprint for Survival; Frank Herbert's Dune; The Year 2000: A Framework for Speculation on the Next Thirty-Three Years by the military strategist Herman Kahn, who was the… Read More