FORME DE TOI
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Forme de toi (1968) by Marc Attali is a striking and intimate exploration of the human body through photographic fragmentation and repetition.
Working at an unusually close range, Attali isolates details of the female form, transforming them into abstract compositions that move between sensuality and formal study. The sequencing of images creates a rhythmic visual flow, where repetition becomes both method and narrative.
Printed with deep tonal contrast and presented against distinctive black pages, the book enhances the tactile and visual intensity of the images. The result is a publication that feels both obsessive and meditative an ode to form, texture, and proximity.
Emerging in the late 1960s, the work reflects a broader shift toward experimental photographic language, where the body becomes a site of abstraction and conceptual inquiry.
A rare and highly collectible pre-1970 photobook.
Publisher: Éditions André Balland
Year: 1968
Edition: First Edition
Language: French
Format: Hardcover
Dimensions: 36 × 28 cm
Pages: 96 pages
Condition: Very good condition for its age. Signs of wear consistent with time; overall well preserved.
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We work with objects that speak quietly but persistently publications, recordings, and editions that define the undercurrents of art, sound, and design. Together they form a living record of marginal brilliance, a collection that privileges significance over scale.
Intermission exists in the space between documentation and devotion an ongoing archive of cultural fragments that refuse to vanish. Each title within our portfolio is selected not for trend, but for tension: between what was meant to disappear and what insists on remaining.
We work with objects that speak quietly but persistently publications, recordings, and editions that define the undercurrents of art, sound, and design. Together they form a living record of marginal brilliance, a collection that privileges significance over scale.
Every Intermission title is handled as an artifact. We believe that preservation is an act of reverence one that begins the moment you open a cover or unspool a tape.
To experience a piece, do so slowly. Allow the air to touch the paper, let light fall softly over each page. Avoid excess pressure; handle edges rather than surfaces. Each mark, fold, or patina is part of its passage through time evidence of care rather than decay.
We encourage collectors to engage not only with the content, but with the gesture of preservation itself: a quiet commitment to memory.
Every Intermission title is handled as an artifact. We believe that preservation is an act of reverence one that begins the moment you open a cover or unspool a tape.
To experience a piece, do so slowly. Allow the air to touch the paper, let light fall softly over each page. Avoid excess pressure; handle edges rather than surfaces. Each mark, fold, or patina is part of its passage through time evidence of care rather than decay.
We encourage collectors to engage not only with the content, but with the gesture of preservation itself: a quiet commitment to memory.
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