This book has been designed like an exhibition, a subjective and commented atlas of artistic, media-driven and documentary images that dialogue with one another.
    It entertains questions from different eras, whether they be climatic, identity-related or digital, centered around the symbolic toxicity of images when they overwhelm our field of vision, capture our attention, and alter our capacity for analysis.
    It shows how the museum is today a fundamental and decisive place for taking the time to consider existing images and affirm those to come.
    Joseph Belletante, Director of the Musée de l’Imprimerie et de la Communication graphique (Lyon, France), proposes an essay essential to restoring our ability to act.   
    Alain Willaume, photographer, signs the postface of the book with a selection of images where the role of the eye is summoned. His images testify to the power of the gaze as an energy.

Author: Joseph Belletante, director of Musée de l’Imprimerie et de la Communication graphique (Lyon, France)
Postface: Alain Willaume, photographer, part of Tendance floue 
Translators: Derek Byrne et Intonations

Format: 17 × 23 cm
Pages: 176
ISBN: 978-2-919380-50-3
Release: 2022
Languages: English, French
Domains: Visual culture, Graphic design
Price: €19.50

Graphic design: Bureau 205
Typefaces: Alcalá, Damien Gautier, 205TF; F Grotesk, Radim Peško
Printing: Imprimerie Ott, Wasselonne (67), France