In the 1950's, the hugely influential filmmaker Chris Marker, who died earlier this year, worked for the publishing house Editions du Seuil and, among other projects, he was responsible for Seuil’s series of travel books, Petite Planète.
The books bear telltale signs of both Marker's wonderful sense of design and his eye for suggestive narrative details.
In 2006 Marker collected a copy of each book that he designed for
display at an exhibition titled Having Been Described in Words. After the show, Marker decided to produce a poster depicting the covers of the Petite Planète guides from 1954-64. A rare edition of the
poster is currently for sale on the site Light Industry. Even if you're not in the market for a poster, take a moment to look at the hypnotic image created by all of these lovely books in one place.
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It's nice that they're all pretty ladies. Perhaps pretty ladies want to visit other pretty ladies as much as the chaps do. Where in the small world shall I go? Urss? La Chine?
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