"Published for Boltanski’s 1998 exhibition at the Musee (accent to the left over first e) d’Art Moderne, this massive book is not a catalogue but rather an accompaniment for the show. This work is embellished with over eleven hundred black and white photographs from which Boltanski attempts to rescue the individual and events from historical oblivion. “Each object conceals a story, and each object has a face,” claims Boltanski, asking reader to regard each of the hundreds of photographs individually."

From www.printedmatter.org