The “unreasonable” catalogue of the Museum of Printing and Graphic Communication presents the testimony of fifty authors — printers, graphic designers, curators, bibliophiles, booksellers, researchers — who discuss their attachment to a document from the collections.
Richly illustrated, the book traces the evolution of the graphic world. In fifty years, the lead techniques inherited from Gutenberg have been disrupted and then replaced by photography, electronics and computers. Today, the modes of production, distribution and consumption of graphic products are profoundly transformed by the advent of the virtual document and digital networks and media.
The book allows you to discover the Museum's collections, which have continued to grow since its creation in 1964 by Maurice Audin. They have opened up to the whole of graphic communication: books, prints and the written press, but also many utilitarian, everyday, often ephemeral documents that have been, for more than two centuries, among the main drivers of graphic innovation, one of the main sources of the visual world around us.
A truly intimate and sentimental encounter with readers around the memory — and the future — of words and images.
Collective work
