24 May INVENTORY OF OBJECTS BELONGING TO A YOUNG WOMAN OF CHARLESTON. 1991.
Charleston: Spoleto Festival, 1991
21 x 14cm, 52pp plus original wrappers. Artist's book which displays 345 b/w images of the claimed belongings of a young woman in Charleston (the town of the Festival). One of several such artist's books surveying a student's entire inventory - shown without comment in a quasi-archival manner. Much as with the appropriated photographs of unknown people Boltanski uses an anonymous subject, In fact one cannot be sure that this is even a real person and not an accumulation of found items. Boltanski was part of the Festival exhibition "Places with a Past: new Site Specific Art in Charleston". The photographs are credited to Beth Dinoff by an attached label at the back of the book. VG+.
Referenced in Flay Boltanski Catalogue Page 200.
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