Publisher/Ivorypress

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"Telephones" is a collection of works by American musician and multi-artist Christian Marclay. Born in California in 1955 and raised in Switzerland, he gained attention in the 1970s for his performances using turntables and records as interactive instruments. Since the 1980s, he has explored the fusion of music and visual art, creating works incorporating sound and music-related visual elements such as records, comics, film, and photography. His signature work, "The Clock" (2010), connects scenes of clocks from films and television at one-minute intervals, synchronizing them with the real timeline to create a 24-hour video work. This work has been a hot topic in Japan, and the published book is highly sought after by collectors as a rare copy. Marclay continues to explore new artistic expressions that transcend the field of music (auditory perception) and incorporate visual elements such as photography and video. This book was created in the 1990s, before The Clock was created, and was a precursor to the Clock series that followed. It shows the beginnings of Marclay's video collage, a seven-minute video work that compiles footage of "telephone calls" selected from numerous VHS tapes he rented from a rental shop. The book's design, resembling a small telephone directory, is also wonderful.