pbPhotographs by one of French cinema's most influential and enigmatic artists.bppAny new film and any new book by French filmmaker Chris Marker is an event. Marker gave film lovers one of their most memorable experiences with iLa Jet ei 1962--a time-travel montage set after a nuclear war that inspired Terry Gilliam's iTwelve Monkeys i1995. His still camerawork is not as well known, but Marker has been taking photographs as long as he has been making films. iStaring Backi presents 200 black-and-white photographs from Marker's personal archives, taken from 1952 to 2006. Some of the photographs are related to his classic films which include iLe Jet e, Sans Soleil, Cuba Si , iand iThe Case of the Grinning Cati, others are portraits of famous faces Simone Signoret, Akira Kurosawa, but most are pictures of people Marker has encountered as he has traveled the world an extra who appeared in Kurosawa's Ran, a woman seen on a street in Siberia. The central section of the book contains a series