A remarkable conceptual artist's book published in 1994 by the activist graphic collective Ne Pas Plier. 8vo (6.25” x 8.75”), softcover, 96 pages plus printed wrappers yielding the titular 100 images. Conceived by Gérard Paris-Clavel, with photography by Marc Pataut and text by John Berger, the volume consists of the repeated printing of a single (black-and white) image across every page: Paris-Clavel's now-iconic Money World image, depicting a child beneath globe-shaped Mickey Mouse ears. First developed in 1994 in the context of Ne Pas Plier's socially engaged work in Blanc-Mesnil, the image became one of the collective's most recognizable visual statements. Here, its relentless repetition transforms the publication into a meditation on political memory, circulation, duration, and the social life of images. Berger himself understood the project as demonstrating how repetition and time could generate new meanings. His text, all on the rear wrapper, reads “I have this book in my hands, and I turn the pages, one after another, all the time waiting for something, however slight, to change, to shift. Nothing changes. And that’s why the book was made. Time and time again, you come back to the same question: how much longer?”
Laid in are an original Money World stamp and an autograph postcard signed by Paris-Clavel, soliciting ideas for the production, translation, and dissemination of Ne Pas Plier materials ("Toute idée est bienvenue").
OCLC locates a single institutional holding, at the Biblioteca del Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid. No examples in commerce located at the time of cataloguing. A rare and significant document of late twentieth-century activist graphic practice, enhanced by the signed correspondence and original ephemera. Front hinge weakened. Light rubbing and chipping to extremities.
A remarkable conceptual artist's book published in 1994 by the activist graphic collective Ne Pas Plier. 8vo (6.25” x 8.75”), softcover, 96 pages plus printed wrappers yielding the titular 100 images. Conceived by Gérard Paris-Clavel, with photography by Marc Pataut and text by John Berger, the volume consists of the repeated printing of a single (black-and white) image across every page: Paris-Clavel's now-iconic Money World image, depicting a child beneath globe-shaped Mickey Mouse ears. First developed in 1994 in the context of Ne Pas Plier's socially engaged work in Blanc-Mesnil, the image became one of the collective's most recognizable visual statements. Here, its relentless repetition transforms the publication into a meditation on political memory, circulation, duration, and the social life of images. Berger himself understood the project as demonstrating how repetition and time could generate new meanings. His text, all on the rear wrapper, reads “I have this book in my hands, and I turn the pages, one after another, all the time waiting for something, however slight, to change, to shift. Nothing changes. And that’s why the book was made. Time and time again, you come back to the same question: how much longer?”
Laid in are an original Money World stamp and an autograph postcard signed by Paris-Clavel, soliciting ideas for the production, translation, and dissemination of Ne Pas Plier materials ("Toute idée est bienvenue").
OCLC locates a single institutional holding, at the Biblioteca del Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid. No examples in commerce located at the time of cataloguing. A rare and significant document of late twentieth-century activist graphic practice, enhanced by the signed correspondence and original ephemera. Front hinge weakened. Light rubbing and chipping to extremities.
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