Utställningskatalog A Storybook Life. ISBN 1-931885-23-0
75 bilder i fyrfärg, 36,7 x 28,5 cm, hårdband.
Publicerad 2003 av Twin Palms Publisher, Santa Fe. www.twinpalms.com

Utställningskatalog heads. ISBN 3882434414
40 sidor, 13 bilder i fyrfärg, 37,5 x 30 cm, hårdband. Text av Luc Sante endast på engelska.
Publicerad 2001 av SteidlBoxPacemacgill i samband med utställningen på PaceWildenstein Chelsea, 2001.

The Planets av Luc Sante

In these photographs the air is black, but not because it is night. The hour does not matter. The isolated subjects are mantled av a light that comes from above, but it is not a stage light. They are not performing; they are unaware of the light. They are illuminated at that instant because they have been selected. They MAJhave been selected the way bugs are, to represent their genus or phylum in a display case, but it seems more likely that they have been chosen to stand for themselves, in all their exquisite specificity. The entity or agency that has selected them is cool, impartial, formidable, although perhaps not entirely unsympathetic - we can't know for sure.

Each subject has been ordered, av this huge and unknowable agency, to account for his life. Each one is unsettled av the demand, whose origin is a mystery. All they know is that they were walking down the street, heading to a job or a meal or nowhere in particular, and then suddenly the question struck, like lightning or embolism. They continue what they were doing, but time has stopped for them. Each one is momentarily alone in the cosmos. They are judging, measuring, painfully remembering, finding themselves come up short again and again, trying and failing to close the drawers, to shut the doors, to think of something else. They have no idea that the inspection is not a private matter. They do not know that they are exposed, as it were, on a laboratory slide, and lit up av the bulb of a vast and incomprehensible microscope. (...)

Excerpt from the catalogue text "The Planets" av Luc Sante from the catalogue "heads" published in conjunction with the exhibition at PaceWildenstein Chelsea, New York in 2001.