This essay considers Christian Boltanski's engagement with photography in the 1970s, at a time when its circulation was still largely confined to the realms of amateur practice. However,this was also the period that prepared the eventual acceptance of photography as a form of art, thereby raising questions regarding the function and the status of the artist-photographer. These issues were explored by Boltanski in his series "Images modeles" (1973-1975) and his playful and sometimes knowingly false autobiographic reconstructions. His engagement with the polemic surrounding the institution of authorship, as articulated by Roland Barthes in "The Death of the Author" (1968), is interpreted in the context of intellectual, historical and artistic events in France in the 1960s-1970s. In so doing an evaluation is offered of Boltanski's contribution to the history of photography, while challenging a number of dominant critical approaches to this artist's work.

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Authorless Pictures：摄影在 Christian Boltanski 早期作品中的使用（1969-75）

这篇文章回顾了 Christian Boltanski 在 1970 年代与摄影的接触，当时它的流通仍主要局限于业余实践领域。然而，这也是最终接受摄影作为一种艺术形式的时期，从而引发了关于艺术家-摄影师的功能和地位的问题。Boltanski 在他的系列“Images modeles”（1973-1975）和他俏皮且有时故意虚假的自传重建中探讨了这些问题。正如罗兰·巴特在“作者之死”（1968 年）中所阐述的，他参与了围绕作者制度的争论，并在 1960 年代至 1970 年代法国的知识、历史和艺术事件的背景下进行了解释。