Graphic pratices in today's publishing

Around the image: illustrated, coffee table and children's books. How did a catalogue of illustrated books take shape in a highly literary publishing house, mainly preoccupied with books on fiction and thought? This question has been central to the history of Gallimard since the early Twenties: the illustrated book has never been relegated to the sidelines. A graphic history of the NRF thus built up through its major collections for young people, its artistic monographs and its illustrated books. And this history finds a certain echo in that of its chief rivals.

Talk by Alban Cerisier (publishing historian and general secretary of Gallimard).