BORY, Jean-François

By the late 1960s, Bory had established himself as the master of visual fiction, which is to say images—in his case customarily including words—that suggest narrative through the transitions from page to page. He made the rectangular page, rather than the sentence or the paragraph, the basic unit of fictional exposition. In Spot (1967), for instance, the same image of miscellaneous letters is progressively magnified over seven right-hand pages until the page is all but entirely blackened by just...