Far more than a catalogue for the eponymous exhibition, the book 1985. Image-Worlds offers an overview of a decade “through a plurality of points of view, both cultural and generational,” as Marie J. Jean explains. The director of the VOX centre also refers to this “editorial stance” of giving such weight to the image. “Slowing the gaze, contextualizing images and returning the weight of history to them, becomes a political act. In this sense, we aren’t content with documenting the past; we are concerned with current thought on the world of images in which we live.”