Dominique Lambert

Dominique is the most popular mixed-gender first name in France, it is also the twenty-seventh commonest forename; combined with Lambert, which is the twenty-seventh commonest last name. So Stephanie Solinas defined her survey population as being the hundred and ninety-one Dominique Lambert listed in the phone book (the French white pages). Implementing the various different techniques used by officialdom to represent a person’s identity, involving experts, and proceeding in successive stages, Stéphanie Solinas explores and exhausts the system and tools of representation itself. For the first time, the book deploys the full set of faces in this sample of people, taking the viewer on a tour of the worlds of Dominique Lamberts, to experience the distance between the clichés of representation and the irreducible quality of uniqueness.