The published account places the origin of Jean-Christophe Béchet’s *Discontinué…* in autumn 2006, when the photographer noticed something appearing on the blue boxes of Polaroid 665. From this tightly dated encounter, the book takes up cessation not as an abstract theme but as a condition attached to photographic materials and their changing availability. The unfinished cadence of the title—“Discontinued…”—keeps that moment open rather than resolving it.

Trans Photographic Press Editions published the work in 2010 as the third volume of Béchet’s *Carnets*. That series designation is important: this is presented not as a comprehensive monograph but as a bounded entry within an ongoing body of books. At 48 pages, it favors concentration over survey, giving a single premise the dimensions of an autonomous photographic statement.

The hardcover volume measures 30 × 24 cm, with a depth of 1.5 cm, and was issued in French. Its comparatively broad page size sets the concise pagination within a substantial viewing format. On the cover, the hierarchy of photographer, series, title, and “#3” makes the book’s double identity explicit: it stands alone while remaining part of a sequence. Even the ellipsis contributes to this tension between interruption and continuation.

For a collector, the book’s significance lies in that clearly defined position within Béchet’s publishing history. This first edition records the meeting of an artist’s notebook-like series structure with a specific episode involving Polaroid 665 at a particular moment in time. Rather than attempting to summarize an entire career, *Discontinué…* preserves a focused proposition: how an encounter with the material circumstances of photography can be shaped into a concise book.