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Photobooks whose main theme is the portrait. An extremely vast and rich theme of infinite variations: academic, posed or in action; photos of people, families, groups, in a studio, at home, at work, outdoors; tight framing, American, full portrait; refined clichés, modified, reassembled, etc.
Photobooks whose main theme is the portrait. An extremely vast and rich theme of infinite variations: academic, posed or in action; photos of people, families, groups, in a studio, at home, at work, outdoors; tight framing, American, full portrait; refined clichés, modified, reassembled, etc.
Portrait There are 1284 books.
Presentation by the(M) éditions : [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "In 1988, for the first time, Pierre de Vallombreuse sets foot on the lands of this Valley, in the south of the Palawan island in the Philippines, home of Tau’Batu, or people of the boulders. Fascinated by this pacifist autochthonous community of hunters-gatherers, Pierre de...
85,00 €Out of stock.Signed copies back in stock. Presentation by Zen Foto Gallery : "This latest publication by French photographer Maki includes images taken between 2001 and 2015 during many visits to Japan. The high-contrast black-and-white photos, from streetsnaps to portraits, landscapes and the occasional erotic image, paint a manifold picture of Maki’s extensive...
52,00 €Out of stock.Both editions (English and French) are sold out. Presentation by Sturm & Drang: "Inspired by his travels and short trips along the Italian coastline with fellow photographer Luigi Ghirri in the late 1970's, French photographer Claude Nori decided in 1982 to record images around Italian beaches. He was interested in capturing the annual rituals of...
.Sold out.Presentation by the artist: "One Eyed Ulysses proposes a meandering voyage where solitude, melancholy, the encounter with death and nature in marginal settings are some of the themes that run through it. The aim of this book of photos is not to document a specific epoch , but rather to sum up human experience so that we may contemplate its...
.Sold out. Introduction by Fabien Ribéry (in French only) : "L'être humain est lourd, terriblement, voilà bien son drama. Lorsque l'on est artiste, poète, compositeur de félicités, il est possible de s'alléger par la grâce du style. Alain Laboile est de ceux-ci, dont l'apesanteur est à la fois une recherche, une éthique et une nostalgie. Quand le...
Presentation by the artist: "« Antarctica is a special place with particular stories and memories, the polar explorers called it white blonde. In this work I used found photographs from the Antarctic. I decided to freeze them to get such images, which could express a sense of awareness of time, death and the inevitable decay through this transformation....
66,00 €In Stock.Both English & French editions available. Presentation by Steidl : "Fed by thrilling recent discoveries from Saul Leiter’s vast archive, In My Room provides an in-depth study of the nude, through intimate photographs of the women Leiter knew. Showing deeply personal interior spaces, often illuminated by the lush natural light of the artist’s studio...
38,00 €Out of stockExcerpt from an interview with Twenty Magazine : [link in French] "TM : What was the photoscene like [in the 90's] ?Olivier Degorce : It is important to remind people of the virtual lack of visual communication in this circle [the French electronic music scene] : we would mainly use flyers to communicate, word of mouth, Radio FG [originally Fréquence...
39,00 €Out of stock.A RARE SIGNED COPY!. Presentation by Steidl : "The studio photographs of Sanlé Sory and his participation in the vibrant music scene in Bobo-Dioulasso give us a picture of a cosmopolitan city shaping its independent identity in the 1960s through to the ’80s, the heyday of West African independence movements. Vintage photographs, seven-inch record...
60,00 €In Stock.Back in stock (reprint / 2nd edition). Presentation by Self Publish Be Happy : "A book of text and image, My Birth interweaves photographs of the artist Carmen Winant's mother giving birth to her three children with found images of other, anonymous, women undergoing the same bodily experience. As the pictorial narrative progresses, from labor...
42,00 €Out of stockCity of Dust - Zine (*signed*)
.Sold out .City of Dust is a work about the city of Beijing, and about some young women of Beijing...On his website, MATE states (as is) : « My Artwork I like to call emotional Documentary. I reflect what I see and what I feel that moment. Im not sure how much of my feelings are in those works, where I end and the others start. Thats Empathy and...
City of Dust - Book (*signed*)
.Sold out!.City of Dust is a work about the city of Beijing, and about some young women of Beijing...On his website, MATE states (as is) : « My Artwork I like to call emotional Documentary. I reflect what I see and what I feel that moment. Im not sure how much of my feelings are in those works, where I end and the others start. Thats Empathy and...
.Sold out. Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral : "While hitchhiking across the length and breadth of France, Antoine Bruy met men and women who, in Ardèche and Lozère, aspire to live in the most self-sufficient way possible. Inspired by this approach, he volunteered within a network that lists initiatives based on biodynamic agriculture and...
.One copy available.Complete title: Ewa & Piotr, si vis pacem para bellumPresentation by Les Éditions Noir sur Blanc: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "With Ewa & Piotr, Lorenzo Castore brings us the story of an unlikely, almost hideous encounter. It could have remained, like many others, a simple moment, but it evolved into a great...
45,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock.Presentation by Dewi Lewis : "American Interiors depicts the psychological repercussions of war and military service through images of the interiors of cars owned by USA veterans. Through working with veterans over a five year period, Casteel became aware of the subtle indicators of past traumatic experience. He also recognised that the...
36,00 €Out of stockThe Restoration Will (not / *signed*)
Presentation by Ceiba Editions : "This outstanding dummy tells, visually, the story of the loss of the photographer's parents in the 2011 tsunami that occurred in Japan. The jury found the visual story and the narrative very powerful, and also perceived the struggle in finding an adequate way of telling the story of a personal loss of such magnitude. With...
65,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Chose Commune : "Exile is the third chapter of Vasantha Yogananthan's long-term project, A Myth of Two Souls, which offers a contemporary retelling of The Ramayana. A seven-chapter tale first recorded by the Sanskrit poet Valmiki around 300 BC, The Ramayana is one of the founding epics of Hindu mythology. Since 2013, Yogananthan has been...
45,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Zen Foto : "Tokyo Rumando's new body of work S incorporates theatrical elements, which transform her self-portraits from a story into a play, performed at ther own stage theatre, leading the viewer into another time and space..« S is Story She=S S=Sexualviolet S is es S is Sandglass Sayonara S » -- Tokyo...
49,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Edition Lammerhuber : "Ai Weiwei pronounced the young artist Luo Yang a « rising star of Chinese photography ». In GIRLS she takes an intimate look at an undermined, yet extremely cool, generation of young Chinese women, who defy stereotypes and expectations - and are mesmerizing."168 pages - Linen hardcover Edition Lammerhuber, 2017...
50,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Zen Foto Gallery : "oh my little girl is a strong, sexual tale told through Chan's distinct black-and-white photography. Typical for Chan, it's all in the photos; his relationship with the « little girl » from Macao is not elaborated upon in or outside the book (apart from its classification as an « encounter »). Zen Foto's Mark Pearson...
49,00 €Out of stockFrom an article in The New Yorker, Jan. 2018 : "When she was in graduate school, the photographer Natalie Krick began taking pictures of women in what she calls « female drag ». She would meet her subjects on websites like Craigslist or Model Mayhem, go over to their houses, and give them ultra-feminine makeovers: bright lipstick, false nails and...
60,00 €In Stock.In stock. Presentation by Hannibal Publishing : "Bastiaan Woudt has a long-standing fascination with the African continent, as is evident from his previous work Karawan (shot in Morocco). So, a project to photograph the Ugandan countryside was a dream come true. He visited Mukono in central Uganda in October 2017. There, in addition to a commission from...
45,00 €Out of stock.In stock.Series of portraits taken in a strip club in Tbilisi in 2009 and 2013. Text Blood Moon by Antoine d'Agata in English and Georgian only, opening on a excerpt from Homer's Odyssey (book XII, 45), about the sirens : "...and about them is a great heap of bones of mouldering men, and round the bones the skin is shriveling."approx. 80 pages -...
49,00 €In StockPresentation of the Seasons Series by Libraryman : "Seasons Series is a quarterly book series in which a unified curated category of artists cumulate under one and the same provision, however with changing perceptions from each artist’s particulate frame of reference. Each edition distinguishes itself through the selection of alternating artists and its...
.French / English and Spanish / Portuguese versions back in stock.Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral : "Published in 1963, this book is Sergio Larrain's very first publication, that would soon become a seminal work for Chilean and Latin American photography. Published in the Cadernos Brasileiros series, in collaboration with the poet and cultural...
35,00 €Out of stockStudio Volta Photo (*signed with print*)
.Now only left ONE COPY of the Limited Edition with print.Studio Volta Photo is an artist book based on a selection of photographs made in his studio by Sory Sanlé, a photographer from Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina-Faso, active mostly from 1960 to 1995. The book is offered in an edition of 400 signed copies (Trade Edition - 150 €) and 100 signed and numbered...
750,00 €In StockSelf Portraits (*signed print*)
Presentation by Editions Bessard : "« I started working on the Self Portraits series in 2010. I was shooting in Italy in the summer and while looking for animals to photograph in the countryside, I looked through the camera and saw a reflection of my shadow on an unpaved road against a mountain. It was a clear day and I was not far from the place where I...
49,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Presentation by Stanley/Barker : "In an outpouring of grief after the death of his children from scarlet fever in 1833, German poet Friedrich Rückert wrote 428 poems on the deaths of children. Seventy years later the composer Gustav Mahler was so moved by these poems, he began work on a song cycle eventually scoring five of the poems. Although...
Presentation by Hannibal : "In 2015, Robin de Puy travelled across America on a motorcycle for her book If This is True… But as her road trip had almost come to an end, she discovered Randy. He rode past – fast – but in the split second she saw him she knew: she had to find out who this boy was. About that first encounter she wrote: « Randy, a...
75,00 €Out of stockMea Shearim - The Streets (*signed*)
Presentation Ofir Barak's website : [adapted excerpts] "Mea Shearim (lit. « hundred gates »; contextually « a hundred fold ») was established in 1874 as the fifth settlement outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. Mea Shearim remains today loyal to its old customs and preserves its isolation in the heart of Jerusalem while trying to stave off...
60,00 €Book available with different optionsThe Disappearance of Joseph Plummer
.Sold out. Presentation by Overlapse : "A curious tale spun from the life of mysterious hermit Joseph Plummer, who lived in the woods of central New Hampshire in the late 1700s. Two centuries later an unsuspecting man purchased the mythical loner's land and built a hideaway cabin for himself – only to discover the legend of Joseph lurking deep in the...
Excerpts from the text by Shoko Hashimoto : [adapted by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Nishiyama Onsen was packed with pleasure trippers. This healing hot spring is in the Yamanashi Prefecture, on a tributary of the Fuji River. People would come from nearby Yamanashi and Shizuoka, but also parties of local ladies returning from homes in the suburbs of Tokyo and...
55,00 €Out of stock
