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.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: [ Please note : content in French only ] "La photographie contemporaine iranienne depuis la révolution de 1979; un panorama exceptionnel de la photographie contemporaine iranienne. Cet ouvrage rassemble les œuvres de 66 photographes et interroge la réalité iranienne par un jeu de confrontations entre images...
Publisher's presentation: "Burkina Faso photographer Sory Sanlé (b. 1943) began his career in 1960, the year his country (then called République de Haute-Volta) gained independence from France. Sanlé opened his Volta Photo portrait studio in 1965 and, working with his Rolleiflex twin lens medium format camera, Volta Photo was soon recognised as the finest...
30,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "We show the images that Anders Petersen highlighted and marked on the contact proof sheets, of the period, with signs, signals and colours. They have lost that original intention of prominance and of status, their Morse code, their meaning, but they have gained the gesture. The footprint. The pride of ingenuity. Their...
Publisher's presentation of Giona Mottura's photobook: " - DIANE a documentary photobook journey on the life of a transexual singer in Switzerland - « Diane is a singer dwelling in the small village of Boveresse close to Môtiers in Val de Travers, Switzerland. Involved in the cultural events of her city till 2009, she now spends most of her time to...
25,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Nicolas Wormull was born in 1977 in Santiago, Chile. He grew up in Sweden where he studied photography. Nicolas Wormull photography as he lives, he speaks to us of the present of instantaneity, and of all these little things that happen daily, right there under our eyes, under his own. He offers us raw and fragile images in...
25,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: [texts in French only] "En mars 1986, dans le quartier de la Bourgogne à Tourcoing, une dynamique s’est mise en route suite au cri de souffrance d’un jeune nommé Joao lors d’une rencontre de jeunes chômeurs en JOC (Jeunesse Ouvrière Croyante : musulmans et chrétiens) : « Il faut faire quelque chose contre la came, sinon ils...
29,50 €In StockSanta Barbara shame on US (*signed*)
Presentation by Skinnerboox: "After Santa Barbara Return Jobs Back to US, the second chapter by Alejandro Cartagena on the US is a more tragically constructed visual landscape. The current state of things in « America » has created a greater divide and contrast socially and especially politically. As such, the book carefully suggests and addresses these...
50,00 €Out of stockPresentation on Alejandro Cartagena's website: "In 2008 the war against the drug cartels erupted in Mexico. The state of Nuevo Leon in northeastern Mexico became an increasingly violent place. This book is a compilation of images and texts that obsessively revisit places where the war was eventually fought and look for signs of an evil that lay underneath...
45,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Shell shock silence and blinding whiteness, air sucked from the lungs. Masked clowns out of the dust cloud. City limits, a circle of men. Two dogs. The chain goes off. Nervous laughters, hard breathing. Tension as a background noise. The night-blind goes on. Cagdas Erdogan’s first book, Control, was shot entirely in Istanbul,...
42,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation of the photobook: "Never-ending bridges where concrete is always within touch, the noise symphonic in cacophony, the spectrum between male and female which blurs distinctions and renders them irrelevant, the transition between life and death, the search of intimacy in a place where everything can be found for sale, from humans to...
50,00 €Out of stockMonsanto (*signed / imperfect*)
.Please note we are now offering ONE LAST COPY the French version of this book.Presentation by the publisher of the English version (Verlag Kettler): "Monsanto has had a rapid rise and a more than colourful history marked by cover-ups and scandals: dioxins in PCB coolants, genetically modified products such as the bovine growth hormone Posilac and the...
60,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Masako Tomiya is a photographer originally from the region of Aomori, north Japan. She has lived in Tokyo for years, and one day, she received news that her sister and sister-in-law, who live near her hometown, were both pregnant. This news inspired Tomiya’s series Kito, a reflection on identity, family, transmission and the...
45,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "The Promise is the second 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...
60,00 €Out of stock.Last copy!. Publisher's presentation: "January 2016. Every night in the heart of Patpong, Bangkok's oldest red-light district, The Strip opens its doors. By an exceptional favour granted, Tiane Doan na Champassak seizes the most unsettling ballet."352 pages - Softcover Siam's Guy Books, 2017 (475 copies) Format : 20 x 30 cm *Signed* New - Mint condition
85,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Mr. & Dr. is a photobook aimed for children and youngsters that explores the notion of the unknown through images and text. This photobook is an appropriation of a classic horror story, The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson that challenges the overriding illustrative relation between text and...
27,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Michael Wolf is a photographer. For more than 40 years. He looks back on an amazing career. As a photojournalist, as a freelance photographer and for nearly 20 years now as an artist. More than 25 books have been published only in the past 10 years, including worldwide successes as Architecture of Density, Tokyo...
60,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "I roamed those streets, again. Some will mark the city, some will get drunk, some will find love. I will be with on their side for the night, again. 3 a.m, finally home."Riso printing.68 pages - Softcover Dienacht, 2017 (200 numbered copies) Format : 13 x 18.5 cm New - Mint condition (outside of possible...
Presentation by Editions Bessard: " (...) By conceiving a work on the sites of the Odyssey, equipped with a simple smartphone, Stefano De Luigi perpetuates the relationship with modern technologies. Yesterday it was the first films, today is the digital medium, new companion of travel, of which he explores the infinite potential. Accustomed to lengthy...
75,00 €Out of stockBeyond Here Is Nothing (*signed*)
.Two copies back in stock : #323 and #325.Presentation by the artist: " « Enclosed between four walls, the sound of silence never seemed louder. It’s claustrophobic. I wait for the phone to ring, check for emails obsessively, eat everything out of the fridge. The hunger remains. I feel like if I dig my hand deep into my soul, I will find nothing. The...
199,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock.Publisher's presentation: "Published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition curated by Pauline Vermare at the Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo, this sincere, beautifully conceived volume offers an in-depth look at this American visual artist’s oeuvre. Saul Leiter: a combination of Japanese and French influences Known for his...
42,00 €Out of stockTime from Different Sources (*signed*)
.Sold out. Titre complet : "Time from Different Sources : Images from Ciman Village"Publisher's presentation: "In this body of works Cheng uses polyphonic narrative to present the reality of a Naxi village in Southwest China during urbanization. This book, as response of the “comprehensive” series, is visualized polyphony. It’s no exaggeration to say that...
.Only the ENGLISH version is now available. Publisher's presentation: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "At the heart of Europe, a parallel world existed for almost 10 years. Refugees from Africa and also Middle-East were waiting here to cross the Channel and reach Great-Britain. It is from the farsi word jangal meaning « forest » that the word,...
55,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Afterword is composed of photos used in the afterword ’Sasuke’s Diary’ from Sasuke, My Dear Cat, published by Seinen Shokan in 1978. In the small pocket-sized printing manuscript were instructions and numbering written by Fukase himself. Sasuke the First went missing quite early on, but some time afterwards, someone...
Publisher's presentation: "Mike Mandel grew up in the San Fernando Valley, and as an kid in the 1950s could walk just about everywhere he needed to go: to school, or later down the street to the open field to collect rocks or catch lizards. All of his friends lived on his block, so he didn’t think too much about the time he spent in a car. But by the time...
43,00 €Out of stockHalogénure No. 02 - Spring 2017
The texts (articles & interviews) in this magazine about photography are in French only. Presentation of this second issue of Halogénure: "Pour ce nouveau numéro, nous avons choisi de déjouer les attentes et de vous proposer des thématiques axées sur le reportage, la rencontre et l’onirisme. Ce second opus est donc composé d’un cahier documentaire qui...
25,00 €Out of stock.Last copies.Presentation by the artist, Yusuf Sevincli: "Put (tr): Idol (eng) Idol: noun A representation of a god used as an object of worship. The Put series traces the faith of sculptures and monuments in public spaces. In addition to focusing on a single narrative, each photograph tells the story of the polarization and the struggle for power in...
40,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "In Roxane II Viviane Sassen and her muse Roxane continue writing their shared visual journal. The dynamic gallery of poses and moods touches notes at times sensual, at times tender. Images are equally about the performances in front of and behind the camera: Sassen's presence is perceived through her shadow and made...
I Ditched Class and I Took a Bath (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation: " « In the spring of 2016 a friend of mine asked if a girl named Agathe could stay with me for a few nights while she visited the Bay Area from Paris. Unbeknownst to me Agathe had booked the ticket on a whim amidst a nervous break down, without knowing anything about San Francisco or anyone who lived there. She ended up staying...
55,00 €In Stock.Back in stock. Presentation by Mack: " « Ravens is one of the defining bodies of work in the history of photography and a high point in the photo book genre. This accumulation of accolades, and the passing of time, have obscured much of the fascinating detail which explains the artist’s pre-occupation with this motif throughout his work. It was not...
80,00 €Out of stock.Very last copy!.Presentation by Editorial RM: "Photobooks have become increasingly popular in recent years and occupy a central place in contemporary photography. Nowadays, more photobooks are produced, bought and sold, swapped and collected than ever before. Independent publishing and the self-publishing of books and fanzines have become a phenomenon...
32,00 €Out of stock.Please note this is the French edition of this book (texts in French only), we do not carry the English edition as of today.Presentation by Aperture, publisher of the English edition: "Intimate Distance is the first comprehensive monograph charting the career of acclaimed American photographer Todd Hido. Though he has published many smaller monographs of...
69,00 €Out of stock.Currently out of stock.Italia is an almost romantic representation of Italy; the images were created over a period of 3 years.The images visible here were taken from the artist's website.80 pages - Hardcover Max Ström, 2016 Format : 23.9 x 31 cm New - Mint condition
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