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.Back in stock!. Presentation by Journal: " « In 2004, I made the book Trying to Dance, designed by Patric Leo and published by Journal. Since then, it has lived a life of its own, just as books should do. For me, Trying to Dance is more than a book – the photographs on which it was based constitute an image universe of its own. Photography then had a...
55,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Présentation de l'éditeur : "Blitz Club Blitz Kids is a series of images taken in 1980 by the photographer Homer Sykes in the famous London club the Blitz Club.« In the 1970s Britain was still in the midst of economic depression, a three day working week, unemployment was rising sharply, there were frequent strikes and severe inflation. Steve...
Publisher's presentation: "The photographer found the photos in this series in antique markets. They were taken in China in the 1970s and 80s. He used collages and drawing to destroy or carry forward the stories in the photos, with his imagination or restoration about the social news in recent years. Maybe the original photos recorded real things which...
55,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: " « Spending long periods of time in solitude in remote landscapes, Awoiska van der Molen slowly uncovers the identity of the place, allowing it to impress upon her its specific emotional and physical qualities. Using her personal experience within the landscape for her creative process, she instinctively searches for a state of...
65,00 €Out of stockL'Ascenseur Végétal is now offering all available titles from the French collection "Photo Poche". This series of black pocket-size books is a staple among photobooks in France, and all photography lovers and amateurs have at least one in their bookshelves, often dozens! This series initially curated by Robert Delpire and published by "Centre National de...
13,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "In 2014, Peter Bialobrzeski arrived in Taipei to print his book Cairo Diary. Almost immediately, he set out to document the urban landscape of what was once considered the de facto capital of China, and what it has become today. Peter Bialobrzeski is a world-renowned photographer and the recipient of several awards...
25,00 €Les non-conformistes (*French ed.*)
Presentation by Aperture, publisher of the English edition : "The Non-Conformists features Martin Parr’s first major body of work from the mid-1970s, published here for the first time in book form. A wonderful and charming surprise for Parr enthusiasts and fans of traditional reportage, this body of black-and-white imagery predates the cutting color work...
35,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Thames & Hudson, publisher of the English edition : "Bernard Plossu has been called “the most American of French photographers” by his friend and colleague Lewis Baltz. Although he is best known for his work in black and white, often capturing a bohemian world of free-spirited adventure, Plossu has also shot in color throughout his...
50,00 €Out of stockFrom the backcover: "She is the muse and the lover, Milo. Sometimes feline, sometimes mysterious or melancholic." A hand with painted nails brushes a silk curtain, a leg in tension on a colourful striped staircase, a body leaning over the lines of the city, naked or adorned with a garter belt. Vulnerable but strong, in the middle of the forest, on a bed,...
33,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Presentation by D.A.P.: " « A visual conundrum of incalculable mystery. » -- Martin Parr, The Photobook: A History In 1977, photographers Larry Sultan (1946–2009) and Mike Mandel (born 1950) published a book that would radically transform both photography and the photobook canon—a book described by Martin Parr, in The Photobook: A History, as...
Shinjuku Lost Child (*signed*)
Presentation by Zen Foto Gallery: "Somewhere the crow flies carrying a coin in its beak could even be an essential place of comfort to someone. Shinjuku Lost Child are photographs taken by Tokyo-based Korean photographer Seung-woo Yang during the years 1998 to 2006, depicting the vivid character and vibrant energy of the people and the district of...
49,00 €Out of stockAfterword to the book by the artist: "I had a child at an age far older than the age at which my parents had me. My son is my second generation. Around the same time, my aged father was diagnosed with cancer. Searching for alternative medical treatments, I learned of a remote valley in Northern Japan where cancer patients go. The rocks in this valley emit...
65,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: " After his debut work Sachin won the Taiyo Award in 1964, Nobuyoshi Araki's photos had been selected for publication in a magazine. Due to the printing methods of the time, they asked he send in the actual negatives, which were then never sent back to him. While in 1994, Araki's debut work was re-issued as Sachin - an outtake,...
28,00 €In StockTokyo - Visions of its Other Sides
44 pages - Softcover w/ double gatefold cover Super Labo, 2016 Format : 21.6 x 28 cm New - Mint condition
49,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "In the 60s, inside Bangkok's Chinatown, a printer makes a printing test for a book about palmistry..."68 pages - Softcover Siam's Guy Books, 2016 (200 copies) Format : 14 x 19 cm *Signed* New - Mint condition
45,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation of the photobook: "Since February 2015 and for about a year, Iacopo Pasqui started hanging out with and taking pictures of a bunch of teenagers who were born in 1999. Motivated by curiosity towards contemporary social dynamics and by the need to photograph others, he finds in this bunch of young friends a suitable dimension for...
30,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "In April 2016, when Pino Musi embarked upon a photographic series in Côtes-d’Armor, that geographical area was a terra incognita for him. At the invitation of the GwinZegal Art Centre in Guingamp, which was involved in the promotion of photography in that predominantly rural area, the Paris-based Italian photographer would, for...
35,00 €Out of stockRed Flower, The Women of Okinawa
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Red Flower, The Women of Okinawa, the first United States monograph by Okinawan photographer Mao Ishikawa. Red Flower consists of 80 b/w photographs that date from 1975 to 1977 in Koza and Kin, Okinawa, primarily from Ishikawa’s first book Hot Days in Camp Hansen by A-man Shuppan in 1982, but it also includes...
éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation...
Full title : "éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation contemporaine d'un village français de deux mille huit cent trente neuf habitants - volume 10"Christophe le Toquin photographed the small city where he lives, Noyers-sur-Cher, and publishes in a series of 10 booklets this documentary work about a place that could be considered a fair example of the...
15,00 €In Stock.Signed copies back in stock.Publisher's presentation: "In Harrodsburg, Dougie Wallace looks at the excessive wealth and consumerism that can be found around the Knightsbridge area close to the world famous department store, Harrods. From the mid-1970s onwards, Gulf millionaires began coming to the area. They were later joined by the Oligarchs and the...
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Présentation de l'éditeur : [traduction L'Ascenseur Végétal] "After editing a selection of photographs from Cecilia’s countless family albums, the authors turned the material into a find-the-pair game. Heavily cropped portraits of the young girl together with animals, toys, ice creams, costumes, laughter and tears give a delicate and sincere glimpse...
22,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock. Publisher's presentation of Chris Steele-Perkins' photobook: "1956, sixty years ago, was a watershed year for Teds. In September that year the Bill Haley film Rock Around The Clock arrived in the UK. With five records in the top twenty, Haley was a major star and the film screened at some three hundred cinemas across the country. It wasn’t...
30,00 €In StockPresentation by Light Motiv: "On March 11th, 2011, a powerful tsunami hit the northeastern coast of Japan, destroying nearly everything on its way. The photographer Naoya Hatakeyama was personally affected as his hometown, Rikuzentaka, was wiped away, along with the markers of his memories. Kesengawa, published by Light Motiv in 2013, was a book about the...
35,00 €In StockPresentation on the artist's website: "The project titled At Mirrored River was inspired by the Gaelic word Teannalach (pron. “chann-ah-lack”). Teannalach is a Gaelic word used in the West of Ireland which means awareness. In particular, it is awareness of that which is intangible and hushed; of being aware of the quietness and presence of people and the...
36,00 €In StockPresentation by Stanley/Barker: " In the late 50's, New York's Washington Square was a place of rebellion, nicknamed junkie row and described by Simone de Beauvoir as « A cosmopolitan chorus of tourists, ‘intellectuals’, students and a dubious collection of beatniks, hippies and bohemians who gather while in the dimly lit night clubs and coffee houses,...
120,00 €Out of stock(Altre) Avventure di Pinocchio
Presentation on the website of the photographer Lorenzo Tricoli (excerpt) : "An original tale of Italy’s XXth Century. Italy’s XXth Century is narrated through extracts of Carlo Collodi’s novel, matched to a selection of Italian images coming from the web. An artist photobook, surreal and conceptual. An angry and ironic piece of art. « The real...
27,00 €In StockTwo friends - art students - on holidays in Corsica; a sort of slow and sunny travelogue looking both inward to the friends' companionship, and outward to the surroundings. A first book, self-published and created 100% by Chloé and Alexane : photographs, editing and design. There are certainly some beginners' mistakes if your eyes are looking at many...
25,00 €In StockPresentation by the artist : [adapted from Dutch via Google translate] "Cis and Mien are two eighty-nine-year old identical twins from Brabant. Not only do they share physical characteristics but also their home, hobbies and bedroom. The sisters let us share their daily life, which follows a strict organisation, and where they help each other and...
28,00 €In Stock.Currently out of stock.Publisher's presentation: "Common Love is based in Bangkok, Thailand, and aims to explore the city and its inhabitants. It focuses on some of the notions and cultural conventions that surround the city and how it is imagined. Common symbols and allegories connected to Thai culture help to create an unraveling narrative that takes...
30,00 €Out of stockPresentation by the artist: "The 61 photographs which constitute this book were taken in July 2014 in Palendriai (Lithuania). The only inhabitants of this hamlet are the fifteen Benedictine monks of Saint-Benedict priory, founded in 1998. In 2000-2001, the surroundings, consisting of pastures, forests and swamps were remodeled, tracing out a new, invented...
28,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "15 Miles to K-Ville is a poetic journey around the outskirts of K-Ville: a fictional town somewhere between Knoxville, Tennessee and Athens, Georgia, where graves dot the terrain and a sense of forbidding hangs heavy in the air. This collection of darkly humorous and melancholy portraits and landscapes date from the early 1990s...
50,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Presentation by Stanley / Barker: "During the 1980s by the Siberian artist Nikolay Bakharev worked as a mechanic and communal services factory photographer in the USSR. To supplement his income he would solicit work as a black market portrait photographer on the public beaches of Eastern Russia. If the shoot went well, he would invite his...
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