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Essays
Essays about and analysis of the work of a given artist, mouvement or period, or about the history of photography. As opposed to the books under "Anthologies", the ones presented here are more analytic and less a catalogue of images.
Essays There are 80 books.
Presentation by Aperture: " Part memoir, part document of the DIY, punk-infused subculture of skateboarding as it came of age in the 1990s and early 2000s, Ed Templeton's Wires Crossed pulses with the raw, combustive energy of Templeton's image-making from the last twenty-plus years. Illustrated by photographs, collages, texts, maps, and other ephemera...
60,00 €In StockMoving Through the Space of the Picture...
Presentation by APE / Art Paper Editions: " Moving through the Space of the Picture and the Page brings together essays on six contemporary Belgian photobook makers and the way they deal with space, time, movement and surface within the book and within the photographic image. The artists discussed are Tine Guns, Dirk Braeckman, Els Martens, Max Pinckers,...
25,00 €In StockPresentation by Fourthwall Books: " A focused study on a singular African American photographer, through an archival encounter with her documentation of the landmark FESTAC'77 festival. From January 15 to February 12, 1977, more than 15,000 artists, intellectuals and performers from 55 nations worldwide gathered in Lagos, Nigeria, for the Second World...
45,00 €In Stock.PLEASE NOTE: Book in French only. This book is a reflection by a group of visual artists in Bordeaux on their work, their profession, and their experience being part of a long-term residency in a large facility (La Fabrique Pola) hosting dozens of structures dedicated to arts and crafts and culture at large. Présentation de l'éditeur : " Au-delà de...
15,00 €In StockPresentation by Spector Books: " Funny cat pics with creepy captions shared on social media, digital images that circulate unseen through the internet’s infrastructure, or anonymous workers hired online to create morally dubious content or to remove it from the web: Eva & Franco Mattes have been investigating the internet’s effects on our daily lives...
27,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Presentation by The Eriskay Connection: " Mathias de Lattre developed an interest in natural psychedelics, in particular hallucinogenic mushrooms. Since ten years he had the intuition that they might constitute an alternative to the psychiatric treatment of his mother. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder twenty years ago, and the drugs...
What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by...
.Back in stock. Presentation by 10x10 Photobooks: " What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843 – 1999, 10×10's most recent “book-on-photobooks” anthology in its ongoing examination of photobook history, explores photobooks created by women from photography's beginnings to the dawn of the 21st century. Presenting a diverse geographic and ethnic...
89,00 €In StockThe subtitle for this photobook: Unseen Photographic Archives of a Mythical Train Presentation by Editions Textuel: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " Created in 1883 and operated until 1977, linking Paris to Constantinople – future Istanbul –, the Orient-Express was the first of a series of luxury transnational trains of the Compagnie internationale des...
39,00 €In StockRevue NEUF - Facsimile Box Set
PLEASE NOTE: Outside of the additional booklet containing the text "Delpire before Delpire" translated into English (see description below), all publications in this set are IN FRENCH ONLY. Presentation by Delpire & Co: " 1950: Robert Delpire is 24 years old. As a medical student, he creates the magazine NEUF, distributed by the Maison de la Médecine....
145,00 €In StockFotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist...
Presentation by MoMA / Museum of Modern Art: " Published in conjunction with the first major museum exhibition of Brazilian modernist photography outside of Brazil, Fotoclubismo presents the groundbreaking creative achievements of the Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante, an amateur photography club founded in São Paulo in 1939. The vast majority of FCCB members...
50,00 €In StockWhat We Leave Behind (*with poster*)
Presentation by Libraryman: " Subsequent to a commissioned sound composition for Deutschlandradio, multidisciplinary artist Stéphan Crasneanscki further examines his significant opus What We Leave Behind, on French film director Jean-Luc Godard's archive, into book form. The book is divided into four comprehensive sections: boxes, collages, still lifes...
54,00 €In StockPresentation by Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp: " What does freedom mean? Through the lens of her camera and through a kaleidoscope of history of women in resistance in the Arab world, Mashid Mohadjerin put together a multidimensional work which, through its varied formats such as photography, collage, text, and historical images, takes the viewer on...
65,00 €In StockPresentation by Mack: " « My decision to base my work in cultural theory, rather than traditional aesthetics, has resulted in work whose precise location is uncertain, between: between gallery and book; between visual art and theory; between image and narrative – work providing work between reader and text. » -- Victor Burgin, Between« Between...
35,00 €In StockKontinent - In Search of Europe
Presentation by Hartmann Books: " Kontinent - In Search of Europe is the new publication and exhibition project of Ostkreuz - Agency of Photographers, Berlin. On an irregular basis the agency members designate a common topic for them to work on for several years. After To the West, East of Eden, Deutschlandbilder [Photographs from Germany], Ostzeit [The...
42,00 €In StockPresentation by Mack: " Avec But Still, It Turns, Paul Graham curates a subtle thesis and revitalising manifesto for photography. The dynamic and diverse work gathered here advocates an unashamed, but not uncomplicated, dedication to the brilliant tangle of reality. Without being tempted by the artifice of the studio or the restrictive demands of...
55,00 €Out of stockLes crimes passionnels n'existent pas
Presentation by D'une rive à l'autre: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " The photography series « I would like you to see me » created in 2015 by Arianna Sanesi, about femicide in Italy, at a time when the word was barely used and the phenomenon was essentially ignored by the media, is the starting point of this photobook and of the encounter...
30,00 €In StockImagining Everyday Life: Engagements with...
Presentation by Steidl: " Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography surveys the expansive field of vernacular photography, the vast archive of utilitarian images created for bureaucratic structures, commercial usage and personal commemoration, as opposed to elite aesthetic purposes. As a crucial extension of its ongoing...
49,00 €Out of stock.PLEASE NOTE: Our last copy has a slightly bumped corner. Presentation by Thames & Hudson: " Gain a new perspective on photography in this personally guided introduction to photographic images and what they mean by one of the leading writers and curators of our time. What shapes our response to a photograph? Where does the meaning we ascribe to it...
29,00 €In StockThe book Sillage Melville, Recherche en arts et monde mobile is part of a collective art research project around the book Moby Dick by Herman Melville at University "Montaigne" in Bordeaux involving a group of students over several years, and under the direction of Professor Pierre Baumann. This book Sillage Melville is the third publication in the...
24,00 €In StockPresentation by The Eyes Publishing: " Conversations Vol. 3 is a book of interviews with contemporary photographers, conducted by Rémi Coignet, photobook critic. Since 2014, when the first volume was published, the aim is to give a prominent place to photographers, so that they can make their voices heard in the field of publishing, often forgotten in...
20,00 €In StockD'ici, ça ne paraît pas si loin
.Available. Presentation by Le bec en l'air : [all texts in the book in French only] " D'ici, ça ne paraît pas si loin is the story of a map of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, an administrative one, one that is essential. It is a map with hazy borders, which raises questions: is it a territory in its own right? Does it federate its inhabitants? It combines...
35,00 €In StockPresentation by Origini Edizioni: " The book is an album that shows two different ways to interpret the photography media. One as dramatic and Romantic (Valentino Barachini), the other as the search of beauty and graphic virtuosity (Cristiano Guerri). These two visions dialogue without words, then transforming each photo into a poster: the photobook,...
45,00 €In StockEnghelab Street, A Revolution through...
Presentation by Spector Books: " Enghelab Street, Revolution Street, is located in the centre of Tehran—a main artery in the city's cultural life with a host of bookshops. The publication presents a variety of photographic and propaganda books collected by Iranian artist Hannah Darabi. Drawing on works published between 1979 and 1983—years corresponding...
48,00 €Book available with different optionsTereska and her photographer, a story
Presentation by Russet Lederman, Inc, publisher of the English version: " Tereska and Her Photographer: A Story is a photobook that presents a fictional story by Carole Naggar about the extraordinary parallel lives of Magnum photographer and co-founder David “Chim” Seymour and Tereska Adwentowska, a young Polish girl who was the subject of Chim's most...
42,00 €In StockPresentation by Fw: Books: " American Origami is the result of six years of photographic research, and results in a statement of over 700 photographs which closely examines the epidemic of mass shootings in American schools, weaving together first person interviews, forensic documents, and original photographs. The book takes the reader through a visual...
68,00 €In StockJournal de l'oeil (les globes oculaires)
Presentation by Editions Loco: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "With Journal de l'œil (les globes oculaires) [or Diary of the eye (the eye balls)], Anne-Lise Broyer tries to live the experience of literature through the act of looking. As if the act of making photographs was moving forward in your vision the way you are moving forward when...
25,00 €Out of stockBlackwater River (*2nd edition*)
.Copies of the second edition in stock!. Presentation by Stanley / Barker: " On a map of the south-eastern U.S., the 245-mile Ogeechee River cuts a diagonal path across Eastern Georgia before curling south of the city of Savannah and emptying into the Atlantic Ocean. It is known locally as Blackwater River for its slow moving waters that are like black...
56,00 €In StockPresentation by The Gould Collection: " On Keeping a Notebook, volume four of The Gould Collection pairs forty-four photographs and five drawings by British photographer Jamie Hawkesworth with American writer Joan Didion’s essay On Keeping a Notebook. Through words for Didion and images for Hawkesworth, volume four focuses on the practice of collecting...
85,00 €Out of stockLes Corps Incorruptibles (*signed*)
Presentation by Maria Inc.: " It's 2019 and our bodies are still political. The 21st century still drags on with the same beauty standards of the last century. Those of a young, white, thin, ethereal and heterosexual woman. Beauty, or rather a woman's first commercial asset; is a passport to a happy marriage, professional success and social recognition....
38,00 €In StockPresentation by Kannibaal: " A unique overview of 150 years of Belgian photobook history « A gold mine doesn't have to be large, providing it's deep: Photobook Belge unearths the rich history of the Belgian photobook, until now terra incognita for many. These countless special editions deserve a place of honour in the international photobook landscape....
59,00 €In StockHow We See: Photobooks by Women
Presentation par 10x10 Photobooks: ".About How We See With historical records establishing 19th-century British photographer Anna Atkins’s Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (1843-1853) as the first photobook, it is not surprising that women have consistently contributed to the rich history of photobook making. 10×10 Photobooks has...
75,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock. This book is a facsimilé edition (identical format) of the original published in 1959 by Editions du Seuil. However, there is an additional afterword by Chris Marker written for the publication of the Immemory CD-Rom in 1997, and a "Note à la présente édition" ("Note to the new edition") by Sandra Alvarez Toledo. All texts are in French...
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