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.

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  • .Sold out.10 curators from the photography and photobook world each choose 10 Japanese books they feel important in the history of the medium, and comment on their choices... with a lot of illustrations. Edited by Matthew Carson, Michael Lang, Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich. Published by "10×10 Photobooks" in association with ICP (International...

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    .Temporarily out of stock.Natural cotton - One-side print "L'Ascenseur Végétal Librairie Photo" - Long handles (to carry on the shoulder).To carry your photobooks around, or anything else, to avoid using plastic bags, and to represent for L'Ascenseur Végétal !

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  • Publisher's presentation: "This pocket sized (15 x 10 cm), limited edition book, by collector Barbara Levine and graphic designer, Martin Venezky is a meditation on the camera and its complicated hold on our lives. Found and staged photos, ephemera, and all sorts of unexpected relationships are brought together and set in motion by design.  The result is...

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  • .Sold out. Éclats d'Amérique - Chronique d'un voyage virtuel is a rarity on our website, as it is a novel, written and only available in French. The author Olivier Hodasava is known for his photography blog Dreamlands Virtual Tour that chronicles his journey on "Google Street View". The novel is written following his travel across the United States.The...

  • Publisher's presentation: "Ping Pong Conversations is a long, friendly conversation between Alec Soth, one of the most prominent artist of this time, and the Italian curator and critic Francesco Zanot. Analyzing his most famous photographs as well as others that have been published or are virtually unknown, Soth reflects upon his career as a...

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    This book is available in French-text only.Présentation de l'éditeur :"Le choix des photos. Sélectionnées par quarante-neuf photographes contemporains de renommée internationale, ces images créent une nouvelle histoire originale de la photographie d’aujourd’hui. Chaque photo présentée nous précise le point de vue de l’auteur, et la reproduction des...

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  • This book is available in French-text only.Quatrième de couverture :"Ce n’est pas un entretien ; à bâtons rompus, c’est un échange, une longue discussion sur la photographie, sur la vie, les valeurs, les influences.L’essentiel dans le cas d’Anders Petersen est de restituer sa parole, avec ses hésitations, ses magnifiques doutes, ses convictions, son...

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  • .Sold out.L'Asile des Photographies a reçu en novembre 2013 le prestigieux "Prix Nadar 2013".Publisher's presentation: "Le photographe Mathieu Pernot et l'historien Philippe Artières ont travaillé trois ans à l'hôpital psychiatrique de Picauville / Fondation Bon-Sauveur (Manche). Ce lieu de mémoire résume toute l'évolution de la psychiatrie depuis le XIXe...

  • Présentation de l'éditeur : "Quoi de commun entre un photographe qui essaye de capturer des fantômes, un expérimentateur qui tente d'enregistrer ses pensées en disposant une plaque sensible sur son front, un opérateur de fête foraine, un prestidigitateur en chambre noire, de joyeux amateurs et quelques chasseurs de reflets ? Rien, si ce n'est leur...

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  • Présentation de l'éditeur : "Claire Tenu a travaillé pendant deux ans à Cherbourg. La ville que nous voyons désigne non seulement cette ville en particulier, vue à travers le livre, mais aussi toute ville, dont la découverte renouvelle une expérience semblable de la vision. Dans cette expérience, l'espace concret se superpose à un espace imaginaire. Dans...

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  • .Last copy, and it is of the English version.Impish, funny, useful, pertinent, crazy, those are not adjectives that are usually applied to a photobook!Of course, this How to be.... A Photographer in Four Lessons by Thomas Vanden Driessche is not really a book of photographs (plural), eventhough the series of portraits is great, but it is indeed a book of,...

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    From the Publisher: Transition presents the collaborative photography project of twelve South African and French photographers on South African land and the role that photography continues to play in the representation and re-imagining of land.The Social Landscape project cites the work of six South African photographers: Pieter Hugo, Santu Mofokeng,...

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  • .Sold out.From the Editor "Casa de Lava is a 1994 film by Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa. 35 years old at the time, he traveled to the islands of Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean to shoot this second feature of his, which on completion signaled to the world the presence of an outstanding talent. During the course of the production preparation, he...

  • La 4ème de couverture est on ne peut plus précise : "Ce livre est le livre d'une passion. Une passion commune à Robert Doisneau et Henri Alekan : la lumière. Ces deux grands maîtres se sont réunis pour la première fois, le 8 juillet 1992, au Théâtre du Ranelagh. Cette rencontre a fait l'objet d'un film. Nous vous proposons la transcription intégrale de...

  • Position(s) is a retrospective and introspective essay on the work of French photographer Antoine d'Agata (Magnum Photos) known for images that are often raw or crude, sometimes pornographic or violent, but always captivating. One way or another these images always provoke strong reactions from the public.124 pages - Softcover Avarie, 2012 New - Mint...

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  • .Sold out.Presentation by Red Hook Editions : "While working as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Jason Eskenazi began to ask photographers he knew visiting the exhibition "Looking In : Robert Frank's The Americans", to choose their favorite image and why. In the years since he quit, as he himself got back out on the road again...

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