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For everyone, a selection of the most beautiful photo books, the most famous, most quoted in the history of photobooks.
For collectors and bibliophiles, find among our titles the photobooks cited in the following reference books: - "The Photobook: A History" (Martin Parr / Gerry Badger, Phaidon) - "The Book of 101 Books - Seminal Photographic Bo...
For everyone, a selection of the most beautiful photo books, the most famous, most quoted in the history of photobooks.
For collectors and bibliophiles, find among our titles the photobooks cited in the following reference books: - "The Photobook: A History" (Martin Parr / Gerry Badger, Phaidon) - "The Book of 101 Books - Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century "(Andrew Roth, PPP Editions) -" The Open Book "(coll., Hasselblad Center) -" Books of Nudes "(Alessandro Bertolotti, La Martinière / MEP)
.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...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation : "In The Face Of Silence is a powerful and moving portrait of the hard lives of French family farmers living and working in the Forez region, on the eastern side of the Massif Central. Born and brought up in the area, photographer Christophe Agou travelled to the less-known parts of the region, where he felt inspired...
MAGNUM - Les livres de photographies
Publisher's presentation : "Publié à l’occasion du 70e anniversaire de Magnum Photos, cet ouvrage retrace l’histoire de l’agence sous l’angle du livre de photographies, outil essentiel aux photographes pour faire connaître leur travail. Il inclut des pépites puisées dans les archives des auteurs, qui racontent les secrets de la conception de leurs livres....
.Copy sold. Excellent copy of one of the best books (and most sought after) by Antoine d'Agata, his second, published the same year as his first one "De Mala Muerte". Second volume in the "Impression de Voyage" collection, published by "En Vues" in 1998.With texts (in French only) by Bruno Le Dantec and Jose Agustín. Copy in very good / excellent...
.Copy sold.Text on the back cover: "Valparaiso était le premier port rencontré par les navires ayant croisé le cap Horn ou le détroit de Magellan. C'était une sorte de station spatiale sur la planète Mars, qu'on atteignait après avoir lutté contre vents et marées, jamais certains d'atteindre la fin du voyage. Neruda habitait une maison dominant le baie....
.Copy sold.Excellent copy (Near Mint / VG+) of the great Max Pam classic, listed in "The Photobook: A History volume II" by Martin Parr & Gerry BadgerBook in perfect condition, outside of faint dark-ish traces on the edges of the pages. Inside mint. Dustjacket with French flaps in excellent condition as well, with imperfections to the top edge ("not...
Publisher's presentation : "The open American West is nearly gone. The New West is a photographic essay about what came to fill it—freeways, tract homes, low-rise business buildings and signs. In five sequences of pictures taken along the front wall of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, Robert Adams has documented a representative sampling of the whole...
.Back in stock. Presentation by Steidl: "The photographs that Chris Killip made in Northern England between 1973 and 1985 were first published by Secker & Warburg in the book In Flagrante in 1988. The new oversized Steidl edition is a radically updated presentation, showing a single image on the right side of each double-page spread. In Flagrante Two...
.Last copy. Presentation by J&L Books: "Mike Mandel is best known for his project The Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards, as well as his collaborations with the late Larry Sultan. Mandel employs conceptual structures and social commentary underneath a playful presentation. For The Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards, Mandel travelled across the US in...
Red String - Limited Edition (*signed w/...
Presentation by CEIBA: "In Japan, legend has it that a man and a woman who have a predestined encounter have had each other’s little fingers tied together by an invisible red string since the time they were born. Unfortunately, the red string tying my parents together either came untied, broke, or perhaps it was never even tied to begin with. But if the...
Red String - Japanese Cover (*signed*)
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "In Japan, legend has it that a man and a woman who have a predestined encounter have had each other’s little fingers tied together by an invisible red string since the time they were born. Unfortunately, the red string tying my parents together either came untied, broke, or perhaps it was never even tied to begin with....
Red String - Western Cover (*signed*)
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "In Japan, legend has it that a man and a woman who have a predestined encounter have had each other’s little fingers tied together by an invisible red string since the time they were born. Unfortunately, the red string tying my parents together either came untied, broke, or perhaps it was never even tied to begin with....
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: an exhibition catalogue in reference to Walt Whitman "Alec Soth’s reputation as one of the leading lights of contemporary photographic practice is largely predicated on the books he has published. This unusual catalogue accompanies a touring exhibition which uses the four major bodies of work which Soth has published as...
Publisher's presentation : "The sordid, artificial purgatory, the round of hungering, bruised flesh, the desperate and depraved promiscuity reigning over these empty nights, clusters of violent and violated intimacy multiplied over and over again… Bruised in body and soul, they live in the claustrophobic basements of derelict shopping centres. In the...
Full title : Julia Margaret Cameron: Photographs to electrify you with delight and startle the worldPublisher's presentation : "Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–79) was one of the most important and innovative photographers of the 19th century. Criticised in her lifetime for her unconventional techniques, she is now celebrated as a pioneering portraitist....
Pierre de Fenoÿl, une géographie imaginaire
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "From his first journeys to India and Egypt to the observation of the French southwest landscape, as part of the DATAR project, the book offers an exploration into Pierre de Fenoÿl’s work through about 150 photographs. Haunted by the question of time and memory in photography, de Fenoÿl tirelessly photographed...
.Copy sold.We are offering a copy of Richard Billingham's famous book Ray's a Laugh, a very straightforward and "no-filter" portrait of his alcoholic father, his mother and younger brother and their daily life under the same roof. A book that would or could be funny if it wasn't the real life and a sad and sometimes scary one...This book is listed in "The...
.Copy sold.From the back cover : "Beyond Caring is a searing indictment of the conditions in social security and unemployment benefit offices across Britain. Throughout 1984 and 1985 photographer Paul Graham visited the waiting rooms, corridors and cubicles of the Department of Health and Social Security and the Department of Employment, to document the...
.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 !
.Sold out. A really large book, Found Photos in Detroit is nevertheless (of course) mostly remarkable for the really intense images it contains. The authors Arianna Arcara and Luca Santese collected images and other documents found in the streets of Detroit in 2009 and 2010. This book, with an overall gloomy or even depressive feel, displays a selection...
.Copy sold.A form of travelogue, Transverses is one of the books that established Klavdij Sluban as one of the recent masters of Black & White photography.A rare, collectible book.Description of the copy listed: The book is in excellent condition (corners & edges are in mint condition, the binding as well, the pages are crisp and clean) except for...
.Copy sold.Pleine mer, the French original version of the Harry N. Abrams reprint of 2002 translated as Men at Sea, is a really beautiful series made on fishing boats by Jean Gaumy (from Magnum Photos). A beautiful production by Edition de La Martinière, that usually specializes in more "mainstream" books.This book is listed in "The Photobook: A History...
Le Livre de Photographies: Une Histoire...
Third volume of the famous catalogue of important photobooks, as selected by the photographer Martin Parr and the critic Gerry Badger.PLEASE NOTE: We are offering here only the French version of this photobook.320 pages - Hardcover with DJ Phaidon, 2014 Format : 26 x 30 cm New - Mint condition
Looters - 2nd edition (*signed*)
Following the 2011 first edition, this second edition of Looters has been slightly modified, in a slightly larger format (but still in the Risograph process), features images gathered on the Internet, coming from CCTV for most of them; enlarged, pixelated portraits of looters during the 2011 London riots.This book (the first edition) is listed in "The...
.Last copy!.Facsimile reprint by Xavier Barral of the 1937 "reference" book that is listed in many books about the history of photography and the history of the photobook.Publisher's presentation: "All the elemental forces of nature have been working here for millennia to shape and form a landscape whose scale, majesty and solitude are similar to the...
La Résidence is a book created after JH Engström had been in residence in Brussels; where he photographed the city, the street life, the cafés, the people. By putting these images in perspective through texts from his own journal, the artist tells the story of why this residence experience was a failure. This is very well explained by Engström himself in...
.Sold out. Ouvrage de référence sur le photographe chilien Sergio Larrain (Magnum Photos), qui - bien que n'ayant été actif qu'entre 1949 et 1971 - restera comme l'un des grands maîtres de la photographie de rue et du noir et blanc. L'artiste a été honoré d'une rétrospective aux Rencontres d'Arles 2013 et une exposition différente présente son travail...
Presentation by MACK: " In 1978 Luigi Ghirri self-published his first book, an avant-garde manifesto for the medium of photography and a landmark in his own remarkable oeuvre. Kodachrome has long been out of print and on the 20th anniversary of Ghirri's death, MACK is proud to publish the second edition. « Ghirri fights to maintain our ability to see. His...
Fabrik - A Photo Epos of Technology
Presentation by Steidl: "Jakob Tuggener’s Fabrik, published in Zurich in 1943, is considered to be a milestone in the history of photography books. The series of 72 photographs in this Photo Epos of Technology is oriented toward the expressionist aesthetic of the silent movie. It imparts a sceptical view of the destructive potential of unbridled...
From the publisher : "A comparison and photographic panorama of “tables of power” The financial crisis of 2009 shook the global economy to its very foundations. Yet has anything changed at the centers of power since? Do executive suites look different than they used to? And what do they actually look like? A decade ago, Jacqueline Hassink captured images...
.Sold out.Titre complet : "The Open Book - A History of the Photographic Book from 1878 to the Present". Ce livre, paru peu de temps après le "Book of 101 Books" (Andrew Roth) et peu de temps avant le premier tome de "Le Livre de photographies : Une Histoire" (Martin Parr / Gerry Badger) est une des références des collectionneurs de livres de...
House Hunting (*signed 2nd printing*)
.Copy sold.PLEASE NOTE: We are offering HERE copies of the third edition of this photobook, published by Nazraeli in 2019.Todd Hido's first book, offered here in the second printing from 2007. The copy offered unfortunately presents a small bump to the lower end of the back / binding (see Photos). Perfect condition otherwise. Signed by Todd Hido.NB : The...