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Portrait
Photobooks whose main theme is the portrait. An extremely vast and rich theme of infinite variations: academic, posed or in action; photos of people, families, groups, in a studio, at home, at work, outdoors; tight framing, American, full portrait; refined clichés, modified, reassembled, etc.
Photobooks whose main theme is the portrait. An extremely vast and rich theme of infinite variations: academic, posed or in action; photos of people, families, groups, in a studio, at home, at work, outdoors; tight framing, American, full portrait; refined clichés, modified, reassembled, etc.
Portrait There are 1284 books.
All Quiet on the Home Front (*signed*)
112 pages - Softcover ICVL Studio, 2017 Format : 20 x 25 cm *Signed* New - Mint conditionPresentation by the artist: "When Isabel was a baby I had a dream. In the dream it was Christmas. We lived above a pub in a single room crammed with old pub furniture. In one corner was a Christmas tree. It had real candles, all of which were balanced precariously on...
45,00 €Out of stockA Place Both Wonderful and Strange
Publisher's presentation: "A Place Both Wonderful and Strange is a photographic anthology published by Fuego Books that brings together the work of 12 international photographers in a narration inspired by Twin Peaks and the work of David Lynch. With the work of Anna Beeke, Carl Bigmore, Melissa Catanese, Cristina de Middel, Salvi Danés, Enrico Di Nardo +...
50,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Sandrine Lopez meets MoshéExcerpt from Moshé, text by Christophe Van Rossom, Feb. 2012 : "This is not a set of photographs. Let's go further: this is something much more than a particular project. Never does Moshé show anything, tell anything or claim anything. It is an experience, an asceticism, a form of groping in the night worlds. Moshé...
68,00 €Out of stockLa Gravetat del Lloc - 2nd edition (*signed*)
.Back in stock (second edition).The book bears both Catalan & French titles "La Gravetat del Lloc / La pesanteur du lieu" and can be translated as "The Gravity of Place".Publisher's presentation: "Night is sublime, day is beautiful. Emmanuel Kant The Gravity of Place is a project made during Israel Ariño’s artist’s residency at Domaine de...
38,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: [ Translation from Japanese by Japanese bookshop / distributor Shashasha] "Life expressed through the remains of art. The latest extreme work by world-renowned photographer Antoine d’Agata. Following his sold-out success work Antibodies, Aka Ana (lit. red hole) is the latest series by French photographer Antoine d’Agata. It was...
95,00 €Out of stockTales of Lipstick and Virtue (*signed print*)
Publisher's presentation of Anna Ehrenstein's photobook: "Authenticity has always been a central question in discussions concerning society. It is continuing to gain importance with the emergence of new phenomena such as fake news, alternative facts and instant online control possibilities. However, our definition of an authentic being or an authentic...
69,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock (2nd printing). Presentation by Peperoni: "The fourth and final edition of the photobook classic. Once again better, more dense, more beautiful, more oppressive than all predecessors With Tokyo Compression Michael Wolf struck a nerve. His portraits of people who are on their way in the Tokyo subway, constrained between glass, steel and...
65,00 €Out of stockEdit Beijing (*w/ signed print*)
* * * Last copies available * * * Edit Beijing, with a print signed by the photographer This book is the result of Guy Tillim's residency in Beijing and presents a series of street photography portraits in colors. The book includes several gatefolds and is inserted in a soft cardboard illustrated slipcase. A signed C-Print (format : 16 x 25 cm) is...
85,00 €Out of stockPicture of My Life (*signed / not signed*)
.Sold out. Presentation by Ceiba: "I have this desire to sum up my life in the form of a story. My parents killed themselves, one after the other, in the winter of 1998. My mother’s depression led her to take her own life, and my father followed her nine days later. Having suddenly a closer relationship with death at just 21 years of age, I decided to...
Nouveau démenti de la mission spatiale...
Publisher's presentation: [ from RRB Publishing, co-publisher ] "Peter Mitchell’s groundbreaking show was first presented at the Impressions Gallery of Photography York in November 1979, and more recently at the Rencontres d'Arles festival in 2016. Now, only 38 years overdue, it will be published as a book for the first time. In the mid-seventies, the...
150,00 €In StockNouveau démenti de la mission spatiale...
Publisher's presentation: [ from RRB Publishing, co-publisher ] "Peter Mitchell’s groundbreaking show was first presented at the Impressions Gallery of Photography York in November 1979, and more recently at the Rencontres d'Arles festival in 2016. Now, only 38 years overdue, it will be published as a book for the first time. In the mid-seventies, the...
42,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation of the photobook: "Nokturno is a concretization of the ambiguity of photography – photography that has renounced both a demand to be a truthful imitation of an objective external reality, as well as a demand for the projection of a creator’s inner experience on the object of representation. With this project, the photographer...
33,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Presentation on the artist's website: "At the end of a rutted road on the outskirts of Ternopil, surrounded by a wall as thick as the trees of the Petrykiv forest, lies a secluded estate. Seventy women, reportedly ill, none older than thirty-five, reside within its boundaries. When not occupied by daily chores, they play the roles of mother,...
85,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Fleuve Congo River is a journey by photographer Kris Pannecoucke along one of the world's mightiest rivers. The river was the ideal route to take to portray today's Congo. In a country as big as Europe but without roads the rivers are crucial for the economy, transportation and the survival on daily bases. Kris Pannecoucke is a...
45,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Foglia writes, “I grew up on a small farm in the suburbs, thirty miles east of New York City. The forest that bordered the farm was my childhood wilderness, a wild place to play that was ignored by our neighbors who commuted to Manhattan. In 2012, Hurricane Sandy flooded our fields and blew down the oldest trees in the woods. On...
65,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Presentation by André Frère Editions: "Captivated by the Scandinavian lands from a residence in Norway, Sébastien Van Malleghem has since advanced his travels from Denmark to Iceland, passing through Finland and Sweden. Nordic Noir is the visual recital of this contrasting trek. With breathtaking and timeless landscapes, scenes of life and...
Publisher's presentation : FRAC Auvergne devoted an exhibition to American photographer Gregory Crewdson, from May 20 to September 17, 2017.This was the first exhibition of this major artist, internationally acclaimed, in a French institution. It is accompanied by the publication of the photobook The Becket Pictures.The exhibition brought together the...
50,00 €Out of stockPrésentation de l'éditeur : [ Book in French only ] "For three years, Carlos Spottorno and Guillermo Abril have traveled the borders of Europe, and from the 25,000 photographs and 15 notebooks they reported, they composed a" comic strip "of photos.From Africa to the Arctic, the journalists tell a story: a meeting with the Africans of Gourougou, the...
25,00 €In StockPresentation of the series on the photographer's website: "The mountain range of Caucasus is a borderland where Europe meets Asia and Christianity meets Islam; a myriad of nationalities, languages and cultures live side by side. Well-known in the Soviet time as the land of wine and pomegranates, clean mountain air and sunny beaches, the Caucasian...
44,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Karlheinz Weinberger’s day job may have been relatively uneventful—working in a Siemen’s warehouse—but the photos he took in his spare time are anything but conformist. Weinberger’s passion, and the focus of this book, is the rebel youth of 1950s and ’60s Switzerland, who channeled American rock-’n’-roll culture and made it...
65,00 €In StockPresentation by Spector Books: "Since the 1979 revolution, Iran has developed its own image culture, with public space serving primarily as a transit zone and a screen where state-sanctioned religious ideology is projected. Pride of place is given to memorials to the first Gulf war (the Iran-Iraq War of 1980–88), which is part of the founding myth of the...
39,00 €In StockPublisher'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...
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