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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.
Text from the back cover: "The photographer René Tanguy discloses a previously unpublished testimony of a deep friendship. It tied writer Jack Kerouac and a New-York-based Breton poet (from Britany, France) named Youenn Gwernig. « You are the only man I know today whose conversation and presence are a gift » wrote Kerouac to his last friend. Out of this...
32,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "In Terra Nostra, Sicilian born photographer Mimi Mollica explores the effects of the Mafia on his homeland. He document the scars inflicted by Cosa nostra on both the physical and social landscape of the island as a result of a system strongly rooted in both fear and corruption. Mollica began shooting Terra Nostra in 2009. For...
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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 stockPublisher's presentation: "Over the last two years John Comino-James has been been photographing demonstrations across many parts of the UK, from those associated with the 2015 General Election right through to the 2016 EU Referendum. In his new book, Shout It Loud, Shout It Clear, he offers extensive photographic evidence of the astonishing breadth of...
30,00 €In 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 Stock.Back in stock.Presentation by Dewi Lewis publishing: "« Giacomo Brunelli has been looking hard at animals. His focus is not on the framed and caged exotica of zoos but on the ordinary animals that remain with us to some extent: horses, dogs, cats, chickens, pigeons. He shows us a fox, looking sharply at the camera and poised to flee, and there are...
30,00 €Out of 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 StockDiary of an Italian Borderworker
.Last copies - Sold out by the publisher!. Publisher's presentation: "Diary of an Italian Borderworker is a story that wends through the streets as traversed by a border-worker. A passage that describes the relationship between territory and working reality, beyond a merely occupational context. It’s a journey that imparts the sensations of a foreign,...
29,00 €In Stock.Signed copies back in stock.Publisher's presentation: "The Unfinished Me photobook is the first of a series of self-performance works exploring the fragmentation of the Inner Self - “searching for the true me” by the photographer Adelaide Carneiro. The genesis of this work was to dwell between the persona and the characters created for the performances....
28,00 €Out of 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 StockPublisher's presentation: "Masse en fusion à l’origine de toute création, MAGMA ne se laisse pas photographier. Un magma bouillonnant dort en nous et se réveille parfois. Il est des fenêtres, miroirs brisés ou mares, qui nous confient plus de choses que certains mots. Voyage intérieur, Magma explore ce monde du dessous, étrange et subversif, qui veut dire...
32,00 €Out of 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 stockOnly The Sky Remains Untouched (*signed*)
.Last copy.Presentation on the artist's website: "Soldiers who suffer from Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are emotionally wounded and carry these wounds with them all their lives. The past 2 years I’ve been working on my new project Only The Sky Remains Untouched: portraits of 15 war veterans who suffer from PTSD. All photos were taken at ‘De...
34,00 €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 StockLive in the house and it will not fall down
Publisher's presentation: "Live in the house and it will not fall down is a gallery of fragments, a collection of memories, the story of one and more people, of a house, of a city. Compiled by Italian artists and recipients of the first Lewis Baltz Research Fund, Alessandro Laita and Chiaralice Rizzi, the book was built from an archive of images collected...
37,00 €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 StockPublisher's presentation: "Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. they are as they should be.... Now put foundations under them.Hollingshausen is Anne Lefebvre's second book, featuring photographs and paintings done between 1983 and 2016. A highly free and playful sequence of images of castles, women, animals, UFOs, etc. that form a new...
30,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "In the summer of 1970, Gabriele Basilico set off from Milan in a Fiat 124, nominally heading for Kabul. The journey towards India was a rite of passage for the flower children generation, and Basilico had plans to take a series of photos to then sell on to some magazine. The journey didn’t quite turn out as planned, but in his...
20,00 €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 stockPublisher's presentation: "Le quartier du Mirail, « une opération d’avant-garde, humaniste par excellence », était un rêve d’urbaniste. Cette utopie ne put s’adapter aux réalités changeantes de la ville, aux mutations de la société française. Au-delà des analyses de l’échec, le photographe Luc Delahaye mesure avec ses outils l’espace entre l’idéal d’une...
22,00 €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...
Publisher's presentation: "Lobismuller tells the story of Manuel Blanco Romasanta, Spain's bloodiest and most enigmatic serial killer, from a female perspective. Manuel was born Manuela and originally believed to be a woman: according to modern forensic theories, he (or she) may have lived with a rare syndrome of intersexuality. Blanco Romasanta was...
47,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "« I am not so fond of the idea of taking pictures. But I always return to it. The sense of getting close to something that has no words. This is why I continue. I balance between different worlds that I am trying to relate to. My pictures are memories. To have access to the feeling of solitude and vulnerability. To be allowed...
30,00 €In StockPresentation by the artist : "Nowadays, it is complicated to do street photography in France because of the issue of image ownership rights. Paradoxically, France is the country in which this genre was born in the 1930s, with Cartier Bresson, Doisneau, Ronis, Brassaï and Capa. Unheeded Warnings was self-published so as to be distributed on the margins of...
8,00 €Out of stockChauvet Pont-d'Arc l'inappropriable
.Back in stock. Publisher's presentation: the Grotte Chauvet, by Raphaël Dallaporta "Invited to confront himself to the heritage of the Grotte Chauvet, Raphaël Dallaporta has imagined an immersive visual approach as if we were physically entering the cave. For ten years, Raphaël Dallaporta has developed photographic protocols which allow him to renew our...
45,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "Plein été, un dimanche en début d'après-midi, un homme s'approche, une masse à la main, du bunker coincé entre la plage où se prélassent les vacanciers, et le café-restaurant où finissent de déjeuner les familles venues des environs profiter du grand soleil. Nous sommes quelque part sur la côte nord de la Bretagne. Une rangée...
20,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "À travers ses photographies, Claude Batho (1935-1981) s’est attachée aux objets les plus simples qui constituaient son quotidien, aux paysages familiers, à son proche entourage. La simplicité apparente des représentations cède la place à la sensibilité, à une beauté silencieuse, souvent associées aux tirages argentiques en noir...
30,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Stéphane Duroy et Paulo Nozolino ont en commun exigence et défiance vis-à-vis de la capacité eu égard à la capacité du médium photographique à rendre compte de la complexité du monde. Une écriture dépouillée, le refus de la dimension spectaculaire, l’économie d’images sont des traits communs au travail réalisé dans le...
20,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "To celebrate an 11-year collaboration with Bordeaux-based photographer Frédéric Desmesure, the OARA - Office Artistique de la Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine (Artistic Agency for the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region) produces a book published by Le Bleu du ciel. Designed by Franck Tallon, it includes approximately 100 images chosen from the...
15,00 €In StockPresentation on the artist's website: "La maison d’édition parisienne Various présente Journal, 2000–2012, une série de photographie argentique en couleur de l’artiste Julien Magre. Après une première publication Caroline, Histoire numéro deux paru en 2010 aux éditions Filigranes, ce photographe poursuit sa quête du réel et du quotidien à la façon d’un...
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