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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.
Je n'ai plus peur du noir (*signed*)
Presentation by Filigranes: "Le 25 décembre 2014, je fais des photographies ce matin-là, en Corrèze.Le lendemain, nous apprenons, suite à une analyse de sang de routine, que Suzanne, notre fille de 7 ans, est atteinte d’une leucémie.Elle est rapatriée le 29 décembre à Paris, à l’hôpital Trousseau.À partir de ce moment-là, je photographie Suzanne à...
Publisher's presentation: "En parallèle d’une exposition qui s'est tenue à l’automne 2016 à la galerie ARGENTIC (Paris 5e), les éditions h’Artpon présentent la première monographie du photographe Philippe Bréson, sous-titrée Éclaircies passagères. Pensé comme une rétrospective sélective du travail du photographe, ce livre présente des images exécutées...
Publisher's presentation: "Coffret constitué de trois ouvrages.La première résidence des 3 photographes choisis Diana Lui, Alice Lévêque, Lea Patrix a eu lieu en janvier/février 2016 à Toulouse. La résidence 1+2 est un programme photographique ancré à Toulouse et à vocation européenne. Il associe chaque année : – 3 photographes : un photographe de renom...
.Sold out. Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral: "Sergio Larrain published only four books in his lifetime, and Valparaíso (1991) is the most memorable of them all. This new edition faithfully follows the unpublished layout designed by Larrain, as a response to the book published two years earlier by Hazan. For the first time, this version presents more...
Publisher's presentation: "98 mainly unpublished polaroids, 98 timeless images from one of the first fashion provocateurs whose singular way of seeing influenced contemporary photography, and continues to do so."Foreword by Oliviero Toscani.128 pages - Hardcover Editions Xavier Barral, 2009 Format : 17 x 25 cm New - Mint condition
Publisher's presentation: "From his very first photograph in New York in 1936 to his recent work in the Alpilles forest, this monograph testifies of the wealth of Louis Stettner's work. He makes the link between the humanist photography and the American street photography by giving a poetic and uncluttered vision of the world which surrounds us. Through...
Publisher's presentation: "This book, developed in close collaboration with Emmet Gowin, is the first French monograph on this American photographer. Through more than 200 images covering the entire breadth of his career from his iconic portraits of his wife Edith to his singular approach on the landscape, this publication offers the most complete...
.Currently out of stock - Please feel free to contact us.Publisher's presentation: "Through this intimist series, Cédric Delsaux continues his exploration of reality in a fictional state. Strongly influenced by the Jean-Claude Romand case (a news story popularised by Emmanuel Carrère’s novel L’Adversaire, adapted to film by Nicole Garcia), he travelled...
Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral: "Between 1981 and 2003, Mark Cohen takes several trips to Mexico. Fascinated by this country he calls ‘surrealist’, he wanders with his camera, without any anthropological nor social focus, in the streets of Mexico, Merida and Oaxaca. For a split-second, Mark Cohen comes very close to his subjects whom he captures...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "A keen observer of the animal world and a pioneer of wildlife photography, George Shiras was also the first, at the turn of the 20th century, to reveal the nocturnal lives of forest animals through surprising flash photographs. From mobile shots on his canoe to photographic tricks he developed (when the animal...
Publisher's presentation: " « Security barrier » for the Israelis, « wall of apartheid » for the Palestinians or « separation barrier » for Human Rights Watch, beyond the political debate, Josef Koudelka shows the wall as a manmade scar that mars the natural landscape. Wall assembles panoramic landscape photographs in black and white, taken between 2008...
.Sold out. Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral: "From Lebanon in the 1960s to Marseille today, via Alexandria, Valence, the beaches of Palavas, Naples, and Rimini, Raymond Depardon offers us golden moments in the Mediterranean, comprising many previously unpublished photographs. On the occasion of the exhibition Un Moment Si Doux [Golden Moments]...
Publisher's presentation: "Published for the first time in its entirety, the series Sisyphe (Sisyphus) unfolds as 32 images. They are like fragments from a suddenly veiled scene; all that appears, caught beneath the surface, is a mysterious tangle of thighs, backs, necks, breasts and hair. Anonymous gestures without a story. A sensual knot of bodies,...
.PLEASE NOTE : This book is temporarily out of stock, additional copies will be available for shipment in early May 2017.Publisher's presentation : "« Corentin Fohlen nous conduit hors des sentiers battus des lieux communs attendus sur la misère et le chaos social, pour nous entraîner dans les arcarnes d’un quotidien plus terre à terre, plus intime et...
Publihser's presentation: "Shuji Terayama Museum is pleased to host a joint exhibition by photographers Daido Moriyama & Hiroyasu Nakai from April 4 to September 25, 2016. After the sudden death of Nakai in February 2016, Moriyama, a friend of Nakai's for over 40 years, carefully selected photographs from approximately 500 of Nakai's original...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "No American roadtrip is so classic as the one bound west, especially from New York to California. That is the route Italy-born photographer Renato D’Agostin took last summer on his 1983 BMW R100, cruising 7,439 miles coast-to-coast: breaking down, developing film in motel sinks along the way. “It was challenge,” says...
Where Does the White Go (*signed*)
Presentation by the artist: "The absence of words, this is the nature of the relationship I have with the mountains. Long pauses, ancient and vital rhythms perceived in the oblivion, deep breaths, worlds that reveal themselves only through silence and that words would damage. An absence that leaves us untouched by sound-interference and the « white-noise...
Publisher's presentation: "Little North Road is a photographic collaboration that looks at a pedestrian bridge in the middle of Guangzhou. The bridge serves as a symbolic gateway into China from Africa. At the heart of this book is a selection of images collected from two Chinese itinerant portrait photographers, Wu Yong Fu and Zeng Xian Fang. Equipped...
Publisher's presentation: "For the past three years, Stacey Baker has been photographing women’s legs in New York City and posting the pictures on Instagram, where she has over 75,000 followers. The women are strangers she meets on the street who agree to pose in front of a nearby wall. Only their legs are visible in the frame: »She always frames them so...
.Sold out.We are still offering the trade edition of this book here.Presentation on Yoshida Akihito's website: "There is a district called Hazaribagh in Dacca, the capital city of Bangladesh. It’s a southwestern district of the capital known for densely concentrated oxhide processing factories since East Pakistan State era before the independence in...
.Sold out. Presentation on the artist's website: "There is a district called Hazaribagh in Dacca, the capital city of Bangladesh. It's a southwestern district of the capital known for densely concentrated oxhide processing factories since East Pakistan State era before the independence in 1971. 90% of domestic oxhide production comes from this district...
Nhudes Zine Issue 1 - Naked Thoughts
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation : [adapted by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "The Zine has been made with the contribution of 5 photographers from Spain, Canada, South Korea and Japan, and myself from France. The idea of Nhudes came with the transition I’ve been making in my photographing style. I love the intimate and realistic photographs many photographers...
Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation: "Classic documentary photography, at its best, is a transcendent path back to the people of another place and time. Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink is a royal road to that special time in 1972-1973 -- when the love generation in America was at its height. The U.S. was reeling from years of war and turbulent social change and...
Le goût des mandarines (*signed*)
Text included in the book: "Sometimes, memories are linked with five senses. And it is sometimes strange. For me, it would be a sound. Sometimes it is linked with a taste, sometimes with a scent.In Japan, people say about love, « taste like a lemon », so there might be a pathway in the human memory to be brought back to the facts by the five senses....
Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink
Publisher's presentation: "Classic documentary photography, at its best, is a transcendent path back to the people of another place and time. Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink is a royal road to that special time in 1972-1973 -- when the love generation in America was at its height. The U.S. was reeling from years of war and turbulent social change and...
Publisher's presentation : (texts in French only) " Max Pam, voyageur, hippie, père de famille, mari, drôle, tendre, aventurier ? tout ça. On s’est rencontrés par papier interposé ! Vu des photos de lui dans la revue anglaise Creative Camera, en 1973 ! Et je les ai tellement aimées, elles m’ont paru si différentes de tout ce que j’avais vu sur l’Inde...
the only thing that matters (*signed w/...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "If I’ve ever felt used by you photographing me... I had never even thought about that. And frankly, I got slightly offended by your question. People asked – you said. I don’t understand – I said. For me that topic was beyond debate. Your work had nothing to do with a superior male view on a beautiful young girl. Not...
Alberto García-Alix (par) Nicolás Combarro
Publisher's presentation (excerpt) : [NB : texts in French only] "Cette conversation intime et familière est le fruit d’une collaboration de près de quinze années avec García-Alix. J’ai eu la chance d’être commissaire de la plupart de ses expositions sur cette période et j’ai pris part à de nombreux projets audiovisuels et éditoriaux qu’il a dirigés....
a photobook signed by the author Yann Audic Text from the 3rd cover page by Julien Pham : "Keep a low profile, blend in with the crowd. Like the hunter camouflaged in wild grass, like the schoolboy wearing short pants. As would the rhythm of a vinyl reaching the end of the track, tickled by the record player, your pulse gradually slows down, and attunes...
Presentation by André Frère Editions: "This booklet is the first in a series of twelve that opens up the space for A's journeys, his physical journey through his wanderings, his excesses, his strained progress, his encounters. They will appear over the next five years, at a sustained rhythm. The form, if it can be startling at first, spins the...
.Very last copy!.Publisher's presentation: "Tamarind Ghosts by Tiane Doan na Champassak presents an exploration of eroticism, censorship and prostitution in Thailand. In days gone by, most prostitutes in Bangkok plied their trade in the area around Sanam Luang Park; under the watchful gaze of the Royal Palace. As they stood soliciting customers beneath...
.LAST COPY. Publisher's presentation: "Pabaiga by Olivier Pin-Fat presents a crucible of various darkroom processing and analog printing techniques. Working solely with analog materials, often outdated, Pin-Fat's work attempts to shift the image or aesthetic either during the film processing stage or in the darkroom with the photographic print itself....