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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.
.Back in stock.Publisher's presentation: "From 2005 to 2009 Antoine d’Agata had spent most of his time in Cracolandia, the crack neighborhoods of São Paulo and Salvador. Doubtless the roughest areas of Brazil. With 169 images and more than 140 unseen photographs, Cidade de Pedra is the most comprehensive document about this period. It reveals the...
65,00 €Out of stockDrop of Light to Rushing Water
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Light escaping from my hands as I try to scoop itStormy red water will circulate around the sea and sky somedayAn eternal scene lies within a moment. In Keiko Nomura's work, women and water have been the motifs in her overarching theme of life’s infinite cycle beyond time and space."Published on the occasion of the...
15,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Afterword is composed of photos used in the afterword ’Sasuke’s Diary’ from Sasuke, My Dear Cat, published by Seinen Shokan in 1978. In the small pocket-sized printing manuscript were instructions and numbering written by Fukase himself. Sasuke the First went missing quite early on, but some time afterwards, someone who had seen...
Presentation by the distributor : "Shooting the things and people I liked or noticed, I found myself as an artist and put my perception of Ukrainian reality into photography that I produce and now I constantly working on my personal projects, combining social documentary with snap-shots from my diary. Both of them are about truth and honesty, although...
15,00 €Out of stockIt’s beautiful when it flies (*signed*)
Presentation on the artist's website : "If you close your eyes, Do you fall? Or do you fly? As a child I dreamt of flying. Sometimes I actually felt the wind against my cheeks. Sadly, somehow aging goes hand in hand with the inability to believe in something so close to carelessness. It’s beautiful when it flies is my attempt to refind this childlike...
37,00 €In Stock.PLEASE NOTE: We are carrying only the French edition of this book (English edition by Dewi Lewis not avilable through us at the moment). Presentation by André Frère: [Text in book in French only] "Photographs of Piotr Zbierski are emotional, though dictated objective which I would call a philosophical reference to his, but also our own image durability,...
39,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : [translation by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "After Bernard Plossu in 2015 (Couleur Fresson), the new collector by de l'air magazine presents new images by Antoine d'Agata, from his series Paradigmes, exhibited from Oct. 27th to Nov. 26th, 2016 at Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris. 200 copies were printed in Offset by Arts...
190,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Maxwell Anderson has been accumulating his photographs of flowers over the last 6 years. His choice of photographs are deliberately awkward and unceremonious. In the book, Anderson combines his snapshots of common flowers with equally common and often inane human interpretations and interactions with them. His interst lies...
25,00 €In Stock.Signed copies back in stock.Publisher's presentation: "Vera confessed to Victoria that she was transexual the day they kissed for the first time. It was in a park. It did not change anything. For the four years that they were together, they loved each other as they had never loved anyone before. The book is a visual diary shot between 2012 and 2016 in...
25,00 €Out of stockText from the first page: "Now let us, by flight of imagination, suppose that Rome is not a human habitation but a psychical entity with a similar long and copious past -- an entity, that is to say, in which nothing that has once come into existence will have passed away and all the earlier phases of development continue to exist alongside the latest...
55,00 €Out of stockThe Incomplete Princess Book (*signed*)
Presentation of the project : " « I always had a problem with my name being so common. If you search my name on the web, the first thing you will find will be a belly dancer, following by all sorts of girls with cheesy smiles (or in explicit poses). At first I hated that. But if you have something that bothers you, you have to work with it, process it,...
29,00 €Out of stock.One copy available.Presentation by Meta/Books: " - Suzanne Gloria Lyall, missing since March 2 1998 in Albany (NY), at the age of 19 - Out of the Blue is a conceptual work with a tragic underlying narrative — the disappearance of the teenager. The project tends to question our relationship towards absence and loss and the need of physicality in the...
120,00 €In Stock.Currently unavailable. Presentation on Jehsong Baak's website : "One Last Goodbye 1987-1990 / 2002-2013 A journey back in time to late 80s when I started a new life lived on a razor's edge in New York City. Portraits of friends, lovers, neighbors at a single room occupancy hotel on the Upper West Side, interspersed with images taken in recent years...
50,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Far too often African American men live and identify with an idea of “blackness” that is imposed upon them, rather than created by them. Their sense of self worth and identity has primarily been defined by external forces. What happens when an African American man self interprets his own identity based upon ideology,...
Publisher's presentation: "寓喩 « Gûyu » in Japanese, means « allegory ». For Maki, the figure of speech is a photographic category. At the core of his photography practice, lies the question of re-presentation, of the relationship to space... The involvement of known elements in new sets - or the opposite. During his travels in Japan of the past 15 years,...
36,00 €In Stock.Last copy. Presentation by the artist : "This book started with an artist residency in Mulhouse, in October 2015, as part of the Mulhouse Biennial of Photography 2016. It is now the intuitive and flooded river of my working process, with images from a variety of sources (and periods) : c-prints, collages, installations views, photocopies, pages from my...
50,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Anaesthesia is a lament of several voices, a symphony of the evil in us, cinematically edited screenshots from videos, an engagement with the media, an open criticism to war and terrorism, a declaration of neutrality, an act of rebellion to the ego, where one stands alone prevented to feel anything else beyond his own...
44,00 €Out of stockNB : The texts are fully translated into English in the bookPublisher's presentation: "« La genèse de ce livre est tout d’abord venue de l’acquisition d’un ordinateur en 2001. Ensuite emporté par mon sujet, j’ai eu pour but d'inventer des photos flirtant avec les monstres, les maladies, la beauté transformée. J'ai passé beaucoup de temps devant l'écran à...
23,00 €In StockPresentation by André Frère: " What is it that lies behind the UFO phenomena? Is it just a commercially profitable story, a delusion with social consequences, a religious myth, or even a physical phenomenon? Through an investigative journey through the states of Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona, Sara Galbiati, Peter Helles Eriksen and Tobias Selnaes...
43,00 €Out of stock.Last copy. Publisher's presentation: "The photo book Suspension takes us inside a « Casa Famiglia », an institution where young immigrant boys are welcomed and nurtured. They arrive after long and harsh journeys, often taking years, fleeing from their conflicted and war-torn home countries. Violence tore up their families and roots, and having left all...
25,00 €Out of stockThe texts (articles & interviews) in this new magazine about photography are in French only. Halogénure Nb 01, the Content : - Cahier 01A (68 pages) : Éditorial, Portfolio & Entretien Gabrielle Duplantier, Portfolio "Unsung Song of a City" de Gilles Roudière, Portfolio "Trapped" de Stéphane Charpentier - Cahier 01B (32 pages) : Portfolio "F8...
25,00 €Out of stockText from the inside of the cover : "In the early 1970s, farmers, workers, and students united under the slogan « We will not surrender our land! ». This protest, known as the Narita or Sanrizuka Struggle, led to a series of fierce, bloody battles. A woman in peasant clothing covered all over with mud, in heavy rain, had tied herself to a thick post with...
55,00 €Out of stock.Only one copy available.Text from the second page : "Imagine that you are a photographer, an artist... Imagine that you go through a year that completely changes your way of looking at life itself. Imagine that you go to the South for a period of time, reading Henry Miller and taking pictures... The result is this book."This book is sold out everywhere,...
13,00 €Out of stockPresentation on the artist's website: "The body as landscape... image play mix. Curvilinear combinations between body and light; the duality that mislead us imagining the mistake that in reality doesn't exist."28 pages - Softcover Self-published, 2014 (50 copies) Format : 21 x 29 cm New - Mint condition
12,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "In the work Muchismo, the photographer Cristina de Middel digs around in her studios and brings all of her images to light, exactly the way she has them stored, in colossal, gorgeous chaos, to show them in the exhibition of the same name to be held in June at the Teatro Fernán Gómez in Madrid. This is a sui generis display of...
35,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Reviens va-t’en (in English « come back go away ») is an intimate book made of 46 images of the same cat. Under an innocent approach, the book deals with the themes of death and passing. Through photography and layout, the souvenir of this now-dead cat is frozen in time and also slowly...
15,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "instants confondus is the testimony of one of Nolwenn Brod's first photographic works, where she evokes a blinding disappearance, that of her father.She looks soothingly at this suffering she shares with other children. Her images are simple, without artifice ...This book is also one of the last steps in her quest. A quest that...
28,00 €In StockExcerpt from the introduction by Andrea Díaz Mattei : "[…] As a kind of visual poetry (fixed and in motion) and with subtle reminiscences of refugees and displaced people around the world –and while questioning the viewer– Hamzehian and Mortarotti portray these inhabitants of the borders (and all their polysemic meanings) and in doing so place a current,...
30,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Passengers is the result of an observation Dagmar Keller and Martin Wittwer made at night at a bus station while travelling through Poland. For a moment, the passengers on an old bus, obscured behind stained, ice-covered windows, in the pale light of the bus station had the appearance of figures in a painting. Travellers, fallen...
37,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Forcella is stabbed into the deepest guts of Naples. It's the oldest and smallest neighbourhood of the city, known as the home to the most violent and fierce mafia gangs. In Forcella time is suspended, frozen in a undefined era that holds the breath from postwar to the Eighties; modernity and globalisation didn’t make their way...
22,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Skinnerboox: "Using the photographic archives of the CERN laboratory, David Fathi has manipulated and recontextualized images to tell the strange tale of the Pauli Effect; the myth that Wolfgang Pauli, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, would just by his presence cause unexplainable failures of equipment and experiments. The photos...
75,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "For over thirty years, Patrick Zachmann has traveled across China, a country he discovered in 1982 while reporting on the Chinese film industry. From Hong Kong triads in the 1980’s to the mutation of the city of Beijing through Tiananmen Square protests, this book brings together around 350 B&W and colour...
