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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.
Publisher's presentation: "The idea of the book is a pictorial story which only consists of one narrative hook. Seizing the idea of a record getting caught, the introduction is being looped repeatedly without continuing the story with regards to content. Once upon a time there was a woman STOP! Once upon a time there was a woman STOP! And again!The...
25,00 €In StockBook published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery, New York in the spring 2014.182 pages - Softcover Karma, 2015 Format : 21 x 28 cm New - Mint condition
60,00 €In StockText from the next-to-last page : "This is not Helsinki, but Hellsinki. Discipline, order, accuracy. These three characters define the Finnish society pretty well. But, because this book has no vocation to be documentary, these features are replaced here by coldness, darkness and loneliness. My aim with the book is to give a portrait, from a subjective...
20,00 €Out of stockEverything you do is a Balloon
Publisher's presentation: "« The buzz of fatigue drones louder in your head. It fills your body, making it taut with tension. You sit in the dark for a couple of hours, draining the mundane memories of the week. You drink a beer. Your skin seeks release. Overtired, overstressed, overworked, undersexed: you burst like a balloon. The weekend has begun. » S....
32,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Mountains and Waters is a photographic study of China in diptychs, shot on the outskirts of Shanghai, Chongqing and Shenzhen in China. The works focus on contemporary Chinese matters such as construction, infrastructure and development, while simultaneously alluding to traditional Chinese painting styles."120 pages - Hardcover...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Ron Jude’s Vitreous China is comprised of an archive of photographs he made while exploring areas of light industry in (primarily) Midwestern American cities. Rather than comment on the workings of industry itself, Jude depicts the ambient peripheral zones suffusing these environments: big rig parking lots, side exits,...
The Eyes N°6 - spring-summer 2015 (100% English/French) For this issue, The Eyes has decided change tack. We have chosen to reflect on the notion of territory. Whether geographical, political, legal, cultural or mental, it is consistently subject to friction, even conflict. Think of the refugee crisis and the reaction it elicited: barriers being erected...
20,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Presentation on the artist's website : "By selecting details of naked bodies from photographs found in Thai hardcore magazines from the 70s, Tiane Doan na Champassak delivers an unexpected vision of pornography: invisible sexes and skillfully framed and enlarged, nearly rasterized details, compose images that verge on abstraction. The absence of...
.Back in stock.Presentation by Kehrer Verlag: "Christophe Gin spent five months exploring the landscapes of Guiana (in French Guyane), from border regions to the most remote Amerindian villages, where soldiers mingle with gold prospectors and exploited immigrant workers, and where local population is forced to integrate republican concepts. His...
49,00 €In StockLooking for the Masters in Ricardo’s...
Publisher's presentation: "Looking for the Masters in Ricardo’s Golden Shoes is a collaboration between a photographer intrigued by the evolution of photography and her friend Ricardo, who became both her muse and her model. Begun in July 2013 at the Rencontres d’Arles Photography Festival as a joyful celebration of the photographers exhibited that year,...
40,00 €Out of stock.Last copies!. Presentation by the artist: "Destroying the Laboratory for the Sake of the Experiment (DTLFTSOTE) is a collaboration with the poet Daniel Cockrill. Beginning in 2006 and continuing (when time allowed) over the next four years, Daniel Cockrill and I made several road trips across England, stopping at a range of towns and cities along the...
45,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "The Sensation of Falling contains nine series from 1980s to 2015 and focuses on human identity expressed through the body. Stina Brockman belongs to the group of artists who create a personal world of understanding. Her technical mastery, her integrity, and the deep emotional impact of her photographs are striking. She...
40,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "In the early 2000s, Attilio Solzi photographed the two main groups of transgender sex workers in Italy (Brazilian in Milan and Italians in Catania). Dollhouse fondly shows these portraits of men who are midway between women and divas."120 pages - Hardcover Lieutenant Willsdorff, 2016 Format : 15.3 x 20.8 cm New - Mint condition
42,00 €In Stock.Last copy - Sold out by the publisher. Publisher's presentation: Walter Pfeiffer's images are an anthem to youthfulness "Instinctive, spontaneous and unclassifiable, Walter Pfeiffer's images are an anthem to youthfulness, and not only that of the mind. This may explain why, in spite of a monopolizing international success, he accepted ECAL's invitation...
25,00 €Out of stockExcerpt from the artist's blog: "Alex & Me - What’s it about? A lot of people have asked me this question. Let me say from the start that Alex & Me could be considered as two books in one. The first a simple story, the second a much more complex proposition after Francesca Seravalle and Alex’s interventions. I understand very well the appeal of...
30,00 €Out of stockJakarta - Modest Interventions and Minor...
.Currently out of stock.Presentation by The Velvet Cell: "In this book Ramírez explores the difficulties associated with living in an overpopulated city that is expanding at tremendous speed. Jakarta is currently the 2nd largest megalopolis on the planet, after Tokyo-Yokohama. The photos in this book show the modest interventions and minor improvisations...
35,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "In 2015, Peter Bialobrzeski returned to his hometown, Wolfsburg, to document the changes the city has undergone since his leaving many years previous. « In the 80’s, I always felt that Wolfsburg was a socialist dream. It felt like everybody was participating. Now the picture has changed ». Wolfsburg Diary is the 3rd...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "In 2015, Peter Bialobrzeski returned to his hometown, Wolfsburg, to document the changes the city has undergone since his leaving many years previous. « In the 80’s, I always felt that Wolfsburg was a socialist dream. It felt like everybody was participating. Now the picture has changed ». Wolfsburg Diary is the 3rd...
Publisher's presentation: "In 2010 more Americans were living below the poverty line than at any time since 1959, when the U.S. Census Bureau began collecting this data. In 2011, Kira Pollack, Director of Photography at Time, commissioned Joakim Eskildsen to photograph this growing crisis affecting nearly 46.2 million Americans. Based on census data,...
32,00 €Out of stockDOM (Document Object Model - 2nd ed.)...
Presentation of the project by the artist: "In my project DOM I refer to the concept of home.«Dom» means a house, home, a building or a household in the Russian language. As a model for creation of the maquette of houses, I chose the kind of mass housing, so-called «Khruschyovka». They were built in Russia in the era of Khrushchev. After Stalin's Empire...
65,00 €Out of stockPresentation on the artist's website: "I’m looking at old cosmetic bag to discover my mother's lipstick, eye shadows and blushes, which she used to enjoy when she was a little older than I’m today. I’m pulling out of the closet a suitcase with shoes to find a pair of her unprocurable Yugoslav sandals bought back in the 1980s. I’m turning over a pile of...
38,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Dutch artist, poet and photographer Gerard P. Fieret (1924-2009) has created some of the strangest and most subversive works produced in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. An obsessional and insatiable photographer, taking pictures of anything and everything. He did focus on subjects he was particularly fond of: women, legs,...
47,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "In Las Vegas, everything seems possible, indifference above all. « Insert Coins is a blues » in the words of the author. Its pace is melancholic and dark, intertwined with a poem that makes the unacceptable watchable, injecting humanity where the die is definitely cast. Christian Lutz shows a committed approach, he comments on a...
29,50 €Out of stockPresentation on Marie Mons' website: "I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time... For me, it was lying on my back watching falling stars... And yellow leaves, from the maple trees, that lined my street......
25,00 €In StockPresentation on Baptiste Lignel's website: Coney Island, a dying myth "Say the words « Coney Island » to just about any American and you will provoke a reaction, at the very least a spark of recognition. Whether from experience, retold stories of past generations or the personal, albeit generalized, identification and sense of ownership that legend...
38,00 €In Stock.WARNING : We are offering only the French version of this book. An English version will be released by University of Texas Press, but - to our knowledge - it will not be available for distribution outside of the United States. Presentation on the French publisher's website lamaindonne: "Antebellum South: of this appellation which designates the Deep...
35,00 €In Stock.Temporarily out of stock.Presentation by the artist: "This was one of the strangest shooting I ever had. And when you see the images, and if you know my other zines, books and photos, you'll know why."50 numbered copies, we are offering No. 8 / 50.36 pages - Softcover Dienacht Publishing (50 copies) Format : 13 x 18 cm New - Mint condition
13,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "L’Absente takes the form of an extended allegory or visually alliterative verse. An ode dedicated to « absence » in all of its meanings; the missing, the lost, those disappeared or simply things invisible or out of sight. For the photographer, L’Absente holds a deeper meaning, more intimately connected to freedom; providing a...
45,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Between Us And The Sea invites the reader on a mythical journey from Houston, Texas to Big Sur, California. Not a road trip as such, more the photographic record of countless escapes across country in an endless quest to reach the freedom of the sea. And yet, this is not a record of a physical landscape but of an...
Semper Augustus (*signed C-print*)
Presentation by the artist Mary Hamill: "Semper Augustus sits within a greater ongoing body of work entitled « Short Stories For My Adolescent Self ». This work aims to question the nature of desire by exploring notions of attraction and repulsion, beauty and ugliness and the fragility of life through an investigation of the fluidity of our being and the...
85,00 €In Stock168 pages - Softcover w/ DJ Lodret Vandret, 2015 (200 copies) Format : 14 x 20 cm New - Mint conditionLodret Vandret's presentation: "What does it mean to live in a world where the digital screen is so prominent? Smoke Screen is a subjective exploration of the condition of digital screenship. It is a curious look at screen-empowered mediation and...
28,00 €In StockCarpoolers - 2nd edition (*signed*)
Carpoolers is a beautiful series of portraits or - as Marc McCann called them in his NY Times Lens blog piece - "still-lifes" of Mexican workers commuting in the back of trucks. Shooting his images from above, Alejandro Cartagena gets the full content of the truck without its environment (except for the road and the roof and hood of the trucks),...
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