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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.
.Signed copies now available.Publisher's presentation: [translated & adapted from the French text by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Denis Dailleux is famous for the unique and passionate portraitof Egypt he has been building for more than fifteen years. In a search for new creative spaces, he also visits Ghana regularly since 2009. The fishermen of the port...
42,00 €In StockMarseillais du Nord - Les Seigneurs de...
Publisher's presentation : [translated & adapted from the French text by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "In the early 90s, the French Ministry of Culture wishes to assess how France is living and commissions Raymond Depardon to travel the countryside. Four other photographers are in charge of the "banlieues sensibles", or the outskirts of the big cities, areas...
29,00 €In Stock.PLEASE NOTE : the copies we are offering have one slightly bumped corner.Publisher's presentation: "This work by photographer Florian van Roekel is from a residence set up by Diaphane at the Jean Fernel Collège in Clermont-de-l'Oise.Present regularly during a school year in this establishment, the photographer takes a fragmentary look at these suspended...
39,00 €In StockPresentation on the artist's website: "Aby Warburg states that the historic discourse is never born, that it can always begin again. The past, according to Warburg, is as invented as discovered and it's the mere product of an inventor of history, the historian, who reconstructs the absence of his lost object and shapes, from his point of view and context,...
32,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation of Brad Feuerhelm's photobook: "Soft Touch re-works images pulled from various magazines and re-formatted into a sticker album where what remains becomes a comment on the use of empathy within photography and its economy of mass distribution. Considering the image consumer and image collection practices, the book highlights a...
25,00 €In StockBill Henson (*w/ signed print*)
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Bill Henson is a visionary explorer of twilight zones, between nature and civilization, youth and adulthood, male and female. His photographs are painterly tableaux that continue the traditions of romantic literature and painting. Henson's elegant, formal photographs – of battered landscapes and fragile, wispy youths –...
The critical conditions of my awareness...
Publisher's presentation: "The critical conditions of my awareness will sometimes trigger the shutter. The first condition that arose my interests towards photography is Chinese reality. So far until now, it is still the most convincing condition of my photographs. Usually I’ve always been carrying the overwhelming sensitivity towards those indecent...
66,00 €Out of stockBlousons Noirs (*signed print*)
Presentation for Yan Morvan's KissKissBankBank project: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Apaches of the early twentieth century, hoodlums of the 30s: they were the first bad boys. With the 50s comes the reign of the blousons noirs (black jackets) on the Parisian pavement and in the suburb. Rock 'n' Roll arrives in France at the same time as Eddie...
149,00 €In StockPresentation for Yan Morvan's KissKissBankBank project: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Apaches of the early twentieth century, hoodlums of the 30s: they were the first bad boys. With the 50s comes the reign of the blousons noirs (black jackets) on the Parisian pavement and in the suburb. Rock 'n' Roll arrives in France at the same time as Eddie...
49,00 €In StockPresentation by Dewi Lewis: "One in five under 18 year olds in the USA is diagnosed as having a mental condition which translates itself into behavioral problems. Often this is treated with medication which can start from an extremely young age. Over a six-year period Baptiste Lignel followed the progress of nine American teenagers with an array of...
36,00 €Out of stockCasa das Sete Senhoras (*signed*)
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "In the Beira-Alta region of Portugal, where Tito Mouraz was born and brought up, there is a house that is said to be haunted by the ghosts of seven women, all maiden sisters. One of them was a witch. On nights of the full moon, the women, in their white gowns, would fly from their balcony over to the leafy branches of...
Presentation by Editions du LIC: "Played represents the first solo project by Yoshi Kametani following his recent successful collaborations with Daisuke Yokota and IPG Project. A conceptual work in the form of a hybrid book (part photobook, part novella) based on events that take place in the criminal underworld of New York City. The protagonist, bored...
35,00 €In Stock.PLEASE NOTE: Our last copy has an imperfection to the plastic sleeve. Publisher's presentation: "During her time in North East China, Oskar Barnack Newcomer award winner Wiktoria Wojciechowska photographed intrepid, rain drenched cyclists as they fleetingly passed her by during the typhoon season. Although in China Wojciechowska had found an unexpected...
39,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Presentation of the series on the artist's website: "Once upon a time in Siberia, on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, in a warm bed in a small town, a little girl woke up from a dream. It was morning, but it was still dark out, for the little town was so far North that the sun would not show itself for many months. They called this the Polar...
Presentation on the artist's website: "The musical success stories of Esther Forero, Joe Arroyo and Shakira keep inspiring new generation of singers. WHENEVER WHEREVER is a poetic documentary which follows dreams and realities of 8 young singers from Barranquilla, Colombia whose ambitions are torn between hope and doubts. Lucie Mach catches a spark in...
38,00 €In StockPresentation by the artist: "Iran is a country with no time.Because the time has left too many signs, and what remains is the stratification: the past, first in Persia, now Iran, is as strong as sentiment and also loved.The story becomes narration - when even poetry - up to often confused with the experience of the same narrator.The stories overlap, and...
29,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "As a process …It was almost naturally simple accustoming myself to the idea of regarding thru a viewfinder every instant …even the non intimate as an erotic photograph… photography is defined by eroticism … -- KURAMA "An presentation of this book is available on the blog "who needs another photo blog".122 pages -...
35,00 €Out of stockYou Could Even Die For Not Being A Real...
Texte of presentation on the artist's website : "There is a kind of photography that reveals the spirit of a place, hurls itself at its prey, the great feast expecting only to be rent asunder. Images are complicit in this, fully exposing anyone who persists in hunting down the mockery of the photograph. Within a rather kitsch Kurdish setting, sensuality...
50,00 €In StockPresentation by the artist : "The photobook s1xte6n represents the photographic journey imagined by Paul Musescu throughout his 16 years of existence. The experiences are essentialized then captured in black and white images full of emotions and subtle symbols revealing themselves to the viewer at every step into this journey. Beyond the narrative line,...
31,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation : "Early Times is the first chapter of Vasantha Yogananthan’s long-term project A Myth of Two Souls, which offers a contemporary retelling of The Ramayana. A seven-chapter tale first recorded by the Sanskrit poet Valmiki around 300 BC, The Ramayana is one of the founding epics of Hindu mythology.Since 2013,...
.One signed copy available. Presentation by Lyre Press: "In the series Lotus, Max Pinckers and Quinten De Bruyn document the world of transsexuals in Thailand. The gender crisis that the so-called ladyboys face is transformed into a visual metaphor about the identity crisis that contemporary documentary photography currently encounters, when it dares to...
55,00 €In StockPresentation by Dienacht: "We are always in need of words, even the unspoken words of photography.These pictures were taken in different cities: Rubí, Barcelona, Tanger, Berlin, Madrid, Tokyo and Beijing. Within them, I show men and women I like and places that love me. With all of them, I rehearsal the dance steps to the void."A rather intriguing and...
25,00 €Out of stockThe Walls Don't Speak (Les murs ne parlent...
.Back in stock.Kehrer's presentation: "The trilogy The Walls Don’t Speak (Les murs ne parlent pas) is the result of a three-year dialog between the photographer Jean-Robert Dantou, and an interdisciplinary Social Sciences team coordinated by the anthropologist, Florence Weber. The photographer set up his studio in various institutions (psychiatric nursing...
40,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "Many of Paatos’ series depict individuals and identities with contradictions: she is inclined to locate couplings of the romantic and the harsh, the bare and the intense, the vulnerable and the sinewy. Through her photographs Paatos explores the relationship between the people living in the sparsely populated areas and the...
42,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "The issue #0 of our artist magazine featuring the work of 8 artists we love."First issue of a new "magazine" presented as a Leporello. On one side, 8 photographs by 8 different artists : Michele Tagliaferri, Lieko Shiga, Bernardita Morello, Gregory Halpern, Marten Lange, Miren Pastor, Ricardo Cases and Go Itami. On the back, a...
12,00 €In StockSanta Barbara Return Jobs Back to US...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation : "Many of the photographs in this book are not “about” anything per se, but their tone, seen together, leaves little mystery. Alejandro’s “America,” seen through the lens of “Santa Barbara,” is a place hanging on by a thread. There are several images in the book, peering down on the street, taken from high up in a...
Santa Barbara Return Jobs Back to US
Publisher's presentation : "Many of the photographs in this book are not “about” anything per se, but their tone, seen together, leaves little mystery. Alejandro’s “America,” seen through the lens of “Santa Barbara,” is a place hanging on by a thread. There are several images in the book, peering down on the street, taken from high up in a building...
60,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Presentation on the artist's website: "Created as both installation and publication, End. is a collaborative work by Eamonn Doyle, Niall Sweeney and David Donohoe. Built around the photographs of Doyle, it also features drawing and sound by Sweeney and Donohoe. End. gives equal significance to the city and its population, their combined forces...
Presentation on the publisher's website: "« We have long heard that New York and Paris were the most photographed cities in the world. This is undoubtedly true, it was, anyway. We quickly deduced that they were the most photogenic. It is not certain. Now the city, every town, from the largest to the smallest, are both a concern and a revelator of...
25,00 €In Stock.In stock.Publisher's presentation: "Post-Script revisits Laura El-Tantawy’s journey through Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square five years from Egypt’s momentous revolution and one year after the release of her self-published monograph, In the Shadow of the Pyramids. The pocket-sized publication features previously unpublished images and written reflections...
20,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Presentation by the artist : "I am Iranian. I was born in 1980, the same year as the Islamic Revolution. I learned how to wear my scarf when I was seven years old. I still remember putting it on for the first time, getting ready for my first day at school. It was me, my mother and a mirror. Two years later my Religious teacher stopped me in the...
Excerpt from the text in postface : "« Photographer Andrew Miksys, a seasoned traveler, ventures into the spring of Belarus with the eye of a magician. He knows the local terrain well: the distant officialdom and intimate circles, public and private, open and secret, cynical and welcoming, recorded and discarded, winter and summer, the risky future and...
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