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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.
Publisher's presentation: "Melos is a book between darkness and hope. The image above these lines should alert the attentive viewer. On this old postcard, annotated by the sender marked “Far and sad hello from the East.”, while geographical annotations attest to the complexity of the region. This incipit seems to sum up the point of view reached by...
30,00 €In StockPresentation on Cedric Van Turtelboom's website: « Noroc is the result of Cedric Van Turtelboom’s winter adventures to Romania. With the simple rule of always sleeping at the home of a local, Cedric approaches with humor a freezing and twisted land, leaving us somewhere between documentary and an absurd fairytale. » -- Thomas Sauvin « Van Turtelboom keeps...
30,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation : "ATHENS LOVE presents Hang’s works taken in Greece (Athens and Attica) in April 2015 during his participation in the Occupy Atopos artist residency and exhibition curated by Vassilis Zidianakis. ATHENS LOVE is published on the occasion of the exhibition « ATHENS LOVE » at Klein Sun Gallery in New York from March 24 to...
.Last copies!.Presentation on the artist's website : "Discordia, a new book by Magnum photographer Moises Saman, represents a personal memory of the nearly four years he spent living and working as a photojournalist in the Middle East during the Arab Spring from 2011 to 2014. « These photographs were taken while I was working as a photojournalist in...
85,00 €Out of stockRévélations - Iconographie de La Salpêtrière
Publisher's presentation : "The Iconographie de La Salpêtrière is one of the first photographic archives in the field of clinical psychiatry. Under the direction of Jean-Martin Charcot, and financed by the French government, this archive constituted an effort to catalogue the unclassifiable through new photographic-documentary techniques. The realm of the...
56,00 €Out of stockDeeper Shades 02 TOKYO (*signed*)
.Copy sold.After NEW YORK and before PARIS and VIENNA, Andreas H. Bitesnich presented Deeper Shades #02 TOKYO released in 2012.Grainy images, in darker tones as indicated by the title of the series Deeper Shades, a personal journey, and a nice way to discover this city through its landmarks, and through the details perceived by the eye of the author.The...
Deeper Shades 03 PARIS (*signed*)
.Copy sold.After NEW YORK and TOKYO, the first 2 volumes in his Deeper Shades series, Andreas H. Bitesnich presented Deeper Shades #03 PARIS released in 2013.Grainy images, in darker tones as indicated by the title of the series Deeper Shades, a personal journey, and a nice way to discover this city through its landmarks, and through the details perceived...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "The much anticipated debut monograph from Synchrodogs, the emerging avant-garde photographer duo from Ukraine. A curation of their most interesting work to date presented in an extra large format clothbound hardcover book. Tania Shcheglova and Roman Noven are Synchrodogs. The work of the young Ukrainian photography...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation : "A master of color composition and in the use of disruptive patterns, Wierzbowski's work often explores the ambiguous relationship between the model and their surroundings: Everyday settings become unconventional spaces and ordinary occurrences become extraordinary happenings in a seemingly random sequence of captured...
Publisher's presentation: "Inspired by Edvard Munch’s oft quoted words, Flowers Shall Grow presents a collection of seemingly innocent and playful images suffused with a sense of melancholy and imbued with a subtle and coded symbolism. Bergmanesque figures, often stripped bare, are glimpsed deep within Norwegian forests, spied solitary beside dark waters...
45,00 €Out of stockPresentation on the artist's website : "Deliberately operating in the contentious boundary between fashion and art photography, Donovan's work often challenges the notion of images à la sauvette. The photographer deliberately imposes his aesthetic intention on reality whilst drawing inspiration from a writers as diverse as Socrates, Ram Dass, Timothy...
75,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation of Belong to Joe: "Belongs to Joe is a photographic essay, compiled as set of notes on Lars von Trier’s film script for Nymphomaniac. The script’s elemental material draws from varied sources: Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, Fibonacci numbers, Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler, and Bach’s principles of composition –...
60,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : " Kazuma Ogaeri is a Moso photographer. He shoots illusion. In his work there is something of humanity and beauty of Akira Yoshimura's writings, something of the refined and frozen aesthetic of Kiyoshi Kurusawa in Shokuzai and Sogo Ishii in Le Labyrinthe des Rêves, something of Mirages d'été 「枇杷の樹の下で」 by Kazu Yusuki, something...
45,00 €In StockTell mum everything is ok - No. 6
Sixth issue of the Tell mum everything is ok magazine, published in November 2015.Full list of contributors to this issue : Adler & Edmark, Juan Aballe, Delaney Allen, Kent Andreasen, Jo Ann Walters, Jeremy Ayer, Viktoria Binschtok, Dan Boardman, Anaïs Boileau, Anne,Claire Broc’h, Hugo Denis,Queinec, Cédric Dubus, Petros Efstathiadis, Alishia Farnan,...
21,00 €Out of stockGainsbourg Inside - Vu de l'intérieur
Presentation on the back cover : "During the seven last years of his life, Serge Gainsbourg lived in a house on Paris's Rue Verneuil with his butler, Fulbert Ribeaut, who would become a close friend. After Gainsbourg's death in 1991, Fulbert's nephew, Yannick Ribeaut, photographed his house extensively. Now, for the very first time, these unique...
35,00 €Out of stockWARNING: Please note there is a sourcing delay of 10 days for us to supply this very-large-format portfolio (12 kg / 25 lbs).Publisher's presentation : [translation by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Discover the unique work of French-Chinese photographer Zeng Nian in this portfolio of 60 numbered prints, signed by the artist. This amazing case contains, outside...
960,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "In January 2011, Egypt’s youth launched a revolt, unseating Hosni Moubarak from power after 30 years. Five years later came disaster. An omnipotent military State is once again in power and the repression of political opponents is murderous. The photographs of Pauline Beugnies, the cartoons of Ammar Abo Bakr, and the words of...
30,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Presentation by Self Publish, Be Happy: "Fire in Cairo emerged from Egypt as an oblique and fragmentary document of revolutionary struggle. The book charts Connors’ uneasy engagement with the political turmoil that gripped the nation during its rapidly unfolding history. The complexity of the situation resisted comprehensive explanation, but...
Publisher's presentation: "Guy Le Querrec, a Magnum Photos photographer, has often reported from Africa. This book showcases his work among the Lobi, the legendary people of Ghana now based in Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast. His footage, combining abstraction, movement and humour, shows how the Lobi have managed to maintain their culture while accommodating...
28,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "On 9th July 1995, the Serbian army attacked Srebrenica's Muslim ghetto. Nearly 8,000 people were massacred in three days. Twenty years on, the city's history seems frozen in obscurity. A new generation, however, is travelling its ruins and learning as much as it can from its consequences. This series of photographs by Adrien...
19,00 €Out of stockPresentation on Simone Donati's collective TerraProject's website: "From politics to religion, going from music, sport and television, between 2009 and 2015 Simone Donati crossed his country in search of myths and icons of the Italian contemporary imaginary. This project provides a glimpse into the Italian society with an ironic but also purely...
34,00 €In Stock.Two NEW copies available!. Presentation by Kehrer: "The photographer known by her artist name Sarah Moon (b. 1941) grew up in England and France. Having worked as a model in Paris for some years, she began taking photographs in 1968. Her first campaign shots for Cacharel were followed by countless commercial works for Dior, Chanel, Comme des Garcons and...
65,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "鼩鼱 (Qu Jing) means « shrew ». This book tells about growth. After moving to Beijing for five years, Lin Shu wanted to put his pictures taken during life and travel into a book. He tries to express through these personal images everyone’s experience of loss and gain, let go and possession, sorrow and joy, during their growth....
Cai Dongdong's statement : "These works were sourced from my photos taken in these years. They were piled up like chicken ribs, so I operated on them, like a surgeon. I applied various methods according to different pictures: engraving, rubbing, curling, or making a photography installation with other objects. I tried all I can to save these pictures by...
59,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "鼩鼱 (Qu Jing) means « shrew ». This book tells about growth. After moving to Beijing for five years, Lin Shu wanted to put his pictures taken during life and travel into a book. He tries to express through these personal images everyone’s experience of loss and gain, let go and possession, sorrow and joy, during their growth....
52,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "In this new body of work, Beyond Maps and Atlases, Bertien van Manen turns to Ireland. Van Manen says, « At first, working in Ireland I wasn’t sure what I was looking for. My husband had died. I dispensed with the people and reflected on the atmosphere. I was guided by a feeling and a search, a longing for some kind of meaning...
40,00 €In Stock.Sold out!.Publisher's presentation : "Lin snaps his circle of friends and himself, portraying his view of youth culture and lifestyles in contemporary China. His photographs are marked by fashionable indolence, saturated colours, penetrating flash, and somewhat frontal shots that unveil his models’ empowering presence and vulnerability at the same...
.Sold out. Presentation on the publisher's website: "These photographs are dedicated to the Blaue Horse group. This group or movement of young people, many of whom were students in my home city at the end of the 1950s, deep in the Soviet times, loved the Beatles, danced to rock and roll, and dreamt about the freedom of the West. They came under great...
Presentation on the publisher's website: ""In Spleen and Ideal, beauty is pursued across the disintegrating boundaries between male and female. Transgressive sexual encounters with what at times seems to be one and the same person are captured on instant film and mixed with impressions of the urban architecture in which they are anchored. In this...
The King of Photography (*signed*)
.One copy available.Gathered portraits of the King of Thaïland with a camera in his hands or around his neck.Risograph printing. First and only printing.64 pages - Stapled softcover Self-published, 2011 (250 copies) *Signed* As new - Mint condition
260,00 €In Stock.One copy only.Series of 14 portraits of men at the barber, on an orange / reddish background; as the men still have the barber's blue-striped gown on them, only their face is visible, "clear cut" on the colorful background...A self-published book by Christoph Soeder, in a print run of 35 copies only ! We are offering copy 7/35, signed by the artist. The...
Grays the Mountain Sends (1st ed.)
.Copy sold. A few words by Robert Adams from Bryan Schutmaat's website: "Grays the Mountain Sends is like hearing Merle Haggard sing white blues about dreams and grief. Though in the book we are allowed what only the best pictures can convey, a sense of light – in this case light at neglected hours on forgotten places in the American West. And light on...
