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.

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  • .Sold out. Short presentation of the publishing project and book on the publisher's website: "We plan, produce and make limited editions of artist's photo books. Our main characteristic is the mingling between photo and poetry, on the red thread of going back to the origins, « witnessing truth with no appealing purpose ». We are proud to show you our new...

  • Quick view Strand, Nina
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    Presentation on the artist's website : "Dr. Strand is the title of an exhibition and a book about the late doctor, feminist and activist Kitty Strand. The personal picture-memoir is told by her daughter, Nina Strand. Kitty and Nina were planning a journey across the U.S. that they never had time to take before Kitty passed away in 2001. In 2012 Nina took...

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  • Publisher's presentation : "Athens Diary is the follow-up to 2014’s Cairo Diary and the 2nd in Peter Bialobrzeski’s City Diaries Series with The Velvet Cell. In Athens Diary Bialobrzeski travels to the scene of the biggest European crisis in decades to document the urban consequences of the emergency. His photos capture the dichotomy of everyday life in...

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  • Publisher's presentation : "Athens Diary is the follow-up to 2014’s Cairo Diary and the 2nd in Peter Bialobrzeski’s City Diaries Series with The Velvet Cell. In Athens Diary Bialobrzeski travels to the scene of the biggest European crisis in decades to document the urban consequences of the emergency. His photos capture the dichotomy of everyday life in...

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  • Quick view Tatsuki, Masaru
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    .Back in stock.Presentation by T&M Projects: "FISH-MAN is a collection of photographs taken by Tatsuki over the course of a year starting from May 2014 of the people and their lifestyles who live in the Hachinohe city, Aomori prefecture. For a previous project, Tatsuki had been traveling and photographing the Tohoku area (Northern part of Japan),...

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  • .PLEASE NOTE : One new copy available, but with top of binding bumped (offered at 50 € instead of 60 €).Publisher's presentation: "In 1980, the American photographer Larry Fink received a grant from the Seattle Museum of Art, or as he tells the story, ‘My star was starting to rise. I was called’ and so, already a logger of sorts himself, Fink made a...

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  • .Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Particle Mist draws together works from three of Bill Henson’s earliest photographic series: Untitled 1974, Untitled 1975 with additional previously unseen photographs from an unfinished work begun in 1976. Together they form a portrait of an artist as a young man. The series shows Henson’s recognised and celebrated...

  • Artist statement : "Cabanagem is the first chapter in a long-term project of André Penteado called Trails, Traces and Remains, which aims to investigate events of the Brazilin history and their long-term impact on the national psyche by photographing the places where these facts have happened. Trails, Traces and Remains is not a documentary project but...

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  • .Currently unavailable.Presentation on the distributor's website: "Just after his first photobook Skyfish was published, the Great East Japan earthquake hit on March 11th, 2011. The official report confirmed over 15,000 deaths, and the damages and losses were unimaginable. Takahashi felt helpless, his camera and photography were utterly useless in front...

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  • Publisher's presentation : "At the heart of Elina Brotherus’ new monograph Carpe Fucking Diem is her series Annonciation. The series addresses a topic still very much a taboo: that of involuntary childlessness. With this work Elina Brotherus returns to the autobiographical documentary she became known for in the late 1990s. We follow her through times of...

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  • Quick view Tillim, Guy
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    .Discounted. Publisher's presentation : "This book presents selections from Guy Tillim’s most influential works and series of the last decade, including “Mai Mai militia in training,” “Jo’burg,” “Avenue Patrice Lumumba,” and “Second Nature.” Anchored in photojournalism but working against the grain of spectacle, Tillim portrays the communities, social...

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  • Presentation by Benoit de Villeneuve: "The book is playing with only one photo of the singer Chan Marshall (Cat Power), then it has been processed, shot again and again, creating some abstract faces, dim lights, fantomatic presence... It is a work about obsession, loops, repetitions and degradations of the image with time. The book is not stapled, you can...

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  • .Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "(in matters of) Karl is a research project about the ‘Höcker Album’. The ‘Höcker Album’ is the private photo-album of SS First Lieutenant Karl Höcker. The album gives a unique insight in the conditions and ways of leisure of the Nazis who were working at Auschwitz during WW2. Most of these photos were taken around the...

  • .Sold out. Presentation adapted from the publisher's website : "Jaunt, Lotte Reimann's series about steel, glass, plastic, oil, and dirt – together embodied in the automobile – is based on a collection of nude (self-) portraits of an elderly amateur photographers couple found on a picture sharing site. With this material as a starting point, she added...

  • Publisher's presentation: "Renowned Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian mixes artistic creation and journalism, starting from the traditional Iranian family photo album to deftly chronicle middle class life by following Iranians from several generations with her camera. She does not shy away from the complexity, inaccessibility, and myriad...

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  • Publisher's presentation : "Hanezawa Garden is an illicit trail through a walled garden in Tokyo, between thick foliage, slender bamboo and semi-inhabited outhouses, their plastic roofs heavy with leaves, as if reclaimed by the jealous trees. The protagonist, like a detective, catalogues the garden obsessively, registering strange and peripheral details:...

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  • .Sold out. Presentation by Radius Books: "In this powerful book of photographs, Aaron Huey portrays both the broken social landscape and the ceremonial warrior culture of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. This body of work goes far beyond the obvious poverty and into the world of the tribe’s visions and dreams. It is a witness to both the dark and the...

  • .Sold out.A 12-day love story, from the first hour to the last...Texts in English & Images by Thomas Boivin.108 pages - Softcover Self-published, 2016 (1st edition - 100 copies) *Signed* New - Mint condition

  • .Sold out.Presentation on the website L'Oeil de la Photographie : "Sharkification is about the « favelas » and the Brazilian government's strategy to attempt to control them during the soccer World Cup by involving armed units. It created a militarisation of the communities, where suddenly everybody becomes a suspect. The shark metaphor aims to explain...

  • Presentation on the "Archive of Modern Conflict" website, sponsor of the project : "In 1911 an Arctic expedition set sail to rediscover the island of Jan Mayen, which lay off the eastern coast of Greenland. Not all went according to plan, however, and the end result was a series of staged images produced on the shores of Iceland. Using the original...

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  • .Sold out.Publisher's presentation of Eric Rondepierre's photobook: "Cinema was born in 1895. In 2015, the original device has disappeared – such is the world, a technique vanishes and another emerges: “There is no doubt that death is the youth of the world.” I initiated my cinematic research at a transitional moment, in 1990, and presented it in 1992. In...

  • Quick view Okahara, Kosuke
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    Publisher's presentation : "March 11th, 2011. Following the earthquake that rocks the Pacific Coast of Tohoku, 30-meter waves devastate Japan's inner lands.  Carrying along his Geiger counter, Kosuke Okahara walked through these wounded areas. His images allow us to enter a world crowded with ghosts, and to grasp a reality that lost its colors."Bilingual...

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  • .Currently unavailable. Presentation by Ed Templeton on the publisher's website: "The subject Teenage Smokers has always fascinated me. When I was young, for a very short period I thought it might be « cool » to smoke. I ripped a piece of paper down to the size of a cigarette and pulled some grass from our front lawn and rolled it into the paper and lit...

  • Quick view Araki, Nobuyoshi
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    .Back in stock!.Publisher's presentation: "Sentimental Journey Continued is a book of photographs self-published by Nobuyoshi Araki in 1971 in a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Printed on the cover and spine is « 荒木経惟写真集2[Nobuyoshi Araki Photobook 2] » as it was his second self-published photography book excluding the rarely-seen, self-published Xerox...

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  • Quick view Kitajima, Keizo
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    Presentation by Keizo Kitajima on the publisher's website: "IMAGE SHOP CAMP, an independent gallery, opened in 1976, at multi-tenant building located at 2 chome street in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district. Six graduates of « WORK SHOP Daido Moriyama class » including me were participating. This is where I showed my photos of Tokyo from January to December 1979,...

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  • Quick view Suda, Issei
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    Presentation by the artist on the publisher's website: "Nearly three years after I moved to the countryside beside the Sotobo rail line, I found while driving around the east and south parts of Chiba prefecture, that some of the sightseeing spots I used to visit as a tourist are now within the scope of my everyday life. When I am traveling, I wonder about...

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  • Quick view Sawatari, Hajime
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    .Currently out of stock. Presentation by the artist on the publisher's website: "I took these photographs around 1963 and 1964 at Nagisa Hotel in Zushi, Nagisa Hotel in Shinagawa, and Chigasaki Beach. The subject was my girlfriend, her initials Y.O. Back then I worked at a design firm in Ginza, Tokyo, and I photographed them in seven or eight sessions we...

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  • Presentation by Oodee: "The House Project is a unique collaboration between photographer Roger Ballen and writer Didi Bozzini. This book looks back at Roger Ballen's career through the house as a metaphor for the mind. « The mind is like a house and the house is like the mind. One can move from the basement to the attic by climbing stairs in the house or...

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  • .Sold out.Publisher's presentation (not available in English, the Edition is French / Dutch) : "Testament visuel impressionnant d’une ville en transition : dur pour Charleroi, doux pour ses habitants Ces dernières années, Stephan Vanfleteren a passé de longues journées à sillonner le pays noir. Le photographe entretient une relation d’amour-haine avec la...

  • Presentation by Andrea Graziosi on the publisher's website: "For the last five years I’ve been photographing the Sainte-Victoire mountains and its surroundings. I tried to explore the possibilities of the photographic technique to capture or seize the unpresentable; working on a pattern that precisely has been repeatedly addressed in the history of art....

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  • .Sold out.Publisher's presentation: an exhibition catalogue in reference to Walt Whitman "Alec Soth’s reputation as one of the leading lights of contemporary photographic practice is largely predicated on the books he has published. This unusual catalogue accompanies a touring exhibition which uses the four major bodies of work which Soth has published as...

  • Publisher's presentation : "The sordid, artificial purgatory, the round of hungering, bruised flesh, the desperate and depraved promiscuity reigning over these empty nights, clusters of violent and violated intimacy multiplied over and over again… Bruised in body and soul, they live in the claustrophobic basements of derelict shopping centres. In the...

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