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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 : "Frida Kahlo, ses photos (Frida Kahlo, her pictures) brings together a selection of original images from the personal collection of Frida Kahlo. The collection was found a few years ago in her bathroom and was never presented before. Walking through Frida Kahlo, ses photos, the reader gets immersed in the intimacy of the...
37,00 €Out of stockRaymond Depardon (par) Christian Caujolle
Publisher's presentation : "Après Anders Petersen, Christian Caujolle, nous fait découvrir dans cet ouvrage l’univers du grand photographe de l’agence Magnum: Raymond Depardon. En confiance, Raymond Depardon parle. Beaucoup, longuement, sans hésitation mais avec un débordement de digressions. Les repères temporels sont parfaitement en place, l’histoire...
17,50 €In StockHow to be... A Photographer in Four...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation : "In early 2012, an old analog photobooth was installed in Brussels, in a cultural center located near the home of Thomas Vanden Driessche, documentary photographer and member of the group « Out Of Focus ». Following in the footsteps of artists like Topor, he decided to use this medium and its constraints to tell...
Publisher's presentation : "This work of Antoine d’Agata was partially visible in the exhibition « S’il y a lieu je pars avec vous » (« If necessary, I'll go with you »), presented at Le BAL (Paris) from September 11th to October 26th, 2014. This one is published in INDEX in its entirety. « Vous les peuplerez de qui vous voudrez, ces aires de repos....
39,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "Valparaiso is a photographic esssay by Anders Petersen. The work was carried out in August 2014, during a Residency for the “Internacional Festival of Photography in Valparaiso”, FIFV. This was Anders Petersen’s first time visiting Latin America. Roaming the streets and hills of Valparaiso Petersen captures the every day life...
25,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation : "Shōji Ueda (1913-2000), one of Japanese photography’s most remarkable figures, remained profoundly attached to his birthplace of Tottori, on the Sea of Japan, which he used as a backdrop for the vast majority of his work. Ueda was a sedentary adventurer, ceaselessly exploring the dunes that sculpted the landscape...
Presentation by Jiazazhi: "Until Death Do Us Part focuses on the unexpected role cigarettes play in Chinese weddings. As a token of appreciation, it is customary for the bride to light a cigarette for each and every man invited. The bride and the groom are then invited to play some cigarette-smoking games of an unprecedented ingenuousness. This...
36,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "By putting together the two extremes of childhood Pony Congo brings to the surface the shameful coexistence of two stereotypical realities. With a series of diptychs the viewer is confronted with the extreme depiction of strongly opposed routines. On one hand the stress of the wealthy for gaining recognition and social status...
33,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Presentation by Session Press: "Session Press is pleased to announce NEW LOVE, the first official US monograph by Ren Hang, one of China’s most distinguished emerging photographers. NEW LOVE presents Hang’s most recent photographs, taken in February of this year during his first visit to New York City. It was published on the occasion of Hang’s...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation : "Session Press is pleased to announce Taratine, the first US monograph by acclaimed Japanese photographer Daisuke Yokota. Highly regarded for his technical and aesthetic kinships with the avant-garde Mono-ha movement of the ‘60s and with Provoke-era masters such as Daido Moriyama and Takuma Nakahira, Taratine...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation : "Midway between a book and a portfolio, this unbound large format work (30 x 40 cm), printed on a rare stock in a limited edition, signed & numbered (170 copies), is a selection of Fresson colors by Bernard Plossu. The foreword is by Sylvie Hugues."In the black box : - 12 photographs "Couleur Fresson" in double...
Text on first front page : "Bones then skin and through my disguise someone is looking at me."“I photographed women of my own age, in their mid-thirties. Why? Because by this age, we know ourselves a little and we are still able to reinvent ourselves. We’re not sure of the future and we feel insecure. Our bodies are changing, but remain desirable. We...
36,00 €In StockBefore the War - Limited Edition
Limited Edition of 10 signed & numbered copies. We are offering copy #03/10. Presentation on Alejandro Cartagena's website: "In 2008 the war against the drug cartels erupted in Mexico. The state of Nuevo Leon in northeastern Mexico became an increasingly violent place. This book is a compilation of images and texts that obsessively revisit places...
325,00 €In StockBefore the War - 1st ed. (*signed*)
.Sold out.Presentation on the artist's website: "In 2008 the war against the drug cartels erupted in Mexico. The state of Nuevo Leon in northeastern Mexico became an increasingly violent place. This book is a compilation of images and texts that obsessively revisit places where the war was eventually fought and look for signs of an evil that lay...
Publisher's presentation: "La La Land is the first book by photographer Chus Antón, but more than a photobook it is a travel book. Not a travel guide, although it is that too, but a travel book in the Petrarca’s Mont Ventoux tradition. Travelling to live things, travelling to tell things, and above all travelling to see things. I want to climb that...
39,00 €In StockNo Photos (*signed / imperfect*)
Presentation on Tiane Doan na Champassak's website : "All photographs were taken in the red-light district of Amsterdam. The title No Photos has different meanings. First, the forbidden act to photograph the sex workers in their environment. Secondly, the images are printed on very old photographic papers which are fading away even further in the book...
15,00 €In StockPresentation on the artist's website : "On January 25, 2011, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets across the country demanding the fall of Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, who had ruled the country for nearly 30 years. This was only the beginning. More than four years on, الشعب (The People) chronicles how citizens in the Arab world’s largest...
28,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock. Publisher's presentation : «I feel at ease here, in this city.I’m in the middle of the jungle. A harsh concrete forestwith brick caves where miserable and cowardly beings hide with their most valued belongings. » -- J. M. Fonollosa, Ciudad del hombre: New York "Any metropolis is a formidable fabric, a tentacular mess, a deafening...
34,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "Survey book, accompanying the MAPFRE Foundation traveling exhibition, and offering the most complete view to date of Stephen Shore's work." Publisher's longer presentation in French : "Cet ouvrage rétrospectif, accompagnant l’exposition itinérante de la Fondation Mapfre, offre la vision la plus complète à ce jour de l’oeuvre de...
49,00 €In Stock.Last copy!.Presentation by Dalpine: "Because of its own nature, every photograph is born to reproduce an image. Faces, stories and landscapes are all framed and fixed forever within the four corners of the print. Nevertheless, it would be wonderful if these corners could be somehow opened, thus breaking the perimeter of the photograph and letting the...
33,00 €Out of stock.One copy available.Publisher's presentation : "Something is going to happen. We can feel it. A car pulling up. An argument overheard. The shattering of glass. Or maybe it already happened: a crumpled bed, a lamp left on, a door slammed shut. In his celebrated shots of American suburbia, photographer Todd Hido excels in capturing a sense of the disturbed...
159,00 €Out of stock.Two copies available - First printing! - In publisher's shrinkwrap - Mint condition. Publisher's presentation : "Something is going to happen. We can feel it. A car pulling up. An argument overheard. The shattering of glass. Or maybe it already happened: a crumpled bed, a lamp left on, a door slammed shut. In his celebrated shots of American suburbia,...
129,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation : "In 1958, at the age of eighteen, the photographer Larry Fink left his childhood home on Long Island and moved to a one-bedroom apartment in Greenwich Village. Fink was immediately drawn to New York’s counterculture, and he soon met a group of artists, writers, and musicians affiliated with a late stage of the Beat...
Publisher's presentation : "Fashioned as we are by Western values, we take pleasure in observing, ironically and delightedly, the simulacra of Korean happiness. But who are we to judge their happiness? The great strength of this album is that it sows doubt in our mind. These couples, these families, these men and women presented in the intimacy of their...
38,00 €In Stock.A few UNsigned copies available, from the first edition.Publisher's presentation : "Bottom of the Lake is a 256-page facsimile of the artist's family's telephone book for his hometown of Fond du Lac ("Bottom of the Lake"), printed in 1973, soon after his birth. The book includes found markings and reproductions of inserted materials, along with...
48,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation : "Salitre :1. Saline Substance, particularly abundant in soil and walls2. When sailing, the mixture of sweat and salt that sticks to the skin3. Lavapiés Street (Madrid) where twelve Senegalese immigrants lives in an overcrowded house4. Collective photography and publishing experience resulting in a box of 12 + 1 books...
Publisher's presentation: "Mise au jour edited and designed by Willem van Zoetendaal consists of 45 photographs made by Johan van der Keuken (1938-2001) during the period 1956-1982 with his Leica M3 camera. Mainly unknown photographs are selected from France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Greece and USA completed with a bibliography. Mise au jour means to...
56,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Slowly but steadily we become immersed in what Henrik Malmström saw and photographed from the window of his living room. The pages of A Minor Wrongdoing unfold as a hypnotic sequence of candid shots taken at the neighbourhood of St. Georg in Hamburg, between 2011 and 2014. Hundreds of them, they record the last remains of street...
55,00 €In Stock.Back in stock (2nd edition).Presentation on the publisher's website: "Andrea Modica works with sensual love as her base but aligned with a darkness which is pervasive, so much so that it can color your dreams. The work is not hopeless but breathless, as if there is an atmospheric gauze placed over the larynx so that breathing has to be softened, done in...
45,00 €Out of stockPresentation on the publisher's website: "Golden Youth is not a document of any particular Joburg sub-culture, nor is it a study of consumerism. It does not explain the izikhothane, those cloth-burning youths from Soweto who are the latest subject of written enquiry by pedigreed explainers of things. Golden Youth is, quite simply, a portrait study of some...
38,00 €In Stockукраїна La frontière (*signed*)
Presentation by the artist on the publisher's website : "Summer 2013. I leave for Ukraine with Florence. No real destination. We're improvising. Kiev. Night train to Crimea. We meet Vlad and Anna at Simferopol. Together, we spend time near the Black Sea. We walk a lot. We sleep outside. It's very hot. We move often. Just the two of us, we go farther into...
25,00 €In StockMühit - 2nd edition (*signed*)
.Second edition, 2015.The background for Mühit is Ilkin Huseynov's own personal life. His dad had to leave Azerbaïjan and the family soon after his birth to look for a job, as the USSR was collapsing. The book follows the traces of the author's memories of the trips to see his father abroad, it is his way to revisit these memories by going to the...
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