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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.
Un Universo Pequeño (*signed*)
.Currently out of stock.Presentation by the artist : "Un Universo Pequeño is my imagining of the universe in 2.5 seconds and 10 linear metres of street. The project is a 2.5-second-long feature film comprised of images and sequences which reference the beginning of things – technology, religion, the universe, the street, love, matter and its different...
Publisher's presentation : "«Most of my life has been lived in a golden shimmer of love and privilege. I’ve been lucky in more ways than most. And intertwined through that daydream was the illusion of control. The reassuring sense of my firm hand on the tiller, irrevocably guiding me upwards, towards a bright, certain future.When my mother died suddenly...
42,00 €In StockZine N° 25 - No Time (*w/ signed print*)
Text from the front cover : "Aaron McElroy's photographs take us on a voyeuristic trip where we are exposed to the snapshots of undressed women often captured in the banality of the domestic environment (be it in the bathroom, on a vintage chair in the half dark living room or among crumpled sheets with flower pattern).McElroy is obviously intrigued by...
65,00 €Out of stockZine N° 26 - O Inferno Verde (*w/ signed...
.Sold out. Text from the front cover : "Rivers and streams fill up and spread themselves across the forest. The igapós appear and with them the most beautiful landscape that can be seen in a forest. Months later, the rains become scarce and the waters slowly return to their original river beds. As a result of this movement of retreat, on the left bank of...
Publisher's presentation : "Hester Lisa Scheurwater's persona is an exploration into the existing ideas on femininity. Her new book "All I Ever Wanted consists of various leaflets like the different rooms in a house, each reflecting its own atmosphere of Hester Scheurwater's inner world, her fears and desires. She is using the depiction of women in...
75,00 €Out of stockPresentation by the artist : "The term WEALTH MANAGEMENT refers to a professional service, which is the combination of financial advice, fiscal strategy, and legal planning for one fee. With the help of tax havens and the complicity of supranational legal frameworks that allow their existence, the clients of private banks benefit from privileged...
22,00 €Out of stockYU The Lost Country (*signed*)
.Sold out.Presentation on the artist's website : "Yugoslavia fell apart in 1991. With the disappearance of the country, at least one million five hundred thousand Yugoslavs vanished, like the citizens of Atlantis, into the realm of imaginary places and people. Today, in the countries that came into being after Yugoslavia's disintigration, there is a total...
Kumogakure Onsen / Reclusive Travels...
Presentation by the artist on the publisher's website : "There was a time in my late 20's when I had a desire to disappear from the plane of worldly affairs. Kumogakure has no direct translation in English. It means to be hidden by clouds, shrouded, invisible. No longer able to endure my world and the affairs that surrounded it, I spent two years...
42,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "Menq Enq Mer Sarere (We Are Our Mountains) is a collection of works that chant an ode to memory. These works have purposely been produced in commemoration of the Armenian Genocide (1915 - 2015). "Menq Enq Mer Sarere borrows its name from an Armenian film directed by Henrik Malian in 1969. Collages, photographs, poems...
28,00 €Out of stockMenq Enq Mer Sarere "Deluxe Box"
Publisher's presentation : "Menq Enq Mer Sarere (We Are Our Mountains) is a collection of works that chant an ode to memory. These works have purposely been produced in commemoration of the Armenian Genocide (1915 - 2015). "Menq Enq Mer Sarere borrows its name from an Armenian film directed by Henrik Malian in 1969. Collages, photographs, poems...
55,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "The Gardener is the winning project of the inaugural Syngenta Photography Award. Photographed by Jan Brykczynski, it is an extension of his previous projects in which he travelled to the outer corners of Europe to explore the lives of people in rural areas. This new work looks at how city dwellers try to connect with nature. The...
34,00 €In StockToute arme forgée contre moi sera sans effet
.Back in stock.Publisher's presentation of Colin Delfosse's photobook: "Like a drunkard, night has fallen on Kinshasa. On the paved esplanade adjoining Mzée Kabila market, in the uncertain outskirts of the capital where ten million Congolese live in close proximity, Six Bolites pulls on his starry cloth mask and climbs onto the hood of a war-torn van. To...
40,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation : "In this work, Mariela Sancari presents portraits of 70–year–old men, the age her father would be if he were still alive. The Argentine photographer is convinced that seeing the inert body of a dead person helps one to overcome one of the most complex stages of grief, denial. She was unable to see her father's body and...
Presentation in French from "Biblio Monde" website : "Un livre de photographies prises par Solange Brand et de témoignages recueillis par Kate Fletcher et Per-Olow Leijon sur la Révolution culturelle en Chine. En 1966, Solange Brand a 20 ans. À la suite d'un recrutement dans son lycée, elle part travailler à l'ambassade de France à Pékin. Pendant la...
45,00 €In Stock.Sold out.After the much celebrated "i" published in 2014, the new portraiture project by Eamonn Doyle, in the exact same streets as the previous project, but this time with opposite commitments : black & white images, low-angle shots, faces visible.A beautiful series, and a really well produced book : a large format that opens flat, making for...
Presentation by Nazraeli: "This publication presents Mark Steinmetz's photographs of adolescent and teenaged baseball players, on the field and in the dugout, focused on the game and lost in their own worlds. Made between 1986 and 1990, the photographs are classic Steinmetz: tenderness, humor, and humanism are all present here, as is Steinmetz’s exquisite...
60,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "In our collective unconscious the nuclear age is synonymous with the explosion of two atom bombs. Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But since 1945 it has been documented that more than 2,000 nuclear bombs have been detonated on Earth. Since the end of the Second World War, countries with nuclear powers methodically bombed their own lands....
35,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation of the photobook: "As an assembly of archival images and new images, the author realizes with Gravity a photographic poem, a tribute to the first space missions, a narrative fiction inspired by real events. (...) However, Michel Mazzoni's photography is not motivated by nostalgia. Gravity primarily addresses our relationship with...
38,00 €In StockIN / OUT Mission Photographique
Publisher's presentation : "The photographs relate to the principal site projects that were established as part of the selection of the City of Mons as a European Capital of Culture 2015. The photographs presented in this book have been carefully selected from a corpus of images that were created as part of a joint public project run by the Fondation...
35,00 €In StockThe Encyclopedia of Kurt Caviezel
.Currently out of stock. Publisher's presentation: "For the past 15 years, from his studio in Zurich, Kurt Caviezel has been monitoring 15,000 publicly accessible webcams located all over the world. By taking screenshots of any situation he found interesting he compiled an archive of more than 3 million images, categorizing them for recurring patterns and...
Publisher's presentation : "On 8th April 1961 the MV Dara, a ship carrying passengers between India, Pakistan and the Gulf, sank just off the port of Dubai. An estimated 238 people lost their lives. Some bodies were never found and relatives of the missing continue to this day to search for their loved ones. Stranger, Olivia Arthur's photobook, imagines a...
56,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Presentation on the artist's website : "« August, 1943. Night is falling on Calcutta, silencing its flocks of ravens, but wakening another kind of life – a feverish, hidden one : in the Maidan, that open space at the city’s heart, there are shadows waiting. » My uncle, Thaï Doan na Champassak, published Ancestral Voices by Collins – London in...
Presentation by Yellow Now: [translation / adaptation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " There are universes that make sense (or even simply take form) only in the inexpressible, the untranslatable; secrets shared only in silence. Marie Sordat travels (Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Italia, Georgia, United States…) but does not bring back any travel pictures, or...
22,00 €Out of stockI went to the worst of bars hoping to get...
Publisher's presentation: "I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed. but all I could do was to get drunk again is a diary of sorts, following invisible men, down piss alleyways and into empty bars. The photographer accompanies the seekers of oblivion, their lopsided faces caught between ecstasy and apathy, their mouths chasing the numbness of...
35,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: " The images in Tones of Dirt and Bone were made between 2004 and 2006, with a Polaroid camera and Time Zero film. Brodie used the characteristics and limitations inherent to this type of camera and film to his advantage. The portraits he made are further enhanced by the peculiar color palette of the film. Due to the restriction...
79,00 €Out of stockText chosen by the publisher to introduce this work : "We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made...
28,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "ImageSingulières is a documentary photography festival created in Sète in 2009. Each year a photographer is invited to look at the city to gradually build his portrait, revealing the facets of contemporary photography.Big names have given birth to seven books constituting a remarkable collection. A lesson in photography that...
25,00 €Out of stockPortfolio section:Salvi Danes; Thomas Hauser; Magdalena Świtek; Pietro Paolini; Tito Mouraz; Calogero Cammalleri; Sebastian Reiser; Luigi Grassi.Book review:Juan Diego Valera- Diente de chucho.Tommaso Tanini- H. said he loved us | reviewed by Valentina AbenavoliInterview by Francesca Orsi:Teresa Giannico; Pamela PiscicelliDossier section (erotic):Nina...
11,00 €Out of stockFull title : Dystopia - Main basse sur l’agriculture ("Dystopia - The Hijacking of Agriculture")Publisher's presentation : "In the aftermath of the Second World War, governments drove farmers to embrace a headlong rush to modernization. A half-century later, utopia has become a dystopia: 60% of farmers have disappeared, soil erosion is getting worse,...
28,00 €Out of stockPubloisher's presentation : "La Photographie_Maison Blanche est un festival dédié à la photographie contemporaine créé à Marseille en 2010. Il décerne chaque année un Prix qui fait désormais l’objet d’une monographie. Lauréate 2014, Léa Habourdin, jeune photographe remarquée dans le paysage artistique, mêle pour ce livre deux séries d’images : The book of...
19,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "In Black Nest, Mathias Christensen dissolves into a dark misty world of his former hometown, Copenhagen. With insistent aesthetic consequence, we are sucked into a delirium of obscured strange sceneries, never knowing what’s waiting around the corner. Throughout the book Christensen circles around crucial existential...
34,00 €In StockRussian Interiors (2nd edition)
Publisher's presentation: "An intimate portrait of Russian women in their private spaces. Andy Rocchelli started to travel to Russia in 2010; there he spent a considerable amount of time working as a freelance photographer. During this time he covered several stories in different places. The book Russian Interiors, however, sees the light as side job to...
