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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.
.Copy sold.We are offering a copy of Richard Billingham's famous book Ray's a Laugh, a very straightforward and "no-filter" portrait of his alcoholic father, his mother and younger brother and their daily life under the same roof. A book that would or could be funny if it wasn't the real life and a sad and sometimes scary one...This book is listed in "The...
Wuhan Boiler Company Workers (*signed*)
Wuhan Boiler Company Workers, published in 2009, is a "corporate book". Continuing his engagement with China's industrial culture, Pierre Bessard fashions portraits of the oft-overlooked people behind the nation's tremendous economic growth. The series comprises hundreds of color photographs of factory workers, as well as the surroundings in which the...
75,00 €Out of stockZine N° 21 - The Selfeet (*w/ signed print*)
Publisher's presentation : "#TheSelfeet is a series of self-portraits about the ridiculous practice of narcissism on the Internet. Social network feeds and our lives have been invaded by selfies. This topic has been mentioned more than 92 million time on Twitter in 2014. A narcissistic, self-centred, symbol of the «look at me, like me» trend. Artists,...
36,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "On a mission to photograph the invisible, with Deleted Scene photographer Yury Toroptsov takes us to Eastern Siberia in a unique story of pursuit along intermingling lines that form a complex labyrinth. His introspective journey in search of a father gone too soon crosses that of Akira Kurosawa who, in 1974, came to visit and...
30,00 €In StockPresentation by Kehrer Verlag: "During the day, the Senegalese beaches are pretty desolate. Maybe the occasional tourist, some fisherman or children playing. But in the late afternoon, it slowly changes. Young guys have quit their day jobs and head to the beach. They are there to train »Lutte«, the local wrestling sport. « Lutte Sénégalaise » or Laamb as...
34,00 €Out of stockZine N° 23 - Dear Slut (*w/ signed print*)
Publisher's presentation : "Is it okay to call you that? I know it is alright in their eyes. You have no identity other than being a 'woman'. You are at their disposal with your love, with your body. You are a result of their expectations and ideas. And they call you with whatever name they choose. But I know what you have been through. I know what you...
36,00 €Out of stockCatalogue for the second edition of the "EPEA - European Photo Exhibition Award" with the subject "The New Social".Presentation by EPEA : "The European Photo Exhibition Award – epea for short – aims to create a free space where socially relevant topics concerning Europe are developed and discussed by talented photographers who live and work in Europe and...
29,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Paul Kooiker is among the most interesting conceptual photographers currently working in the Netherlands. Although his work consists of photographic images, he is not so much a photographer as a sculptor and installation artist. His fascination with intriguing themes like voyeurism, innocence and clichés leads him to...
.One copy.Publisher's presentation : "Book with a sequence of 49 recent photographs by Geert Goiris, of which the larger part was taken in Norway and North America in 2014 and 2015. This series was compiled in analogy with a large slide projection integrated in the exhibition Geert Goiris - Flashbulb Memories, Ash Grey Prophesies at Foam, Amsterdam, from...
75,00 €Out of stock.Stock épuisé. Presentation by Kehrer: "In Find a Fallen Star, Regine Petersen uses the stories of meteorite falls as a background for her multifaceted narratives; a rock crashing through the roof of an Alabama home in the 1950's and hitting a woman, a group of children recovering a meteorite in their village in post-war Germany, and a more recent event...
.Back in stock.Presentation by Kehrer: "Inshallah («God willing» in Arabic) explores the Soviet and American occupations of Afghanistan, and draws on my childhood fantasies that romanticize the military and intertwine with my past and present personal conflicts. As a Ukrainian, who was born and raised in the FSU and residing in the US, this is the second...
45,00 €In StockDisplacement Island (*signed*)
Presentation by the artist : "Displacement Island is an experimental narrative set on the island of Lampedusa, off the coast of Sicily. Famed for the beauty of its beaches, this paradisiacal island is routinely confronted by its crucial geopolitical role. European vacationers seeking a summer refuge here are confronted by migrants fleeing from their...
34,00 €Out of stock.WARNING : Our last copy was used as a display copy and has slightly scuffed edges, with a tiny tear of 4mm at the top of one page.Sara Cwynar uses collage and re-photography to make composite images that resemble old advertisements or stock photography...Each image is introduced by a text that was used as a caption, that explains its origin, or puts in...
19,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation : "For the fifth edition of The LBM Dispatch, Alec Soth and Brad Zellar hit the road in early May and drove through a snowstorm across the plains, headed for the Rocky Mountains. They visited dozens of towns in Colorado, met hundreds of people, and spent two weeks roaming both sides of the Continental Divide and battling...
Texas Triangle - LBM Dispatch 6
.2 copies available.Publisher's presentation : "From November 19 through December 3, 2013, The LBM Dispatch was on the road in the Lone Star State, exploring the people, places, and mythology of the megapolitan area known as the Texaplex. Our rambles in this 60,000-square-mile, roughly triangular territory, home to more than 70% of the Texas population,...
35,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "Over two sweltering, bug-swarming weeks in July, the LBM Dispatch crew (superbly assisted by Stephen Milner and Brett Schenning) covered 2,400 miles in Georgia, exploring the State’s diverse landscapes, histories, and narratives that were alternately harrowing and inspiring. From the Civil War to the last beleaguered Gullah...
32,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "For seven years, the American photographer Kathryn Cook has been patiently working on the trail of Armenian Genocide – the first in the history of the twentieth century – which has killed more than 1 million Armenians in Turkey. With a contemporary photographic style that mixes colour with black and white, along with a poetic...
39,00 €In Stock.One copy available!.Publisher presentation : "Entartete (German for Degenerate) is the result of more than 10 years of auto-portraiture by the emerging Portuguese photographer, Rita Lino. A large series of experimental photographs of psychological or emotional moments taken primarily for the purpose of introspection and self-analysis presented in a...
85,00 €Out of stockPublisher presentation : "Akito Tsuda’s images originate from an instinctive drive where imprecisions, such as shadows or out-of-focus shots, are an important part of the narration. Akito participates in the life of the streets to document it in each of its daily actions and gestures.In Breath in, breath out Akito Tsuda photographs stray cats in Osaka and...
25,00 €Out of stockPoet Island is a journey in history, the history of a sanatorium - today facilities in dereliction - established on the Nagashima island, in Southern Japan where, in particular, the pre-war poet Kaijin Akashi was quarantined. Atsushi Fujiwara's images create a poetic atmosphere in this abandoned place, where nature takes slowly over again...We recommend...
44,00 €In StockZine N° 24 - Girls (*w/ signed print*)
Beautiful portraits of women.A limited edition of 300 copies with a signed picture by the artist on gelatin silver print on Kodak paper.40 pages - Softcover Editions Bessard, 2015 *w/ Signed Print* New - Mint condition
36,00 €Out of stockYou Haven't Seen Their Faces (*signed*)
.Sold out.Présentation de l'éditeur : "Months after the London Riots of 2011, the Metropolitan Police hand delivered leaflets to people’s letterboxes which depicted youngsters that presumably took part in the events. Images of very low quality, almost amateur, were embedded with unquestioned authority due both to the device used for taking the photographs...
Publisher's presentation: "Meshes, curtains of twigs, thickets and foliage, doors and screens, hair: the frontal views always find an obstacle in their path which constrains our vision from penetrating any deeper and completing the perspective geometry. Sometimes we have to give up. This frustration is in reality an incitement to pursue the journey, to...
26,00 €In StockI do not want to disappear silently into...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Through KDB's <collages> and their <short circuit> effect in our ways of seeing, the book intends to explore and deepen the concept of <void> and its <visibility>, proposing a work that's situated at the border of different artistic disciplines, from <photography> to <cinema> to...
Presentation by Le bec en l'air: "Denis Dailleux, who lives in Cairo, never stops unveiling the Egyptian people since falling in love with them fifteen years ago. Mères et fils (or Mothers and Sons) is certainly his most personal and most unsettling series. With modesty and tact, he photographs the intimacy of families where the son's love for his mother...
25,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Le bec en l'air: [traduction by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "The Marseille(s) collection offers each year a carte blanche to a Mediterranean photographer who gives his vision of the city. Year after year, the diversity of the ways of photographic expression draws the portrait of a multicultural city and brings it in a new light. The first...
15,00 €In StockPresentation by Capricious: "In her highly anticipated book, Discharge, New York-based artist and photographer Petra Collins presents images of self-discovery and femininity that explore the emotional, complex intersection of life online and off. Responding to the ubiquity of social media, Collins offers images of unflinching honesty, exploring the...
55,00 €Out of stockIncipient Strangers (*signed*)
.Sold out!.Artist statement : "Siblings can be incipient strangers. Even siblings sharing the same blood can become distant and turn into strangers to each other as they each grow and forge their own path in life. Sometimes, we fail to hit it off with friends and eventually lose touch. But with family, no matter how brittle the relationship, it cannot be...
Publisher's presentation: "40 years ago, Phillip Toledano’s sister died in an accident. He was six years old at the time. Although she was almost never spoken of again, Claudia was a constant but unknown presence in his life. After his parents died, he found boxes of her things, things he’d never seen before, neatly packed away, a museum of sorts, created...
45,00 €Out of stockSongbook (1st ed. / 2nd printing)
.In stock.Presentation by Mack: "Known for his haunting portraits of solitary Americans in Sleeping by the Mississippi and Broken Manual, Alec Soth has recently turned his lens toward community life in the country. To aid in his search, Soth assumed the increasingly obsolescent role of community newspaper reporter. From 2012-2014, Soth traveled state by...
59,00 €Out of stock.Last copy!. Publisher presentation : "In this publication, Paul Seawright explores the theatre of war through the internal landscape of the US television news studio. Developing Virilio's theories about electronic warfare and weapons of mass communication, Seawright focuses here upon the illusory nature of these spaces where information is selectively...
25,00 €Out of stock.Last copies - White and Blue covers only. Presentation by Editions du LIC: "In Sunless by Tiane Doan na Champassak, beauty is pursued across the disintegrating boundaries between male and female. The images in Sunless, taken in Thailand between 2012 and 2013, form the second part of a larger body of work-in-progress, born out of a persistent urge to...
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