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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.
Gomma Books' presentation : "1975. Okinawa, Japan. The Vietnam War has just ended.Koza City is where the Kadena U.S. Air Force base is located.The B-52s that attacked North Vietnam took off from here. With the end of the war the city becomes the epicenter of a celebrative rush that lasts for a few years.The city experiences a momentary crazed and raucous...
49,00 €Out of stock.Last TWO copies!. Publisher's presentation: "John Gossage made the images in Nothing during a month-long visit to The Kingdom in 1985 when he was the guest of a Saudi prince. Describing Nothing, Gossage said, «You can sometimes go so far from home, and what you know, that your pictures have to teach you what they are about. In this case that process took...
85,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Presentation on the Magnum Photos website: "In the summer of 1999, when he was only 17, Sohrab Hura's mother was diagnosed with acute paranoid schizophrenia. «Life is Elsewhere is a journal of my life, my family, my love, my friends, my travels, my sheer need to experience all that is about to disappear and so in a way I’m attempting to connect...
.TWO final (unsigned) copies.Presentation by Editions du LIC: "The much anticipated follow up to his highly successful debut book, Avec Le Coeur, Sans Limites by Théo Gosselin presents a glimpse of a life beyond boundaries - unrestricted by limitations of geography and social conventions. The result of the photographer's most recent road trips across the...
120,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Gomorrah Girl tells two stories in one, the problems of growing up in a crime-ridden area and the murder of Annalisa Durante, a young woman caught in the crossfire of a Mafia shootout. The stories are brought together through innovative, book within a book, design. Bound together are Spada’s photographs documenting adolescence...
78,00 €Out of stockIn the Shadow of the Pyramids (*signed*)
.Sold out. Presentation by the artist: "In the Shadow of the Pyramids by Laura El-Tantawy is a first person account exploring memory and identity. With images spanning 2005 to 2014, what began as a look in the mirror to understand the essence of Egyptian identity expanded into an exploration of the trials and tribulations of a turbulent nation. The result...
.Back in stock.Publisher's presentation: " Like the travel notebooks of Bruce Chatwin, whose writings offered an incredibly sensitive and humanistic vision of an Australia forever lost, the photographic wanderings of Matt Wilson – another Anglo-Saxon globetrotter – provide ineffable images of the different countries he has traversed. Few in number and...
30,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "El Jebha (El Frente en espagnol) is a small coastal town in the foothills of the Rif Mountains of northern Morocco. Known as Puerto Capaz during the Spanish Protectorate, El Jebha is and was a privileged witness to the recent history of co-existence between Spain and Morocco. «The photographs are not the final goal of our work...
25,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "One of the greatest acts of trust a man displays is with his barber. It’s a relationship that goes beyond that of patient/doctor even. A bad haircut is soul-destroying - when you find the one who shears you right there is no other. Every Street by Nik Hartley was photographed over three days in March 2014, in Nelson, North-East...
30,00 €In Stock.Sold out.This limited edition, offered in 3 different versions (TypeA and TypeB, plus an already sold out Special Edition), is the outcome of the latest of Daido Moriyama's "printing show". We are offering here the "red" version a room_TypeB; you will find the "blue" version a room_TypeA through the "Suggestions" tab. 44 pages - Softcover Akio Nagasawa,...
.Sold out.This limited edition, offered in 3 different versions (TypeA and TypeB, plus an already sold out Special Edition), is the outcome of the latest of Daido Moriyama's "printing show". We are offering here the "blue" version a room_TypeA; you will find the "red" version a room_TypeB through the "Suggestions" tab. 44 pages - Softcover Akio Nagasawa,...
80,00 €Out of stockExcerpt from a presentation of this work on the Stead Bureau Blog: "Like all major religions, Islam seeks to regulate sexual relationships between members of their society through moral codes. According to the Quran, any form of sexual behavior is forbidden before or outside of marriage. However, that doesn’t prevent muslims meeting in...
40,00 €Out of stockExcerpt from a presentation of this work on the Stead Bureau Blog: "Like all major religions, Islam seeks to regulate sexual relationships between members of their society through moral codes. According to the Quran, any form of sexual behavior is forbidden before or outside of marriage. However, that doesn’t prevent muslims meeting in...
50,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: " Aomori scenes, etched to compelling effect on the frame. The work of photographer Ichiro Kojima (1924–1964), who was born in Aomori and spent his career photographing the natural features of the region and the traditions of its people, still harbors a soul-stirring power. During his short life of only thirty-nine...
120,00 €Out of stockPubisher's presentation: "Dana Stölzgen has made a tremendously tender book. Time seems to stand still in the landscape shots, close ups and interiors exactly as in the portraits of young girls, adult and old women. But actually time expands. Into the past and into the future. In perfect moments the old feel the same way as they were young again and the...
36,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Presentation by the artist: "Before the Second World War in Japan, dog fights were common. But, as the war worsened, so did the food situation, and consequently, owning a big dog was criticized. Some military policemen who were afraid that the dogs might escape and become strays if their cages were destroyed in an air raid, shot and killed many...
.Sold out.Dafy Hagai is an artist and fashion photographer, based in Tel-Aviv and New York, whose work has been published in many magazines. Israeli Girls is - quite simply - a series of candid and touching portraits, with a very straightforward and spontaneous feel...Images taken from the artist's website.48 pages - Hardcover Art Paper Editions, 2014...
.Currently out of stock. Presentation by Juan Aballe: "Produced between 2011 and 2013 in Iberian Peninsula, this book deals with my relationship with the rural environment and the emotions brought about by the possibility of taking the big step of leaving the city and living closer to nature. Country Fictions also reflects on the photographic language...
27,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "You Won’t Be With Me Tomorrow is a sequel to the narrative Harvey Benge developed in his 2013 book, Some Things You Should Have Told Me. Both deal with the pain of relationship, the seeming inevitability of separation and the mistrust that is its consequence. Women drift, lost and hostile, throughout the pages – they’re masked...
32,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "With over 200 images of t-shirt ‘messages’, T: A Typology of T-shirts looks at those individuals who stand out in a crowd through their choice of the message on their back. These photographs are not just about the T-shirt. With their combination of pictures and words these messages reveal much about the identity of the wearer....
34,00 €In StockFull title : The Black Photo Album / Look at Me: 1890–1950Publisher's presentation: "For this book Santu Mofokeng collected private photographs which urban black working and middle-class families in South Africa commissioned between 1890 and 1950, a time when the government was creating policies towards those designated as «natives». Painterly in style,...
34,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Presentation by the artist : "Les Petites Morts wonders about the «risks» related to the behaviors in our modern society. Using found images selected for their clear kitschy look, and picturing older people, this series offers a reflection on the way we are judged, and made to feel guilty, about our consumerist-society habits, when the real...
12,00 €Out of stock.Copy sold.Excerpt from a text by T.J. Proechel for Ahorn Magazine : "Paul Graham’s work can hardly be connected by a single theme. [It] is somewhat elusive, often using the conventions of documentary to explore the hidden reality beyond the visible surface. Throughout his projects he attempts to establish an alternative iconography, to explore what is...
.Copy sold.From the back cover : "Beyond Caring is a searing indictment of the conditions in social security and unemployment benefit offices across Britain. Throughout 1984 and 1985 photographer Paul Graham visited the waiting rooms, corridors and cubicles of the Department of Health and Social Security and the Department of Employment, to document the...
Looking for M. (*signed w/ Print*)
Presentation of the project by the artist (full text in the "More Info" tab) : " (...) In 1997, I visited the Museu da Revolução in Maputo. As a history student, the exhibitions depicting the struggle for independence were enormously fascinating. An old warrior, dressed in rags, worked as attendant and led me around as the sole visitor of this deplorably...
35,00 €In Stock.Last copy!.Introduction to the project on the Kickstarter crowdfunding page : "In 2008 I returned to London having spent the last nine years living and working in Eastern Europe and Turkey and was surprised by the speed of change that had taken place. I wanted to document the city, its movements and migrations, its landscape and architecture, its...
60,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Yusuf Sevincli is not seeking unilateral consent or the approval of an audience. He is merely photographing his environment, his daily fears and questions, and sees in Photography the means to stay connected to the things and beings, a response - his response - to the environment that surrounds him and the movements...
.Sold out.Excerpt from the preface by the artist: "I may have been your great-grandmother. Your face, passing by me, I know it. At a certain point in time, I began to think there are no unrelated people in this world.I feel as if I had been taught this by my daughter who had never been born into this world, and by the death of friends who have died too...
Publisher's presentation: "A Story of Bears explores personal stories about teddy bears and other stuffed animal toys that become lifelong companions and hold a special place in the lives of their owners. Sylvie Huet rediscovered her own childhood teddy at the age of 49 in a fleamarket. Until then he had lived only as a memory and in family photographs....
24,00 €In StockJ'ai perdu ma tête translates to I lost my mind.Excerpt from the text inserted in the book: "Because two years when you have your mind, it is so long! But when you don't have your mind, I didn't see two years of my life going by. I didn't speak. So I can't remember, I don't remember anything at all. I'm only getting my mind back now. I didn't see two...
32,00 €In Stock.Back in stock. Publisher's presentation: "In the Fall of 2014 the world witnessed with confusion, how, headed by the ambitious adventurer Putin, fraternal Russia invaded the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea. This Project reinterprets the problems involved in political territory and movement through Soviet worn-out prints from the 80‘s Sevastopol State...
29,00 €In Stock.Back in stock.Publisher's presentation: "Twenty-five years after the printing of his seminal 1988 book, Invisible City, Ken Schles revisits his archive and fashions a narrative of lost youth: a delirious, peripatetic walk in the evening air of an irretrievable Downtown New York as he saw and experienced it. Night Walk is a substantive and intimate...
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