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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.
.WARNING: Our last copies have small bumps to one or 2 corners and possibly one or 2 wrinkles to the cover. Presentation on Kate Nolan's website: "Neither is an exploration into the dreams and fears of young women in Kaliningrad - a tiny and isolated Russian region on the Baltic Sea - through both image and text. The women I met and be-friended...
35,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "In 2009 André Príncipe and Marco Martins travelled to Tokyo to shoot a film about elliptical narratives and the importance of the diaristic practise in Japanese photography. During a month and in a totally improvised way, the Portuguese filmmakers shot hours of 16mm footage and thousands of photographs of their daily...
Publisher's presentation: "Eastman Kodak, the company which pioneered so much in photography from the 1880s through the 1960s, could have owned digital imaging; the very first electronic camera was born in one of Kodak’s labs. Instead, they missed that boat, going into a tailspin that resulted in their eventual bankruptcy. Tied to that economic engine,...
39,00 €In StockFull title : Amsterdam - Old Photographs 1941-1970 / Amsterdam! Oude foto's - 1947-1970This is the third time this book is published, after the initial publication in 1979 and a first re-release in 1988.B & W photographs of Amsterdam by one of the great masters of Dutch photography, one of the masters of photography from the second half of the XXth...
49,00 €Out of stockSalaryman Project 2015 (*signed w/ print*)
.Sold out.Salaryman Project is an ongoing series by Bruno Quinquet, who publishes each year a business schedule with his images of working men in the streets of Tokyo. In this work, we discover the atmosphere and the evolution of the city around the year and the seasons. We follow the inhabitants and workers - always faceless for rights issues - in the...
The time of dreaming the world awake...
.Last copy. Introduction to the book by Yvette Monahan: "Certain landscapes hold stories of what has been and what could be. Like an ancient face these places mirror their own odyssey; a silent biography. What is seen is temporal, what is unseen perpetual. Concealed are the myths, legends and histories, ready to be known if we put our mind in nature, not...
25,00 €In Stock.Back in stock!. Project presentation from the artist's website: "I started working on my Paradise essay in 2006, when I moved back to Stockholm after living in different European cities. Though born and raised in Milan, as a half-Swede I have always felt connected to this city. The approach of my photography is direct, intuitive and fast. I'm trying to...
36,00 €Out of stockHome Is Where the Dog Is (*w/ Print*)
Publisher's presentation: "Four white walls that enclose a tropical garden set the limits for this carefully directed view that Van der Weijde offers us into his Home is where the Dog is..."We are offering here the version of this book that includes a silkscreen; you currently still have the choice between the two diffrent ones produced. Please see the...
70,00 €In StockHome Is Where the Dog Is (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation: "Four white walls that enclose a tropical garden set the limits for this carefully directed view that Van der Weijde offers us into his Home is where the Dog is..."We are also offering the numbered edition with a silkscreen (please see the "Suggestions" tab).160 pages - Softcover 4478ZINE, 2014 *Signed* New - Mint condition
32,00 €In Stock.Last copy.Artist presentation of the project: "As I held the camera with both hands, the «unique calmness» which exists in the Tsugaru region was gently pushing my back. Eleven years have passed since I started taking pictures for this series.(...)The moment I get focused on a subject, I feel like my body has disappeared. It is as if I myself have turned...
39,00 €Out of stock.Temporarily out of stock.Natural cotton - One-side print "L'Ascenseur Végétal Librairie Photo" - Long handles (to carry on the shoulder).To carry your photobooks around, or anything else, to avoid using plastic bags, and to represent for L'Ascenseur Végétal !
5,00 €In Stock.Copy sold.Publisher's presentation: "On April 7, 2013, a screen-printed publication was produced during a Fluxus-style atelier in Tokyo organised by Self Publish, Be Happy and GOLIGA. For two days, 11 photographers had a silkscreen workshop facility to create and print their photography as part of a limited-edition publication, COMPILATION TOKYO. The...
Publisher's presentation: "Trauerweide is the long awaited debut volume from the photographer Eylül Aslan. The simplicity and playfulness of the photographer's images belie the seriousness and significance of the photographer’s intent. Simply stated, Eylül Aslan’s art is a reaction against the political and religious oppression of women and against...
40,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Presentation on the publisher's page : "Ash refers to the ashes of death: «In the cycle of life, one goes back to where one came from, all souls return to their creator. » Year 2009 marked the fifth year of my project «Going Home», yet the number of pictures that I took in the Three Gorges region gradually declined. Practical reasons made it...
Publisher's presentation: "Transmontanus, the Latin term meaning “beyond the mountains”, is an allusion to the wind coming from the Pyrenees that characterises the Catalan region of the Empordà, not only defining its identity but also bringing change and erosion. Transmontanus is both a journal and a journey back to a landscape we knew as children. The...
25,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation of the photobook signed by Olga Matveeva: "Feud is the fraternal war in which the opposition parties often can’t explain its roots and its prime cause. It is some kind of certain sacral action reproducing itself. Actually it is very difficult to be aside of the situation. There is no chance not to react for information...
39,00 €In StockProject presentation by Christopher Héry: "22:19 illustrates the wide range of emotions - fear, boredom, camaraderie, relief - that two young men have experienced during an intense 8-minute period. This book has been designed to slowly reveal the location, the story, and its ending, to the viewer in a cinematographic manner. Time is the key element here...
68,00 €In StockMartin Parr Looking at Books (*signed*)
Martin Parr Looking at Books is at the same time a joke, a tributte to the Man, and the truth of the influence of Martin Parr on the world of the photobook today...The title says it all; this book is "simply" the compilation of 22 photographies of Martin Parr with a photobook in his hands : at a photobook fair, during a workshop, etc.A must-have book for...
20,00 €Out of stockSouthbound is a book that is book documentary and funny, even sarcastic, and introduces us to a Norwegian tradition during the very long "polar winters" : the migration of the populations from the great north to the south, to a place referred to as "Syden"... A migration of a few days, a few weeks, or the whole summer, to the south of the country, or to...
42,00 €Out of stockFractal State of Being (*signed*)
.Sold out.Presentation of the book by the artist: "My sketchbook is a physical form of my thoughts, my aquifer of ideas and meditations of the world as I experience and learn from it. It is where my psychological truth takes form and manifests. To study patterns in nature and draw them small and concentrated gives me time to meditate on the forms, shapes...
Good Day Mr Knutsen (*signed w/ print*)
.Sold out.Presentation by the artist on the publisher's website: "Everyday we greet each other and everyday we smile. We say «how are you?» and talk about the weather and other unimportant topics we are meant to talk about in order to move on in the day in hopes of avoiding those awkward silences. But everyday I’m left wanting to know more. I wonder...
Good Day Mr Knutsen (*signed*)
Presentation by the artist on the publisher's website: "Everyday we greet each other and everyday we smile. We say «how are you?» and talk about the weather and other unimportant topics we are meant to talk about in order to move on in the day in hopes of avoiding those awkward silences. But everyday I’m left wanting to know more. I wonder who is...
35,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Jeffrey Ladd's presentation on the publisher's website: "Created in the memory of Andrea Botto’s grandfather Primo Benedetti, the book traces his journey through Northern Germany to his home in Tuscany after being released from a Nazi prisoner of war camp on June 19, 1945. Botto’s approach was to compile images from the internet by searching...
En attendant le facteur (*signed*)
.One copy only, forgotten then re-discovered in a box!.En attendant le facteur (Waiting for the Postman), is Alain Laboile's first book, published in 2012. Alain Laboile is not a trained photographer, he has been taking pictures of his chlidren for years, in the house or in the large garden with a pond, insects, and other animals. Beautiful portraits,...
179,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Celebrated and revered by artists, the work of Peter Hujar remains something of a public secret, but his photographs dealing with sex and eroticism, made between the years 1969 and 1986, have come to define a certain era in New York. Today they are widely considered to be among his finest and most radical work. Hujar’s view of...
42,00 €Out of stockMay the Circle Remain Unbroken
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Corinne Day's photographs influenced a generation of fashion and documentary image makers. Her pictures unflinchingly documented her life and relationships with a realist snapshot aesthetic-representing a youth culture set against the glamour of fashion and avoiding fictionalisation or voyeurism. Gaining notoriety both...
Butterfly Had a Dream (*signé*)
.Sold out.A really beautiful book, at the same time a simple story and a complex story, that of a woman, a mother, and the apparent absence of a father. The difficult days, the neighborhood, the weekends or vacation at the sea... Atsushi Fujiwara makes with Butterfly Had a Dream the brilliant portrait of a woman.76 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Sokyu-sha, 2014...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Atlas Monographs is a compression of eight travel journals, beginning with Pam’s most recent work (Karakoram 2006) and shifting back through the decades to his first journals begun in 1970. The journals map, through text, photo and marks on paper his engagement with the cultures he has travelled through. Just as...
59,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock.Presentation by Jean-Marc Caimi: "Sex, food, nature, the city where I live, my son, relationships, friends, family, even fleeting encounters, these moments enrich me as a human being. They are archetypal, belonging to a common DNA, the essence of our very biology. They are at the root of my existence, hovering in the pictures of my...
35,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Artist's presentation: "It is easy to fight for the rights of people who shout out loud in protest. It is much more difficult to notice those who do not manifest openly. The Stigma Project tells the story of the 60-member family of Romanian Roma, living in an encampment on the outskirts of the city of Wroclaw in Poland. But this is not another...
.Back in stock. Publisher's presentation: "An inner courtyard faces a row of rooms where prostitutes take their clients. Out of view at an opposite window, the photographer witnesses what should remain unseen. Issues such as prostitution or pornography only become problematic when the system, or a society at the service of that system, deem them to be so....
28,00 €Out of stock.Last copy.Publisher's presentation: "Madrid’s Atocha station was formerly known as Mediodía (Midday), as it was the city’s Southbound railway hub. This is the location where David Hornillos worked between 2011 and 2014, during the central hours of the day. Mediodía presents an enveloping world of orange brick bathed in a vibrant light that irresistibly...
28,00 €Out of stock
