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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.
.Sols out.Almost is a peaceful book, that takes us in a labyrinth of personal memories where expectation, melancholy, oblivion, and disappearance join us or lead us in every nook; a labyrinth in which the reader has to make their own path, and see or imagine their own fiction.48 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Bemojake, 2013 New - Mint condition
Motohiko Hasui is a young fashion photographer, offering with Personal Matters a journey in his daily life, sharing insignificant moments, surprising or funny ones, in and around his hometown Tokyo, with sometimes his friends appearing. A sort of tug-of-war of feelings shows through these images, as one can sense an attraction for western culture and...
27,00 €Out of stockZine N° 11 - They (*w/ signed print*)
In this 11th number in the Zine Collection, called They, Xiao Zhang tells the story of the millions of Chinese uprooted from their hometowns to search for a job in a nearby industry or on the other side of the country. This series of portraits points the finger at a problem, an illness that is inherent to the economic development of China in the recent...
36,00 €Out of stockZine N° 10 - Circle (*w/ signed print*)
In this 10th number in the Zine Collection, called Circle, the young South-Korean artist Jung S. Kim deals with negative emotions from her childhood that she projects onto characters from traditional Korean folk tales...This book comes with a tipped-in signed Kodak print on the first page.Please note that L'Ascenseur Végétal lists several other books from...
36,00 €Out of stockZine N° 9 - Zimbabwe (*w/ signed print*)
In this 9th number in the Zine Collection, called Zimbabwe, Robin Hammond shows us the terrible life conditions in this country, more than 30 years after Robert Mugabe reached power.The introduction by Wilf Mbanga explains the hope that Mugabe initially raised in 1980, and the suffering he since has imposed on his people, and the failure and imposture he...
36,00 €Out of stockHester is a series of reconstructed portraits offering a re-interpretation of the body that is sometimes disturbing, and always surprising.48 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Mörel Books, 2013 New - Mint condition
59,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Mörel Books: " Långt från Stockholm (or Far from Stockholm) finds JH Engstrom on a journey into the surrounding world away from the big city.... Shifting between isolated small communities and the untamed wilderness of the Swedish landscape -Engstrom weaves the two worlds with portraits of 'dance bands', youths etc and juxtaposing them...
52,00 €In StockThe Looking Game - 2nd Edition
.Sold out. From the publisher : "A serial killer and amateur photographer currently imprisoned in the Death Row: Rodney Alcala. An alias he adopted while on the run from the police: John Berger, as the famous British art critic. Starting from this coincidence, The Looking Game explores the once-secret archive of pictures taken by Alcala and sets up a...
From the rediscovered archive of this great "unknown" photographer, a beautiful series of self-portraits in mirrors, shop windows, cars, etc.120 pages - Hardcover, no DJ powerHouse Books, 2013 Format : 25.5 x 28 cm New - Mint condition
49,00 €Out of stockAlec Soth's personal collection of Ping Pong players, gathered from here and there over the years...A book of vernacular photography, but weird and funny !46 pages - Hardcover Little Brown Mushroom, 2013 New - Mint condition
.Sold out.NB : Please note we are offering signed copies of the 2nd edition (see "Suggestions" tab)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...
Salaryman Project 2014 (*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...
Sharing Paths (*Limited Edition*)
.Sold out.Sharing Paths is the book of a traveler, a hiker, a lover of nature, of landscapes, of encounters. Ruben Brulat, while traveling just about everywhere, is always yearning to share something with the inhabitants of the lands he crosses and the other travelers he meets. To immortalize these encounters, he asks his friends of the day, friends of...
.Sold out.Sharing Paths is the book of a traveler, a hiker, a lover of nature, of landscapes, of encounters. Ruben Brulat, while traveling just about everywhere, is always yearning to share something with the inhabitants of the lands he crosses and the other travelers he meets. To immortalize these encounters, he asks his friends of the day, friends of...
Sheets is a retrospective of Rinko Kawauchi's work over the last 10 to 15 years, presented as excerpts of her contact sheets. From an artist recognized for several famous and acclaimed books : Utatane, Cui-Cui, Ametsuchi, etc.This new presentation is a re-interpretation of the artist's work from that period. Beautiful book with numerous foldouts.152 pages...
39,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Titre complet : Arrête avec ta lumière ta photographie ça m'aveugle.Travail personnel, intimiste de l'auteure. Beaux portraits en Noir&Blanc, aux noirs très denses, sur papier épais pour un très beau rendu (alugraphie).32 pages - Softcover Auto-publié, 2013 (Edition of 60) New - Mint condition
.Sold out.Great retrospective of the work of one of the best "street photographer", Dark Knees was published during the Fall 2013, at the time of an exhibition at Le BAL (Paris) that will then go to the Nederlands Fotomuseum (Rotterdam).Beautiful images in B&W and color, a slick but original design (all the images are in the "landscape" format, and...
"The Game Over series focuses on a public space where the invading decor, that of the famous Foire du Trône installed every spring on the edge of Paris, could play alone the main role.Pierre Hybre preferred to aim his camera directly at visitors of all ages wandering the aisles, in the middle of exuberant fairground attractions, the ambient hubbub and the...
25,00 €In StockSergey Novikov and his "buddy / hero" Vasya made a really strange trip (or journey) out of their stay in Belgium : trying to taste a maximum of beers at each stage !Truth is, Belgium is a really small country, but its reputation as a country of brewers has traveled around the world, and these two Russian friends took the time to really appreciate the...
30,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Ce livre est le fruit du Prix Henri Cartier-Bresson remis en 2011 à Vanessa Winship et dont le but est de financer un nouveau projet. L'artiste a traversé les États-Unis pendant plus d'un an à la recherche de "l'American Dream" et de l'interaction entre les territoires et leurs habitants. On savait Vanessa Winship une grande portraitiste, elle...
.Sold out.Please note that we are oofering the second edition of this book (Please see "Suggestions" tab).The Disappeared is a book about the blurring and dissolution of identity, both in the larger body of a population, and in the oblivion of time passing... But these vanishing images also reassemble into a collective memory, by leaving an unclear and...
25 Weeks of Winter is a small-format intimate diary about the end of a relationship. With a wide variety of seemingly unrelated images, Ekaterina Anokhina tells us the tale of a long winter of the heart, the mourning and lovesickness after a separation and the difficulty and hardship of forgetting and moving on... This book works really well, and - in...
.LAST copy of the two we stumbled upon recently in our stock: NEW, shrinkwrapped and in mint condition!. The images in this book are quite wild ! Russian youths: teenagers and misfits Igor Samolet takes us in the life of a group of young Russians, whose days and nights revolve around alcohol, acting nonsense and sex, adrift in some apparently derelict...
45,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Thomas Boivin, over the course of a 12-month period, committed to go everyday to the Buttes-Chaumont park, in Paris. Floating is the result of this process, of this creative discipline, of this encounter with this park, this place that has a very specific geography of his own, and with his visitors. Floating is a floating, a loss of references,...
Belonging, as the Bengladeshi photographer Munem Wasif belongs to his hometown of Dhaka, where he roamed the streets fo the city for 10 years to make this beautiful portrait, at the heart of the city.A great series of Black & White images, with dense blacks and a grainy feel, that takes us in the alleys of the city in the nicest of fashions, as a...
36,00 €Out of stockHow to be... A Photographer in Four Lessons
.Last copy, and it is of the English version.Impish, funny, useful, pertinent, crazy, those are not adjectives that are usually applied to a photobook!Of course, this How to be.... A Photographer in Four Lessons by Thomas Vanden Driessche is not really a book of photographs (plural), eventhough the series of portraits is great, but it is indeed a book of,...
19,50 €Out of stock.Very last copy !. DISKO is first and foremost a brilliant series of portraits of the Lithuanian youth in the rural discos; dancers, couples, music, transe, boredom, looks... But DISKO is also a trip in these places that can be labeled as "post-soviet", with somewhat outdated atmospheres, where these young people gather and mingle. As Andrew Miksys...
40,00 €Out of stockDoug Rickard, famous for working with images from the Internet, with vernacular photography and archives, brings us with TOM a series of images made by one or several still unknown photographers : stolen images of women walking in the streets of Los Angeles.The title TOM comes from "peeping Tom", and the book, a very coherent work with a really great...
Autodafé (*Limited Edition - w/ 8 prints*)
We are offering here the Limited Edition of Autodafé (10 copies), including 8 "Fine Art" prints in a box.NB: We are also offering the regular edition of this book (see the "Suggestions" tab)Autodafé est un livre très épuré, à la mise en page simple et élégante. De courts textes en introduction nous parlent de rencontre, de corps et de mort... Puis...
7 Rooms - 2nd Edition (*signed*)
.Sold out.The first edition of 7 Rooms, released in 2011, was quickly sold out. We are offering here the 2013 re-edition, signed by the artist.7 Rooms takes us with a groupe of 7 people in the post-soviet Russia, and is a series of intimate portraits, where we sense calm and also boredom. Rafal Milach has an obvious eye for composition and a strong sense...
Republic is a brilliant, blazing, colored and light-loaded series of portraits. The portraiture work is really original, full of surprises, sometimes erotic with a touch of subversiveness, especially if you consider that Ren Hang is Chinese...A really beautiful book, a high quality of production, that makes you want to know more about this provocative...
75,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Macquenoise is a strange journey in a Belgian village near the French border, in a family of a mother and her son, who live engrained in the earth they live on, in a peculiar relationship, and a rather heavey general atmosphere.The artist spent quite a long time in this family of two, and brings back from this unusual immersion a story that is...
