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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.
The Widest Prairies (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation : "The Widest Prairies features a new series by Charlotte Dumas on the wild horses of Nevada, showing a cinematographic portrayal of these undomesticated animals as they roam the fringes of the foothills into the residential areas of the desert population where peoples and animals paths cross. This proximity has created new...
48,00 €In Stock.Last copy - Sold out by the publisher!.Publisher's presentation : "ETAN & ME is Viviane Sassen's story of love and loss, of Eros and Thanatos. It’s a story about the exploration of the Self and the Other. Are we ever able to truly know someone, to truly know ourselves? These are the question which come to mind when looking at the latest book of...
49,00 €Out of stock.One copy only. ...and we are still offering the Limited Edition w/ Print (see "Suggestions" tab) Away From Home is a portrait - in a honest and warm-hearted manner - of the sometimes harsh reality of the Turkish Eastern immigration in the city of Istanbul.Kursad Bayhan, in dense and grainy black & white images builds a sombre yet lively atmosphere....
69,00 €Out of stockPine Lake (*signed & numbered*)
.Sold out.Pine Lake, the last-to-date book by Douglas Stockdale, is a beautiful self-published (and "self-crafted") book, assembled by the artist himself. At the origin of this publication, a set of family snapshots, that the artist used to build a story, a semi-fictional narrative about a multi-generational summer rite...More information here on the...
In this work, Christophe Agou confronts himself to "subway photography", with a quite beautiful result.Life Below is a series of portraits, of snapshot moments, sometimes caught with a bit of luck, sometimes caught by the photographer's eye that recognizes the scene, the instant that will make a strong image, a funny one, or simply a beautiful...
40,00 €Out of stockThe End of La Belle Epoque (*signed*)
The photographs included in this book The End of La Belle Epoque are from another time, that of the USSR, of Communism, before the fall of the wall. Misha Pedan's work presented here was made between 1986 and 1989, at a time when the Communist regims seemed to have already loosened their grip; his images show clothes, behaviours, and a street life that...
95,00 €Out of stockKenosis is a little zine, the first publication by Karin Crona.In this booklet, the artist tells us about her experience, her feelings before and after a surgery. A very personal and intimate work of self-portraiture. 16 pages - Softcover Sefl-published, 2013 New - Mint condition
10,00 €In StockSworn Virgins is a series of portraits of women from Northern Albania who vowed to remain virgins their whole life, in order to be allowed - following ancient rules of their community - to assume the role of patriarch of this community, becoming in the process "men-women". The respect these women are shown within their communities is really clear in Pepa...
50,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Veins brings close together two artists, Anders Petersen and Jacob Aue Sobol, who make photographs that share similarities. First, one of the main subject of their work could be considered the same : an interest and an attraction for people living on the edge of society. Then, both artists approach the subject, the people, the characters by...
Pixel Stress by Anouk Kruithof is a mixed-media artwork, with the first step being an image search in Google with the keyword "stress", then processing the image to obtain a pixelated version by enlarging the original to 3200%. Then, in the second phase of the project, the artist set-up a little installation on Wall Street in NYC to engage passerbys in...
28,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Karma is quite a surprise, with pictures of cars done with a strong flash light, car parts, portraits (with a flash light as well) of drivers and passengers that sometimes try to hide and sometimes act naturally when the photographer remains unnoticed. In this book, Óscar Monzón shows us in a very direct manner the importance of the car in our...
Yan Morvan est un reporter de guerre qui a couvert de nombreux conflits. Depuis près de 30 ans, lors de ses périodes en France, il documente les bandes, les gangs, les groupuscules français de tous bords et de toutes régions.Gangs Story est donc une plongée dans le monde de ces jeunesses endoctrinées, de ces personnages souvent engagés aux extrêmes...
49,00 €Out of stockChen Jiagang is an architect; after being involved in the creation of the Chinese cities of the XXIst century, he decided to part from the world of real estate in 2001, disgusted by corruption and the construction workers' labor conditions. Close to the art circles, founder of an art gallery, he turned to photography. His former profession remained at the...
75,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock - Reduced price.Retrospective book on the work of the late Jouko Lehtola, who passed away in 2010. The artist was made famous by his uncompromising work on the Finnish youth; and other series are also present in this book. A very straightforward eye, and images that are sometimes gaudy, or even violent.160 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Kehrer...
25,00 €Out of stock.Last copy!.WARNING: Our last copy has one very slightly bumped cornerStakeout Diary is a re-interpretation of Watabe Yukichi's work already presented by Éditions Xavier Barral and D.A.P in a book form as A Criminal Investigation (cf. "Suggestions" tab).This new book, which offers a slightly different selection of images, in a totally re-worked sequence,...
45,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. But we are still offering the "regular" edition (see "Suggestions"). Stakeout Diary is a re-interpretation of Watabe Yukichi's work already presented by Éditions Xavier Barral and D.A.P in a book form as A Criminal Investigation (cf. "Suggestions" tab). This new book, which offers a slightly different selection of images, in a totally...
.Sold out.Mark Steinmetz has released several books in the recent years that are now sold out and hard to find at the regular retail price; he is a solid value and a safe bet when it comes to looking for a beautiful book. With his latest effort Paris in my time, the artist revisits and updates the theme of street photography in Paris, in the path of...
.Sold out. From the publisher : " T., my lover and father of my son, died on April 5, 2010 of a brain stroke. He fell beside us on a beach at the North Sea. The violence of his death put me in front of a big void…a silence that echoed in my head only equal to the brightness of the blue sky which no planes crossed because of the ashes of a volcano in...
Supertourist is a new interpretation by Max Pam of the large body of work accumulated within the last 10 years during his travels in all parts of the globe. The artist sort-of "traveled" within this large archive to conceive this book, a complete rethinking of his work. We do indeed recognise Max Pam's eye and feel, with lively, colourful, witty, funny...
195,00 €Out of stockExcerpts from Silver Meadows (*signed*)
.Sold out.Unlike his previous series and his previous books, Todd Hido offers with Excerpts from Silver Meadows a very personal book in which he talks about his childhood in Kent, Ohio.This book with complex narrative, and images of extremely different natures (archive images, facsimiles, nudes, stagings, etc.) takes us on a rather dark journey in the...
.Sold out. Ouvrage de référence sur le photographe chilien Sergio Larrain (Magnum Photos), qui - bien que n'ayant été actif qu'entre 1949 et 1971 - restera comme l'un des grands maîtres de la photographie de rue et du noir et blanc. L'artiste a été honoré d'une rétrospective aux Rencontres d'Arles 2013 et une exposition différente présente son travail...
Les faits secondaires (*signed*)
.Sold out. Les faits secondaires est un recueil d'instants. Certes, presque toutes les photographies sont le recueil d'un instant, mais dans son livre, Christophe Agou (dont le livre précédent "Face au Silence" avait remporté le "European Publishers Award for Photography 2012") nous propose un recueil d'instants insignifiants qu'ils a captés, et qui se...
Overnight Generation (*signed*)
Overnight Generation by Italo Morales is a journey among the young adults of Sarajevo, the ones who were born in former Yugoslavia, lived through the tragedy of the war, grew up in the rumbles and resentment, and are now trying to find their place in a society that is definitely looking West but is still fighting with inter-community, interpersonal and...
.Last 2 copies.February 2014 : Karczeby has been announced "Best Photography Book" of 2013 by Picture of The Year International !Karczeby is a book about the soil, the ground of Poland, about a peasant's life; a life, a world that seems to remain frozen in the 1950s or the 1960s.The word Karczeby - that means "stump" – designates people who are rooted to...
72,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock. Presentation by Dewi Lewis: "Recognised as one of the UK's most important photographers of the last forty years, Brian Griffin grew up near Birmingham amongst the factories of the Black Country. His parents were factory workers and from birth Griffin seemed set to follow in their footsteps. And so, on leaving school at the age 16, he began...
42,00 €Out of stockOne last signed copy available ! Unsigned copies afterwards... Love and War is a simple title. These are also the two things that are certainly the most complicated and the most dramatic in the interaction between men. Love and War is a book that catches you, but seems very difficult to talk about ...The story of Guillaume Simoneau begins with a love...
36,00 €Last signed copy!.Back in stock.Presentation by Dewi Lewis of Martin Bogren's photobook: "Youngsters meet up on the village outskirts, racing their tractorcars, burning tyremarks into the warm summer asphalt. The smell of rubber, oil and souped-up engines fills the air when the engines speed. The cars form into a circle as the boys take turns in the middle. It is a game –...
Artist and Her Model (*signed*)
.Back in stock : 2 signed copies.Note : See "Suggestions" tab for unsigned copies at 29 €.Artist and Her Model est une mise en abyme de l'autoportrait. En effet, Elina Brotherus, avec cet ouvrage, revient sur les quinze premières années de son travail sur l'auto-portrait, afin de l'analyser à nouveau, a posteriori, et d'y retrouver la femme d'avant,...
32,00 €Out of stockBut Beautiful est un très beau livre auto-biographique de Cristina Nuñez, qui entremêle l'histoire personnelle de l'artiste et son histoire familiale, dans une démarche qui est à la fois une quête et une affirmation de sa personnalité. Avec But Beautiful, l'artiste nous raconte l'histoire de sa rencontre avec l'autoportrait, la façon dont cette...
32,00 €Out of stockAutodafé by Coralie Fournier Moris is a very refined photobook, with a simple and elegant layout.Short texts in the introduction tell us about meetings, bodies and death ... Then come the photographs, organized as in acts. The atmosphere of the work is both light and evanescent thanks to prolonged and controlled fuzziness, but also dramat-(urg)-ic because...
6,00 €Out of stock.PLEASE NOTE: All texts in French only in this book. Photographe et vidéaste, Édith Roux nous présente dans Les dépossédés un travail sur la communauté Ouïghour, minorité ethnique turcophone et musulmane du Xinjiang, dans la partie nord-ouest de la Chine. De nombreux travaux liés à l'exploitation des ressources naturelles de cette région, associés à la...
40,00 €Out of stock.Sold out."Éclatant" ou - en référence au chef-d'oeuvre de Viviane Sassen - "Flamboyant" sont les mots qui viennent à l'esprit en découvrant Parasomnia. Le sens de la couleur, de la lumière est quelque chose de très aigü chez cette artiste travaillant beaucoup dans la mode. Cet ouvrage présente des images rapportées de plusieurs pays d'Afrique de l'Est,...
