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Publisher's presentation: "In our collective unconscious the nuclear age is synonymous with the explosion of two atom bombs. Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But since 1945 it has been documented that more than 2,000 nuclear bombs have been detonated on Earth. Since the end of the Second World War, countries with nuclear powers methodically bombed their own lands....
35,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Capturing Cairo between the overthrow of Morsi and Mubarak, Bialobrzeski’s images portray daily life in the Egyptian capital at a time of major urban, social and political upheaval and renewal. As silent and tranquil as they are anxious and tense, the images demonstrate Bialobrzeski’s ability to find beauty in chaos....
25,00 €Publisher 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 stockPresentation by Ediciones Anómalas: "The Bonavista quarter is a complex and heterogeneous territory whose origin lies in rural emigration from Andalusia and Extremadura. Located on the outskirts of Tarragona, where the city converges with the countryside, the infrastructures and the petrochemical industry, it shares the complex chaotic look of similar...
27,00 €Out of stockPpresentation by Editions du LIC / Skinnerboox: "Big Sky Hunting, the debut volume by Italian photographer Alberto Sinigaglia, presents a voyage to the edge of representational space. 'Hunting' used not in the sense of the killing of animals by man, but as an expression of man’s dominance over this space: An expression of man’s atavistic obsession with...
60,00 €In StockPresentation by the artist: "My theater complex came from my home. I live in a theater's courtyard filled with playing and watching. The theater life enriched my knowledge about various roles at all times and in all countries. Time was changing the opera gradually. The pop, fashion and foreign elements were added into the traditional, local and folk...
69,00 €In 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 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 StockEn 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 stock.Back in stock.Presentation by Steidl: Saul Leiter’s early black and white photographs "The distinctive iconography of Saul Leiter's early black and white photographs stems from his profound response to the dynamic street life of New York City in the late 1940s and 50s. While this technique borrowed aspects of the photodocumentary, Leiter's imagery was...
65,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Dealing with the grief she suffered following the death of her mother, Where Mimosa Bloom takes the form of an extended farewell letter; with photography skillfully used to present a visual eulogy or panegyric. This grief memoir about the loss of her mother is part meditative photo essay, part family biography and...
Probably one of the most discussed series and book of this Spring 2014 (with articles in Time Light Box, Lens Culture, The New Yorker, The Huffington Post, etc.), Touching Strangers is a really powerful body of work.Richard Renaldi worked from a very simple idea: asking random people, passerbys or else, to pose together for a portrait, touching one...
46,00 €Out of stockAnders Petersen likes to travel, and he likes cities, which is obvious simply by looking at his bibliography.With Rome, in his trademark style of photography and narration, Petersen displays the city not through the old buildings and busy daily life, but though portraits of passerbys, market stalls, various animals, and apartment interiors, beds, bodies,...
35,00 €Out of stock.Copy sold.Pleine mer, the French original version of the Harry N. Abrams reprint of 2002 translated as Men at Sea, is a really beautiful series made on fishing boats by Jean Gaumy (from Magnum Photos). A beautiful production by Edition de La Martinière, that usually specializes in more "mainstream" books.This book is listed in "The Photobook: A History...
Le Livre de Photographies: Une Histoire...
Third volume of the famous catalogue of important photobooks, as selected by the photographer Martin Parr and the critic Gerry Badger.PLEASE NOTE: We are offering here only the French version of this photobook.320 pages - Hardcover with DJ Phaidon, 2014 Format : 26 x 30 cm New - Mint condition
80,00 €Out of stockIntroduction to the project Another Family by Irina Popova on the "Indiegogo" platform: "This story started in 2008 when i got an assignment to make a project about feelings.I was wandering through the streets of St. Petersburg at night and there I met Lilya, a punk girl, who was completely drunk. She was pushing a baby carriage with her little daughter...
39,00 €Out of stockHave you ever heard of "Gangnam Style"? Of the South-Korean singer and "k-pop" ambassador Psy?No? First, that is very surprising, and consequently, this book may not be for you... or may be it still is!So, one night at a fashion event called "080 Barcelona Fashion 2013", Denis Carré, self-proclaimed "double" of Psy, triggers a general frenzy in the public...
22,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Second edition of Avec le Coeur, after a quickly sold-out first edition in 2013.Presentation by Editions du LIC: "Whilst clearly indebted to the photography of Ryan McGinley, Nan Goldin and Larry Clark, unlike the self-confessed «pseudo-fiction» of McGinley's work, the subjects in Théo Gosselin's images are friends rather than models, and the...
Bottrop-Ebel 76 is a re-reading of one of Michael Wolf's student project. In this body of work, the artist documented life in a small mining town in the Ruhr District, a region he new quite well for having lived some time there. This "early" series (he was 22 at the time) shades a different light on Michael Wolf's work, as we are mostly familiar with his...
45,00 €Out of stockMicronations est une galerie de portraits étonnants, qui racontent chacun un territoire, la passion d'un territoire... Présentation de l'éditeur :"Qui a déjà entendu parler de la République des Conques ? Du Royaume d’Elleore ? De la Principauté du Sealand? De la Couronne de Forvik? De l’Empire d’Atlantium? Ou du Consulat de la Boirie ?Qui sait qu’en 2010...
From the publisher :"The vision of Ciociaria that Douglas Stockdale presents in this book remains way further from grandiose than picturesque, in line with the desire to reject stereotypes of landscape and cultural anthropology. Observing the region through a careful eye of a ‘flaneur’ photographer, almost an ideal recreation of what once were the...
35,00 €In StockFrom 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 stockSalaryman 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...
For Birds of the West Indies (a tribute name to the actual James Bond, the ornithologist), Taryn Simon has photographed everyone and everything that has made and still makes the world of the James Bond movie franchise in the manner of a biologist or an archivist. The catalogue of images alone is really interesting. But in these pictures of weird things,...
45,00 €In StockSilencio (Limited Edition w/print)
.Sold out. Please note that we are offering the regular edition of this book (see "Suggestions" tab)We are offering the Deluxe Edition of Silencio (200 copies), in a cloth-covered cardboard slipcase, that includes a signed & numbered print.After Timeless Islands, here is the new release by Thomas Jorion: Silencio, a large book and beautiful book. This...
After Timeless Islands, here is the new release by Thomas Jorion: Silencio, a large book and beautiful book. This book, in the quite fashionable "Urb-Ex" genre (urban exploration), and by a mainstream publisher does not fall into any easy images, and we find the same qualities that made the artist's previous book a success, with a large format on...
69,00 €In StockA Period of juvenile Prosperity
.Back in stock. Certainly one of the most talked-about photobooks of 2013, that was shortlisted for the "Paris Photo / Aperture Award" for first photobook. We offer here a later printing of this great book, the first one having been sold out in a few weeks in May 2013. A Period of Juvenile Prosperity is a dazzling journey with a group of young renegades...
75,00 €In Stock.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...
Mars - Une exploration photographique
Mars - Une exploration photographique is the French edition of the book This is Mars released simultaneously by Aperture (not offered by L'Ascenseur Végétal). The French publishing house is actually that of the man behind this project : Xavier Barral. This book is IN FRENCH ONLY. The book is an incredible B & W journey on the surface of planet Mars....
79,00 €In Stock.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...
.Last 2 copies.The Pigs est un pamphlet moderne, en images... Ce petit livre ironique et presque militant copie la maquette de "The Economist", la Bible du monde financier (format, papier, lettrage, mise en page), car c'est bien ce monde-là que Carlos Spottorno souhaite mettre à l'index. "PIGS" est un acronyme qui désigne quatre pays du sud de l'Europe...
29,00 €Out of stockMeat America by Dominic Episcopo could easily pass for a "gimmick", on the very "carnal" relation between the United States, the Americans, their culture and the good steack. Meat America is a funny and inventive book, sometimes provocative; a humorous book, and a lot more too! Through images of steak or beef ribs chosen and cut to represent American...
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