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Beautiful images, spring, flowers, pretty clouds, love, tenderness ... which does not mean that they are necessarily "easy" books.
Entrance to Our Valley (2nd ed.) (*signed*)
Presentation by TIS Books: " The story of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, transposed and reversed through Fridlyand's view camera. Jenia Fridlyand uses a 4x5" view camera with flexibility and subtlety, rendering not only considered landscapes, but also domestic scenes of surprise and spontaneity. One senses ultimately the climate (literally and...
Presentation by Chose Commune: " A blue sky. A shimmering river. The birth of a new life. These are the first three photographs from Rinko Kawauchi's book As it is. This new body of work returns to Kawauchi's earlier photographic focus on her personal universe through family, memory and time. This book presents a succession of mundane moments and gestures...
Presentation by Steidl: " In John Gossage's words this is a book « with a particular context, of photographs to settle the feeling that I did not understand my home. To do that I set out, starting in 2003, to see what clarity my pictures might bring. » And so came into being these photos of scenes, things, minor events and the look in the eyes of the...
Presentation by Steidl: " In John Gossage's words this is a book « with a particular context, of photographs to settle the feeling that I did not understand my home. To do that I set out, starting in 2003, to see what clarity my pictures might bring. » And so came into being these photos of scenes, things, minor events and the look in the eyes of the...
.Sold out.Presentation by Chose Commune: "Astres noirs is the debut book for both Katrin Koenning and Sarker Protick, artists who live thousands of miles apart and whose peculiar photographic wanderings create a hauntingly beautiful dialogue. This book presents photographs taken on mobile phone cameras, devices used to capture their everyday in an...
.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 !
As Dust Alights - 2nd edition (*signed*)
.Sold out.As Dust Alights is the book of a photographer that takes the time to look at things, that uses his eyes in a very special way. Vincent Delbrouck offers a very calm and peaceful account of what his eyes saw on a trip into the Himalayas; they saw forms, colors, textures, contrasts, they saw the beautiful in the insignificant... The body and the...
We are offering here the second edition of this book (2014), the first one being from 2011.Artist presentation: "Ricardo Cases' third photobook deals with an unusual subject: the practice of pigeon racing in the Spanish regions of Valencia and Murcia, a game consisting of releasing one female pigeon and dozens of male pigeons that chase her trying to get...
Sasha est la fille de Claudine Doury, et ce livre est la chronique toute en retenue d'une adolescence apparemment paisible. Toutefois, ces images saisies dans la maison familiale et dans la campagne environnante relatent les doutes et les difficultés de cette période de la vie, dans le regard d'une mère : l'importance de l'image de soi, la relation aux...
Some Windy Trees (*Limited Edition*)
.Sold out. Some Windy Trees is the second opus of Vincent Delbrouck's "Himalayan Project".This book is comprised of 10 portraits of trees. Trees that grew and developed against the wind and are leaning, bent and tilted by this physical constraint.This very homogeneous series invites us to give these trees - these characters - a closer look, to discover...
.Sold out.Some Windy Trees is the second opus of Vincent Delbrouck's "Himalayan Project".This book is comprised of 10 portraits of trees. Trees that grew and developed against the wind and are leaning, bent and tilted by this physical constraint.This very homogeneous series invites us to give these trees - these characters - a closer look, to discover...
.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,...
As Dust Alights (*Limited Edition*)
We are offering the Limited Edition of this sold out book.A signed & numbered copy of the book, together with a print are placed in a pouch made of a really beautiful fabric. We will add images soon, please feel free to contact us. As Dust Alights is the book of a photographer that takes the time to look at things, that uses his eyes in a very special...
Pine 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...
.Back in stock.Nine Nameless Mountains is the account of a trip in the Lofoten islands, at the Northern tip of Scandinavia, by a group of young photographers from Helsinki, Norway. This body of work is a reflection "by one common author and his 16 eyes" on the making and the authorship of a project created by a collective. This book, in a certain way,...
.Sold out. Anatopées is a journey, a quest, a graphic and esthetic obsession.For many years, after observing graphic similarities in images of very different natures, Arnaud Lesage has been looking for a certain shape or form in his numerous trips. This book is the result of this extensive quest, presented in a simple yet superb "Leporello" design...
.Sold out.Kodama is the account of the long period of time photographer Hajime Kimura spent among the Matagi community, in a remote mountainous region of Japan.The artist had discovered this people in a book, when he was still a student, and had been fascinated by the images, and by the story of their way of life.In a limited number of very powerful...
.Three copies available. For this one time, our presentation of the book is our reaction to the book as sent to the artist upon reception of our copies... "I really do like the book ! First I love the format, the rough cardboard case with the engraved text inside, and the three booklets instead of just one book... Even the little magnet I like ! This...
.Sold out.As Dust Alights is the book of a photographer that takes the time to look at things, that uses his eyes in a very special way. Vincent Delbrouck offers a very calm and peaceful account of what his eyes saw on a trip into the Himalayas; they saw forms, colors, textures, contrasts, they saw the beautiful in the insignificant... The body and the...
.Sold out.A beautiful and peaceful little book, Unter den Linden is a tribute to the series and books of Ed Ruscha and presents 25 images of windshields on the Unter den Linden Avenue in Berlin, all soiled by dust, rain, and autumn leaves.The book is based on a simple idea, but David Kregenow offers here an hypnotic series of soft hues and patterns that...
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....
.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...
Such Appetite est un petit livre, rose, aux images un peu sucrées, qui nous parle de la vie - douce ou monotone - d'une jeune femme, dans une banlieue américaine. Un livre qui nous confronte au détachement face à la banalité, mais aux images et au design très travaillés et épurés qui nous mettent un peu comme en lévitation... Les photographies de...
.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,...
.Sold out.Avec Ama, Nina Poppe nous emmène au Japon dans une communauté de femmes pêcheuses, les "femmes de la mer" (Ama en japonais), et autrefois "sirènes" car elles plongeaint vêtues uniquement d'un tissu autour des hanches. Ces femmes pêchent des "abalones" (un genre d'ormeau) en apnée, plusieurs heures par jour à des profondeurs de 15 mètres. Dans...
Sasha est la fille de Claudine Doury, et ce livre est la chronique toute en retenue d'une adolescence apparemment paisible. Toutefois, ces images saisies dans la maison familiale et dans la campagne environnante relatent les doutes et les difficultés de cette période de la vie, dans le regard d'une mère : l'importance de l'image de soi, la relation aux...
.Sold out. Presentation by Mack: "Anne-Marie Merryman collected postcards between 1937 and 1980, a collection inherited by her granddaughter, Anne Sophie Merryman. The book, Mrs. Merryman’s Collection, presents the postcards which together form the story of two intertwined lives - one life lived travelling the world through the postcard images, the other...
56 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Nazraeli Press, 2012 New - Mint condition