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Society
Books dealing with our life in common, topics of society, ours - Western - and those more or less favored from other parts of the world. The topics will be: social classes, associative work, poverty, integration, lifestyles, etc.
Books dealing with our life in common, topics of society, ours - Western - and those more or less favored from other parts of the world. The topics will be: social classes, associative work, poverty, integration, lifestyles, etc.
Society There are 958 books.
Quel temps il fait, Stéphane Duroy ?
. PLEASE NOTE : This book is IN FRENCH ONLY. Presentation by Filigranes: "« Le texte qui suit, rédigé en 2010, est consacré à L'Europe du silence, un livre majeur de Stéphane Duroy. Il traite des rapports de l'image photographique et de l'histoire, de l'exil, du temps photographique imaginé par Stéphane Duroy. Il explore une question trop souvent ignorée...
8,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "15 Miles to K-Ville is a poetic journey around the outskirts of K-Ville: a fictional town somewhere between Knoxville, Tennessee and Athens, Georgia, where graves dot the terrain and a sense of forbidding hangs heavy in the air. This collection of darkly humorous and melancholy portraits and landscapes date from the early 1990s...
50,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Lobismuller tells the story of Manuel Blanco Romasanta, Spain's bloodiest and most enigmatic serial killer, from a female perspective. Manuel was born Manuela and originally believed to be a woman: according to modern forensic theories, he (or she) may have lived with a rare syndrome of intersexuality. Blanco Romasanta was...
47,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "Plein été, un dimanche en début d'après-midi, un homme s'approche, une masse à la main, du bunker coincé entre la plage où se prélassent les vacanciers, et le café-restaurant où finissent de déjeuner les familles venues des environs profiter du grand soleil. Nous sommes quelque part sur la côte nord de la Bretagne. Une rangée...
20,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Stéphane Duroy et Paulo Nozolino ont en commun exigence et défiance vis-à-vis de la capacité eu égard à la capacité du médium photographique à rendre compte de la complexité du monde. Une écriture dépouillée, le refus de la dimension spectaculaire, l’économie d’images sont des traits communs au travail réalisé dans le...
20,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "En parallèle d’une exposition qui s'est tenue à l’automne 2016 à la galerie ARGENTIC (Paris 5e), les éditions h’Artpon présentent la première monographie du photographe Philippe Bréson, sous-titrée Éclaircies passagères. Pensé comme une rétrospective sélective du travail du photographe, ce livre présente des images exécutées...
29,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral: "Sergio Larrain published only four books in his lifetime, and Valparaíso (1991) is the most memorable of them all. This new edition faithfully follows the unpublished layout designed by Larrain, as a response to the book published two years earlier by Hazan. For the first time, this version presents more...
Publisher's presentation: "From his very first photograph in New York in 1936 to his recent work in the Alpilles forest, this monograph testifies of the wealth of Louis Stettner's work. He makes the link between the humanist photography and the American street photography by giving a poetic and uncluttered vision of the world which surrounds us. Through...
39,00 €In Stock.Currently out of stock - Please feel free to contact us.Publisher's presentation: "Through this intimist series, Cédric Delsaux continues his exploration of reality in a fictional state. Strongly influenced by the Jean-Claude Romand case (a news story popularised by Emmanuel Carrère’s novel L’Adversaire, adapted to film by Nicole Garcia), he travelled...
40,00 €In StockPresentation by Editions Xavier Barral: "Between 1981 and 2003, Mark Cohen takes several trips to Mexico. Fascinated by this country he calls ‘surrealist’, he wanders with his camera, without any anthropological nor social focus, in the streets of Mexico, Merida and Oaxaca. For a split-second, Mark Cohen comes very close to his subjects whom he captures...
45,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock. Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral: "This first survey monograph spans Stéphane Couturier's entire career from his photographs of construction sites, factories and ex nihilo cities taken with a large-format camera to his transition to digital photography including the ongoing series Alger - cité Climat de France. Couturier is...
39,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: " « Security barrier » for the Israelis, « wall of apartheid » for the Palestinians or « separation barrier » for Human Rights Watch, beyond the political debate, Josef Koudelka shows the wall as a manmade scar that mars the natural landscape. Wall assembles panoramic landscape photographs in black and white, taken between 2008...
50,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral: "From Lebanon in the 1960s to Marseille today, via Alexandria, Valence, the beaches of Palavas, Naples, and Rimini, Raymond Depardon offers us golden moments in the Mediterranean, comprising many previously unpublished photographs. On the occasion of the exhibition Un Moment Si Doux [Golden Moments]...
.PLEASE NOTE : This book is temporarily out of stock, additional copies will be available for shipment in early May 2017.Publisher's presentation : "« Corentin Fohlen nous conduit hors des sentiers battus des lieux communs attendus sur la misère et le chaos social, pour nous entraîner dans les arcarnes d’un quotidien plus terre à terre, plus intime et...
35,00 €In StockPublihser's presentation: "Shuji Terayama Museum is pleased to host a joint exhibition by photographers Daido Moriyama & Hiroyasu Nakai from April 4 to September 25, 2016. After the sudden death of Nakai in February 2016, Moriyama, a friend of Nakai's for over 40 years, carefully selected photographs from approximately 500 of Nakai's original...
59,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock.Publisher's presentation : "Peter Granser's photographic series El Alto presents a selection of buildings by self-taught Bolivian architect Freddy Mamani Silvestre. Since 2005, Mamani and his firm have completed more than sixty projects in El Alto, Bolivia."Text in English by Winston Hampel.24 pages - Softcover w/ die-cut cover Edition...
22,00 €Out of stockWhere Does the White Go (*signed*)
Presentation by the artist: "The absence of words, this is the nature of the relationship I have with the mountains. Long pauses, ancient and vital rhythms perceived in the oblivion, deep breaths, worlds that reveal themselves only through silence and that words would damage. An absence that leaves us untouched by sound-interference and the « white-noise...
37,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Little North Road is a photographic collaboration that looks at a pedestrian bridge in the middle of Guangzhou. The bridge serves as a symbolic gateway into China from Africa. At the heart of this book is a selection of images collected from two Chinese itinerant portrait photographers, Wu Yong Fu and Zeng Xian Fang. Equipped...
40,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "For the past three years, Stacey Baker has been photographing women’s legs in New York City and posting the pictures on Instagram, where she has over 75,000 followers. The women are strangers she meets on the street who agree to pose in front of a nearby wall. Only their legs are visible in the frame: »She always frames them so...
20,00 €In Stock.Sold out.We are still offering the trade edition of this book here.Presentation on Yoshida Akihito's website: "There is a district called Hazaribagh in Dacca, the capital city of Bangladesh. It’s a southwestern district of the capital known for densely concentrated oxhide processing factories since East Pakistan State era before the independence in...
.Sold out. Presentation on the artist's website: "There is a district called Hazaribagh in Dacca, the capital city of Bangladesh. It's a southwestern district of the capital known for densely concentrated oxhide processing factories since East Pakistan State era before the independence in 1971. 90% of domestic oxhide production comes from this district...
Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation: "Classic documentary photography, at its best, is a transcendent path back to the people of another place and time. Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink is a royal road to that special time in 1972-1973 -- when the love generation in America was at its height. The U.S. was reeling from years of war and turbulent social change and...
65,00 €Out of stockLe goût des mandarines (*signed*)
Text included in the book: "Sometimes, memories are linked with five senses. And it is sometimes strange. For me, it would be a sound. Sometimes it is linked with a taste, sometimes with a scent.In Japan, people say about love, « taste like a lemon », so there might be a pathway in the human memory to be brought back to the facts by the five senses....
25,00 €Out of stockSweetheart Roller Skating Rink
Publisher's presentation: "Classic documentary photography, at its best, is a transcendent path back to the people of another place and time. Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink is a royal road to that special time in 1972-1973 -- when the love generation in America was at its height. The U.S. was reeling from years of war and turbulent social change and...
60,00 €Out of stocka photobook signed by the author Yann Audic Text from the 3rd cover page by Julien Pham : "Keep a low profile, blend in with the crowd. Like the hunter camouflaged in wild grass, like the schoolboy wearing short pants. As would the rhythm of a vinyl reaching the end of the track, tickled by the record player, your pulse gradually slows down, and attunes...
35,00 €In Stock.Back in stock!.Presentation by NoRoutine: [adapted by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "The book reveals photographs taken in between 1985 – 1995 (last decade of the Communist regime in Lithuania) which where used as a visual material and inspiration for paintings. In the photographs, we find surreal Soviet-era surroundings. The constructive look of Algis...
60,00 €Out of stockLast Water War, Ruins of a Future (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation : "Since men cultivate the land, rivalries over water are a source of disputes. This concept is expressed directly in the English language, “rivalry” from the Latin rivalis, means “the one who uses the same river as the other.” It was around 2600 BC in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) that took place the first known water war. The...
25,00 €In Stock.LAST COPY. Publisher's presentation: "Pabaiga by Olivier Pin-Fat presents a crucible of various darkroom processing and analog printing techniques. Working solely with analog materials, often outdated, Pin-Fat's work attempts to shift the image or aesthetic either during the film processing stage or in the darkroom with the photographic print itself....
39,00 €In Stock.Back in stock.Publisher's presentation: "From 2005 to 2009 Antoine d’Agata had spent most of his time in Cracolandia, the crack neighborhoods of São Paulo and Salvador. Doubtless the roughest areas of Brazil. With 169 images and more than 140 unseen photographs, Cidade de Pedra is the most comprehensive document about this period. It reveals the...
65,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Afterword is composed of photos used in the afterword ’Sasuke’s Diary’ from Sasuke, My Dear Cat, published by Seinen Shokan in 1978. In the small pocket-sized printing manuscript were instructions and numbering written by Fukase himself. Sasuke the First went missing quite early on, but some time afterwards, someone who had seen...
It’s beautiful when it flies (*signed*)
Presentation on the artist's website : "If you close your eyes, Do you fall? Or do you fly? As a child I dreamt of flying. Sometimes I actually felt the wind against my cheeks. Sadly, somehow aging goes hand in hand with the inability to believe in something so close to carelessness. It’s beautiful when it flies is my attempt to refind this childlike...
37,00 €In Stock.PLEASE NOTE: We are carrying only the French edition of this book (English edition by Dewi Lewis not avilable through us at the moment). Presentation by André Frère: [Text in book in French only] "Photographs of Piotr Zbierski are emotional, though dictated objective which I would call a philosophical reference to his, but also our own image durability,...
39,00 €Out of stock
