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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.
Presentation on the artist's website: " In the 80'-90's clubs, dancings, discotheques were booming thanks to house music. Ten thousands of teenagers enjoyed and lost themselves weekend after weekend. Seeking an escape from everyday annoyance with beats beats beats. The newspapers were interested in drugs, violence, annoyance for the neighbours. For them...
30,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : [translation by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "After Bernard Plossu in 2015 (Couleur Fresson), the new collector by de l'air magazine presents new images by Antoine d'Agata, from his series Paradigmes, exhibited from Oct. 27th to Nov. 26th, 2016 at Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris. 200 copies were printed in Offset by Arts...
190,00 €Out of stockTwenty-Four Modern Lorraine Churches...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Twenty-Four Modern Lorraine Churches, published in conjunction with the exhibition Tables et Matières at the Médiathèque des Abattoirs in Toulouse, serially documents churches of the reconstruction period in the Lorraine region. During the fall and winter of 1944, the Third United States Army advanced from Nancy...
Publisher's presentation: "Maxwell Anderson has been accumulating his photographs of flowers over the last 6 years. His choice of photographs are deliberately awkward and unceremonious. In the book, Anderson combines his snapshots of common flowers with equally common and often inane human interpretations and interactions with them. His interst lies...
25,00 €In Stock.Signed copies back in stock.Publisher's presentation: "Vera confessed to Victoria that she was transexual the day they kissed for the first time. It was in a park. It did not change anything. For the four years that they were together, they loved each other as they had never loved anyone before. The book is a visual diary shot between 2012 and 2016 in...
25,00 €Out of stockText from the first page: "Now let us, by flight of imagination, suppose that Rome is not a human habitation but a psychical entity with a similar long and copious past -- an entity, that is to say, in which nothing that has once come into existence will have passed away and all the earlier phases of development continue to exist alongside the latest...
55,00 €Out of stockThe Incomplete Princess Book (*signed*)
Presentation of the project : " « I always had a problem with my name being so common. If you search my name on the web, the first thing you will find will be a belly dancer, following by all sorts of girls with cheesy smiles (or in explicit poses). At first I hated that. But if you have something that bothers you, you have to work with it, process it,...
29,00 €Out of stock.One copy available.Presentation by Meta/Books: " - Suzanne Gloria Lyall, missing since March 2 1998 in Albany (NY), at the age of 19 - Out of the Blue is a conceptual work with a tragic underlying narrative — the disappearance of the teenager. The project tends to question our relationship towards absence and loss and the need of physicality in the...
120,00 €In Stock.Currently unavailable. Presentation on Jehsong Baak's website : "One Last Goodbye 1987-1990 / 2002-2013 A journey back in time to late 80s when I started a new life lived on a razor's edge in New York City. Portraits of friends, lovers, neighbors at a single room occupancy hotel on the Upper West Side, interspersed with images taken in recent years...
50,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Far too often African American men live and identify with an idea of “blackness” that is imposed upon them, rather than created by them. Their sense of self worth and identity has primarily been defined by external forces. What happens when an African American man self interprets his own identity based upon ideology,...
Publisher's presentation: "寓喩 « Gûyu » in Japanese, means « allegory ». For Maki, the figure of speech is a photographic category. At the core of his photography practice, lies the question of re-presentation, of the relationship to space... The involvement of known elements in new sets - or the opposite. During his travels in Japan of the past 15 years,...
36,00 €In Stock.Last copy. Presentation by the artist : "This book started with an artist residency in Mulhouse, in October 2015, as part of the Mulhouse Biennial of Photography 2016. It is now the intuitive and flooded river of my working process, with images from a variety of sources (and periods) : c-prints, collages, installations views, photocopies, pages from my...
50,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Anaesthesia is a lament of several voices, a symphony of the evil in us, cinematically edited screenshots from videos, an engagement with the media, an open criticism to war and terrorism, a declaration of neutrality, an act of rebellion to the ego, where one stands alone prevented to feel anything else beyond his own...
44,00 €Out of stockPresentation by André Frère: " What is it that lies behind the UFO phenomena? Is it just a commercially profitable story, a delusion with social consequences, a religious myth, or even a physical phenomenon? Through an investigative journey through the states of Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona, Sara Galbiati, Peter Helles Eriksen and Tobias Selnaes...
43,00 €Out of stock.Last copy. Publisher's presentation: "The photo book Suspension takes us inside a « Casa Famiglia », an institution where young immigrant boys are welcomed and nurtured. They arrive after long and harsh journeys, often taking years, fleeing from their conflicted and war-torn home countries. Violence tore up their families and roots, and having left all...
25,00 €Out of stockText from the inside of the cover : "In the early 1970s, farmers, workers, and students united under the slogan « We will not surrender our land! ». This protest, known as the Narita or Sanrizuka Struggle, led to a series of fierce, bloody battles. A woman in peasant clothing covered all over with mud, in heavy rain, had tied herself to a thick post with...
55,00 €Out of stock.Only one copy available.Text from the second page : "Imagine that you are a photographer, an artist... Imagine that you go through a year that completely changes your way of looking at life itself. Imagine that you go to the South for a period of time, reading Henry Miller and taking pictures... The result is this book."This book is sold out everywhere,...
13,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "In the work Muchismo, the photographer Cristina de Middel digs around in her studios and brings all of her images to light, exactly the way she has them stored, in colossal, gorgeous chaos, to show them in the exhibition of the same name to be held in June at the Teatro Fernán Gómez in Madrid. This is a sui generis display of...
35,00 €In StockExcerpt from the introduction by Andrea Díaz Mattei : "[…] As a kind of visual poetry (fixed and in motion) and with subtle reminiscences of refugees and displaced people around the world –and while questioning the viewer– Hamzehian and Mortarotti portray these inhabitants of the borders (and all their polysemic meanings) and in doing so place a current,...
30,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Passengers is the result of an observation Dagmar Keller and Martin Wittwer made at night at a bus station while travelling through Poland. For a moment, the passengers on an old bus, obscured behind stained, ice-covered windows, in the pale light of the bus station had the appearance of figures in a painting. Travellers, fallen...
37,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Forcella is stabbed into the deepest guts of Naples. It's the oldest and smallest neighbourhood of the city, known as the home to the most violent and fierce mafia gangs. In Forcella time is suspended, frozen in a undefined era that holds the breath from postwar to the Eighties; modernity and globalisation didn’t make their way...
22,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Skinnerboox: "Using the photographic archives of the CERN laboratory, David Fathi has manipulated and recontextualized images to tell the strange tale of the Pauli Effect; the myth that Wolfgang Pauli, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, would just by his presence cause unexplainable failures of equipment and experiments. The photos...
75,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "For over thirty years, Patrick Zachmann has traveled across China, a country he discovered in 1982 while reporting on the Chinese film industry. From Hong Kong triads in the 1980’s to the mutation of the city of Beijing through Tiananmen Square protests, this book brings together around 350 B&W and colour...
Publisher's presentation: "The idea of the book is a pictorial story which only consists of one narrative hook. Seizing the idea of a record getting caught, the introduction is being looped repeatedly without continuing the story with regards to content. Once upon a time there was a woman STOP! Once upon a time there was a woman STOP! And again!The...
25,00 €In StockBook published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery, New York in the spring 2014.182 pages - Softcover Karma, 2015 Format : 21 x 28 cm New - Mint condition
60,00 €In StockText from the next-to-last page : "This is not Helsinki, but Hellsinki. Discipline, order, accuracy. These three characters define the Finnish society pretty well. But, because this book has no vocation to be documentary, these features are replaced here by coldness, darkness and loneliness. My aim with the book is to give a portrait, from a subjective...
20,00 €Out of stockEverything you do is a Balloon
Publisher's presentation: "« The buzz of fatigue drones louder in your head. It fills your body, making it taut with tension. You sit in the dark for a couple of hours, draining the mundane memories of the week. You drink a beer. Your skin seeks release. Overtired, overstressed, overworked, undersexed: you burst like a balloon. The weekend has begun. » S....
32,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Mountains and Waters is a photographic study of China in diptychs, shot on the outskirts of Shanghai, Chongqing and Shenzhen in China. The works focus on contemporary Chinese matters such as construction, infrastructure and development, while simultaneously alluding to traditional Chinese painting styles."120 pages - Hardcover...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Ron Jude’s Vitreous China is comprised of an archive of photographs he made while exploring areas of light industry in (primarily) Midwestern American cities. Rather than comment on the workings of industry itself, Jude depicts the ambient peripheral zones suffusing these environments: big rig parking lots, side exits,...
The Eyes N°6 - spring-summer 2015 (100% English/French) For this issue, The Eyes has decided change tack. We have chosen to reflect on the notion of territory. Whether geographical, political, legal, cultural or mental, it is consistently subject to friction, even conflict. Think of the refugee crisis and the reaction it elicited: barriers being erected...
20,00 €In Stock.Back in stock.Presentation by Kehrer Verlag: "Christophe Gin spent five months exploring the landscapes of Guiana (in French Guyane), from border regions to the most remote Amerindian villages, where soldiers mingle with gold prospectors and exploited immigrant workers, and where local population is forced to integrate republican concepts. His...
49,00 €In Stock.Last copies!. Presentation by the artist: "Destroying the Laboratory for the Sake of the Experiment (DTLFTSOTE) is a collaboration with the poet Daniel Cockrill. Beginning in 2006 and continuing (when time allowed) over the next four years, Daniel Cockrill and I made several road trips across England, stopping at a range of towns and cities along the...
45,00 €Out of stock
