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.

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  • Presentation by Yan Morvan : "Why and how to photograph the war?Willingness to inform, to participate in the movement of history? How to tell the unbelievable - the images of horror follow the images of horror. The spectacularization of the world through television, the press, the Internet and real-time information has undermined our capital of empathy...

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  • Publisher's presentation : "In the early 2000s, Attilio Solzi photographed the two main groups of transgender sex workers in Italy (Brazilian in Milan and Italians in Catania). Dollhouse fondly shows these portraits of men who are midway between women and divas."120 pages - Hardcover Lieutenant Willsdorff, 2016 Format : 15.3 x 20.8 cm New - Mint condition

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  • Quick view Ramírez, Isidro
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    .Currently out of stock.Presentation by The Velvet Cell: "In this book Ramírez explores the difficulties associated with living in an overpopulated city that is expanding at tremendous speed. Jakarta is currently the 2nd largest megalopolis on the planet, after Tokyo-Yokohama. The photos in this book show the modest interventions and minor improvisations...

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  • .Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "In 2015, Peter Bialobrzeski returned to his hometown, Wolfsburg, to document the changes the city has undergone since his leaving many years previous. « In the 80’s, I always felt that Wolfsburg was a socialist dream. It felt like everybody was participating. Now the picture has changed ». Wolfsburg Diary is the 3rd...

  • .Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "In 2015, Peter Bialobrzeski returned to his hometown, Wolfsburg, to document the changes the city has undergone since his leaving many years previous. « In the 80’s, I always felt that Wolfsburg was a socialist dream. It felt like everybody was participating. Now the picture has changed ». Wolfsburg Diary is the 3rd...

  • Publisher's presentation: "In 2010 more Americans were living below the poverty line than at any time since 1959, when the U.S. Census Bureau began collecting this data. In 2011, Kira Pollack, Director of Photography at Time, commissioned Joakim Eskildsen to photograph this growing crisis affecting nearly 46.2 million Americans. Based on census data,...

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    Presentation of the project by the artist: "In my project DOM I refer to the concept of home.«Dom» means a house, home, a building or a household in the Russian language. As a model for creation of the maquette of houses, I chose the kind of mass housing, so-called «Khruschyovka». They were built in Russia in the era of Khrushchev. After Stalin's Empire...

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  • Presentation on the artist's website: "I’m looking at old cosmetic bag to discover my mother's lipstick, eye shadows and blushes, which she used to enjoy when she was a little older than I’m today. I’m pulling out of the closet a suitcase with shoes to find a pair of her unprocurable Yugoslav sandals bought back in the 1980s. I’m turning over a pile of...

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  • Quick view Lutz, Christian
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    Publisher's presentation: "In Las Vegas, everything seems possible, indifference above all. « Insert Coins is a blues » in the words of the author. Its pace is melancholic and dark, intertwined with a poem that makes the unacceptable watchable, injecting humanity where the die is definitely cast. Christian Lutz shows a committed approach, he comments on a...

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  • Presentation on Baptiste Lignel's website: Coney Island, a dying myth "Say the words « Coney Island » to just about any American and you will provoke a reaction, at the very least a spark of recognition. Whether from experience, retold stories of past generations or the personal, albeit generalized, identification and sense of ownership that legend...

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  • .WARNING : We are offering only the French version of this book. An English version will be released by University of Texas Press, but - to our knowledge - it will not be available for distribution outside of the United States. Presentation on the French publisher's website lamaindonne: "Antebellum South: of this appellation which designates the Deep...

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  • Quick view Labbé, Aëla
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    Publisher's presentation: "L’Absente takes the form of an extended allegory or visually alliterative verse. An ode dedicated to « absence » in all of its meanings; the missing, the lost, those disappeared or simply things invisible or out of sight. For the photographer, L’Absente holds a deeper meaning, more intimately connected to freedom; providing a...

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  • Presentation by the artist Mary Hamill: "Semper Augustus sits within a greater ongoing body of work entitled « Short Stories For My Adolescent Self ». This work aims to question the nature of desire by exploring notions of attraction and repulsion, beauty and ugliness and the fragility of life through an investigation of the fluidity of our being and the...

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  • 168 pages - Softcover w/ DJ Lodret Vandret, 2015 (200 copies) Format : 14 x 20 cm New - Mint conditionLodret Vandret's presentation: "What does it mean to live in a world where the digital screen is so prominent? Smoke Screen is a subjective exploration of the condition of digital screenship. It is a curious look at screen-empowered mediation and...

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  • Carpoolers is a beautiful series of portraits or - as Marc McCann called them in his NY Times Lens blog piece - "still-lifes" of Mexican workers commuting in the back of trucks. Shooting his images from above, Alejandro Cartagena gets the full content of the truck without its environment (except for the road and the roof and hood of the trucks),...

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    Chronicles Set V:   #025 California Shopfronts - Steven Clarke   #024 Khazarshar - Parnian Ferdossi   #023 Found Surfaces - Eleni Bakagianni   #022 Iran Murals - Oliver Hartung   #021 Streets of Insomnia - Anne PaternotteThis set, published in a limited edition of 100 copies, is completely sold out. We just found these, and the other sets we listed at the...

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    Chronicles Set IV:   #020 Walk the Line - Vincent Buller   #019 The View East of the View West - Michael Rymer   #018 Concrete Jungle - Dale Konstanz   #017 Signs of Life - Peter Reed   #016 Ebisu Canal - Jan PiotrowiczThis set is published in a limited edition of 100 copies. We just found these, and the other sets we listed at the same time (including...

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    Chronicles Set III:   #015 Invisible Machinery - Toru Ukai   #014 Chernobyl Vol. 2 - John Darwell   #013 Chernobyl Vol. 1 - John Darwell   #012 Origin - Alireza Malekian   #011 20,000 New Homes - Gage SolagurenThis set, published in a limited edition of 100 copies, is completely sold out. We just found these, and the other sets we listed at the same time,...

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    Chronicles Set II:   #010 House Sitting - Eric Gunderson   #009 Landleben (auf Sylt) - Michael Dietrich   #008 Twisted Ribbons of Concrete - Michael Rymer   #007 In Your Place - Michele Ravasio   #006 Desert States - John DarwellThis set, published in a limited edition of 100 copies, is completely sold out. We just found these, and the other sets we...

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  • .Sold out. Publisher's presentation "This book is about people being part of the punk culture and marginal society types in Russia."40 pages - Softcover Dienacht Publishing, 2016 (120 copies) Format 21 x 29.7 cm New - Mint condition

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  • Quick view Kramer, Ilka
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    .Signed copies back in stock.Presentation by Ilka Kramer: "This series shows children in their approach to nature according to their imagination and their fascination for fairy tales. Behind the house, far away from the life of adults, the garden, the fields and the forest become an immense land to explore. The murky spot under the fig tree, the tree...

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  • Publisher's presentation: "For more than 10 years Albertina D’Urso has followed in the footsteps of Tibetans forced to escape from their homeland, many of whom crossed the Himalayan range by foot, to defend their cultural and religious identity, their traditions and their language from Chinese repression. In Out Of Tibet she has documented their new lives...

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    Publisher's presentation: "Once a Year, Some Traditional British Customs was first published in 1977 establishing Homer Sykes as one of the UK’s leading young photographers. Over a period of almost seven years he travelled the country photographing around 100 traditional British customs, with over 80 appearing in the book. Though inspired by the 19th...

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  • .Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Between 1968 to 1978, Paddy Summerfield photographed Oxford students in the summer terms. No older than his subjects, he shared their uncertainties: « I was young and unsure and found a way to show this. I felt like an outsider, and lonely, that there was always something going on, parties and drinking, but elsewhere....

  • Quick view Hart, Paul
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    .One copy available (2nd printing, 2018). Presentation by Dewi Lewis: "The Fens, a region of reclaimed marshland in eastern England, is one of the richest arable areas in the UK. Paul Hart has been photographing this landscape of agribusiness over the last six years. In FARMED he explores this wide-open environment, a linear landscape of straight lines...

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  • Publisher's presentation: "Premier Padmini taxis, first introduced to the streets of Mumbai in the 1960s, have now all but disappeared following the introduction of laws to reduce pollution in the city. Locally known as « Kaali-Peeli », there were once more than 60,000 of these iconic black and yellow cabs struggling through the chaos of Mumbai's...

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  • .Copy sold. Excellent copy of one of the best books (and most sought after) by Antoine d'Agata, his second, published the same year as his first one "De Mala Muerte". Second volume in the "Impression de Voyage" collection, published by "En Vues" in 1998.With texts (in French only) by Bruno Le Dantec and Jose Agustín. Copy in very good / excellent...

  • .Copy sold.Text on the back cover: "Valparaiso était le premier port rencontré par les navires ayant croisé le cap Horn ou le détroit de Magellan. C'était une sorte de station spatiale sur la planète Mars, qu'on atteignait après avoir lutté contre vents et marées, jamais certains d'atteindre la fin du voyage. Neruda habitait une maison dominant le baie....

  • .Sold out.Publisher's presentation : "Dominique is the most given mixed first name in France, it is also the twenty-seventh most popular first name, associating it with Lambert, the twenty-seventh most comon surname, Stéphanie Solinas defines as a study population the one hundred and ninety-one Dominique Lambert listed in the directory of individuals...

  • Publisher's presentation : "Penelope Umbrico cropped the screens from hundreds of images of computers and TVs she found for sale on websites such as eBay, Craigslist and Alibaba between 2008 and 2016. Out of Order : Bad Display gives a second lease on life to these worn, obsolete and sold for parts objects. The book reproduces these ephemeral images of...

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  • Publisher's presentation : "À travers cette fresque photographique, Hervé Lassïnce constitue le journal impudique d’une communauté formée autour de lui, saisie dans des moments domestiques et intimes, à l’endroit où les personnalités s’expriment sans filtre, ni préjugé social. Contrariant les stéréotypes, notamment ceux liés à la virilité, le projet...

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  • Publisher's presentation : "My brother died in a car accident in 1999. His last girlfriend, Kaori, was Japanese. She kept on writing and sending photos for months after the accident. The search for Kaori led me to Fukushima and the tsunami area, working as a pretext to look for stories of loss and reconstruction across Japan.              -- Vittorio...

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