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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.
.Sold out. Presentation by the artist: "An incident that happened in the end of the XVIth century Russia became a starting point for this work. Tsarevich Dimitry, the last son of Ivan the Terrible died under mysterious circumstances from a knife wound to his throat, people speculated on the possible various causes for his death. I was intrigued by how the...
Publisher's presentation: "While combining personal and archival material and drawing references from the experiments in social psychology carried out by Solomon Ash, Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo, this is a tale of psychological reality experienced by an individual upon encountering and ultimately losing one’s identity in the social environment....
25,00 €In Stockéléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation...
Full title : "éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation contemporaine d'un village français de deux mille huit cent trente neuf habitants - volume 8"The artist photographed the small city where he lives, Noyers-sur-Cher, and publishes in a series of 10 booklets this documentary work about a place that could be considered a fair example of the average...
15,00 €Out of stockéléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation...
Full title : "éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation contemporaine d'un village français de deux mille huit cent trente neuf habitants - volume 7"The artist photographed the small city where he lives, Noyers-sur-Cher, and publishes in a series of 10 booklets this documentary work about a place that could be considered a fair example of the average...
15,00 €Out of stockPresentation by the artist: "The images of SOKUT (silence in Farsi) penetrate into the soil of intimacy bringing us to collective sense of the sacred. The images are alternated with verses from the famous Iranian women poets Forough Farrokhzad and Simin Behbahani."Manuela Marchetti's SOKUT is a joint project (shooting, crowdfunding and publishing were...
29,00 €In StockPresentation by the artist: "Traditionally, instruction manuals have been the perfect source for practical solutions. Experts in specific subjects provide written authority on how to repair faults and carry out tasks from scratch. I typed ‘how to make a home’ into Google, and was directed to an online chat forum in which self-described experts were...
28,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "1.7 million Commonwealth War dead from the First and Second World Wars are commemorated individually and by name, on graves and memorials in 153 countries throughout the world. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintains these – 2,500 cemeteries, 21,000 other burial grounds and 200 memorials to the missing. This involves an...
36,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "The burrow is subjected to fantasy because we usually only know its shape or its threshold ; we have to imagine the rest. Symbolically, this also applies to the Maginot Line : everyone has already heard about it but not many people can describe it. Its name echoes like a receptacle for fantasies. The shapes of its bunkers match...
24,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "« Capturing a few small moments, Not All is a series of photographs that constructs a singular picture of Southeastern United States and evokes the passage from Winter to Spring, and the upcoming birth of a son. Pascal Amoyel develops his own subjective approach to photographing this territory, which exists both as a concrete...
20,00 €In StockPresentation by the artist: "Before the Second World War in Japan, dog fights were common. But, as the war worsened, so did the food situation, and consequently, owning a big dog was criticized. Some military policemen who were afraid that the dogs might escape and become strays if their cages were destroyed in an air raid, shot and killed many dogs....
28,00 €In StockCartographie de la Photographie...
Publisher's presentation: "Loosely inspired by paper maps, and born from a strong desire to promote contemporary photography and foster a visual literacy adapted to current uses of photography, the Cartographie de la photographie contemporaine is a collection of take-away exhibitions. Each Cartographie is curated in complete freedom by a different artist,...
10,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "Street-walkers, good-time girls, vagabonds, village fools, rastas, pimps, drunken expats, drunken locals, drunken everybody, underpaid guards, overworked bouncers, old-timers, orphans, urchins, beggars, hoodlums, hustlers, grasshopper vendors, all kinds of cops, NGO workers and back-alley exorcists. Some Peace Corps blogger...
43,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Presentation by the artist : "Over there, there are so many horses that they don’t even have a name.This area of the Faristan, wild, unknown and so fantasied,is a mix between beauty and wildness landlocked between mountains.It’s a quest for the sublime, the distance, but also the imagery andbeliefs that are related with it. It’s like making an...
Hello and Welcome to Paris (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation : "Breaking news such as the terror attacks in Paris are a veritable jackpot for traditional media in their race for a larger audience. The endless stream of repetitive news, horrifying images and rhetoric create terror's outlook and converts it into a mass consumption product. Much like advertisement, which twists reality in...
30,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "« It was not an image, nor a sound: it was only a rhythm that – from time to time – attempted to be both. Only then I began to discover the city, which up until that moment had almost passed unperceived. » -- Peter Handke The images of Ciudad Sur have found in Sergio Castañeria’s camera a way out of silence and oblivion....
15,00 €In Stock.Signed copies now available.Publisher's presentation: [translated & adapted from the French text by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Denis Dailleux is famous for the unique and passionate portraitof Egypt he has been building for more than fifteen years. In a search for new creative spaces, he also visits Ghana regularly since 2009. The fishermen of the port...
42,00 €In StockMarseillais du Nord - Les Seigneurs de...
Publisher's presentation : [translated & adapted from the French text by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "In the early 90s, the French Ministry of Culture wishes to assess how France is living and commissions Raymond Depardon to travel the countryside. Four other photographers are in charge of the "banlieues sensibles", or the outskirts of the big cities, areas...
29,00 €In Stock.PLEASE NOTE : the copies we are offering have one slightly bumped corner.Publisher's presentation: "This work by photographer Florian van Roekel is from a residence set up by Diaphane at the Jean Fernel Collège in Clermont-de-l'Oise.Present regularly during a school year in this establishment, the photographer takes a fragmentary look at these suspended...
39,00 €In StockPresentation on the artist's website: "Aby Warburg states that the historic discourse is never born, that it can always begin again. The past, according to Warburg, is as invented as discovered and it's the mere product of an inventor of history, the historian, who reconstructs the absence of his lost object and shapes, from his point of view and context,...
32,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation of Brad Feuerhelm's photobook: "Soft Touch re-works images pulled from various magazines and re-formatted into a sticker album where what remains becomes a comment on the use of empathy within photography and its economy of mass distribution. Considering the image consumer and image collection practices, the book highlights a...
25,00 €In StockThe critical conditions of my awareness...
Publisher's presentation: "The critical conditions of my awareness will sometimes trigger the shutter. The first condition that arose my interests towards photography is Chinese reality. So far until now, it is still the most convincing condition of my photographs. Usually I’ve always been carrying the overwhelming sensitivity towards those indecent...
66,00 €Out of stockBlousons Noirs (*signed print*)
Presentation for Yan Morvan's KissKissBankBank project: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Apaches of the early twentieth century, hoodlums of the 30s: they were the first bad boys. With the 50s comes the reign of the blousons noirs (black jackets) on the Parisian pavement and in the suburb. Rock 'n' Roll arrives in France at the same time as Eddie...
149,00 €In StockPresentation for Yan Morvan's KissKissBankBank project: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Apaches of the early twentieth century, hoodlums of the 30s: they were the first bad boys. With the 50s comes the reign of the blousons noirs (black jackets) on the Parisian pavement and in the suburb. Rock 'n' Roll arrives in France at the same time as Eddie...
49,00 €In StockPresentation by Dewi Lewis: "One in five under 18 year olds in the USA is diagnosed as having a mental condition which translates itself into behavioral problems. Often this is treated with medication which can start from an extremely young age. Over a six-year period Baptiste Lignel followed the progress of nine American teenagers with an array of...
36,00 €Out of stockCasa das Sete Senhoras (*signed*)
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "In the Beira-Alta region of Portugal, where Tito Mouraz was born and brought up, there is a house that is said to be haunted by the ghosts of seven women, all maiden sisters. One of them was a witch. On nights of the full moon, the women, in their white gowns, would fly from their balcony over to the leafy branches of...
Presentation by Editions du LIC: "Played represents the first solo project by Yoshi Kametani following his recent successful collaborations with Daisuke Yokota and IPG Project. A conceptual work in the form of a hybrid book (part photobook, part novella) based on events that take place in the criminal underworld of New York City. The protagonist, bored...
35,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Orphée by Younès Klouche is a photobook inspired by the similarly titled film from 1950 by Jean Cocteau, itself a reinterpretation of the classic Greek myth of Orpheus. Cocteau’s film features simple but ingenious special effects and explores the symbolism of mirrors as a representation of death. In Klouche’s book, mirrors and...
30,00 €In Stock.PLEASE NOTE: Our last copy has an imperfection to the plastic sleeve. Publisher's presentation: "During her time in North East China, Oskar Barnack Newcomer award winner Wiktoria Wojciechowska photographed intrepid, rain drenched cyclists as they fleetingly passed her by during the typhoon season. Although in China Wojciechowska had found an unexpected...
39,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Presentation of the series on the artist's website: "Once upon a time in Siberia, on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, in a warm bed in a small town, a little girl woke up from a dream. It was morning, but it was still dark out, for the little town was so far North that the sun would not show itself for many months. They called this the Polar...
Presentation on the artist's website: "The musical success stories of Esther Forero, Joe Arroyo and Shakira keep inspiring new generation of singers. WHENEVER WHEREVER is a poetic documentary which follows dreams and realities of 8 young singers from Barranquilla, Colombia whose ambitions are torn between hope and doubts. Lucie Mach catches a spark in...
38,00 €In StockPresentation by the artist: "Iran is a country with no time.Because the time has left too many signs, and what remains is the stratification: the past, first in Persia, now Iran, is as strong as sentiment and also loved.The story becomes narration - when even poetry - up to often confused with the experience of the same narrator.The stories overlap, and...
29,00 €In StockYou Could Even Die For Not Being A Real...
Texte of presentation on the artist's website : "There is a kind of photography that reveals the spirit of a place, hurls itself at its prey, the great feast expecting only to be rent asunder. Images are complicit in this, fully exposing anyone who persists in hunting down the mockery of the photograph. Within a rather kitsch Kurdish setting, sensuality...
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