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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 959 books.
You 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...
50,00 €In StockPresentation by the artist : "The photobook s1xte6n represents the photographic journey imagined by Paul Musescu throughout his 16 years of existence. The experiences are essentialized then captured in black and white images full of emotions and subtle symbols revealing themselves to the viewer at every step into this journey. Beyond the narrative line,...
31,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation : "Early Times is the first chapter of Vasantha Yogananthan’s long-term project A Myth of Two Souls, which offers a contemporary retelling of The Ramayana. A seven-chapter tale first recorded by the Sanskrit poet Valmiki around 300 BC, The Ramayana is one of the founding epics of Hindu mythology.Since 2013,...
.One signed copy available. Presentation by Lyre Press: "In the series Lotus, Max Pinckers and Quinten De Bruyn document the world of transsexuals in Thailand. The gender crisis that the so-called ladyboys face is transformed into a visual metaphor about the identity crisis that contemporary documentary photography currently encounters, when it dares to...
55,00 €In StockPresentation by Dienacht: "We are always in need of words, even the unspoken words of photography.These pictures were taken in different cities: Rubí, Barcelona, Tanger, Berlin, Madrid, Tokyo and Beijing. Within them, I show men and women I like and places that love me. With all of them, I rehearsal the dance steps to the void."A rather intriguing and...
25,00 €Out of stockThe Walls Don't Speak (Les murs ne parlent...
.Back in stock.Kehrer's presentation: "The trilogy The Walls Don’t Speak (Les murs ne parlent pas) is the result of a three-year dialog between the photographer Jean-Robert Dantou, and an interdisciplinary Social Sciences team coordinated by the anthropologist, Florence Weber. The photographer set up his studio in various institutions (psychiatric nursing...
40,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "Many of Paatos’ series depict individuals and identities with contradictions: she is inclined to locate couplings of the romantic and the harsh, the bare and the intense, the vulnerable and the sinewy. Through her photographs Paatos explores the relationship between the people living in the sparsely populated areas and the...
42,00 €In StockText from the slipcase cover : "This is the story of the tragic relationship between two bodies: a critical narration of the long and failed relationship between a society and a river. Although today it is a long and winding sarcophagus, in the past the city depended on the abundance of its stream. Centuries later, with Monterrey transformed into a...
54,00 €In StockSanta Barbara Return Jobs Back to US...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation : "Many of the photographs in this book are not “about” anything per se, but their tone, seen together, leaves little mystery. Alejandro’s “America,” seen through the lens of “Santa Barbara,” is a place hanging on by a thread. There are several images in the book, peering down on the street, taken from high up in a...
Santa Barbara Return Jobs Back to US
Publisher's presentation : "Many of the photographs in this book are not “about” anything per se, but their tone, seen together, leaves little mystery. Alejandro’s “America,” seen through the lens of “Santa Barbara,” is a place hanging on by a thread. There are several images in the book, peering down on the street, taken from high up in a building...
60,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Presentation on the artist's website: "Created as both installation and publication, End. is a collaborative work by Eamonn Doyle, Niall Sweeney and David Donohoe. Built around the photographs of Doyle, it also features drawing and sound by Sweeney and Donohoe. End. gives equal significance to the city and its population, their combined forces...
Presentation on the publisher's website: "« We have long heard that New York and Paris were the most photographed cities in the world. This is undoubtedly true, it was, anyway. We quickly deduced that they were the most photogenic. It is not certain. Now the city, every town, from the largest to the smallest, are both a concern and a revelator of...
25,00 €In Stock.In stock.Publisher's presentation: "Post-Script revisits Laura El-Tantawy’s journey through Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square five years from Egypt’s momentous revolution and one year after the release of her self-published monograph, In the Shadow of the Pyramids. The pocket-sized publication features previously unpublished images and written reflections...
20,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Presentation by the artist : "I am Iranian. I was born in 1980, the same year as the Islamic Revolution. I learned how to wear my scarf when I was seven years old. I still remember putting it on for the first time, getting ready for my first day at school. It was me, my mother and a mirror. Two years later my Religious teacher stopped me in the...
Excerpt from the text in postface : "« Photographer Andrew Miksys, a seasoned traveler, ventures into the spring of Belarus with the eye of a magician. He knows the local terrain well: the distant officialdom and intimate circles, public and private, open and secret, cynical and welcoming, recorded and discarded, winter and summer, the risky future and...
45,00 €In Stock.Currently out of stock.From the back cover: "This work is the first ever monograph of Gilbert Fastenaekens and retraces his career since the early 1980s. It explores his main photographis series (Nocture, Essai pour une archéologie imaginaire, Site, Noce, etc.), complemented by many previously unpublished images, which all have the same relationship with...
39,00 €Out of stockPrésentation de l'éditeur : "Mauricio Amarante has been living in Europe for a long time now, he is a musician, he plays with his brother Caesar. They started in the street. We met in Bordeaux. In 2013 he returned to Buenos Aires for a few weeks. And then he prolonged his stay. For fear of return? He finds himself « alone » and borrows a small camera from...
15,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "« In my experience, the two most significant characteristics of war are horror and absurdity, » says Christoph Bangert, the German photojournalist who has been documenting crises for international publications such as the New York Times for ten years. Following his examination, in his critically acclaimed book War Porn (Kehrer...
40,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "« In my experience, the two most significant characteristics of war are horror and absurdity, » says Christoph Bangert, the German photojournalist who has been documenting crises for international publications such as the New York Times for ten years. Following his examination, in his critically acclaimed book War Porn (Kehrer...
48,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Presentation by Zen Foto Gallery: "MOYI 1983-89 is a photobook accompanying the exhibitions « Eighties Part1: Fathers and Old Landscapes » (April 7-22, 2015) and « Eighties Part2: MOYI 1987-1989 » by Chinese photographer Mo Yi at Zen Foto Gallery. The book features photographs by Mo Yi from the 1980s, including his earliest works Old Landscapes...
Last Year's Photographs (*Limited*)
Presentation by Case Publishing: "Hidden away in a box labelled Last Year’s Photographs, 38 pictures Nobuyoshi Araki took between 1975 and 1976 spent a quiet life, to surface as a time capsule of the Japanese photographer’s early work.The photos - mostly snapshots of people in streets and trains, in stark black and white - capture private moments in...
99,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "Hidden away in a box labelled Last Year’s Photographs, 38 pictures Nobuyoshi Araki took between 1975 and 1976 spent a quiet life, to surface as a time capsule of the Japanese photographer’s early work.The photos - mostly snapshots of people in streets and trains, in stark black and white - capture private moments in Tokyo’s...
40,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "A Dozen Failures is both a singular statement as a photobook and a commentary on a life spent making some of the classic photobooks of our time, among them The Pond, There and Gone, The Romance Industry, and Berlin in the Time of the Wall. Every photograph is in some way perfect (as a technical feat) and in another way a...
78,00 €Out of stock.Copy sold.Excellent copy (Near Mint / VG+) of the great Max Pam classic, listed in "The Photobook: A History volume II" by Martin Parr & Gerry BadgerBook in perfect condition, outside of faint dark-ish traces on the edges of the pages. Inside mint. Dustjacket with French flaps in excellent condition as well, with imperfections to the top edge ("not...
Les roues interdites (*signed*)
NB : The title Les roues interdites translates as The forbidden wheels.Text from the back cover: "Those who know Syria love it, they know that it is not a land for blood and fire. They know that it is a white land, beautiful with a fragile and dreamy and discreet people. A land of stars that children follow at night. A blue land where deserts confuse the...
40,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "Takashi Homma uses fragments collected in camera obscura constructed in metropolitan areas of Japan and the US to build a city image by image. Homma does not seek to index any particular city but to render a shadow world, a city's unconscious caught in a dark chamber, suspended in the camera’s box. The camera obscura offers a...
55,00 €In StockPresentation of Céline Clanet's photobook: "Since 2005, I have been traveling regularly to Máze, a small Sámi village located at the highest point of the European map, far above the Arctic Circle, in Norwegian Lapland. There, I met quiet people, sometimes melancholic, captivating, who are very proud of their village and territory. They often have...
28,00 €In StockDu monde vers le monde (escale à Valparaiso)
Publisher's presentation [translation by L'Ascenseur Végétal] : "This journey du monde vers le monde (from the world to the world) mixes together a fantasized Chile and a very concrete Chile, one of collar-less dogs, of sailors strapped of the horizon, of smiles strapped of illusions, of an elegant human beauty without the artifice of swagger. Sometimes,...
23,00 €In Stock.Back in stock.Publisher's presentation: [translation by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Separation between two seas, two countries, two continents, the strait is also a symbolic space acting as a link, invisible but powerful, between peoples and cultures. At a moment where Europe is reflecting on its borders, Sébastien Sindeu explores this in-between, from the...
30,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "This is a voyage of initiation. It's a story of the gradual acceptance of another part of the self, of the twin in mutation; in one word, it is about the new, in its manifold meanings. The images were created on a singularly-focused journey that was undertaken to rediscover memories connected to the artist's father. Through...
19,00 €Out of stockNoray (*signed - French version*)
.Sold out.Text on the back cover : "NORAY (o. i.) masc. mar. 1 Borne, bollard ou toute autre chose employée pour fixer les amarres des bateaux. 2 Le plus petit port possible. 3 Mot préféré de Juan Valbuena. 4 Livre de voyages à travers L'Ample Frontière, un territoire qui correspond, approximativement, à la mer Méditerranée." "NORAY (oi) masc. Mar. 1...
.Back in stock.Presentation by Only Photography: "This book shows – aside from very few images already published in our large scale book At home from 2011 many more exceptional images e.g. of American luxury cars of the 1960s/1970s. The great documentary photographers were essentially invisible. Your gaze went directly to the subject before the camera,...
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