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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.
.Back in stock. Publisher's presentation : «I feel at ease here, in this city.I’m in the middle of the jungle. A harsh concrete forestwith brick caves where miserable and cowardly beings hide with their most valued belongings. » -- J. M. Fonollosa, Ciudad del hombre: New York "Any metropolis is a formidable fabric, a tentacular mess, a deafening...
34,00 €Out of stockImages of Conviction - The Construction of...
Publisher's presentation : "What can really be learned from an image? Since its origins, how has photography built itself up within a discourse of truth? The book and eponymous exhibition respond to these questions through eleven cases of images produced by experts, researchers and historians. Whether it be the famous shots of the Shroud of Turin, the...
45,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation : "In 1958, at the age of eighteen, the photographer Larry Fink left his childhood home on Long Island and moved to a one-bedroom apartment in Greenwich Village. Fink was immediately drawn to New York’s counterculture, and he soon met a group of artists, writers, and musicians affiliated with a late stage of the Beat...
Publisher's presentation : "Fashioned as we are by Western values, we take pleasure in observing, ironically and delightedly, the simulacra of Korean happiness. But who are we to judge their happiness? The great strength of this album is that it sows doubt in our mind. These couples, these families, these men and women presented in the intimacy of their...
38,00 €In Stock.A few UNsigned copies available, from the first edition.Publisher's presentation : "Bottom of the Lake is a 256-page facsimile of the artist's family's telephone book for his hometown of Fond du Lac ("Bottom of the Lake"), printed in 1973, soon after his birth. The book includes found markings and reproductions of inserted materials, along with...
48,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Presentation on the artist's website: "The project Forget Your Past (2009-2012) traces the fate of the most important communist-era monuments in Bulgaria. The title of the series is borrowed from graffiti writing over the entrance of the Bulgarian Communist Party Memorial at Mount Buzludja that poignantly illustrates the fate of the...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation : "Salitre :1. Saline Substance, particularly abundant in soil and walls2. When sailing, the mixture of sweat and salt that sticks to the skin3. Lavapiés Street (Madrid) where twelve Senegalese immigrants lives in an overcrowded house4. Collective photography and publishing experience resulting in a box of 12 + 1 books...
Publisher's presentation: "Slowly but steadily we become immersed in what Henrik Malmström saw and photographed from the window of his living room. The pages of A Minor Wrongdoing unfold as a hypnotic sequence of candid shots taken at the neighbourhood of St. Georg in Hamburg, between 2011 and 2014. Hundreds of them, they record the last remains of street...
55,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "The Building Berlin / Constructions series was photographed in Berlin’s empty lots between 2009 and 2012 on 8x10" negative material. The stills are from Blockbuster, a 5'-long, 16 mm black and white film, made in Berlin in 2012, starring Patrick Holderness, Camera Berbank-Green."Large format co-published with Le BAL. Sold out by...
30,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "In May 1942, Sobibor became fully operational and began mass gassing operations. Himmelstrasse (Heaven Street) was a cynical Nazi joke used to describe the final journey to the gas chambers. Brian Griffin has documented the railway tracks in Poland that transported approximately three million prisoners from around Europe to the...
72,00 €Out of stockPresentation on the publisher's website: "Golden Youth is not a document of any particular Joburg sub-culture, nor is it a study of consumerism. It does not explain the izikhothane, those cloth-burning youths from Soweto who are the latest subject of written enquiry by pedigreed explainers of things. Golden Youth is, quite simply, a portrait study of some...
38,00 €In StockMühit - 2nd edition (*signed*)
.Second edition, 2015.The background for Mühit is Ilkin Huseynov's own personal life. His dad had to leave Azerbaïjan and the family soon after his birth to look for a job, as the USSR was collapsing. The book follows the traces of the author's memories of the trips to see his father abroad, it is his way to revisit these memories by going to the...
42,00 €In StockL'esprit des hommes de la Terre de Feu
.Currently out of stock; please inquire for future availability.Publisher's presentation: "Between 1918 and 1924, over four journeys to Tierra del Fuego, the German missionary Martin Gusinde became the only anthropologist who had been capable of conducting an in-depth study of the Selk’nam, Yamana, and Kawésqar. What might have remained simply a classic...
60,00 €Out of stockPresentation by the artist : "As I walked through these villages where everything had been washed away, including houses and sea walls, there were traces to indicate where once had been a road. People had started to walk again on these traces, reforming a path on top of the original. It was as if the road had a life of its own.I have taken countless...
68,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Presentation on the artist's website : "M is for Metro Misha Pedan’s new book M is a poetic chronicle of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. All the photographs are taken, while communting on the subway of Kharkov during 1985-86. Each day Pedan travelled for 45 minutes into town and 45 minutes back, spending some 1000 hours in the tube....
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "The Album project consists of found photographs. The images employed in the project have lost their original function (memory). To be more specific, no one remembers anymore what is depicted in these photographs, and why they were taken. The most comprehensible signs in the photographs are the notes and the marks of...
Tôt un dimanche matin, journal de Montréal...
.Back in stock.Presentation by Julien Coquentin on the publisher's website:"For two years I photographed Montreal. I wanted to write a poetic of the city and remoteness, an American ride in short. I worked at night in the emergency room of a big hospital and lived in the cosmopolitan district of Mile-End. This America was mixed with my childhood dreams...
25,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Catalogue of the exhibition Total Records - The Great Adventure of Album Cover Photography at the Rencontres d'Arles festival 2015, sold out by the publisher.Presentation on the festival's website: "A history of photography through the prism of the vinyl record: both media, which left their mark on the 20th century, were combined in all their...
49,00 €Publisher's presentation: "The Whiteness of the Whale brings together Paul Graham’s three bodies of American photographs: American Night, a shimmer of possibility and The Present, made from 1998 to 2011. These 3 remarkable photographic series reflect upon the social fabric of contemporary America, whilst trying to find something closer to the experience...
79,00 €Out of stockPresentation on the project's website : "Atlantus is a transoceanic photography project between Marlin Toft and Gareth Syvret at « Archisle: the Jersey Contemporary Photography Programme », hosted by the « Societe Jersiaise Photographic Archive » on the Island of Jersey. Prompted in part by the 350th anniversary in 2014 of Sir George Carteret naming of...
15,00 €In StockLife is One Live it Well (*signed*)
256 pages - Hardcover Kominek Books, 2015 (375 copies) *Signed* New - Mint conditionPublisher's presentation: "Life is One Live it Well takes us back to the dodgy area of St. Georg in Hamburg and to many of its barrooms: Mickey Mouse, Windstärke 11, Zum Frühaufsteher, Rund um die Uhr, Moin Moin, Treff Hamburg-München, also the Vanessa Bar, Dschungel...
68,00 €In StockPresentation by Kehrer: "Block is a photographic essay, amassed as a set of visions, offering hints for storylines in a murky, dystopic scene of the city witnessed by a stranger. Focusing on gray, concrete features with some people as spectators, narrowing down the elements in the frame, driven most often by the observation of the shapes the light...
35,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Le Château Rouge No 1 is the first installment of a multi-part photographic essay. The title refers to a Paris Metro station, becoming here a fictional setting. Starting here, artist Martin Essl’s path takes him through Paris and various other European locations, on a quest to capture images which hold their own special colors...
40,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "This book is about a special mood, springing from a certain time in life, the period between being a child and an adult. It’s a time of longing for independence. A time full of dreams, expectations, and a feeling that life is great, a feeling that one’s entire life can change on an evening. Or even by a glance. It is...
Publisher's presentation : "In 2010, female fighters Anna Konda and Red Devil founded the «Female Fight Club Berlin». This private and unique Club appeared as revival of female wrestling – tradition that dates back to Berlin of the Golden Twenties, when it was fairly popular. Nowadays, competitions take place in a rented room located in Berlin – Marzahn....
25,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "In 2014, Erik Kessels' father suffered a stroke and has since been barely able to speak or move. Prior to this, he was extremely active. His projects included restoring examples of that Italian icon: the Fiat 500 (or «Topolino».) Before his stroke, he'd completed four such restorations and was working on a fifth, the...
30,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "In 1917, as the United States were entering World War I, the English photographer, Arthur Mole (1889-1983) created a new type of iconography, which proved useful to the promotion of American nationalism. With the help of his colleague, John D. Thomas, he created sprawling photographic compositions of American society’s symbols...
45,00 €In Stock.Back in stock. Publisher's presentation : "Old age, disease, death and facing dead bodies are somehow placed on the edge of the contemporary society, which rather uses various channels to emphasise the imperative of health, youth and strength. Bertok approaches death from the perspective of life: he is intrigued by its mythology reflecting through...
40,00 €In StockPresentation by Skinnerboox : "Despite the spread of smartphones and digital cameras, in the main Albanian cities an older generation of photographers continues to take snapshot, so-called Foto Çasti. The term «Foto Çasti» also defines a common photographer's profile. Proudly showing their equipment, Foto Çasti walk along the main tourist areas, offering...
20,00 €In StockThe Street & Modern Life (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation: "The work of Hans Eijkelboom is always about the relationship between the individual and the mass – ‘mass’ both in the sense of ‘a lot of people’, and of everything we encounter on a daily basis, and which we are part of. A world to which we must relate if we are to live in it. The way we do this and the way it appears is the...
42,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "Since the banking crisis of 2008 the world of international finance has increasingly come under the spotlight. The consequent squeeze on public finances has led to global firms such as Starbucks, Google and Amazon coming under fire for the techniques that they use to avoid paying tax. There seems to be a growing culture of...
55,00 €Out of stock.Signed copies back in stock. Publisher's presentation: "Cruising, stalking, peeping at prostitutes, bitches... pimps, hustlers, alcohol.Animals is a brutal and wild immersion into sexual cesspools.A hunt.An oppressive and disturbing piece of hard-boiled photographic fiction.Borderline and unclassifiable."Animals appears to be something like a (sexual)...
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