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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.
From the introduction by Martin Parr : "Consider these facts. In Italy the right to worship, without discrimination, is enshrined within the constitution. There are 1.35 million Muslims in Italy and yet, officially, only eight mosques in the whole country. One consequence is that the Muslim population have accumulated a huge number of makeshift and...
35,00 €Out of stockPresentation on the artist's website : "Taking Off is a real picture story of a failed marriage, sexual frustration and voyeurism. An extraordinary amount of photographs and cut-up collages comprise an archival vertigo of amateur nude art. Through people she met on a journey through the United States, artist Marken Wessels gained access to the studio and...
65,00 €In StockPresentation by Fuego Books: "In 1953 The United States and Spain signed an agreement of mutual defense and economic aid and they decided to build an Aero-naval Base in the municipality of Rota in Cádiz. Of the 8,000 acres that constitute the town, about 2,400 belong to the Base, and so the constant presence of a fence is drawn into the landscape of this...
25,00 €In StockEverybody Needs Good Neighbours (*signed*)
.Back in stock. Publisher's presentation : "Everybody Needs Good Neighbours is a photographic project that starts from a very specific territory, the photographer’s hometown, the village of Vilobí d’Onyar. This municipality of some 3,000 inhabitants is characterized by its location at the confluence of transport infrastructures. Although Vilobí d’Onyar...
30,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "Lost Rivers is an exploration of Taipei, Taichung and Tainan's forgotten rivers, streams and waterways. Once dominant forces in carving out their surroundings, these rivers have now become neglected backwaters in the race to urbanise. Neglected, decrepit, the city is built over them and around them. Through them we see how the...
23,00 €Out of stock.Currently out of stock, more copies soon we hope. Publisher's presentation : "Chronicle features the photographs taken between 2010 and 2015 in Ukraine. Arranged in chronological sequence the chapters of the book equally are a reaction to changes in our lives as well as their documentation. Front-line Kharkiv, revolutionary Kiev, Donetsk and Lugansk...
49,00 €Out of stockPresentation by the artist Tamiko Nishimura: "On a bitterly cold and rainy night a friend came to stay. Silence hung heavy in the fading light, and I felt a dread of the long oppressive night ahead. Staring directly at my friend I felt a kind of impatience, of repugnance, of annoyance. I could run away any time. I began to think I really shouldn’t be...
54,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation : "Observe the state of confusion and permanent alert of a disoriented photographer in an unknown place. Immersed in uncontrollable situations. Evoking apparently common landscapes and spaces. Here, the human factor is used as a reiterative ingredient of straightforward images from an author unable to separate the...
.Back in stock.Presentation by the photographer : "This work stems from a self-financed reporting on prisons that started back in 2011, during which I visited no less than ten prisons. This follows a several-year-long study of the Belgian police force and its actions in the field. Prisons aims at opening our eyes on inmates; casting light on the failures...
39,50 €Out of stockUn Universo Pequeño (*signed*)
.Currently out of stock.Presentation by the artist : "Un Universo Pequeño is my imagining of the universe in 2.5 seconds and 10 linear metres of street. The project is a 2.5-second-long feature film comprised of images and sequences which reference the beginning of things – technology, religion, the universe, the street, love, matter and its different...
Publisher's presentation : "«Most of my life has been lived in a golden shimmer of love and privilege. I’ve been lucky in more ways than most. And intertwined through that daydream was the illusion of control. The reassuring sense of my firm hand on the tiller, irrevocably guiding me upwards, towards a bright, certain future.When my mother died suddenly...
42,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Presentation by Galerie Polka : "Silencieux, dénués de présence humaine, les paysages industrialo-urbains de la série Norilsk immergent le regardeur dans une ambiance mélancolique à travers ces ruines industrielles. Réalisée en 2013, cette série est fidèle au travail d’Alexander Gronsky dont la singularité se retrouve dans les paysages...
Zine N° 26 - O Inferno Verde (*w/ signed...
.Sold out. Text from the front cover : "Rivers and streams fill up and spread themselves across the forest. The igapós appear and with them the most beautiful landscape that can be seen in a forest. Months later, the rains become scarce and the waters slowly return to their original river beds. As a result of this movement of retreat, on the left bank of...
Publisher's presentation : "Hester Lisa Scheurwater's persona is an exploration into the existing ideas on femininity. Her new book "All I Ever Wanted consists of various leaflets like the different rooms in a house, each reflecting its own atmosphere of Hester Scheurwater's inner world, her fears and desires. She is using the depiction of women in...
75,00 €Out of stockPresentation by the artist : "The term WEALTH MANAGEMENT refers to a professional service, which is the combination of financial advice, fiscal strategy, and legal planning for one fee. With the help of tax havens and the complicity of supranational legal frameworks that allow their existence, the clients of private banks benefit from privileged...
22,00 €Out of stockYU The Lost Country (*signed*)
.Sold out.Presentation on the artist's website : "Yugoslavia fell apart in 1991. With the disappearance of the country, at least one million five hundred thousand Yugoslavs vanished, like the citizens of Atlantis, into the realm of imaginary places and people. Today, in the countries that came into being after Yugoslavia's disintigration, there is a total...
Kumogakure Onsen / Reclusive Travels...
Presentation by the artist on the publisher's website : "There was a time in my late 20's when I had a desire to disappear from the plane of worldly affairs. Kumogakure has no direct translation in English. It means to be hidden by clouds, shrouded, invisible. No longer able to endure my world and the affairs that surrounded it, I spent two years...
42,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "Menq Enq Mer Sarere (We Are Our Mountains) is a collection of works that chant an ode to memory. These works have purposely been produced in commemoration of the Armenian Genocide (1915 - 2015). "Menq Enq Mer Sarere borrows its name from an Armenian film directed by Henrik Malian in 1969. Collages, photographs, poems...
28,00 €Out of stockMenq Enq Mer Sarere "Deluxe Box"
Publisher's presentation : "Menq Enq Mer Sarere (We Are Our Mountains) is a collection of works that chant an ode to memory. These works have purposely been produced in commemoration of the Armenian Genocide (1915 - 2015). "Menq Enq Mer Sarere borrows its name from an Armenian film directed by Henrik Malian in 1969. Collages, photographs, poems...
55,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "The Gardener is the winning project of the inaugural Syngenta Photography Award. Photographed by Jan Brykczynski, it is an extension of his previous projects in which he travelled to the outer corners of Europe to explore the lives of people in rural areas. This new work looks at how city dwellers try to connect with nature. The...
34,00 €In StockToute arme forgée contre moi sera sans effet
.Back in stock.Publisher's presentation of Colin Delfosse's photobook: "Like a drunkard, night has fallen on Kinshasa. On the paved esplanade adjoining Mzée Kabila market, in the uncertain outskirts of the capital where ten million Congolese live in close proximity, Six Bolites pulls on his starry cloth mask and climbs onto the hood of a war-torn van. To...
40,00 €Out of stockPresentation in French from "Biblio Monde" website : "Un livre de photographies prises par Solange Brand et de témoignages recueillis par Kate Fletcher et Per-Olow Leijon sur la Révolution culturelle en Chine. En 1966, Solange Brand a 20 ans. À la suite d'un recrutement dans son lycée, elle part travailler à l'ambassade de France à Pékin. Pendant la...
45,00 €In Stock.Sold out.After the much celebrated "i" published in 2014, the new portraiture project by Eamonn Doyle, in the exact same streets as the previous project, but this time with opposite commitments : black & white images, low-angle shots, faces visible.A beautiful series, and a really well produced book : a large format that opens flat, making for...
Publisher's presentation: "In our collective unconscious the nuclear age is synonymous with the explosion of two atom bombs. Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But since 1945 it has been documented that more than 2,000 nuclear bombs have been detonated on Earth. Since the end of the Second World War, countries with nuclear powers methodically bombed their own lands....
35,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation of the photobook: "As an assembly of archival images and new images, the author realizes with Gravity a photographic poem, a tribute to the first space missions, a narrative fiction inspired by real events. (...) However, Michel Mazzoni's photography is not motivated by nostalgia. Gravity primarily addresses our relationship with...
38,00 €In StockIN / OUT Mission Photographique
Publisher's presentation : "The photographs relate to the principal site projects that were established as part of the selection of the City of Mons as a European Capital of Culture 2015. The photographs presented in this book have been carefully selected from a corpus of images that were created as part of a joint public project run by the Fondation...
35,00 €In StockThe Encyclopedia of Kurt Caviezel
.Currently out of stock. Publisher's presentation: "For the past 15 years, from his studio in Zurich, Kurt Caviezel has been monitoring 15,000 publicly accessible webcams located all over the world. By taking screenshots of any situation he found interesting he compiled an archive of more than 3 million images, categorizing them for recurring patterns and...
Publisher's presentation : "On 8th April 1961 the MV Dara, a ship carrying passengers between India, Pakistan and the Gulf, sank just off the port of Dubai. An estimated 238 people lost their lives. Some bodies were never found and relatives of the missing continue to this day to search for their loved ones. Stranger, Olivia Arthur's photobook, imagines a...
56,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Presentation on the artist's website : "« August, 1943. Night is falling on Calcutta, silencing its flocks of ravens, but wakening another kind of life – a feverish, hidden one : in the Maidan, that open space at the city’s heart, there are shadows waiting. » My uncle, Thaï Doan na Champassak, published Ancestral Voices by Collins – London in...
How the other half lives (*signed*)
Presentation by the artist: "How the other half lives is a photobook about freedom, segregation, discrimination, anarchy, loneliness and other aspects of a stray cat's daily life. Through interviews different stray cats share their street wisdom and explain their view on contemporary society."We are offering signed and numbered copies (first 100...
29,00 €In StockI went to the worst of bars hoping to get...
Publisher's presentation: "I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed. but all I could do was to get drunk again is a diary of sorts, following invisible men, down piss alleyways and into empty bars. The photographer accompanies the seekers of oblivion, their lopsided faces caught between ecstasy and apathy, their mouths chasing the numbness of...
35,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: " The images in Tones of Dirt and Bone were made between 2004 and 2006, with a Polaroid camera and Time Zero film. Brodie used the characteristics and limitations inherent to this type of camera and film to his advantage. The portraits he made are further enhanced by the peculiar color palette of the film. Due to the restriction...
79,00 €Out of stock
