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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.
Publisher's presentation : "ImageSingulières is a documentary photography festival created in Sète in 2009. Each year a photographer is invited to look at the city to gradually build his portrait, revealing the facets of contemporary photography.Big names have given birth to seven books constituting a remarkable collection. A lesson in photography that...
25,00 €Out of stockFull title : Dystopia - Main basse sur l’agriculture ("Dystopia - The Hijacking of Agriculture")Publisher's presentation : "In the aftermath of the Second World War, governments drove farmers to embrace a headlong rush to modernization. A half-century later, utopia has become a dystopia: 60% of farmers have disappeared, soil erosion is getting worse,...
28,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "In Black Nest, Mathias Christensen dissolves into a dark misty world of his former hometown, Copenhagen. With insistent aesthetic consequence, we are sucked into a delirium of obscured strange sceneries, never knowing what’s waiting around the corner. Throughout the book Christensen circles around crucial existential...
34,00 €In StockRussian Interiors (2nd edition)
.Back in stock. Publisher's presentation: "An intimate portrait of Russian women in their private spaces. Andy Rocchelli started to travel to Russia in 2010; there he spent a considerable amount of time working as a freelance photographer. During this time he covered several stories in different places. The book Russian Interiors, however, sees the light...
42,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Paris is a city deeply divided between the immensly wealthy city itself and its often turbulent suburbs. Such a division has its origins in the 1860’s when Baron Haussmann embarked on his grand redesign and redevelopment of Paris that was to forever change the fabric of the city. While Paris has since grown into a modern city,...
15,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "That it is not about «hurried» photography, not really about contemplation, but as Ezio D'Agostino says himself, «about a photographic process which derives from my archaeology training». This means confronting time and pacting with it. The archaeologist, such as the photographer, divides the territory so that he can better...
30,00 €In StockWuhan Boiler Company Workers (*signed*)
Wuhan Boiler Company Workers, published in 2009, is a "corporate book". Continuing his engagement with China's industrial culture, Pierre Bessard fashions portraits of the oft-overlooked people behind the nation's tremendous economic growth. The series comprises hundreds of color photographs of factory workers, as well as the surroundings in which the...
75,00 €Out of stock.Currently out of stock.Text from the book : "It is said that Pythagoras was the first philosopher in ancient Greece to use the term «Kosmos» in reference to the universe. The word «kosmos» in ancient Greek refers to a congruent balance or order. A state of harmony present in a garden, in societal law or the human spirit may be described as «Kata Kosmon,»...
Zine N° 21 - The Selfeet (*w/ signed print*)
Publisher's presentation : "#TheSelfeet is a series of self-portraits about the ridiculous practice of narcissism on the Internet. Social network feeds and our lives have been invaded by selfies. This topic has been mentioned more than 92 million time on Twitter in 2014. A narcissistic, self-centred, symbol of the «look at me, like me» trend. Artists,...
36,00 €In StockPresentation by the artist : "Since August 2009, I started to work with two hundred models over fifteen days, shooting the 42-metre-long History of Monuments. This work is my reflection on what is told about civilisations, beauties, virtues, standards and norms. The models are smeared with mud and placed into the carved out contours of the photo backdrop....
85,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "On a mission to photograph the invisible, with Deleted Scene photographer Yury Toroptsov takes us to Eastern Siberia in a unique story of pursuit along intermingling lines that form a complex labyrinth. His introspective journey in search of a father gone too soon crosses that of Akira Kurosawa who, in 1974, came to visit and...
30,00 €In StockPresentation by Kehrer Verlag: "During the day, the Senegalese beaches are pretty desolate. Maybe the occasional tourist, some fisherman or children playing. But in the late afternoon, it slowly changes. Young guys have quit their day jobs and head to the beach. They are there to train »Lutte«, the local wrestling sport. « Lutte Sénégalaise » or Laamb as...
34,00 €Out of stockCatalogue for the second edition of the "EPEA - European Photo Exhibition Award" with the subject "The New Social".Presentation by EPEA : "The European Photo Exhibition Award – epea for short – aims to create a free space where socially relevant topics concerning Europe are developed and discussed by talented photographers who live and work in Europe and...
29,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Edges of the Experiment – The Making of the American Landscape investigates the idyllic notion of the American landscape, and shows which elements contribute to the iconic landscape, and at what cost they can be maintained. It describes the thin line between nature and civilization: how did the landscape evolve, and where are...
54,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock.Presentation by Kehrer: "Inshallah («God willing» in Arabic) explores the Soviet and American occupations of Afghanistan, and draws on my childhood fantasies that romanticize the military and intertwine with my past and present personal conflicts. As a Ukrainian, who was born and raised in the FSU and residing in the US, this is the second...
45,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "For several years Monica Ursina Jäger has been drawing built and natural landscapes inspired by Modernist-style architecture. Her precise works, using media including ink and pigment transfers, combine hope and downfall: on one hand designers' aspirations, and fantasies, for the future; on the other the dystopia of failure. In...
58,00 €Out of stockDisplacement Island (*signed*)
Presentation by the artist : "Displacement Island is an experimental narrative set on the island of Lampedusa, off the coast of Sicily. Famed for the beauty of its beaches, this paradisiacal island is routinely confronted by its crucial geopolitical role. European vacationers seeking a summer refuge here are confronted by migrants fleeing from their...
34,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "The images in this book are part of a project documenting small rural communities (1,000 inhabitants or less) in the Canadian West. As demographic changes – ‘rural drain, urban claim’ – persist, many would argue that the rural is becoming a redundant sidepiece in a world that is increasingly concerned with the urban....
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Capturing Cairo between the overthrow of Morsi and Mubarak, Bialobrzeski’s images portray daily life in the Egyptian capital at a time of major urban, social and political upheaval and renewal. As silent and tranquil as they are anxious and tense, the images demonstrate Bialobrzeski’s ability to find beauty in chaos....
25,00 €.Sold out.Publisher's presentation : "For the fifth edition of The LBM Dispatch, Alec Soth and Brad Zellar hit the road in early May and drove through a snowstorm across the plains, headed for the Rocky Mountains. They visited dozens of towns in Colorado, met hundreds of people, and spent two weeks roaming both sides of the Continental Divide and battling...
Texas Triangle - LBM Dispatch 6
.2 copies available.Publisher's presentation : "From November 19 through December 3, 2013, The LBM Dispatch was on the road in the Lone Star State, exploring the people, places, and mythology of the megapolitan area known as the Texaplex. Our rambles in this 60,000-square-mile, roughly triangular territory, home to more than 70% of the Texas population,...
35,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "Over two sweltering, bug-swarming weeks in July, the LBM Dispatch crew (superbly assisted by Stephen Milner and Brett Schenning) covered 2,400 miles in Georgia, exploring the State’s diverse landscapes, histories, and narratives that were alternately harrowing and inspiring. From the Civil War to the last beleaguered Gullah...
32,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "For seven years, the American photographer Kathryn Cook has been patiently working on the trail of Armenian Genocide – the first in the history of the twentieth century – which has killed more than 1 million Armenians in Turkey. With a contemporary photographic style that mixes colour with black and white, along with a poetic...
39,00 €In StockPoet Island is a journey in history, the history of a sanatorium - today facilities in dereliction - established on the Nagashima island, in Southern Japan where, in particular, the pre-war poet Kaijin Akashi was quarantined. Atsushi Fujiwara's images create a poetic atmosphere in this abandoned place, where nature takes slowly over again...We recommend...
44,00 €In StockYou Haven't Seen Their Faces (*signed*)
.Sold out.Présentation de l'éditeur : "Months after the London Riots of 2011, the Metropolitan Police hand delivered leaflets to people’s letterboxes which depicted youngsters that presumably took part in the events. Images of very low quality, almost amateur, were embedded with unquestioned authority due both to the device used for taking the photographs...
Presentation by Le bec en l'air: [traduction by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "The Marseille(s) collection offers each year a carte blanche to a Mediterranean photographer who gives his vision of the city. Year after year, the diversity of the ways of photographic expression draws the portrait of a multicultural city and brings it in a new light. The first...
15,00 €In StockIncipient Strangers (*signed*)
.Sold out!.Artist statement : "Siblings can be incipient strangers. Even siblings sharing the same blood can become distant and turn into strangers to each other as they each grow and forge their own path in life. Sometimes, we fail to hit it off with friends and eventually lose touch. But with family, no matter how brittle the relationship, it cannot be...
Songbook (1st ed. / 2nd printing)
.In stock.Presentation by Mack: "Known for his haunting portraits of solitary Americans in Sleeping by the Mississippi and Broken Manual, Alec Soth has recently turned his lens toward community life in the country. To aid in his search, Soth assumed the increasingly obsolescent role of community newspaper reporter. From 2012-2014, Soth traveled state by...
59,00 €Out of stockThe Hidden Blood (*signed & numbered*)
.Sold out. To present Nozomi Iijima's project and this book in particular (published in collaboration with "Reminders Photography Stronghold"), there's no use in trying to do better than Christer Ek on his blog "who needs another photo blog".A really beautiful book, hand-made by the artist upon request (it was on a limited period of time, but our copies...
éléments 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 6"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 €In Stock.Last copy!. Publisher presentation : "In this publication, Paul Seawright explores the theatre of war through the internal landscape of the US television news studio. Developing Virilio's theories about electronic warfare and weapons of mass communication, Seawright focuses here upon the illusory nature of these spaces where information is selectively...
25,00 €Out of stock.Last TWO copies!. Publisher's presentation: "John Gossage made the images in Nothing during a month-long visit to The Kingdom in 1985 when he was the guest of a Saudi prince. Describing Nothing, Gossage said, «You can sometimes go so far from home, and what you know, that your pictures have to teach you what they are about. In this case that process took...
85,00 €Out of stock
