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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.
Berlusconians / No Berlusconians
.Sold out.Presentation by the artist: "Silvio Berlusconi is a very special character in Italian politics. Who votes him, loves him as he is. And those who would never vote for him? Two different worlds, placed face to face in a collection of portraits. Berlusconians / No Berlusconians is a self-published and handmade book that shows two very italian...
23,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "The Mountains Of Majeed is a reflection on the end of « Operation Enduring Freedom » in Afghanistan through photography, found imagery and Taliban poetry. Edmund Clark looks at the experience of the vast majority of military personnel and contractors who have serviced Enduring Freedom without ever engaging the enemy. He distils...
36,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "2041 is an eponymous collection of self-portraits in which the image and identity of the artist remain concealed. Using the camera to articulate a passion he has secretly indulged for decades, he appears dozens of times in a variety of garments, but is always anonymous. By photographing himself in these costumes he...
Publisher's presentation: "We made these photographs between October and April 2013/2014 in Sweden, in Sunne, in the middle of nowhere and far away from everything. It was winter and every Saturday night Pizzeria Sunne transformed from a fast food restaurant into a karaoke bar. This was the only place to go if you wanted to meet other people during the...
52,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Medianoche refers to a border that confronts us with certain limits. A temporary space in which we can explore the relationship between instinct and desire, the behaviours that they give rise to and the manifestation of our fantasies of seduction. In this work the night leads us to an exercise that gives us the opportunity to...
32,00 €In StockExcerpt from the newspaper "Libération", Oct. 12th, 2012 : "Une image se trouve à l’origine de ce travail. Une photographie entrevue dans un magazine associatif qui montrait quatre corps allongés à même le sol dans une forêt du nord de la France. La légende indiquait qu’il s’agissait d’Afghans, probablement épuisés, qui se reposaient à l’abri des regards...
H. said he loved us (*signed*)
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Following three years of travels and investigations in Germany, Tommaso Tanini’s H. Said He Loved Us draws on the story of the GDR and the German Ministry for State Security (STASI) to explore the feelings of oppression and dread caused by living in a state of constant suspicion and diffidence. Mingling documentary...
.Sold out. 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 as...
Publisher's presentation:"The second collaboration between father and son Thomas Roma and Giancarlo T. Roma, The Waters of Our Time is a book that could only be done in the latter part of this renowned photographer’s career and with the unique contemplation of his watchful son. A retrospective of sorts, the book contains 142 of Roma’s photographs spanning...
12,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Presentation by the artist: "The book is built on two photographic archives – mine (photographs of my friends made between 2011-2013) - and photographer Tatyana Soldatova’s archive (photographs of her friends made in 1980s) that I happened to see by chance and compare with mine. This comparison brought out a large number of identical shots...
.Sold out!. Presentation by the artist: "Mutti - a conceptional work Memory is a strange thing. We tend to think of ourselves as cameras, recording events which we can truthfully and repeatedly recall without distortion. Yet each time we remember an event, a person, those memories become slowly and inevitably modified. Just as the cells in our bodies...
.Back in stock. An amazing journey, strange places, surprising and sometimes weird locations, all in a myterious, or even mystical atmosphere. A beautiful surprise, and a really bautiful book.An interesting review of this book is available on the blog "who needs another photography blog" (Thank you to Christer Ek, the author of the blog, as we took the...
45,00 €Out of stockFull title: Sound of Midnight, the theory of bitter funPresentation by Clément Paradis: "One night I was outside of a club in London, I think at that moment I started to hear it… The Sound of Midnight… How many pictures did I take that night? One roll? Two rolls, three? When I ran out of rolls, I'd re-expose the previous ones anyway. I'm a trigger happy,...
26,00 €Out of stock.ONE LAST COPY discovered in our shelves.Presentation by the artist on his website: "By a series of fortunate events, Mark Power was present at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. To mark the 25th anniversary, this new production (self-published under his new imprint, Globtik Books) is bound as a pastiche of a newspaper Power purchased in Berlin the...
120,00 €Out of stockGrand Circle Diego (*imperfect*)
.One copy found in a forsaken box (April 2021)!.Presentation by AKina Books: "Bay of Diego Suarez. strip of land in the far north of Madagascar.a terrible accident10 years later, Cyril Costilhes comes back to close the circle,the descent into his heart of darkness begins.There is danger lying there, Diegoit's like smoking on a sea of gasolineDon't fall in...
65,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock.Presentation on the artist's website : "Ibidem is a project about globalization, about the lack and the loss of roots, about the mutation of cities. I started this project in New York in 2002 after realizing that the pictures I took at the time could have been shot in some of the other cities I had lived in. Back to Milan I confirmed my...
45,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "In 1930, duck farmer Martin Maurer from Flanders, Long Island, decided to construct a giant duck-shaped shop to sell the Peking ducks he raised to motorists passing by. In 1972, in the book Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott-Brown, and Steven Izenour, studying the architecture of that city, outlined 2 main...
32,00 €In Stock.Sold out.After the acclaimed Two Rivers (a favorite of L'Ascenseur Végétal), Wild Pigeon is Carolyn Drake's new project and book.Carolyn turns her eyes and lens to the Xinjiang Province in China and its Uyghur population and culture, that are under strong control / coercion from the Chinese government. Taking photographs on separate trips to the region...
.2nd edition sold out - But we are now offering the 3rd edition, with signed copies (see "Suggestions" tab). 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...
.ONE NEW copy available!.For Japan Sea, Shunji Dodo traveled the coast of the Japan Sea (delimited by China, the two Koreas, Russia and Japan) with an 8"x10" camera. Through this geographical and certainly historical point of entry, he is looking for a point of entry into the Japanese culture, by immersing the viewer in the daily life he witnessed,...
120,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation (excerpt): "L’univers d’Oliver Sieber explore la contre-culture de groupes sociaux, jeunes pour la plupart, qui fréquentent des clubs où se produisent des formations musicales au style affirmé. De cette subculture, qui se vit à l’échelle de la planète, nous connaissons aujourd’hui la forme visuelle développée par ses...
Tauromaquia by Julián Barón is an open edition, but the singed and numbered copies offered here are from a print run of 200 copies made during a "one day printing show" as part of an exhibition at P2P during PhotoEspaña 2014. This edition is almost sold out by the artist. Two other editions of 200 copies have been made : one for the exhibition "Lonja del...
25,00 €In StockA Question of England (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation: "As a small boy, John Comino-James stood in school cap and Sunday suit to have his snapshot taken under flags put up for Queen Elizabeth's Coronation. The resultant photograph resonates with an England long since disappeared, yet still fertile in the imagination. That sense of how that England has changed is the focus in John...
42,00 €In Stock.Sold out. As presented by Éditions du Lic : "Comprising of images taken between 2010 and 2011 in the Mennonite colonies of Santa Cruz, in Eastern Bolivia, Los Menonos presents a portrait of a community of self-styled, self-willed outsiders that have voyaged out into the wilderness of a foreign land to escape that which may yet prove to be inescapable:...
Father Figure (*signed / not signed*)
Presentation project on the artist's website: "Black father absence is a contentiously-debated social issue in the US and other countries. Too many Black men, so the argument goes, are missing, irresponsible, selfish, not stepping up to the plate. Visuals of deadbeat, absentee Black fathers abound in mainstream media, often intended to sensationalize and...
60,00 €In StockDOM (Document Object Model) (*signed*)
Presentation of the project by the artist: "In my project DOM I refer to the concept of home.«Dom» means a house, home, a building or a household in the Russian language. As a model for creation of the maquette of houses, I chose the kind of mass housing, so-called «Khruschyovka». They were built in Russia in the era of Khrushchev. After Stalin's Empire...
58,00 €Out of stockPresentation by FIshbar: "Since 1999, American artist Eric Gottesman’s ongoing collaboration with Sudden Flowers, a collective of children living in Addis Ababa, has produced a body of work of profound depth and poetic lightness. In reimagining the harsh realities the children experienced on the streets and in their homes in the wake of their parents'...
59,00 €In StockAnother Twenty-Six Gas Stations (*signed*)
Presentation by In the In-Between: "Gregory Jones' Another Twenty-Six Gas Stations is a new media artist book comprised of twenty-six screen captures culled from gas station surveillance videos found on YouTube. The book blends notions of surveillance, crime photography, advertising, and found text; which together form an incisive dark-humor commentary...
28,00 €Out of stock.Available.Presentation on the Paris Photo website: "This book's folio design is shaped by its content: Lithuanian identification photographs from 1946, when citizens were required to get new, Soviet documents. What's distinctive about these images—taken by Vytautus V. Stanionis's father, also named Vytautus—is that, to save money and materials, each...
38,00 €Out of stockExit Ghost is a dark and powerful book that - with explicitly naming the location of shooting - displays in a somber manner the real estate development in Dubai, at the fringes of the city, and the life of the inhabitants and workers.Black & White (tritone) images that suggest more than they show, where blurring (out of focus) and grain of the image...
35,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "The word Sumimasen («I am sorry») is used in Japanese society to express both apology and gratitude. It anchors a formal code of behaviour which is mainly used in public interactions and uncommon within intimate relationships. This reflects a unification of social behaviour that can be seen as a mask, thus further alienating the...
60,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Photographer Heikki Kaski (Finland) crawled into the skin of the small town Tranquillity, 800 inhabitants, in the desert-like San Joaquin Valley, California. The images show a strange, introverted world in a stiflingly hot desert; the heat is almost palpable in this book."Text from the cover: "And there was. Sounds...
