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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.A quite crazy book about "Power Meet" in Västerås, Sweden, one of the largest car gathering in the world, where car fans spend a whole weekend "full throttle"!Cars, races, engines, shiny chromes, but also tattoos, disguises, alcohol, sex and camping... A weekend where apparently a lot of people unhinge and let go!180 pages - Softcover...
42,00 €In StockZine N° 13 - Afghanistan (*w/ signed print*)
.Last copy. For the Afghanistan series presented in this issue of the "Zine Collection", Majid Saeedi, journalist and reporter for the Getty Images agency, focused on the Afghan people, on people whose lives are upset, often traumatized, even destroyed by the conflict; but it does not hide the conflict itself and also shows us the horror ...Movement and...
36,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Uncle Charlie est la chronique de la vie d'un homme perdu. Marc Asnin a photographié pendant 30 ans son oncle Charlie, un homme à la vie chaotique, un homme oisif, alcoolique, violent. La proximité de Marc Asnin avec Charlie et sa famille nous met au coeur de la vie de cet homme, de ses vices, de ses douleurs, de son inadaptation. Un livre...
Another Family (*w/ Signed Print*)
.Sold out..Please note we are still offering the signed book without the print (see the "Suggestions" tab). Introduction to the project Another Family by Irina Popova on the "Indiegogo" platform: "This story started in 2008 when i got an assignment to make a project about feelings.I was wandering through the streets of St. Petersburg at night and there I...
Have you ever heard of "Gangnam Style"? Of the South-Korean singer and "k-pop" ambassador Psy?No? First, that is very surprising, and consequently, this book may not be for you... or may be it still is!So, one night at a fashion event called "080 Barcelona Fashion 2013", Denis Carré, self-proclaimed "double" of Psy, triggers a general frenzy in the public...
22,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Portraits of the actors and visitors of the Kamasutrabeurs, a big event in the world of erotic fairs, on two separate occasions, in Utrecht and Amsterdam.A no-fuss document about the crowd the artist met in the fairs. Great portraiture, and great design by -SYB-.200 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Self-published, 2012 *Signed* New - Slightest marks to...
Holy Bible (2nd printing) (*signed*)
.One copy available.Holy Bible, by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin was one of the sensations of 2013, one of the most discussed books of that year, and selected in many "best of" lists.This book was for instance shortlisted for the "Book of the Year" award in the "Paris Photo / Aperture Foundation Awards".The books looks like a real Bible, and...
119,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.From the Publisher : "In 2003 a sudden development of severe Environmental Illness forced Thilde Jensen to leave her life in New York City. The ensuing years were a lesson in basic survival.Retreating to the woods for sanctuary, Jensen would have to wear a respirator whenever she returned to civilization. To her surprise, an otherwise invisible...
With his book A Black Matter, Grégoire Éloy achieves a true tour de force, an exercise in style, by photographing black, what the astrophysicists call "black matter"...Commissioned by a French local scientific institution, the artist worked in several places around France dedicated to research in the field of astrophysics where he met with scientists,...
42,00 €In StockFrom the back cover: "Through a series of images produced over more than a decade, photographer Kent Klich explores the conditions of those living in Gaza, a society under constant siege. In the foreword, Judith Butler, philosopher and engaged in the conflict between Palestine and Israel, writes: «As onlookers, we are face to face with fragments of lost...
49,00 €In StockGaza Photo Album is a quite difficult book, as it displays - in a very simple way - house interiors that have been bombed in 2009 within the Gaza Strip.The book is a testimony of the reality of the life conditions within this community. As a caption for each image: the name of the head of the household, the number of people occupying the house, the...
32,00 €Out of stockStanley Greene started taking pictures of the punk and rock scenes in 1975, at a time when he had roommates who played in some of the bands... It was San Francisco, these musicians were often artists as well, and after some time, when they needed images of their performances to be included in magazine articles, they naturally turned to their roommate. In...
54,00 €In StockLa Résidence is a book created after JH Engström had been in residence in Brussels; where he photographed the city, the street life, the cafés, the people. By putting these images in perspective through texts from his own journal, the artist tells the story of why this residence experience was a failure. This is very well explained by Engström himself in...
55,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation : "The Grey Line is a reflection on war told from the perspective of US and UK soldiers who have spoken out against the Iraq War. Publication marks 10 years since the invasion of Iraq. Photographer Jo Metson Scott began the project after meeting a young American soldier who had been denied Conscientious Objective status...
.In stock. Publisher's presentation : "Afghan Box Camera documents a living form of photography in danger of disappearing forever. Known as the kamra-e-faoree ("instant camera"), Afghanistan is one of the last places on earth where it has continued to be used by photographers as a way of making a living. Hand-made out of wood, it is a camera and darkroom...
36,00 €In StockStormbelt is a book about the decline, sometimes the dereliction, of this wide portion of American land called the "Sun Belt", which - until the end of the 90s - was a symbol of the American economic might. Recession and natural disasters (drought, hurricanes, forest fires) have hit hard on this area, from the East to the West coast. Robert Leslie looks...
38,00 €Out of stockWith the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States have been signing nearly 300,000 new recruits each year since 9/11, as they need to face an important turnover among the troops. In Volunteer, Paul Seawright draws the portrait of the young recruits of the US Army, but we have to "read between the lines": instead of photographing the young recruits,...
30,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.The Waiting Game by Txema Salvans is an extremely coherent series of portraits of prostitutes waiting in parking lots, at some road intersections, on the roadside of a turnpike - in underwear or very short dresses - for the next "client".The city-limit landscapes depicted, the colour tones, the attention to framing and image construction, all...
.Sold out.From the back cover:"On March 11, 2011 a major earthquake devastated the Tohoku region of Japan. This book is comprised of photographs, which for the most part were taken while traveling to this area from April 11 to May 20, 2011. The photographer followed the Pacific coastline of Aomori, Iwate and Miyagi prefectures, taking his path inland upon...
Bottrop-Ebel 76 is a re-reading of one of Michael Wolf's student project. In this body of work, the artist documented life in a small mining town in the Ruhr District, a region he new quite well for having lived some time there. This "early" series (he was 22 at the time) shades a different light on Michael Wolf's work, as we are mostly familiar with his...
45,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock. Tales from the City of Gold takes in a vast region near Johannesburg that brought the city its wealth : the "gold reef", where the largest mining companies dug gold for more than a hundred years. Jason Larkin details the broken and reconstructed topography, pictures the lost and forgotten landscapes (minus the areas used as dumps), the...
40,00 €In StockZine N° 11 - They (*w/ signed print*)
In this 11th number in the Zine Collection, called They, Xiao Zhang tells the story of the millions of Chinese uprooted from their hometowns to search for a job in a nearby industry or on the other side of the country. This series of portraits points the finger at a problem, an illness that is inherent to the economic development of China in the recent...
36,00 €Out of stockZine N° 9 - Zimbabwe (*w/ signed print*)
In this 9th number in the Zine Collection, called Zimbabwe, Robin Hammond shows us the terrible life conditions in this country, more than 30 years after Robert Mugabe reached power.The introduction by Wilf Mbanga explains the hope that Mugabe initially raised in 1980, and the suffering he since has imposed on his people, and the failure and imposture he...
36,00 €Out of stock.The very last copy!.Ce livre, dont le titre complet est The Sochi Project - An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus, est un travail documentaire de plusieurs années sur l'évolution de Sochi et sa région après l'obtention de l'organisation des Jeux Olympiques d'hiver de 2014 : les aspects sociaux, environnementaux, politiques sont présentés en texte...
75,00 €Out of stockMicronations est une galerie de portraits étonnants, qui racontent chacun un territoire, la passion d'un territoire... Présentation de l'éditeur :"Qui a déjà entendu parler de la République des Conques ? Du Royaume d’Elleore ? De la Principauté du Sealand? De la Couronne de Forvik? De l’Empire d’Atlantium? Ou du Consulat de la Boirie ?Qui sait qu’en 2010...
éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation...
.Currently out of stock.Full title : "éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation contemporaine d'un village français de deux mille huit cent trente neuf habitants - volume 3"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...
15,00 €Out of stockéléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation...
.Sold out.Titre complet : "éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation contemporaine d'un village français de deux mille huit cent trente neuf habitants - volume 2"L'artiste a photographié la ville où il réside, Noyers-sur-Cher, et publie en une série de 10 livrets ce travail documentaire qui se veut en quelque sorte être un exemple représentatif de la...
.Sold out.NB : Please note we are offering signed copies of the 2nd edition (see "Suggestions" tab)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...
.Sold out.Strangely familiar is the first publication of Peter Mitchell's celebrated work about his home city of Leeds that he photographed in his rounds as a driver in the 70's.A body of work that has been exhibited quite often - including in the famous "How We Are: Photographing Britain" at the Tate Britain in 2007 - but that never appeared in a book...
For Birds of the West Indies (a tribute name to the actual James Bond, the ornithologist), Taryn Simon has photographed everyone and everything that has made and still makes the world of the James Bond movie franchise in the manner of a biologist or an archivist. The catalogue of images alone is really interesting. But in these pictures of weird things,...
45,00 €In Stock"The Game Over series focuses on a public space where the invading decor, that of the famous Foire du Trône installed every spring on the edge of Paris, could play alone the main role.Pierre Hybre preferred to aim his camera directly at visitors of all ages wandering the aisles, in the middle of exuberant fairground attractions, the ambient hubbub and the...
25,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Please note that we are oofering the second edition of this book (Please see "Suggestions" tab).The Disappeared is a book about the blurring and dissolution of identity, both in the larger body of a population, and in the oblivion of time passing... But these vanishing images also reassemble into a collective memory, by leaving an unclear and...
