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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.
.LAST copy of the two we stumbled upon recently in our stock: NEW, shrinkwrapped and in mint condition!. The images in this book are quite wild ! Russian youths: teenagers and misfits Igor Samolet takes us in the life of a group of young Russians, whose days and nights revolve around alcohol, acting nonsense and sex, adrift in some apparently derelict...
45,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.L'Asile des Photographies a reçu en novembre 2013 le prestigieux "Prix Nadar 2013".Publisher's presentation: "Le photographe Mathieu Pernot et l'historien Philippe Artières ont travaillé trois ans à l'hôpital psychiatrique de Picauville / Fondation Bon-Sauveur (Manche). Ce lieu de mémoire résume toute l'évolution de la psychiatrie depuis le XIXe...
Présentation de l'éditeur : "Claire Tenu a travaillé pendant deux ans à Cherbourg. La ville que nous voyons désigne non seulement cette ville en particulier, vue à travers le livre, mais aussi toute ville, dont la découverte renouvelle une expérience semblable de la vision. Dans cette expérience, l'espace concret se superpose à un espace imaginaire. Dans...
27,00 €In Stock.Very last copy !. DISKO is first and foremost a brilliant series of portraits of the Lithuanian youth in the rural discos; dancers, couples, music, transe, boredom, looks... But DISKO is also a trip in these places that can be labeled as "post-soviet", with somewhat outdated atmospheres, where these young people gather and mingle. As Andrew Miksys...
40,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Macquenoise is a strange journey in a Belgian village near the French border, in a family of a mother and her son, who live engrained in the earth they live on, in a peculiar relationship, and a rather heavey general atmosphere.The artist spent quite a long time in this family of two, and brings back from this unusual immersion a story that is...
.One copy only. ...and we are still offering the Limited Edition w/ Print (see "Suggestions" tab) Away From Home is a portrait - in a honest and warm-hearted manner - of the sometimes harsh reality of the Turkish Eastern immigration in the city of Istanbul.Kursad Bayhan, in dense and grainy black & white images builds a sombre yet lively atmosphere....
69,00 €Out of stockThe End of La Belle Epoque (*signed*)
The photographs included in this book The End of La Belle Epoque are from another time, that of the USSR, of Communism, before the fall of the wall. Misha Pedan's work presented here was made between 1986 and 1989, at a time when the Communist regims seemed to have already loosened their grip; his images show clothes, behaviours, and a street life that...
95,00 €Out of stockTransition, paysages d'une société
From the Publisher: Transition presents the collaborative photography project of twelve South African and French photographers on South African land and the role that photography continues to play in the representation and re-imagining of land.The Social Landscape project cites the work of six South African photographers: Pieter Hugo, Santu Mofokeng,...
39,00 €Out of stockSworn Virgins is a series of portraits of women from Northern Albania who vowed to remain virgins their whole life, in order to be allowed - following ancient rules of their community - to assume the role of patriarch of this community, becoming in the process "men-women". The respect these women are shown within their communities is really clear in Pepa...
50,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Veins brings close together two artists, Anders Petersen and Jacob Aue Sobol, who make photographs that share similarities. First, one of the main subject of their work could be considered the same : an interest and an attraction for people living on the edge of society. Then, both artists approach the subject, the people, the characters by...
Yan Morvan est un reporter de guerre qui a couvert de nombreux conflits. Depuis près de 30 ans, lors de ses périodes en France, il documente les bandes, les gangs, les groupuscules français de tous bords et de toutes régions.Gangs Story est donc une plongée dans le monde de ces jeunesses endoctrinées, de ces personnages souvent engagés aux extrêmes...
49,00 €Out of stockChen Jiagang is an architect; after being involved in the creation of the Chinese cities of the XXIst century, he decided to part from the world of real estate in 2001, disgusted by corruption and the construction workers' labor conditions. Close to the art circles, founder of an art gallery, he turned to photography. His former profession remained at the...
75,00 €Out of stock96 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Kominek Books, 2013 *Signed* New - Mint conditionFirst Journey Home is the result of Misha Kominek's travels throughout Poland, made in 1997 after his graduation from university; his first trip alone to his homeland, after leaving it with his family for Germany when he was twelve. Misha Kominek shoots a galery of portraits...
38,00 €In StockA Period of juvenile Prosperity
.Back in stock. Certainly one of the most talked-about photobooks of 2013, that was shortlisted for the "Paris Photo / Aperture Award" for first photobook. We offer here a later printing of this great book, the first one having been sold out in a few weeks in May 2013. A Period of Juvenile Prosperity is a dazzling journey with a group of young renegades...
75,00 €In StockOvernight Generation (*signed*)
Overnight Generation by Italo Morales is a journey among the young adults of Sarajevo, the ones who were born in former Yugoslavia, lived through the tragedy of the war, grew up in the rumbles and resentment, and are now trying to find their place in a society that is definitely looking West but is still fighting with inter-community, interpersonal and...
.Sold out.Little collection of four newsprint booklets showing the works of 4 young photographers form the Magnum Photos Agency : - Olivia Arthur : Jeddah Nights - Dominic Nahr : Cairo Uprising - Moises Saman : Qaddafi's Last Stand - Peter Van Agtmael : Disco Night Sept 114 booklets of 24 pages each in a printed soft-cardboard sleeve Fishbar, 2012 New...
.Last 2 copies.February 2014 : Karczeby has been announced "Best Photography Book" of 2013 by Picture of The Year International !Karczeby is a book about the soil, the ground of Poland, about a peasant's life; a life, a world that seems to remain frozen in the 1950s or the 1960s.The word Karczeby - that means "stump" – designates people who are rooted to...
72,00 €Out of stock.Last 2 copies.The Pigs est un pamphlet moderne, en images... Ce petit livre ironique et presque militant copie la maquette de "The Economist", la Bible du monde financier (format, papier, lettrage, mise en page), car c'est bien ce monde-là que Carlos Spottorno souhaite mettre à l'index. "PIGS" est un acronyme qui désigne quatre pays du sud de l'Europe...
29,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock. Presentation by Dewi Lewis: "Recognised as one of the UK's most important photographers of the last forty years, Brian Griffin grew up near Birmingham amongst the factories of the Black Country. His parents were factory workers and from birth Griffin seemed set to follow in their footsteps. And so, on leaving school at the age 16, he began...
42,00 €Out of stockSometimes I cannot smile (*signed &...
.Sold out.Sometimes I cannot smile est issu du projet "Arctic Spleen" du photographe Piergiorgio Casotti. Ce recueil est un long et profond voyage au sein des communautés du Groënland, où le taux de suicide parmi les jeunes est un des plus élevés au monde. Ce récit en noir et blanc, dans des tonalités douces, nous emmène dans le quotidien des habitants,...
Sometimes I cannot smile (*signed*)
.Last copy!. From the Artist Part of "Arctic Spleen project", Sometimes I cannot smile is a personal, intimate journey inside the Greenlandic juvenile world where nature, violence, boredom and a strong cultural legacy have been claiming for decades the highest and saddest "toll". That of hundreds of young lives. Sometimes I cannot smile est issu du projet...
37,00 €Out of stock.PLEASE NOTE: All texts in French only in this book. Photographe et vidéaste, Édith Roux nous présente dans Les dépossédés un travail sur la communauté Ouïghour, minorité ethnique turcophone et musulmane du Xinjiang, dans la partie nord-ouest de la Chine. De nombreux travaux liés à l'exploitation des ressources naturelles de cette région, associés à la...
40,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock - French and English versions.Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral: "At the end of the year 1975, Jane Evelyn Atwood, who had recently moved to Paris, produced her first photo report in black and white, with a simple, effective and sensitive style. By meeting a prostitute on Rue des Lombards, she discovered a world in which everything...
46,00 €Out of stockMeat America by Dominic Episcopo could easily pass for a "gimmick", on the very "carnal" relation between the United States, the Americans, their culture and the good steack. Meat America is a funny and inventive book, sometimes provocative; a humorous book, and a lot more too! Through images of steak or beef ribs chosen and cut to represent American...
42,00 €Out of stockFabrik - A Photo Epos of Technology
Presentation by Steidl: "Jakob Tuggener’s Fabrik, published in Zurich in 1943, is considered to be a milestone in the history of photography books. The series of 72 photographs in this Photo Epos of Technology is oriented toward the expressionist aesthetic of the silent movie. It imparts a sceptical view of the destructive potential of unbridled...
49,00 €Out of stockDans ce livre hommage aux déportés, Michael Kenna a voulu nous faire rentrer dans les bâtiments des camps et nous montre les tours, les murs, les cheminées, les couloirs, des objets. C'est suite à un premier voyage à Natzweiler en 1986 lors d'un voyage en France que naquit ce besoin de documenter à sa façon les camps, dans un travail qu'il n'avait pas eu...
42,00 €Out of stockHouse Hunting (*signed 2nd printing*)
.Copy sold.PLEASE NOTE: We are offering HERE copies of the third edition of this photobook, published by Nazraeli in 2019.Todd Hido's first book, offered here in the second printing from 2007. The copy offered unfortunately presents a small bump to the lower end of the back / binding (see Photos). Perfect condition otherwise. Signed by Todd Hido.NB : The...
.Last copy (with imperfection).Publisher's presentation:"The most recent publication from the award-winning photographer Pieter Hugo reveals the devastating consequences of toxic waste on one community in Africa.In his previous well–received volumes of photographs, Hugo offers unflinching yet striking portraits of humans, animals, societies, and...
40,00 €Out of stockRedheaded Peckerwood (*1st edition*)
.Only one copy.Publisher's presentation of Christian Patterson's photobook: “Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land”Luc Sante Redheaded Peckerwood is a work with a tragic underlying narrative – the story of 19...
295,00 €In StockLet's Sit Down Before We Go (*signed*)
.Copy sold. Publisher's presentation: "I have to like the people I photograph. I need to feel an attraction, a fascination." -- Bertien van Manen "Buried deep in Bertien van Manen's images is an intimacy between photographer and subject. The viewer trespasses on the private moments in the frame, catching a glare over breakfast, unheard words between...
