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Photobooks published by le bec en l'air
D'ici, ça ne paraît pas si loin
.Available. Presentation by Le bec en l'air : [all texts in the book in French only] " D'ici, ça ne paraît pas si loin is the story of a map of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, an administrative one, one that is essential. It is a map with hazy borders, which raises questions: is it a territory in its own right? Does it federate its inhabitants? It combines...
35,00 €In Stock.Signed copies now available.Publisher's presentation: [translated & adapted from the French text by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Denis Dailleux is famous for the unique and passionate portraitof Egypt he has been building for more than fifteen years. In a search for new creative spaces, he also visits Ghana regularly since 2009. The fishermen of the port...
42,00 €In StockMarseillais du Nord - Les Seigneurs de...
Publisher's presentation : [translated & adapted from the French text by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "In the early 90s, the French Ministry of Culture wishes to assess how France is living and commissions Raymond Depardon to travel the countryside. Four other photographers are in charge of the "banlieues sensibles", or the outskirts of the big cities, areas...
29,00 €In Stock.Back in stock.Publisher's presentation: [translation by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Separation between two seas, two countries, two continents, the strait is also a symbolic space acting as a link, invisible but powerful, between peoples and cultures. At a moment where Europe is reflecting on its borders, Sébastien Sindeu explores this in-between, from the...
30,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : [presentation not yet available in English, but the book is bilingual] "Depuis sa première édition en 2011, le festival Circulation(s) [website in English], initié par Fetart, est dédié à la jeune photographie européenne, avec pour ambition d’en faire émerger les talents, de fédérer un réseau d’acteurs européens et de permettre...
22,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "In January 2011, Egypt’s youth launched a revolt, unseating Hosni Moubarak from power after 30 years. Five years later came disaster. An omnipotent military State is once again in power and the repression of political opponents is murderous. The photographs of Pauline Beugnies, the cartoons of Ammar Abo Bakr, and the words of...
30,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Guy Le Querrec, a Magnum Photos photographer, has often reported from Africa. This book showcases his work among the Lobi, the legendary people of Ghana now based in Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast. His footage, combining abstraction, movement and humour, shows how the Lobi have managed to maintain their culture while accommodating...
28,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "On 9th July 1995, the Serbian army attacked Srebrenica's Muslim ghetto. Nearly 8,000 people were massacred in three days. Twenty years on, the city's history seems frozen in obscurity. A new generation, however, is travelling its ruins and learning as much as it can from its consequences. This series of photographs by Adrien...
19,00 €Out of stockAlgérie, clos comme on ferme un livre ?
Publisher's presentation : "Algeria, a finished story ? You can now travel in Algeria, and Bruno Boudjelal seizes on this new freedom to explore the country and its origins from east to west, in a gripping road movie that crosses paths with the ghost of Frantz Fanon as well as the young clandestine immigrants en route to Europe. A photographic narrative...
42,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : Belgium through the eye of a belgian photojournalist "Belgium, a cramped country born in 1830, is now at a turning point. A tipping point or a critical threshold? Having now moved past separatist ideologies and industrial restructuring plans, what does this society said to be used to compromise look like? A far cry from the...
38,00 €In StockPublisher'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 stockPubloisher's presentation : "La Photographie_Maison Blanche est un festival dédié à la photographie contemporaine créé à Marseille en 2010. Il décerne chaque année un Prix qui fait désormais l’objet d’une monographie. Lauréate 2014, Léa Habourdin, jeune photographe remarquée dans le paysage artistique, mêle pour ce livre deux séries d’images : The book of...
19,00 €In 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 StockSolovki, la bibliothèque perdue
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation : "The Solovki Islands in northwest Russia are known for their monastery, but also for having the first camp of what would become the Gulag. In this decor of extremes, the photographer Jean-Luc Bertini and writer Olivier Rolin have turned their attention to the camp library, now long gone. Their search constitutes a...
24,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Le bec en l'air: "Denis Dailleux, who lives in Cairo, never stops unveiling the Egyptian people since falling in love with them fifteen years ago. Mères et fils (or Mothers and Sons) is certainly his most personal and most unsettling series. With modesty and tact, he photographs the intimacy of families where the son's love for his mother...
25,00 €Out of stockPresentation 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...
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