Presentation of Guillaume Bonnel's photobook by the publisher ARP2 : "Far from being merely retrospective or confined to the pilgrimage, the author's approach invites us to reflect on the action of man on nature by giving us to see a real landscape of the Anthropocene. The purpose of the term is to consider the human species as a full-fledged geological...
Au Plan K - Joy Divison & Post-Punk
Publisher's presentation: "New York had CBGB, Paris had Les Bains Douches, Amsterdam had the Paradiso, Manchester had its Hacienda… From 1979 to 1986 the Belgian capitol Brussels had Plan K, a wondrous “counter-cultural centre” housed in a former sugar refinery. The list of headline attractions at Plan K reads like a who’s who of post-punk. Joy Division,...
.Very limited number of signed copies available.Presentation on the artist's website: "Marie Mons spent three months in winter in a small village in the fjords of eastern Iceland where she became Aurore Colbert. Speaking of winter and its polar nights, the rhythm it induces through a great shamanic ritual, she embodies her character, always leaving the...
Publisher's presentation: "The project for this book has a programmatic quality, like a prefiguration of future works. Perhaps it also works like a mirror—like an optical machine in any case—that brings together distant things, various times, experiences, places, and forms (drawings, photos, writing, etc.), and that’s exactly what Michel Couturier set out...
.Currently out of stock.From the back cover: "This work is the first ever monograph of Gilbert Fastenaekens and retraces his career since the early 1980s. It explores his main photographis series (Nocture, Essai pour une archéologie imaginaire, Site, Noce, etc.), complemented by many previously unpublished images, which all have the same relationship with...
.Currently out of stock. Publisher's presentation: away from the familiar pictures of Japan "I know nothing about Japan. Even though, like everyone else, I have seen the familiar images of some exotic distant land, subjected to the avalanche of photos that make their way to us—almost through us—, and which are entirely a product of our Western culture....
Excerpt from the presentation by Arno Rafael Minkkinen : "Pierre Radisic works out of the limitations of a singular subject – the seascape – and it’s meager components: sand, wooden fences, painted pipes, concrete blocks, the dark blue distant sea, and those impenetrable thick blue skies. « Out of limited means, new forms emerge » George Braque wrote....
Publisher's presentation of the photobook: "As an assembly of archival images and new images, the author realizes with Gravity a photographic poem, a tribute to the first space missions, a narrative fiction inspired by real events. (...) However, Michel Mazzoni's photography is not motivated by nostalgia. Gravity primarily addresses our relationship with...
IN / OUT Mission Photographique
Publisher's presentation : "The photographs relate to the principal site projects that were established as part of the selection of the City of Mons as a European Capital of Culture 2015. The photographs presented in this book have been carefully selected from a corpus of images that were created as part of a joint public project run by the Fondation...
Publisher's presentation: "Meshes, curtains of twigs, thickets and foliage, doors and screens, hair: the frontal views always find an obstacle in their path which constrains our vision from penetrating any deeper and completing the perspective geometry. Sometimes we have to give up. This frustration is in reality an incitement to pursue the journey, to...