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Presentation by VOID: "After 7 issues and 28 artists published, Hunger comes to an end with its epilogue: a solo publication by Michael Ackerman. « Time, in its great disarray, is a specialty of Michael Ackerman. His work respects and destroys it. » -- Jem CohenHunger – Epilogue is the first Ackerman's publication since his acclaimed book Half Life...
55,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Artphilein Editions: " « Ce ne sont pas les ressemblances, mais les différences, qui se ressemblent. » -- Claude Lévi-Strauss, Le Totémisme aujourd’hui, 1962« Photography and drawing, architecture and sound, diagram and world: all of these differences serve to hold the images suspended on the threshold of uncertainty between true...
45,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Journal: "Go partying with Ingvar Kenne that has visited Bachelor & Spinster Balls across Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Northern Territory in Australia! In a letter to author Tim Winton, Ingvar Kenne writes: « The B&S Balls are uniquely Australian, but to me, at the bottom of it lies this universal thing. Youth taking...
42,00 €In StockPrésentation de Stanley / Barker: "Christopher Anderson began photographing New York City cops in the wake of 9/11, as the visual landscape of the city he called home began to change. Bomb blast barriers went up, cops carrying larger guns seemed to be everywhere, and whilst the increased presence of security was designed, in part, to make New Yorkers...
65,00 €In Stock.Currently out of stock. Presentation by Hannibal Publishing: "With Surf Tribe, photographer Stephan Vanfleteren shows that there is far more to surf culture than just sport and competition. Surfing is also about a deep admiration and respect for the ocean, as well as the feeling of insignificance when confronted with the forces of nature. Surfers use the...
65,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Editions Loco: [translation by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Mioveni is a city in Romania located between Bucarest and the Carpathian Mountains. After the fall of communism, the city was able to survive thanks to the automotive industry. All the inhabitants live today following the rhythm of the factory. Over a period of three years,...
25,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Presentation by Libraryman: "Page after page they undress. Their legs laying down gracefully on a bed, resting for eternity—so it seems. Others are standing up, can you feel the warmth coming out of their skin? It seems they are dancing together from scene to scene. Inviting you to join them. Their naked bodies find refuge between the paint...
Presentation by Kannibaal: " A unique overview of 150 years of Belgian photobook history « A gold mine doesn't have to be large, providing it's deep: Photobook Belge unearths the rich history of the Belgian photobook, until now terra incognita for many. These countless special editions deserve a place of honour in the international photobook landscape....
59,00 €In StockPresentation of an exhibition of the project at Salon Nikon, Tokyo (2008) : Text taken from the website Tokyo Art Beat "Goats are the spitting image of Okinawa. Although they have a mild temper and a fairly gentle personality, they are killed and eaten in the end for their fine flavor. The title of the exhibition is a sort of symbol for Okinawan history...
59,00 €In Stock.LAST COPY - Sealed in original publisher silk paper!. Presentation by Origini Edizioni: "Yu Chih Lin tells a story about individual people he met during three trips in China and Thailand. This photobook is like an ancient scrapbook, created by the traveller to keep in memory people and places: first of all the souls of them, but also their life, their...
90,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Dienacht Publishing: "The iconic Italian Vespa by Piaggio holds a special place in the hearts of Indonesian motorists. The earliest version that can be seen on the street dates back to the 1960s, when the Indonesian peacekeeping mission in Africa returned to the country and was awarded Vespa bikes by the government. In many cities across...
60,00 €In Stock.Back in stock. Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral: "This publication tells the story of young man, Daiki, whose life was entirely dedicated to his grandmother, Yukimi. Fascinated and deeply touched by this unique relationship, photographer Akihito Yoshida, cousin of Daiki and also grandchild of Yukimi, decides to narrate this story. He photographs...
42,00 €In StockExcerpt from the text included in the book: "From his home on the Hong Kong island of Cheung Chau, Michael Wolf photographed sunrises every morning between 5.30 and 7.30 am. Here, on the roof of this three-story house, the photographer meditates regularly during these early hours. This series grew into a conceptual work. At first glance, the spectacle...
38,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Presentation by Ugly Dog: " « The physical coastline becomes a metaphor for a ruptured piece of skin barely holding together a volatile state of being ready to explode. » The Coast opens with an absurd short story that leads into a sequence of images taken along the Indian coastline. While the photographs are made in real situations, the...
From the postface by Robin Titchener: "Manila-based photographer Brian Sergio’s photobook A Bastard Son collects his raw, energetic street and portrait photography shot in his home country, the Philippines. Concentrating on the excesses and perils of the younger generations, Sergio's signature black-and-white image editing adds an extra element of...
48,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Enitharmon Editions: "From the moment the Pennsylvania-born Duane Michals (born 1932) settled in Manhattan in 1956 the metropolitan environment in which he found himself exerted a powerful spell on his creative imagination. In 1964 he began to document New York City in a tantalisingly unfamiliar guise, virtually empty of inhabitants at...
36,00 €Out of stockAnd, Where Did the Peacocks Go?
.Sold out. Presentation by the(M) éditions: " « Right after the Fukushima nuclear plant accident, I found a blog about peacocks that were left in the evacuation zone, within the 20km limit. I started imagining those peacocks, walking around the empty town with their beautiful wings spread. The image I had in my mind seemed so far away from what was going...
Presentation by The Angry Bat: " « When I was 13 years and in 6th grade in pre-school, me and my classmates had this crazy way of entertain each other by performing a dance called Peace dance. The choreography was so simple that everyone could perform it: both hands expressing peace-symbols, waving them from up to down, side to side and at the end...
37,00 €In StockThe Pillar - 2nd edition (*signed*)
PLEASE NOTE: We are offering here copies of the second printing of this book (September 2020). Presentation by Nobody Books: " « The landscape that surrounds my home in Sweden can be misleading. The bird activity it contains is diluted by the vastness of the flat open land and sky, which gives the impression that very little is going on. In January 2015,...
65,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock. Presentation by Skinnerboox: "Hereafter is based on the story of the photographer's grandparents. For over thirty years John and Mary Phillips worked in the Sudan, Libya, Oman, Jordan and Cyprus. They witnessed the progressive decline of the British Empire, in which they had lived since childhood and which shaped their view of the world....
42,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Editions Imogène : "In looking back at 10 years of international reporting, William Daniels connects the fault lines of our planet and throws the transfixed reader into chaos. In botany, « wilting point » describes the threshold below which the humidity content in the ground does not allow a plant's survival. It withers, beofre dying if...
45,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Presentation by Jiazazhi: "10 Days in Kraków is presented in the form between a travelogue and a scrapbook. Although the book doesn’t have a content page, within the seemingly fragmented structure, three chapters unfold themselves – War, City, and Connection (from there to here / from I to you). The book consists of snapshots, diaries and...
Presentation by Imageless: "This photobook is the fifth monograph of Japanese photographer Koji Onaka, its first edition was published in 2003, and the current version is the third edition. Koji Onaka compares a boat's sailing to his way of life and photography, and this book of 84 black and white photographs recording his life and...
75,00 €Out of stockRivages (*signed / not signed*)
.PLEASE NOTE: Our last copies my have a couple spots very slightly rubbed on the cover, or a corner very slightly bumped (received as is from the distributor) - Inside Clean & Crisp. Presentation for the English version by Thames & Hudson: "The « edges » that Harry Gruyaert, a pre-eminent member of the Magnum photo agency, explores in this...
55,00 €Out of stockAu hasard des vents (*signed*)
Presentation by ediSens: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "It has been over 30 years since Pierre de Vallombreuse started bringing evidence of the life situation of the autochthonous people from around the world. From the most painful, genocides, wars, to the profound mutations imposed on them by the march of the rest of the world. Victories also,...
80,00 €In StockPresentation by Kehrer: "Representations of older transgender people are nearly absent from our culture and those that do exist are often one-dimensional. For over five years, photographer Jess T. Dugan and social worker Vanessa Fabbre traveled throughout the United States creating To Survive on this Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and...
58,00 €In StockI Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating...
Presentation by Mack: " Taking its name from a line in the Wallace Stevens' poem The Gray Room Alec Soth's latest book is a lyrical exploration of the limitations of photographic representation. While these large-format color photographs are made all over the world, they aren't about any particular place or population. By a process of intimate and often...
60,00 €In StockPresentation by Mack: "These photographs were made on long walks through the streets of African capitals, including Johannesburg, Durban, Maputo, Beira, Harare, Nairobi, Kigali, Kampala, Addis Ababa, Luanda, Libreville, Accra, Dakar and Dar es Salaam, and the series takes its title from the « Museum of the Revolution » in Maputo, Mozambique, which is...
35,00 €Out of stockEntre fleuve et rivière (*signed*)
Presentation by Filigranes: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "This book is born out of encounters, out of an interest for landscapes, and out of reciprocal curiosity. Beyond the dialogue between two photographers' approaches, Entre fleuve et rivière * is an inspiration, a will to explore a shared history. They are exchanged perspectives on the Pays...
35,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Presentation by VOID : [minor adaptations by L'Ascenseur Végétal] " MEAT consists of 28 signatures printed in 6 different printing techniques: Offset, Silkscreen, Letterpress, Photocopy, Digital printing, Risograph, using 8 different paper stocks. Each copy of MEAT has been painfully hand-bound by the VOID team. Hand-binding 250 copies of...
89,00 €Out of stockText from the first inside cover: "I do not remember the first time I saw the picture of The Three Graces by Rubens. What I do remember is that they seemed grotesque to me and did not resemble girls that idealized when I was a teenager full of hormones. Today with maturity I see a real portrait, a sincere vision of free women, voluptuous and powerful in...
30,00 €In StockPresentation by the(M) éditions : "In 2015, French artist Thomas Sauvin acquired an album produced in the early 1980s by an unknown Shanghai University photography student. The album comprises original negatives, silver prints, manuscript comments from an anonymous professor, and shows the student's diligence in mastering the rules applying to the...
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