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Share the pleasure of photography
Medium of expression, pleasure of reading, object of collection, the photo book or photobook is everything at once
Presentation by Poursuite: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " With this third volume The Atlas des Régions Naturelles Vol.3 (Atlas of Natural Regions Vol.3), Eric Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier follow on their long-term project initiated in 2017: documenting the 450 natural regions or 'lands' that compose the territory of France. An extraordinary photographic...
Présentation by GwinZegal: [translation by L'Ascenseur Végétal] " Eyes closed, she is looking at us. We are listening to her. The silence of Alexandra's images. Which words does she want to whisper to us, are they made of the same wind that blows over the landscapes? Of the same oxygen exhaled by the plants? Eyelids open or closed, these faces that we are...
Presentation by Sun/Sun: " A photographic journey to the limits of our perceptions, DYSNOMIA paints a world where the infinitely small is immensity, where forests are made of the same material as the stars and where fire dances with the shadows of men. Alexandre Dupeyron probes the secret substance of things, constantly moving and elusive, in order to...
Claudio Pogo's Guide (*signed*)
Presentation by PogoBooks: " This is Claudio Pogo's Guide to the world famous Guide by William Eggleston, originally published in 1976 by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. William Eggleston's Guide was the first book of color photography that the MoMA published and is considered as one of the most important American photobooks ever made. However the...
Presentation by Loose Joints: " The first full presentation of Bourouissa's important series revisits and contextualises the artist's theatrical images of marginalised lives in Paris' outskirts. In this breakthrough series of photographs, Deutsche Börse award-winner Mohamed Bourouissa chose to appropriate the codes of history painting by staging scenes...
.PLEASE NOTE: Book in French only. This book is a reflection by a group of visual artists in Bordeaux on their work, their profession, and their experience being part of a long-term residency in a large facility (La Fabrique Pola) hosting dozens of structures dedicated to arts and crafts and culture at large. Présentation de l'éditeur : " Au-delà de...
Presentation by Loose Joints: " Devastation in the Amazon rainforest and the climate change it triggers tend to unfold in ways that are too vast to comprehend, too minute to perceive, and too normalised to see. In an attempt to render the scale and urgency of the Amazon’s extensive, impending collapse, Richard Mosse’s most ambitious work to date employs a...
DRAINED (*signed / not signed*)
Presentation by Dewi Lewis Publishing: " The Fens, a region of reclaimed marshland in eastern England, is one of the richest arable areas in the UK. It is a landscape of agribusiness that Paul Hart has been photographing for over eight years. In his new book, DRAINED, he continues the exploration of this wide-open environment which he began with FARMED,...
Presentation by Poursuite: " The Atlas des Régions Naturelles Vol.2, as its name suggests, is the second of a series representing a singular photographic adventure, unique in terms of both its scope and its duration. Launched five years ago, its objective is to document, in equal measure, the 450 natural regions or ‘lands' constituting the territory of...
Michael Schmidt Photographs 1965-2014
.PLEASE NOTE: The double-spreads of the book visible here are of the French edition, but we are offering here only the ENGLISH / GERMAN VERSION of this photobook (sold out by the publisher). Presentation by Koenig Books: " This catalogue of the retrospective exhibition of the Berlin based photographer Michael Schmidt presents the development of the...
Presentation by Loose Joints: " An anthropological exploration of identity, transformation and coming-of-age amongst marginalised communities in the heart of the Amazon. Daniel Jack Lyons' debut monograph continues the American artist's long-term commitments to visualising the social and political rights of under-represented communities. Initially from a...
This photobook is the second in a series of books by Eamonn Doyle, centered on his favorite subject : portraits, moments, and details in the streets of Dublin, Ireland. In 2021, he publihsed ONE, which we are still offering through this link. TWO is an unbound large-format publication (30 x 45 cm), with a screen-printed cover that unfolds as a poster (90...
Les photos qu'elle ne montre à personne...
.This book is sold out by the publisher. Presentation by Editions Textuel & Rencontres d'Arles: " « A photographer without a camera » revealed to the general public during the 2022 Rencontres d'Arles festival. Whatever you do, don't tell Katrien de Blauwer that she makes collages: « Let's say I'm a photographer without a camera. For me, cutting is...
Presentation by Origini edizioni: " Before realizing Dede's geographical origin, her images had spoken to us, suggesting the title and conceptual apparatus they needed. We have seen the fulfillment of Anaximander's Ápeiron, of the indefinite infinity of a pre-mythical time, where everything is primordial matter and fluidity. A true expression of the...
Stop Tanks with Books (*1st edition*)
Presentation by Nazraeli: PLEASE NOTE: The text below and the images of the page spreads were taken from the Nazraeli website on the page presenting the second edition of this photobook (blue cover). " British artist Mark Neville moved home and studio from London to live in Kyiv, Ukraine, last year. With 100,000 Russian troops amassed on the Ukrainian...
This book received the PRIX NADAR 2022! Presentation by lamaindonne: [Translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " « Siempre que estemos vivos nos veremos » « As long as we are alive, we will see each other » It is the last thing Yair told me. We were on the azotea (roof) of block 11, the fog was engulfing Caracas, the crazy rumor of the city feeling like a dirge....
Presentation by Stanley / Barker: " A week before the global COVID-19 pandemic took hold in 2020 the Australian artist Trent Parke found himself on a whirlwind road trip across Northern India. The frenetic photographs in Parke's new book Cue the Sun were produced while travelling between Agra, Amritsar, Delhi, Dharamshala, Meerut and Mathura, from fast...
.Sold out. Presentation by studiofaganel: [Google translation from Italian] " Cartacei is the title of the artist book by Roberto Kusterle in which images derive and exist thanks to paper, including the human figures represented in them. The title Cartacei can be thought of as imaginary creatures of the artist's narrative with a clear reference to the...
Presentation by lamaindonne : [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " Georgia, is the name of the boat on which embarked in 1906 a certain Ljubiša Danilovic, a young Montenegrin of nineteen years of age, dreaming of a future full of promises. It is in Butte, a mining town in Montana, that he finally arrived, as many other Montenegrins or Italians at the...
Presentation by Jiazazhi: " In 2017, when we made photobook White Night for Feng Li for the first time, he brought plenty of photographs to our studio. We were immediately shocked by his color photos. As a result, the black-and-white photos were put aside at that time. But he told us that the black-and-white was the starting point of White Night. From...
Presentation by Stanley / Barker: " Mimi Plumb used to live on the edges of the city where the rents were cheap. Nearby, on the summit of the hill, were folded layers of radiolarian chert, the fossilized remains of microscopic creatures called radiolaria. A large crevice in the hillside was a reminder of the ever-present threat of an earthquake. Warm...
Presentation by MACK: " A project composed across several decades, Guido Guidi's Lunario takes the name of a traditional farmer's almanac to bring together several strands of work all relating to the moon. Distortion, experimentation and illusion inform Guidi’s earlier work of the late 1960s and early 1970s, further developed by the introduction of a...
Presentation by Nazraeli Press: " « I first met Mr. Ma in November 2016. Fifteen years prior, he had learned that a part of his beloved hometown of Fuzhou in Jiangxi Province would soon be immersed beneath the rising water of a newly built dam. Ming and Qing dynasty-era stone mansions and the thousand-year-old trees surrounding them would be submerged...
Presentation by GOST Books: " The photographs in Terre à l'Amende by Mark Power were made on Guernsey and show a side of the island far removed from traditional picturesque representations of blue skies and beaches. Territorially and politically, the Channel Islands—of which Guernsey is the second largest—are complicated and this is reflected in this...
Weathering Time (*1st printing*)
Presentation by GOST Books: " The uniform black and white self-portraits in this project record Floyd's body from head to toe, as well as her environment and sometimes family and friends. If she fails to take a picture, she advances the film in her camera, so a blank image is recorded, creating a visual calendar. For the first thirty-six years, Floyd used...
Presentation by Jordan, jordan Édition: " The Banda Journal / Jurnal Bunda highlights the legacy of centuries-long colonization and exploitation in the remote Indonesian Banda Islands. An archipelago comprised of twelve small islands surrounded by vast sea, Banda was the setting of some of the earliest European ventures in Asia and played a key role in...
Presentation by Stanley / Barker: " The photographs in Mark Steinmetz's expansive new book Rivers & Towns were made in the 1980s in working class towns and cities in Connecticut, USA. « The brooding factories and mills built alongside rivers had seen their heyday and were beginning to decline. I was moved by these places and wanted to describe the...
A Sensitive Education (*1st printing /...
Presentation by Départ Pour l'Image: " With A Sensitive Education, the photographer Francesca Todde explores, through the figure of bird educator Tristan Plot, the possibilities of empathy between different natural species. The narrative, far from being a naturalist documentation, is rather focused on the emotional sphere and sensitivity of birds and...
.Last signed copy available. Presentation by Mack Books: " Kawada's The Map / Chizu is the most famous and sought after book in the history of Japanese photography. Designed with the noted graphic designer Kohei Sugiura, Chizu has seen numerous editions since its original publication in August 1965 (Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, Tokyo). In November 2001, New York...
What She Said (*signed & tote bag / signed*)
Presentation by Mack Books: " « All I look forward to is the weekends, and sometimes they suck just as bad as the week does. God it's so god damn boring!! When I wake up in the morning I feel like I'm 99 years old!! I'm so tired and lazy and unhappy. I'm only 15 years old, what's wrong with me, why am I so UNhappy? This world is so fucked! People are so...
Presentation by The Gould Collection: " The selection of photographs by Jo Ractliffe in this volume were made between 1985 and 2019, and come from many places: South Africa, from the Great Karoo to Gauteng and Limpopo provinces to Zimbabwe in the north, and from the Western Cape, up the coast to Namibia and Angola. The dialogue between Ractliffe’s...
Presentation by Stanley / Barker: " « The week before Trula died, she began spending entire days reclined in her field. Her body would be so still we'd come up closer to be sure she hadn't left us. A slight movement of her head chasing a loose swallow, or a finger grazing a plucked blade of grass was enough. Tuesday night she had come into the kitchen...
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