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Publisher's presentation: "寓喩 « Gûyu » in Japanese, means « allegory ». For Maki, the figure of speech is a photographic category. At the core of his photography practice, lies the question of re-presentation, of the relationship to space... The involvement of known elements in new sets - or the opposite. During his travels in Japan of the past 15 years,...
36,00 €In Stock.Last copy. Presentation by the artist : "This book started with an artist residency in Mulhouse, in October 2015, as part of the Mulhouse Biennial of Photography 2016. It is now the intuitive and flooded river of my working process, with images from a variety of sources (and periods) : c-prints, collages, installations views, photocopies, pages from my...
50,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Anaesthesia is a lament of several voices, a symphony of the evil in us, cinematically edited screenshots from videos, an engagement with the media, an open criticism to war and terrorism, a declaration of neutrality, an act of rebellion to the ego, where one stands alone prevented to feel anything else beyond his own...
44,00 €Out of stock.Last copy. Publisher's presentation: "The photo book Suspension takes us inside a « Casa Famiglia », an institution where young immigrant boys are welcomed and nurtured. They arrive after long and harsh journeys, often taking years, fleeing from their conflicted and war-torn home countries. Violence tore up their families and roots, and having left all...
25,00 €Out of stockThe texts (articles & interviews) in this new magazine about photography are in French only. Halogénure Nb 01, the Content : - Cahier 01A (68 pages) : Éditorial, Portfolio & Entretien Gabrielle Duplantier, Portfolio "Unsung Song of a City" de Gilles Roudière, Portfolio "Trapped" de Stéphane Charpentier - Cahier 01B (32 pages) : Portfolio "F8...
25,00 €Out of stockText from the inside of the cover : "In the early 1970s, farmers, workers, and students united under the slogan « We will not surrender our land! ». This protest, known as the Narita or Sanrizuka Struggle, led to a series of fierce, bloody battles. A woman in peasant clothing covered all over with mud, in heavy rain, had tied herself to a thick post with...
55,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "In the work Muchismo, the photographer Cristina de Middel digs around in her studios and brings all of her images to light, exactly the way she has them stored, in colossal, gorgeous chaos, to show them in the exhibition of the same name to be held in June at the Teatro Fernán Gómez in Madrid. This is a sui generis display of...
35,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Reviens va-t’en (in English « come back go away ») is an intimate book made of 46 images of the same cat. Under an innocent approach, the book deals with the themes of death and passing. Through photography and layout, the souvenir of this now-dead cat is frozen in time and also slowly...
15,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "instants confondus is the testimony of one of Nolwenn Brod's first photographic works, where she evokes a blinding disappearance, that of her father.She looks soothingly at this suffering she shares with other children. Her images are simple, without artifice ...This book is also one of the last steps in her quest. A quest that...
28,00 €In StockExcerpt from the introduction by Andrea Díaz Mattei : "[…] As a kind of visual poetry (fixed and in motion) and with subtle reminiscences of refugees and displaced people around the world –and while questioning the viewer– Hamzehian and Mortarotti portray these inhabitants of the borders (and all their polysemic meanings) and in doing so place a current,...
30,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "For over thirty years, Patrick Zachmann has traveled across China, a country he discovered in 1982 while reporting on the Chinese film industry. From Hong Kong triads in the 1980’s to the mutation of the city of Beijing through Tiananmen Square protests, this book brings together around 350 B&W and colour...
Book published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery, New York in the spring 2014.182 pages - Softcover Karma, 2015 Format : 21 x 28 cm New - Mint condition
60,00 €In StockText from the next-to-last page : "This is not Helsinki, but Hellsinki. Discipline, order, accuracy. These three characters define the Finnish society pretty well. But, because this book has no vocation to be documentary, these features are replaced here by coldness, darkness and loneliness. My aim with the book is to give a portrait, from a subjective...
20,00 €Out of stockEverything you do is a Balloon
Publisher's presentation: "« The buzz of fatigue drones louder in your head. It fills your body, making it taut with tension. You sit in the dark for a couple of hours, draining the mundane memories of the week. You drink a beer. Your skin seeks release. Overtired, overstressed, overworked, undersexed: you burst like a balloon. The weekend has begun. » S....
32,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Mountains and Waters is a photographic study of China in diptychs, shot on the outskirts of Shanghai, Chongqing and Shenzhen in China. The works focus on contemporary Chinese matters such as construction, infrastructure and development, while simultaneously alluding to traditional Chinese painting styles."120 pages - Hardcover...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Ron Jude’s Vitreous China is comprised of an archive of photographs he made while exploring areas of light industry in (primarily) Midwestern American cities. Rather than comment on the workings of industry itself, Jude depicts the ambient peripheral zones suffusing these environments: big rig parking lots, side exits,...
The Eyes N°6 - spring-summer 2015 (100% English/French) For this issue, The Eyes has decided change tack. We have chosen to reflect on the notion of territory. Whether geographical, political, legal, cultural or mental, it is consistently subject to friction, even conflict. Think of the refugee crisis and the reaction it elicited: barriers being erected...
20,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Presentation on the artist's website : "By selecting details of naked bodies from photographs found in Thai hardcore magazines from the 70s, Tiane Doan na Champassak delivers an unexpected vision of pornography: invisible sexes and skillfully framed and enlarged, nearly rasterized details, compose images that verge on abstraction. The absence of...
.Back in stock.Presentation by Kehrer Verlag: "Christophe Gin spent five months exploring the landscapes of Guiana (in French Guyane), from border regions to the most remote Amerindian villages, where soldiers mingle with gold prospectors and exploited immigrant workers, and where local population is forced to integrate republican concepts. His...
49,00 €In StockPresentation by Yan Morvan : "Why and how to photograph the war?Willingness to inform, to participate in the movement of history? How to tell the unbelievable - the images of horror follow the images of horror. The spectacularization of the world through television, the press, the Internet and real-time information has undermined our capital of empathy...
69,00 €In Stock.Last copy - Sold out by the publisher. Publisher's presentation: Walter Pfeiffer's images are an anthem to youthfulness "Instinctive, spontaneous and unclassifiable, Walter Pfeiffer's images are an anthem to youthfulness, and not only that of the mind. This may explain why, in spite of a monopolizing international success, he accepted ECAL's invitation...
25,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "In 2015, Peter Bialobrzeski returned to his hometown, Wolfsburg, to document the changes the city has undergone since his leaving many years previous. « In the 80’s, I always felt that Wolfsburg was a socialist dream. It felt like everybody was participating. Now the picture has changed ». Wolfsburg Diary is the 3rd...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "In 2015, Peter Bialobrzeski returned to his hometown, Wolfsburg, to document the changes the city has undergone since his leaving many years previous. « In the 80’s, I always felt that Wolfsburg was a socialist dream. It felt like everybody was participating. Now the picture has changed ». Wolfsburg Diary is the 3rd...
Presentation on the artist's website: "I’m looking at old cosmetic bag to discover my mother's lipstick, eye shadows and blushes, which she used to enjoy when she was a little older than I’m today. I’m pulling out of the closet a suitcase with shoes to find a pair of her unprocurable Yugoslav sandals bought back in the 1980s. I’m turning over a pile of...
38,00 €In Stock"Then comes the tenderness that results from this astonished look. Where are you, then, when you walk with me in a city?"Rhythms", movement is the key to this journey.Movement of gazes on our walls, our grass, our materials, our windows, the lines of our streets, our life lines. But also on the top of our walls, imposing, striking, resonant, encircling...
35,00 €In StockA Field Guide to Snow and Ice (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation: "Includes 48 black and white and full color plates printed with UV inks on uncoated paper. Leporello binding with multiple panel widths and stiff front and back covers. Spine closure printed on synthetic paper with an essay by Mark Alice Durant. With the spine detached from the front cover, the book becomes an installation piece...
80,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "In Las Vegas, everything seems possible, indifference above all. « Insert Coins is a blues » in the words of the author. Its pace is melancholic and dark, intertwined with a poem that makes the unacceptable watchable, injecting humanity where the die is definitely cast. Christian Lutz shows a committed approach, he comments on a...
29,50 €Out of stockPresentation on Marie Mons' website: "I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time... For me, it was lying on my back watching falling stars... And yellow leaves, from the maple trees, that lined my street......
25,00 €In Stock.WARNING : We are offering only the French version of this book. An English version will be released by University of Texas Press, but - to our knowledge - it will not be available for distribution outside of the United States. Presentation on the French publisher's website lamaindonne: "Antebellum South: of this appellation which designates the Deep...
35,00 €In Stock.Temporarily out of stock.Presentation by the artist: "This was one of the strangest shooting I ever had. And when you see the images, and if you know my other zines, books and photos, you'll know why."50 numbered copies, we are offering No. 8 / 50.36 pages - Softcover Dienacht Publishing (50 copies) Format : 13 x 18 cm New - Mint condition
13,00 €Out of stock168 pages - Softcover w/ DJ Lodret Vandret, 2015 (200 copies) Format : 14 x 20 cm New - Mint conditionLodret Vandret's presentation: "What does it mean to live in a world where the digital screen is so prominent? Smoke Screen is a subjective exploration of the condition of digital screenship. It is a curious look at screen-empowered mediation and...
28,00 €In StockCarpoolers - 2nd edition (*signed*)
Carpoolers is a beautiful series of portraits or - as Marc McCann called them in his NY Times Lens blog piece - "still-lifes" of Mexican workers commuting in the back of trucks. Shooting his images from above, Alejandro Cartagena gets the full content of the truck without its environment (except for the road and the roof and hood of the trucks),...
75,00 €Out of stock
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