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Artist statement : "Cabanagem is the first chapter in a long-term project of André Penteado called Trails, Traces and Remains, which aims to investigate events of the Brazilin history and their long-term impact on the national psyche by photographing the places where these facts have happened. Trails, Traces and Remains is not a documentary project but...
40,00 €In Stock.Currently unavailable.Presentation on the distributor's website: "Just after his first photobook Skyfish was published, the Great East Japan earthquake hit on March 11th, 2011. The official report confirmed over 15,000 deaths, and the damages and losses were unimaginable. Takahashi felt helpless, his camera and photography were utterly useless in front...
49,00 €Out of stock.LAST COPY, with the ORANGE cover.Presentation on Helge Skodvin's website : "More than any other car, the Volvo 240 became a symbol of Scandinavian and Nordic values. The safe, the sound, the commonplace. Square and homely, yet solid and reliable. Function over form. No frills. Taking you from A to Z. A car. An ambassador for the Scandinavian social...
55,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "Hanezawa Garden is an illicit trail through a walled garden in Tokyo, between thick foliage, slender bamboo and semi-inhabited outhouses, their plastic roofs heavy with leaves, as if reclaimed by the jealous trees. The protagonist, like a detective, catalogues the garden obsessively, registering strange and peripheral details:...
60,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Presentation on the website L'Oeil de la Photographie : "Sharkification is about the « favelas » and the Brazilian government's strategy to attempt to control them during the soccer World Cup by involving armed units. It created a militarisation of the communities, where suddenly everybody becomes a suspect. The shark metaphor aims to explain...
Presentation on the "Archive of Modern Conflict" website, sponsor of the project : "In 1911 an Arctic expedition set sail to rediscover the island of Jan Mayen, which lay off the eastern coast of Greenland. Not all went according to plan, however, and the end result was a series of staged images produced on the shores of Iceland. Using the original...
34,00 €In StockFukushima, Fragments (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation : "March 11th, 2011. Following the earthquake that rocks the Pacific Coast of Tohoku, 30-meter waves devastate Japan's inner lands. Carrying along his Geiger counter, Kosuke Okahara walked through these wounded areas. His images allow us to enter a world crowded with ghosts, and to grasp a reality that lost its colors."Bilingual...
50,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock!.Publisher's presentation: "Sentimental Journey Continued is a book of photographs self-published by Nobuyoshi Araki in 1971 in a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Printed on the cover and spine is « 荒木経惟写真集２[Nobuyoshi Araki Photobook 2] » as it was his second self-published photography book excluding the rarely-seen, self-published Xerox...
45,00 €Out of stockPresentation by the artist Seiji Kurata on the publisher's website: "These photographs were taken during the years between 1998 and 2008 using six cameras made by four different manufacturers and films in four different formats. Zokei [created landscape], the title of this book, is derived from « paysagement » a notion presented by a French geographer in...
35,00 €In Stock.Currently out of stock. Presentation by the artist on the publisher's website: "I took these photographs around 1963 and 1964 at Nagisa Hotel in Zushi, Nagisa Hotel in Shinagawa, and Chigasaki Beach. The subject was my girlfriend, her initials Y.O. Back then I worked at a design firm in Ginza, Tokyo, and I photographed them in seven or eight sessions we...
38,00 €Out of stockPueblos sin retrato (*signed*)
Presentation on François Mouriès' website: "The vast and arid deserts of the southern province of Spanish Navarre, selected by Terry Gillian for his disastrous « Don Quixote », seem to have rubbed off on a handful of villages that border it. The landmarks there are distorted. No noticeable features mark the silent streets where shuttered houses are...
45,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: an exhibition catalogue in reference to Walt Whitman "Alec Soth’s reputation as one of the leading lights of contemporary photographic practice is largely predicated on the books he has published. This unusual catalogue accompanies a touring exhibition which uses the four major bodies of work which Soth has published as...
Publisher's presentation : "The sordid, artificial purgatory, the round of hungering, bruised flesh, the desperate and depraved promiscuity reigning over these empty nights, clusters of violent and violated intimacy multiplied over and over again… Bruised in body and soul, they live in the claustrophobic basements of derelict shopping centres. In the...
295,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "The thing is, we are controlled by a compulsion to get rid of dust. DUST, we believe, does not agree with us, because it conceals everything we create. DUST is the devil’s trap, revealed only once it has caught its prey. Haven’t we been forever treading all evil into the dust? Was the snake not cursed to grovel in the dust?...
48,00 €Out of stockUntil Death Do Us Part - 1st ed. (*signed*)
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation : "Until Death Do Us Part focuses on the unexpected role cigarettes play in Chinese weddings. As a token of appreciation, it is customary for the bride to light a cigarette for each and every man invited. The bride and the groom are then invited to play some cigarette-smoking games of an unprecedented ingenuousness....
Presentation on Jacek Fota's website : "The Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw – less and less a symbol of Stalinist domination, more and more an icon of the city. It evokes strong emotions all the while remaining largely unexplored, and as such a tad alien. At the time of planning, in 1952, the monumental structure was intended to transform the...
50,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "As an extension of the exhibition Anticorps Antoine d’Agata held at Le BAL (January-March 2013), the coordinators of Actes, une présence politique, in collaboration with the photographer, wanted to continue to assert the political dimension – too rarely taken into consideration – the photographic Antoine d’Agata work has, by...
45,00 €Out of stockPrésentation sur le site de l'artiste : "« The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance » said ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. The inward space is the basis for ZONA. Can we visualize the invisible?ZONA emerged directly from faded memories and notes from a dream-diary. It’s a visual exploration on...
30,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "Working within the parameters of his established technique, Thomas Demand created carefully formed paper and card sculptures, a parallel world which is photographed and then destroyed. The Dailies offers only traces – signs of consumption, or the spectres of things left behind. His creations are based on things he saw and...
36,00 €Out of stockPresentation on the artist's website : "All over the world, we see the spontaneous rise of so-called « arrival communities ». Here, migrants find all they need to take their first steps in the new world they arrived in: networks of compatriots, (relatively) cheap housing & (mostly) informal labour. The book Halfway Home is a visual research on the...
34,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "春爛漫 Haru Ranman, in Japanese, means « Spring in full bloom ». But there are two sides to every story. What happens in Tokyo in Spring? Underground is still where the ant farm is, a giant hub where everybody transits. Above the ground, the melody is different – and in the coming night, screens and fantasies mix to build a...
39,00 €In StockPresentation on the artist's website: "A middle-sized city in the center of Poland, halfway between the mountains and the Baltic Sea. Neither rich, nor really poor, with a typical history of a region’s industrial capital which blossomed in the time of state socialism and lost that position after 1989. Such places evolve in a very special way. With...
30,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "The images in AiTHŌ were made in 2014 at Villa Don Arcangelo all’Olmo (territorio di Carruba di Riposto), on the slope of the Etna."Texts by Leopoldo Maria Panero & José Águedo Olivares.104 pages - Hardcover André Frère Editions, 2015 (300 copies) *Signed* New - Mit condition
85,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "It looks as if the body extends its functionality and physicality beyond the subject. As if the only way to feel the world is by applying the humane affects to every visible structure. So that every liquid is seen as if it comes from body, every crack - as if it is a scar…Here Nausea as an idea of corporal experience which...
24,00 €Out of stockNow I wanna be your dog ! (*signed*)
.Back in stock.Presentation by Média Immédiat: "In the beginning of the 90's Morten Andersen was student at the ICP (International Center of Photography) in New York together with his friend Antoine D'Agata. The photographer exhumed for this mini book the portraits he made of Antoine during their student years in the Big Apple. Unpublished to date, these...
15,00 €In StockLetzte Generation Ost (*w/ signed print*)
Presentation by the artist : "The narrative book Letzte Generation Ost deals with various lifes of a generation who were born in the final years of the GDR. Central place in the photographic exploration of the different biographies was the housing area in Hagenow in east Germany where the photographer and their protagonists were growing up together. Their...
75,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "« When it is all over, a few of the wrecked buildings might well be left as permanent ruins… To posterity they will as effectually represent the dissolution of our pre-war civilisation as Fountains Abbey does the dissolution of the monasteries. » From the preface to The Architecture of Destruction, by John Piper...
56,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "Laurent Chardon's Dédale includes various series of photographs taken during the years 2003 to 2013 and documents a Paris and its surroundings in transformation. If as indicated by the legend, Daedalus is the inventor of architecture and sculpture, the new Paris area that draws us here makes no longer any distinction between...
30,00 €Out of stockPresentation on the artist's website: "Devotos, Toni Amengual's second self-published book, aims to portray the Spanish democratic system. Forty photographs divided in two blocks (left and right) are displayed opposed due to the leporello binding of the publication. Forty photographs that show the faces, the bodies and the emotions of those who around May...
45,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "Made over a four year period defined by economic uncertainty, increased worker insecurity and the decline of traditional work practices, Union responds to how the institutions of organised labor, designed to protect workers from exploitation in the nineteenth century, have responded to the crisis of today. Bowler's photographs...
48,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "This book is a trip! I never thought that I would publish another book with pictures from India. Until Pierre Defaix showed up with his photos from Kolkata. So strong. Took 5 minutes and it was clear, that this must become a Peperoni Book. Now it's done and it's damn good. Let's don't talk about when and how Pierre did it, let`s...
45,00 €Out of stockKristall ohne Liebe (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation : "Kristall ohne Liebe (literally translated « Crystal without Love ») is a visual journey into a mystic parallel world. Seen through self-built lenses, prisms and crystals, the photo series captures a psychedelic universe full of contrasts: colourful images, black and white photography, life, death, beauty and ugliness collide....
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