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.Last copies - White and Blue covers only. Presentation by Editions du LIC: "In Sunless by Tiane Doan na Champassak, beauty is pursued across the disintegrating boundaries between male and female. The images in Sunless, taken in Thailand between 2012 and 2013, form the second part of a larger body of work-in-progress, born out of a persistent urge to...
75,00 €In StockGomma Books' presentation : "1975. Okinawa, Japan. The Vietnam War has just ended.Koza City is where the Kadena U.S. Air Force base is located.The B-52s that attacked North Vietnam took off from here. With the end of the war the city becomes the epicenter of a celebrative rush that lasts for a few years.The city experiences a momentary crazed and raucous...
49,00 €Out of stock.Last TWO copies!. Publisher's presentation: "John Gossage made the images in Nothing during a month-long visit to The Kingdom in 1985 when he was the guest of a Saudi prince. Describing Nothing, Gossage said, «You can sometimes go so far from home, and what you know, that your pictures have to teach you what they are about. In this case that process took...
85,00 €Out of stockIn the Shadow of the Pyramids (*signed*)
.Sold out. Presentation by the artist: "In the Shadow of the Pyramids by Laura El-Tantawy is a first person account exploring memory and identity. With images spanning 2005 to 2014, what began as a look in the mirror to understand the essence of Egyptian identity expanded into an exploration of the trials and tribulations of a turbulent nation. The result...
Publisher's presentation: "Dodo is the catalogue of an exhibition of the same name by artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin. The exhibition originated with the discovery of unreleased material from the motion picture Catch-22 (1970) in the storerooms of Paramount Picture. Filmed on a coastline in Mexico, which more closely resembled the Sicily of...
42,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "El Jebha (El Frente en espagnol) is a small coastal town in the foothills of the Rif Mountains of northern Morocco. Known as Puerto Capaz during the Spanish Protectorate, El Jebha is and was a privileged witness to the recent history of co-existence between Spain and Morocco. «The photographs are not the final goal of our work...
25,00 €In StockAbove and Below (*w/ signed print*)
Excerpts from the text included in the book : "Above and Below is a reference to the title of a work by Mark Lewis which he made in Sao Paolo in 2014: Above and Below the Minhocão. The film was shot in the city centre and its subject is an elevated motorway that crosses the city. The motorway, nowadays, is closed to traffic on weekday evenings and all day...
52,00 €In StockPresentation by Ediciones Anómalas: "The Bonavista quarter is a complex and heterogeneous territory whose origin lies in rural emigration from Andalusia and Extremadura. Located on the outskirts of Tarragona, where the city converges with the countryside, the infrastructures and the petrochemical industry, it shares the complex chaotic look of similar...
27,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "One of the greatest acts of trust a man displays is with his barber. It’s a relationship that goes beyond that of patient/doctor even. A bad haircut is soul-destroying - when you find the one who shears you right there is no other. Every Street by Nik Hartley was photographed over three days in March 2014, in Nelson, North-East...
30,00 €In Stock.Sold out.This limited edition, offered in 3 different versions (TypeA and TypeB, plus an already sold out Special Edition), is the outcome of the latest of Daido Moriyama's "printing show". We are offering here the "red" version a room_TypeB; you will find the "blue" version a room_TypeA through the "Suggestions" tab. 44 pages - Softcover Akio Nagasawa,...
.Sold out.This limited edition, offered in 3 different versions (TypeA and TypeB, plus an already sold out Special Edition), is the outcome of the latest of Daido Moriyama's "printing show". We are offering here the "blue" version a room_TypeA; you will find the "red" version a room_TypeB through the "Suggestions" tab. 44 pages - Softcover Akio Nagasawa,...
80,00 €Out of stockExcerpt from a presentation of this work on the Stead Bureau Blog: "Like all major religions, Islam seeks to regulate sexual relationships between members of their society through moral codes. According to the Quran, any form of sexual behavior is forbidden before or outside of marriage. However, that doesn’t prevent muslims meeting in...
50,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: " Aomori scenes, etched to compelling effect on the frame. The work of photographer Ichiro Kojima (1924–1964), who was born in Aomori and spent his career photographing the natural features of the region and the traditions of its people, still harbors a soul-stirring power. During his short life of only thirty-nine...
120,00 €Out of stockPubisher's presentation: "Dana Stölzgen has made a tremendously tender book. Time seems to stand still in the landscape shots, close ups and interiors exactly as in the portraits of young girls, adult and old women. But actually time expands. Into the past and into the future. In perfect moments the old feel the same way as they were young again and the...
36,00 €In Stock.Back in stock.Presentation by Peperoni: "This book has been published before as part of the two-book set Hong Kong Inside Outside, which is completely sold out. Now Architecture of Density comes in a new edition as a stand alone book. Focused on the specific visual elements Michael Wolf has depicted high density living in one of the world’s most crowded...
36,00 €Out of stockAnticyclone (*signed w/ Print*)
Presentation on the artist's website: "During 5 years, between 2009 and 2013, Sandra Rocha went back to Terceira Island, place where she lived until she turned 20, to visit and photograph her family. Anticyclone, edited by André Principe and José Pedro Cortes, both photographers and editors from Pierre Von Kleist, it’s a study about the island and also...
35,00 €Out of stock.Currently out of stock. Presentation by Juan Aballe: "Produced between 2011 and 2013 in Iberian Peninsula, this book deals with my relationship with the rural environment and the emotions brought about by the possibility of taking the big step of leaving the city and living closer to nature. Country Fictions also reflects on the photographic language...
27,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "You Won’t Be With Me Tomorrow is a sequel to the narrative Harvey Benge developed in his 2013 book, Some Things You Should Have Told Me. Both deal with the pain of relationship, the seeming inevitability of separation and the mistrust that is its consequence. Women drift, lost and hostile, throughout the pages – they’re masked...
32,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "With over 200 images of t-shirt ‘messages’, T: A Typology of T-shirts looks at those individuals who stand out in a crowd through their choice of the message on their back. These photographs are not just about the T-shirt. With their combination of pictures and words these messages reveal much about the identity of the wearer....
34,00 €In StockFull title : The Black Photo Album / Look at Me: 1890–1950Publisher's presentation: "For this book Santu Mofokeng collected private photographs which urban black working and middle-class families in South Africa commissioned between 1890 and 1950, a time when the government was creating policies towards those designated as «natives». Painterly in style,...
34,00 €Out of stockGround is a reference to the floors of the concert halls and clubs where Yusuke Yamatani spent a lot of time as a teenager and many years after that. These floors are strange surfaces covered in footsteps, alcohol spills, dirt, sweat and many other things mixed... These abstract motifs are inserted in the narration among th portraits of people met during...
30,00 €Out of stock.Copy sold.Excerpt from a text by T.J. Proechel for Ahorn Magazine : "Paul Graham’s work can hardly be connected by a single theme. [It] is somewhat elusive, often using the conventions of documentary to explore the hidden reality beyond the visible surface. Throughout his projects he attempts to establish an alternative iconography, to explore what is...
.Copy sold.From the back cover : "Beyond Caring is a searing indictment of the conditions in social security and unemployment benefit offices across Britain. Throughout 1984 and 1985 photographer Paul Graham visited the waiting rooms, corridors and cubicles of the Department of Health and Social Security and the Department of Employment, to document the...
Looking for M. (*signed w/ Print*)
Presentation of the project by the artist (full text in the "More Info" tab) : " (...) In 1997, I visited the Museu da Revolução in Maputo. As a history student, the exhibitions depicting the struggle for independence were enormously fascinating. An old warrior, dressed in rags, worked as attendant and led me around as the sole visitor of this deplorably...
35,00 €In Stock.Last copy!.Introduction to the project on the Kickstarter crowdfunding page : "In 2008 I returned to London having spent the last nine years living and working in Eastern Europe and Turkey and was surprised by the speed of change that had taken place. I wanted to document the city, its movements and migrations, its landscape and architecture, its...
60,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Yusuf Sevincli is not seeking unilateral consent or the approval of an audience. He is merely photographing his environment, his daily fears and questions, and sees in Photography the means to stay connected to the things and beings, a response - his response - to the environment that surrounds him and the movements...
.Currently out of stock.A really beautiful book, dark and mysterious, that takes us to the places and landscapes, to the waters where the Japanese pilots of the "Kaiten" suicide torpedos were training at the end of the Pacific War. Pilots who were ready to give their lives by guiding these "human" torpedos right into the enemy warships.... Hitoshi Uemoto...
45,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "A Story of Bears explores personal stories about teddy bears and other stuffed animal toys that become lifelong companions and hold a special place in the lives of their owners. Sylvie Huet rediscovered her own childhood teddy at the age of 49 in a fleamarket. Until then he had lived only as a memory and in family photographs....
24,00 €In StockPresentation by Steidl: "For a decade, Ken Schles watched the passing of time from his Lower East Side neighbourhood. His camera fixed the instances of his observations, and these moments became the foundation of his invisible city. Friends and architecture come under the scrutiny of his lens and, when sorted and viewed in the pages of this book, a...
34,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "In the 70s and 80s, the Tabernas desert near Almeria in Southern Spain became the Hollywood of Westerns. It was here that legendary filmmaker Sergio Leone made movies like Once Upon a Time in the West, For a Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, making the desert of Tabernas, with its...
33,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Hide and seek / Al Escondite is the second installment in Cristóbal Hara’s collection The trivial essays. The language of photography, especially that which aims to be documentary photography, is subject to a multitude of rules and conventions. Cristóbal Hara’s work is devoted to the search for ways to escape those conventions....
18,00 €Out of stock.Last copy!. Publisher's presentation: "Ontem (yesterday in Portuguese), is the result of a work of several years during which André Cepeda was interested in the life of the inhabitants of Porto, photographing landscapes, interiors, and portraits.The photographer, concerned by poverty and social injustice, has interfered in these small neighborhoods...
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