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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
Share the pleasure of photography
Medium of expression, pleasure of reading, object of collection, the photo book or photobook is everything at once
Publisher's presentation :"I was 15, 16, 17 years old. I took an immense pleasure to make my 6 x 6 slides, to see the world moving on the matte surface of the focusing screen, then to contemplate my little transparent squares, burning imprints of what I was, from what I loved. The glow of the setting sun through the trees, the faces of Pierre, the...
.Sold out. Éclats d'Amérique - Chronique d'un voyage virtuel is a rarity on our website, as it is a novel, written and only available in French. The author Olivier Hodasava is known for his photography blog Dreamlands Virtual Tour that chronicles his journey on "Google Street View". The novel is written following his travel across the United States.The...
Presentation by Editions du LIC: "The debut monograph from Osma Harvilhati presented in a limited edition cloth covered hardcover book. This First Edition is limited to just 460 numbered copies.Immediately distinguished by their vibrant palettes and inventive compositions, Osma Harvilahti’s photographs stem from a wilful resolve to aestheticise the world...
.Back in stock.From the back cover: "While growing into one of the biggest European centers of coal and steel, Charleroi in Belgium was populated by migrant workers coming from many countries. Today overgrown slag heaps and closed down steelworks remind of the city's heyday. Jens Olof Lasthein walks the streets to discover the power and spirit of...
Publisher's presentation: " In the shape of a true Paris map, Martin Parr invites us to follow him in the French capital. For three years, commissioned by the Maison Européeenne de la Photographie (MEP), Martin Parr has focused his lens on Parisians and photographed the Champs-Elysées, tourists, Bastille Day, fashion shows, Paris Air Show, museums and art...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation:"UMBRA delves into the world of shadows. A darkness that is seductive and deceptive. A darkness that lies in every human soul, as a still black lake with a surface flat as a mirror that can not be but shattered. UMBRA is, naturally, also the story of light, from its blinding qualities to its brittle brightness. The ever...
Condamné à marcher seul (*Limited Edition*)
Condamné à marcher seul is a wandering in the city and in the night, through photographs (Clément Paradis) and text (Romain Gavidia), an introspection and an encounter with the other, a reflection on why me and why the others...The text in French inter-mingled with the images is translated in English at the end of the book.This Limited Edition comes with...
Condamné à marcher seul is a wandering in the city, in the night, through photographs (Clément Paradis) and text (Romain Gavidia), an introspection and an encounter with the other, a reflection on "why me?" and "why the others?"...The text in French inter-mingled with the images is translated in English at the end of the book.We are also offering a...
Le Livre de Photographies: Une Histoire...
Third volume of the famous catalogue of important photobooks, as selected by the photographer Martin Parr and the critic Gerry Badger.PLEASE NOTE: We are offering here only the French version of this photobook.320 pages - Hardcover with DJ Phaidon, 2014 Format : 26 x 30 cm New - Mint condition
.One copy available.Publisher's presentation: "Scarti di avviamento is the technical term for the paper that is fed through the printing press to clean the drums of ink between print runs. This by-product is usually destroyed once the book is printed. But in this case the 'scarti' – Italian for scraps - were saved and safely stored away by publisher Gigi...
This book is the result of a 1-month residency in the Itoshima peninsula, in Japan, in 2011.Juliane Eirich chose to live outside of the city, to move using a bicycle, and to take colour images. The resulting book, Itoshima, conveys a deep sense of calm; the images selected are peaceful and serene: landscapes, trees, details of house interiors, buildings...
No Pain Whatsoever is a series made on a rather long period (1985 - 2009) during which Ken Grant took pictures of his contemporaries in his hometown of Liverpool. Lively Black & White portraits, often touching, of people leading a difficult life in neighbourhoods that look much like others often seen in the works of what is sometimes called the...
Artist presentation: "Its main purpose is to reflect a vital anxiety, a metaphor of the personal journey searching for the sense of one-self life. Across the wilderness, this inner trip is marked out with the unexpected, the cruelty, the beauty, the organic as well as the artificial. There is a deep fight trying to understand the absurdity of the human...
A Criminal Investigation (3rd edition)
.Sold out. This Watabe Yukichi photobook tells the story of a criminal investigation, in B & W images, in the japanese countryside of the 50's. The artist followed the investigators in their roaming of the area, the crime scene, the surrounding neighborhoods, and into their offices... The images he brought convey a deep feeling of doubt, a strange...
One of the classic photobooks in the series of small volumes of thematic photographs by Michael Wolf from the streets of Hong Kong. This series was a close collaboration between Michael Wolf and publisher Hannes Wanderer from Peperoni Books. Michael Wolf lived in Hong Kong and walked the streets of the city for over 20 years, turning his eyes and lens to...
éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation...
Full title : "éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation contemporaine d'un village français de deux mille huit cent trente neuf habitants - volume 4" (or "Elements of a typology of contemporary urbanisation in a French village of two thousand eight hundred thirty nine inhabitants - volume 4")The artist is taking photographs of the village where he lives,...
NIhonjin is a beautiful series of portraits, realised mainly in Tokyo and Kyoto, of the inhabitants in their daily life and activities, in the streets, in the shops, in the public transportations... A rather classical photography, yet animated and full of colors, and that connects (more than it opposes) what is often represented - with a foreign and...
.Sold out.Beautiful mineral images made on the slopes of Etna, in a strong and grainy, elegant and profound Black & White.An ode to this "mountain" and its mystery; through rock, fog and fumes, curves and shapes, and also through what looks like a quest, that of the numerous tourists and visitors who come to confront themselves to this magnificent...
.Sold out.The portraits appearing in Ad Infinitum are from tombstones found in cemeteries in Hong-Kong.This series is a work both on the passage of time and the loss of memory, as the portraits all vanish little by little; and also on the disappearance of the individual within the humanity, as the vanishing process is similar to all the photographies and...
Looters - 2nd edition (*signed*)
Following the 2011 first edition, this second edition of Looters has been slightly modified, in a slightly larger format (but still in the Risograph process), features images gathered on the Internet, coming from CCTV for most of them; enlarged, pixelated portraits of looters during the 2011 London riots.This book (the first edition) is listed in "The...
.Back in stock.Eternal London is a beautiful Black & White series of images made in the streets of London by a stroller with a keen eye, that notices the light, the shapes, the contrasts and offers a rather romanticized sense of the city, with grainy images that are sometimes out of focus, but always working very well in their form of uncluttered...
In Pastoral / Moscow Suburbs, Alexander Gronsky explores the outer limits of the city of Moscow, in places where the bedroom communities border on the countryside and the forest.This is a great series; at the same time a document on urbanism, a portrait of a population, and a chronicle of the life in the far out low-income suburbia of our western...
Artist's presentation : "I grew up in a world surrounded by women. This work is about the relationship between my mother and me. I photograph the atmosphere between us. What happens between us and what doesn't happen. The way I look at her and the way I sometimes see myself in her. How we as children are shaped by the way our parents see the world. How...
Beautiful little book of intimate "diaristic" portraits. 64 pages - Softcover dienacht Publishing, 2013 (2nd edition 2014) New - Mint condition
Zine N° 14 - Nippon (*w/ signed print*)
In Nippon, number 14 in the Zine Collection by Editions Bessard, Emmanuel Angelicas creates a portrait of Japan in black and white, confronting the two main images that represent Japanese culture in the West : the female nude and the culture of the samurais. Through this still rather classique angle, the artist offers a beautiful series full and a great...
.Sold out.One of the recent titles from Josef Koudelka, master of Black & White, that was sold out just a few months after release...Publisher's presentation: "Like the great painters of the 19th century, Josef Koudelka chose quarries as his subject. At the invitation of the leading global mining group, he regularly visited quarries across the globe...
be Berlin is a walk in the city of Berlin using pinhole photography (in Black & White and in colour). We are taken more specifically to the less interesting and somewhat derelict neighborhoods, where old factory buildings with broken windows are walled-up and covered in tags. The city is seen from an unusual and original standpoint in this very...
Have you ever heard of "Gangnam Style"? Of the South-Korean singer and "k-pop" ambassador Psy?No? First, that is very surprising, and consequently, this book may not be for you... or may be it still is!So, one night at a fashion event called "080 Barcelona Fashion 2013", Denis Carré, self-proclaimed "double" of Psy, triggers a general frenzy in the public...
Publisher's presentation: "Ping Pong Conversations is a long, friendly conversation between Alec Soth, one of the most prominent artist of this time, and the Italian curator and critic Francesco Zanot. Analyzing his most famous photographs as well as others that have been published or are virtually unknown, Soth reflects upon his career as a...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Thirty years ago in 1983, Italian photographer Guido Guidi created a short photographic series, taken inside a room in Preganziol, Italy. The sixteen images which make up Preganziol, 1983 were taken within the confines of four bare walls. The only light is emitted through two windows which sit crossways from one...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "South of Market is a photographic portrait of a San Francisco neighbourhood in the throes of urban renewal. In 1978, Janet Delaney moved to San Francisco's South of Market district because the location was central and the rent was cheap. On the weekends she photographed with her large format camera at the nearby...
.Sold out.Portraits of the actors and visitors of the Kamasutrabeurs, a big event in the world of erotic fairs, on two separate occasions, in Utrecht and Amsterdam.A no-fuss document about the crowd the artist met in the fairs. Great portraiture, and great design by -SYB-.200 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Self-published, 2012 *Signed* New - Slightest marks to...
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