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.Last copy!.Presentation by the artist:"I was in Japan for the first time. In the night, confined to unfamiliar rooms, I would look at myself, with only the alien sound and images from local TV as a companion, I was lost and felt a need to look at the simple things around me, objects, in an attempt to map a familiar reality, trying to hold on to the idea...
15,00 €Out of stockHoly Bible (2nd printing) (*signed*)
.One copy available.Holy Bible, by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin was one of the sensations of 2013, one of the most discussed books of that year, and selected in many "best of" lists.This book was for instance shortlisted for the "Book of the Year" award in the "Paris Photo / Aperture Foundation Awards".The books looks like a real Bible, and...
119,00 €Out of stock.Last copy.Presentation by the artist: "State of Mind is a photographic series, and ultimately a book, about the individual quality of mysterious strangers. The images were captured over a period of several years traveling in countries such as Japan, Portugal, Hungary, Malaysia, Spain, South-Korea, Romania, Russia, Taiwan - and what emerged is a visual...
28,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.NB : Click on the "Suggestions" tab for the second edition of this bookBeautiful little book of intimate "diaristic" portraits, here in the first (sold out) edition.64 pages - Softcover dienacht Publishing, 2013 New - Mint condition
.Last copy!.Facsimile reprint by Xavier Barral of the 1937 "reference" book that is listed in many books about the history of photography and the history of the photobook.Publisher's presentation: "All the elemental forces of nature have been working here for millennia to shape and form a landscape whose scale, majesty and solitude are similar to the...
40,00 €Out of stockAnother Country in New York (*signed*)
.Sold out.Facsimile of Another Country in New York, published in 2013.The original edition from 1974 is probably one of the most expensive and most sought-after photobook today.Just as the original, this edition is made out of Xerox copies and inserted in a silkscreen cover.Images of New York city made by Moriyama in 1971.We offer two copies of this book...
.Copy sold.Adapted from the presentation of the TKY event on the Aperture website: "«PRINTING SHOW» was a recreation of Daido Moriyama’s 1974 performance of the same name. [...] Visitors to the gallery found the photographer stationed at a photocopy machine duplicating his photographic prints. As was done forty years before, these photocopied sheets were...
For the Sake of Future Days (*signed*)
For the Sake of Future Days is a photobook by Katsuhiro Saiki that doesn't really fit in any category, it is actually even a bit bewildering.In an unusual presentation, here is how I mentioned the book in an email the day I received it : "I feel like I need to talk about it or read something about it to help me get the feel of the book, interpret it... I...
20,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation:"Grace and John comes from the collaboration between the photographer Patrícia Almeida and the performers Cláudia Dias and António Pedro Lopes at the time they were rehearsing the play "Where Does the Light Go when it's Off" by the Portuguese choreographer João Fiadeiro. Through daily rehearsals, the performers started to create...
15,00 €In StockTwin Boat, in Koji Onaka's words at the end of the book is the fraternal twin and little sister of his acclaimed Slow Boat, published about 10 years ago, from images taken at the same period of time.Also in his words, the narration created by the editor Miwa Susuda, is one of "adolescent first love"...The beautiful images in the book, from empty indoors...
55,00 €Out of stockMy Brother Guillaume and Sonia
.Back in stock!. Artist's presentation: "I started taking pictures of my brother Guillaume and his partner Sonia in 2008; both living behind closed doors with the alcohol addiction. In this closed doors where I found my place and felt good, I photographed their relationship, the intimate moments, happy or unhappy, that I share with them. Unfortunately...
42,00 €Out of stockBeautiful portraits of people from India's Rajasthan who discover the ocean for the first time.The Black & White, grainy, and highly contrasted style of Martin Bogren suits perfectly the atmosphere of these moments, the smiles, the bodies, the waves, the water.36 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Journal, 2008 New - Mint condition
40,00 €Out of stockStanley Greene started taking pictures of the punk and rock scenes in 1975, at a time when he had roommates who played in some of the bands... It was San Francisco, these musicians were often artists as well, and after some time, when they needed images of their performances to be included in magazine articles, they naturally turned to their roommate. In...
54,00 €In StockPlanches-Contacts - Le choix des photos
This book is available in French-text only.Présentation de l'éditeur :"Le choix des photos. Sélectionnées par quarante-neuf photographes contemporains de renommée internationale, ces images créent une nouvelle histoire originale de la photographie d’aujourd’hui. Chaque photo présentée nous précise le point de vue de l’auteur, et la reproduction des...
19,50 €Out of stockAnders Petersen par Christian Caujolle
This book is available in French-text only.Quatrième de couverture :"Ce n’est pas un entretien ; à bâtons rompus, c’est un échange, une longue discussion sur la photographie, sur la vie, les valeurs, les influences.L’essentiel dans le cas d’Anders Petersen est de restituer sa parole, avec ses hésitations, ses magnifiques doutes, ses convictions, son...
19,50 €In StockFront cover text:"I took these photographs before the turn of the century while travelling acroxx Europe and the United States.My eye was good-hearted.The time that has passed since then is, at least, something we all have in common.At the time I was astonished. I still am. JH Engström."A road-trip it is, made of color and Black & White images;...
39,50 €Out of stockParaiso is the photographic diary kept by Antoine d'Agata kept between October 31 andNovember 12, 2012, during the International Festival of Photography in Valparaiso. The images are presented together with texts and email excerpts in which d'Agata writes what he does and sees, he describes his moments under the influence and the injections and his...
23,00 €In StockLa Résidence is a book created after JH Engström had been in residence in Brussels; where he photographed the city, the street life, the cafés, the people. By putting these images in perspective through texts from his own journal, the artist tells the story of why this residence experience was a failure. This is very well explained by Engström himself in...
55,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation : "The Grey Line is a reflection on war told from the perspective of US and UK soldiers who have spoken out against the Iraq War. Publication marks 10 years since the invasion of Iraq. Photographer Jo Metson Scott began the project after meeting a young American soldier who had been denied Conscientious Objective status...
Publisher's description : "Phillip Toledano became a father in July 2009. He fell in love with his daughter about a year and a half later, when he realised she was the most bewitching human being he'd ever seen. Initially though things were different. The Reluctant Father follows Phillip's journey at the beginning of fatherhood. From dismay and confusion,...
Stormbelt is a book about the decline, sometimes the dereliction, of this wide portion of American land called the "Sun Belt", which - until the end of the 90s - was a symbol of the American economic might. Recession and natural disasters (drought, hurricanes, forest fires) have hit hard on this area, from the East to the West coast. Robert Leslie looks...
38,00 €Out of stockWith the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States have been signing nearly 300,000 new recruits each year since 9/11, as they need to face an important turnover among the troops. In Volunteer, Paul Seawright draws the portrait of the young recruits of the US Army, but we have to "read between the lines": instead of photographing the young recruits,...
30,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.The Waiting Game by Txema Salvans is an extremely coherent series of portraits of prostitutes waiting in parking lots, at some road intersections, on the roadside of a turnpike - in underwear or very short dresses - for the next "client".The city-limit landscapes depicted, the colour tones, the attention to framing and image construction, all...
Bottrop-Ebel 76 is a re-reading of one of Michael Wolf's student project. In this body of work, the artist documented life in a small mining town in the Ruhr District, a region he new quite well for having lived some time there. This "early" series (he was 22 at the time) shades a different light on Michael Wolf's work, as we are mostly familiar with his...
45,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock.Presentation by Dewi Lewis of Martin Bogren's photobook: "Youngsters meet up on the village outskirts, racing their tractorcars, burning tyremarks into the warm summer asphalt. The smell of rubber, oil and souped-up engines fills the air when the engines speed. The cars form into a circle as the boys take turns in the middle. It is a game –...
30,00 €In Stock.Back in stock. (no signed copies available)In a variation of shapes, textures, atmospheres and tones, Daniel Reuter offers with History of the Visit a book both simple and elaborate. Simple in its subjects, even if they are treated from a vantage point that evolves between the obvious and the sphisticated; and elaborate in its construction, in the...
36,00 €Out of stockThe Photography of Nature & The Nature of...
.Sold out.Catalogue from the "Hasselblad Award 2013" that displays images from several of the most famous series of this artist, including Fauna (1987) and Sputnik (1997).224 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Mack, 2013 New - Mint condition
55,00 €Out of stockéléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation...
.Currently out of stock.Full title : "éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation contemporaine d'un village français de deux mille huit cent trente neuf habitants - volume 3"The artist photographed the small city where he lives, Noyers-sur-Cher, and publishes in a series of 10 booklets this documentary work about a place that could be considered a fair...
15,00 €Out of stockéléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation...
.Sold out.Titre complet : "éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation contemporaine d'un village français de deux mille huit cent trente neuf habitants - volume 2"L'artiste a photographié la ville où il réside, Noyers-sur-Cher, et publie en une série de 10 livrets ce travail documentaire qui se veut en quelque sorte être un exemple représentatif de la...
Some Windy Trees (*Limited Edition*)
.Sold out. Some Windy Trees is the second opus of Vincent Delbrouck's "Himalayan Project".This book is comprised of 10 portraits of trees. Trees that grew and developed against the wind and are leaning, bent and tilted by this physical constraint.This very homogeneous series invites us to give these trees - these characters - a closer look, to discover...
.Sold out.Some Windy Trees is the second opus of Vincent Delbrouck's "Himalayan Project".This book is comprised of 10 portraits of trees. Trees that grew and developed against the wind and are leaning, bent and tilted by this physical constraint.This very homogeneous series invites us to give these trees - these characters - a closer look, to discover...
.Last copy. A surprising and tragic yet beautiful images of an environmental disaster that took place in Hungary in 2010. A dam containing the toxic waste of an aluminum plant brike and the liquid spilled off into the surrounding countryside, flooding two villages, fields and forest. The images were taken a few months after the catastrophy.With a text by...
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