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Presentation by Mörel Books: " Långt från Stockholm (or Far from Stockholm) finds JH Engstrom on a journey into the surrounding world away from the big city.... Shifting between isolated small communities and the untamed wilderness of the Swedish landscape -Engstrom weaves the two worlds with portraits of 'dance bands', youths etc and juxtaposing them...
52,00 €In StockFrom the publisher :"The vision of Ciociaria that Douglas Stockdale presents in this book remains way further from grandiose than picturesque, in line with the desire to reject stereotypes of landscape and cultural anthropology. Observing the region through a careful eye of a ‘flaneur’ photographer, almost an ideal recreation of what once were the...
35,00 €In StockAlec Soth's personal collection of Ping Pong players, gathered from here and there over the years...A book of vernacular photography, but weird and funny !46 pages - Hardcover Little Brown Mushroom, 2013 New - Mint condition
.Sold out.Strangely familiar is the first publication of Peter Mitchell's celebrated work about his home city of Leeds that he photographed in his rounds as a driver in the 70's.A body of work that has been exhibited quite often - including in the famous "How We Are: Photographing Britain" at the Tate Britain in 2007 - but that never appeared in a book...
For Birds of the West Indies (a tribute name to the actual James Bond, the ornithologist), Taryn Simon has photographed everyone and everything that has made and still makes the world of the James Bond movie franchise in the manner of a biologist or an archivist. The catalogue of images alone is really interesting. But in these pictures of weird things,...
45,00 €In StockSheets is a retrospective of Rinko Kawauchi's work over the last 10 to 15 years, presented as excerpts of her contact sheets. From an artist recognized for several famous and acclaimed books : Utatane, Cui-Cui, Ametsuchi, etc.This new presentation is a re-interpretation of the artist's work from that period. Beautiful book with numerous foldouts.152 pages...
39,00 €Out of stock"The Game Over series focuses on a public space where the invading decor, that of the famous Foire du Trône installed every spring on the edge of Paris, could play alone the main role.Pierre Hybre preferred to aim his camera directly at visitors of all ages wandering the aisles, in the middle of exuberant fairground attractions, the ambient hubbub and the...
25,00 €In Stock_08.08 Operating Theatre (*signed*)
_08: 08 Operating Theater contains 7 images; 7 operating rooms photographed with a view camera, in one take, exactly 5 minutes after the end of an operation ...The author exploited the English term for an "operating theater", a terminology inherited from the first universities of medical education where the surgeons operated in amphitheatres.And it is...
60,00 €Out of stockThe hill that wasn't (*signed*)
The hill that wasn't is a series of beautiful and peaceful images of the weeds on a small hill, a pile of dirt, in front of which Stefan Vanthuyne had been passing for a long time when he decided to stop and take pictures, only to realise - a few days later - that it had been removed and flattened...Stefan Vanthuyne makes a connection between this...
22,00 €Out of stock25 Weeks of Winter is a small-format intimate diary about the end of a relationship. With a wide variety of seemingly unrelated images, Ekaterina Anokhina tells us the tale of a long winter of the heart, the mourning and lovesickness after a separation and the difficulty and hardship of forgetting and moving on... This book works really well, and - in...
.LAST copy of the two we stumbled upon recently in our stock: NEW, shrinkwrapped and in mint condition!. The images in this book are quite wild ! Russian youths: teenagers and misfits Igor Samolet takes us in the life of a group of young Russians, whose days and nights revolve around alcohol, acting nonsense and sex, adrift in some apparently derelict...
45,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.L'Asile des Photographies a reçu en novembre 2013 le prestigieux "Prix Nadar 2013".Publisher's presentation: "Le photographe Mathieu Pernot et l'historien Philippe Artières ont travaillé trois ans à l'hôpital psychiatrique de Picauville / Fondation Bon-Sauveur (Manche). Ce lieu de mémoire résume toute l'évolution de la psychiatrie depuis le XIXe...
Présentation de l'éditeur : "Claire Tenu a travaillé pendant deux ans à Cherbourg. La ville que nous voyons désigne non seulement cette ville en particulier, vue à travers le livre, mais aussi toute ville, dont la découverte renouvelle une expérience semblable de la vision. Dans cette expérience, l'espace concret se superpose à un espace imaginaire. Dans...
27,00 €In StockBelonging, as the Bengladeshi photographer Munem Wasif belongs to his hometown of Dhaka, where he roamed the streets fo the city for 10 years to make this beautiful portrait, at the heart of the city.A great series of Black & White images, with dense blacks and a grainy feel, that takes us in the alleys of the city in the nicest of fashions, as a...
36,00 €Out of stockAs Dust Alights (*Limited Edition*)
We are offering the Limited Edition of this sold out book.A signed & numbered copy of the book, together with a print are placed in a pouch made of a really beautiful fabric. We will add images soon, please feel free to contact us. As Dust Alights is the book of a photographer that takes the time to look at things, that uses his eyes in a very special...
250,00 €Out of stockRepublic is a brilliant, blazing, colored and light-loaded series of portraits. The portraiture work is really original, full of surprises, sometimes erotic with a touch of subversiveness, especially if you consider that Ren Hang is Chinese...A really beautiful book, a high quality of production, that makes you want to know more about this provocative...
75,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.The project of this book, co-sponsored by the ICP (International Center of Photography, New York), the "Photobooks" Facebook group and the Tokyo Institute of Photography, was to ask 10 people who are authorities in the photobook genre to select each 10 American photobooks published after 1987. The result is a rich catalogue of photobooks, some...
The Widest Prairies (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation : "The Widest Prairies features a new series by Charlotte Dumas on the wild horses of Nevada, showing a cinematographic portrayal of these undomesticated animals as they roam the fringes of the foothills into the residential areas of the desert population where peoples and animals paths cross. This proximity has created new...
48,00 €In Stock.Last copy - Sold out by the publisher!.Publisher's presentation : "ETAN & ME is Viviane Sassen's story of love and loss, of Eros and Thanatos. It’s a story about the exploration of the Self and the Other. Are we ever able to truly know someone, to truly know ourselves? These are the question which come to mind when looking at the latest book of...
49,00 €Out of stockIn this work, Christophe Agou confronts himself to "subway photography", with a quite beautiful result.Life Below is a series of portraits, of snapshot moments, sometimes caught with a bit of luck, sometimes caught by the photographer's eye that recognizes the scene, the instant that will make a strong image, a funny one, or simply a beautiful...
40,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.The first impression when looking at Toshio Shibata's work in Contacts is that of a very original way to look at things. The artist really observes the landscapes with a very sharp eye, and seems to be looking for calm, stability, and permanence... and lays his eyes on the man-made structures and how they integrate or oppose the surrounding...
Kenosis is a little zine, the first publication by Karin Crona.In this booklet, the artist tells us about her experience, her feelings before and after a surgery. A very personal and intimate work of self-portraiture. 16 pages - Softcover Sefl-published, 2013 New - Mint condition
10,00 €In StockSworn Virgins is a series of portraits of women from Northern Albania who vowed to remain virgins their whole life, in order to be allowed - following ancient rules of their community - to assume the role of patriarch of this community, becoming in the process "men-women". The respect these women are shown within their communities is really clear in Pepa...
50,00 €In Stock.Sold out. After We English, Simon Roberts follows in the same tracks of visual documentation of England's (and Britain's) specific elements : what makes England, England, and Britain, Britain. For the Pierdom project, the artist photographed each of the 58 remaining piers of Britain, in a very still manner, like if it were a work of portraiture. Only the...
.Sold out. Anatopées is a journey, a quest, a graphic and esthetic obsession.For many years, after observing graphic similarities in images of very different natures, Arnaud Lesage has been looking for a certain shape or form in his numerous trips. This book is the result of this extensive quest, presented in a simple yet superb "Leporello" design...
Yan Morvan est un reporter de guerre qui a couvert de nombreux conflits. Depuis près de 30 ans, lors de ses périodes en France, il documente les bandes, les gangs, les groupuscules français de tous bords et de toutes régions.Gangs Story est donc une plongée dans le monde de ces jeunesses endoctrinées, de ces personnages souvent engagés aux extrêmes...
49,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock - Reduced price.Retrospective book on the work of the late Jouko Lehtola, who passed away in 2010. The artist was made famous by his uncompromising work on the Finnish youth; and other series are also present in this book. A very straightforward eye, and images that are sometimes gaudy, or even violent.160 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Kehrer...
25,00 €Out of stock96 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Kominek Books, 2013 *Signed* New - Mint conditionFirst Journey Home is the result of Misha Kominek's travels throughout Poland, made in 1997 after his graduation from university; his first trip alone to his homeland, after leaving it with his family for Germany when he was twelve. Misha Kominek shoots a galery of portraits...
38,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Rinko Kawauchi is certainly one of the most famous contemporary Japanese photographers, thanks to photobooks such as Utatane, Aila, Cui-Cui or more recently Illuminance. These previous opus showed us and told us life through small plots of daily life, details of everyday life that inscribe us all in the same community.With Ametsuchi, a term...
.Last copy!.WARNING: Our last copy has one very slightly bumped cornerStakeout Diary is a re-interpretation of Watabe Yukichi's work already presented by Éditions Xavier Barral and D.A.P in a book form as A Criminal Investigation (cf. "Suggestions" tab).This new book, which offers a slightly different selection of images, in a totally re-worked sequence,...
45,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. But we are still offering the "regular" edition (see "Suggestions"). Stakeout Diary is a re-interpretation of Watabe Yukichi's work already presented by Éditions Xavier Barral and D.A.P in a book form as A Criminal Investigation (cf. "Suggestions" tab). This new book, which offers a slightly different selection of images, in a totally...
Two Rivers (*Limited Edition - w/ Print*)
.Sold out.We are offering the Limited Edition of Two Rivers : a signed copy of the book in a beautiful linen clamshell case, and a 8"x11" print in a matching case. As of today, we have 3 different prints, please contact us. Thank you. Carolyn Drake's Two Rivers is a wonderful and gorgeous book ! Stunning images, an original design and a beautifully...
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