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Presentation by IIKKI Books: " « At first brutal and declining, the substance of Gaël Bonnefon's photography is just like a gaze that fears being one day extinguished and that is always looking to be born again. In photography as in love, recoil and desire, tension and easement, repetition, wandering and rest, flight and pursuit. Here photography allows...
40,00 €In StockPresentation by Humboldt Books: " In 1976, Gabriele Basilico was in Rimini for a project on the Grand Hotel. It was here that he met a number of artists who were performing at the Lady Godiva, the next-door nightclub. Intrigued, he shot a few photographs and was struck by the willingness of the artists to pose for him. In the meantime, the sun was setting...
25,00 €In StockPresentation by Chose Commune: " « Sub Sole (in latin, beneath the sun), an ensemble of photographs made between 2017 and 2020, in the region of the Mediterranean Sea, follows the mythological itinerary of the voyage of Ulysses: Ceuta, Naples, Athens, Palermo, Istanbul, Tunis and Lampedusa. Crossroads of cultures, cradle of foundation myths, the...
40,00 €In StockExcerpt from a text by Federico Clavarino : " « (...) A garden is enclosed space. The garden, to be such, needs a frame. The garden is the point in which a place becomes a landscape. The garden, or the orchard, is the germ of the settlement, the village, the town, the city and the nation. The garden, we might be inclined to say, is not fully natural nor...
30,00 €Out of stock.This book is IN FRENCH. Presentation by Atelier EXB: " This book brings together the photographs that Bruce Gilden took in Japan during two residencies and several trips between 1995 and 1999, presenting both the most iconic and half unpublished. As always, on an impulse of a few fractions of a second, the Magnum photographer approaches his subjects as...
45,00 €In StockPresentation by Stanley / Barker: " « This is how I remember New York City in 2002. I was 19 years old and had just moved to Manhattan from my family's small farm on Long Island. It was the first summer after the September 11 attacks. Workers were removing the last of the debris from the collapsed Twin Towers. The city felt both immense and fragile...
58,00 €In StockLe Bassin Romantique (*signed*)
.Sold out. Le Bassin Romantique, first photobook of Nicolas Seurot's project Visions passéistes [Old-fashioned visions], is a series of images created around the Bassin d'Arcachon (or Arcachon Bay), between Bordeaux and the Atlantic Ocean, in southwest France. Nicolas Seurot, a connoisseur of the art of painting, and a dilettante painter himself,...
Archive (*signed / not signed*)
Presentation by MACK:" Since the 1970s, Dutch photographer Bertien van Manen has created intimate and poignant photographs of commonplace scenes, produced during extended trips to Europe, America, China and the former Soviet Union. Van Manen has established herself as a unique voice in documentary photography, her visual language imbued with empathy and...
60,00 €In Stock.Sold out. TEXTS IN FRENCH ONLY. Full title: "Mauvais Genre - Les travestis à travers un siècle de photographie amateur" Presentation by Editions Textuel: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " Mauvais Genre presents men and women wearing wardrobe attributes of the opposite sex. Taken in a photography studio at the end of the 19th Century, or behind the...
Presentation by VOID: " The project was photographed in the early 90s when Cammie Toloui was working as a stripper at the Lusty Lady Theater in San Francisco to fund her photojournalism degree at San Francisco State University. Customers who paid to view her naked body and watch her perform sex acts on herself were offered a discounted price if they...
45,00 €In StockPresentation by Art Paper Editions: " Cabin Fever is the first publication of New-York based artist Katie Burnett, and was developed in a very playful and intuitive way. Burnett investigated the possibilities of her own environment and self. Cabin Fever is a 80-page photographic display of self-portraiture, but not the usual kind. Within the title,...
55,00 €Out of stockPresentation by VOID: " Dream Moons is a story in the first person. It mixes photography and text to tell on a journey through a bizarre dream. It takes place within the corridors and rooms of the artist's house. After a few years working on territories and outsiders, Yurian Quintanas Nobel set himself the challenge of photographing his closest...
39,00 €In StockThe Idiots Delight / Plaisirs Ridicules
This publication is a collection of Duane Michals photographs that "enact" expressions or sayings of the English language, in comical or absurd ways and situations. The text, in both English and French, is "hidden" in a cut-short page at the center of the images, which are all in double-spreads. About midway into the book, a sequence of images appears as...
85,00 €In StockPresentation by Editions Le Mulet : " « Under those chaotic skies, like if we were waking up the day after the end of the world, here is the viscerally vitiated, divided and most often dark universe that Marie Sordat gives us to see over the pages. A world that radiates the desire for a wonderland that we would never have known, and whose disillusioned...
36,00 €In StockPresentation by Damiani: " Crossed Looks is the first artist monograph featuring the work of Swiss-Guinean artist Namsa Leuba. This publication accompanies the first solo exhibition of Namsa Leuba in the United States, at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, South Carolina on August 27 – December 11, 2021. Crossed Looks features Leuba's...
60,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Presentation by Chose Commune: " In 1973, Seiichi Furuya left Japan for Europe on board of the Trans-Siberian train. He arrived in Austria where he first settled in Vienna, before moving to Graz where he met Christine Gössler in 1978. From this day forward, he started photographing her, in the intimacy of their home in Graz but also during...
It Don't Mean a Thing (*2nd edition*)
Presentation by The Gould Collection: " Volume Two of The Gould Collection presents fifty-eight photographs by Saul Leiter with the story It Don't Mean a Thing by Paul Auster. Black-and-white and color photographs by Leiter from 1947 through the 1970s—with many images never before published—are paired with Auster's tale of interlinked life events and...
38,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Presentation by Loose Joints: " The Amen Break is a singular sample of a four-bar drum solo that went on to change the course of music in the twentieth century. Originally derived from seven seconds of a soul B-side by The Winstons, the sample proliferated with the rise of hip hop in the 1980s and became a staple of drum and bass and jungle...
Presentation by RVB Books: " Muddy Dance is a book celebrating the movement of football. The players perform a seemingly choreographed dance on a muddy field, while twirling and tumbling for the ball... Or do they? This is the football book for art lovers and at the same time an art book for all football fans. In Muddy Dance Erik Kessels demonstrates...
34,00 €In Stock.NB: Our stock of tote bags has run out, sorry. Presentation by Atelier EXB: " Following the survey monograph, this publication is dedicated to Masahisa Fukase's emblematic series on his two cats: Sasuke and Momoe, combining unpublished and iconic images. In 1977, Fukase turned his lenses on his new companion Sasuke. Growing up with felines, he decides...
45,00 €Book available with different optionsThe subtitle for this photobook: Unseen Photographic Archives of a Mythical Train Presentation by Editions Textuel: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " Created in 1883 and operated until 1977, linking Paris to Constantinople – future Istanbul –, the Orient-Express was the first of a series of luxury transnational trains of the Compagnie internationale des...
39,00 €In StockPresentation by Stanley / Barker: " Following the birth of his son Atlas, Christopher Anderson stepped away from war photography, turning his camera towards an intimate reflections of family life, resulting in his 2013 book Son (with Kehrer) Stanley / Barker is proud to publish a beautifully reimagined edition which adds a second chapter of 80 new pages...
56,00 €Out of stock.PLEASE NOTE: Our last copies have either the top or the bottom of the binding slightly bumped. Presentation by Guest Editions: " Agua is the first photobook from Caribbean-born, Barcelona-based photographer Denisse Ariana Pérez. Driven by an obsession with humans and the human experience as a whole, her work looks to explore, expose and honour the beauty...
50,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Acne Studios: " Acne Paper book celebrates some of the best work from the magazine's archive, accompanied by new essays by Sarah Mower, Vince Aletti and Robin Muir written especially for this lavishly produced 568 page edition, edited by Thomas Persson, Acne Paper's editor-in-chief and creative director. "The biannual magazine was...
115,00 €In StockRevue NEUF - Facsimile Box Set
PLEASE NOTE: Outside of the additional booklet containing the text "Delpire before Delpire" translated into English (see description below), all publications in this set are IN FRENCH ONLY. Presentation by Delpire & Co: " 1950: Robert Delpire is 24 years old. As a medical student, he creates the magazine NEUF, distributed by the Maison de la Médecine....
145,00 €In StockPresentation by Stanley / Barker: " In 1986, the American artist Judith Black was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship with the intention of documenting a cross-country road trip with her four children. Unlike Robert Frank's iconic Guggenheim-funded road trip 30 years earlier, Black's mission was much more intimate. Rather than documenting America, her...
56,00 €In StockGrand Est, une mission photographique
.PLEASE NOTE: The texts in this book are IN FRENCH ONLY. Presentation by Poursuite: " Suite à la constitution de la région Grand Est composée de l'Alsace, de la Lorraine et de la Champagne-Ardenne il a été proposé à cinq photographes français d'explorer ce territoire librement pour en offrir leur vision; et ils proposent chacun une perspective unique sur...
30,00 €In StockPresentation by Stanley / Barker: " In October 1979, Pope John Paul II came to the Boston Common, the historic park in Boston. Susan Kandel was there taking pictures of families who'd come to see him, carrying on with work she had started months earlier photographing families at Revere Beach, a few miles north of Boston. Among the people she photographed...
48,00 €In StockPresentation by Hartmann Books: " The Autobahn [The Highway] is an asphalt carpet thirteen thousand kilometers in length that covers all of Germany, both interfering with the landscape and interconnecting the country. Jörg Brüggemann photographed it for five years, from 2014 to 2019. While mobility concepts are constantly changing and being discussed, the...
40,00 €In StockPresentation by Mimi Svanberg:" Fragments is sort of debris from my life, mind and my dreams, moments floating around in a nonlogical way not bound to any place, space or time, every image is a little shard. It is a project about the absence of time, about being everywhere at the same time. It has dark undertones and a dreamy frequency. I think most of my...
25,00 €In Stock.1st edition - Last copies!!!. Presentation by Fisheye: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " 10 years of trips, 10 years of photography. Fisheye presents the new photobook by Théo Gosselin, Roll, a retrospective look at a decade of photography. Roll gathers about a 100 images by the photographer, iconic or unseen, from the beginning of his career until...
65,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Lunik: " Originally posted on Instagram, the Berlin images of the Metropolis series are collected in a photography book and published by Lunik Berlin Verlag. With a foreword in German, English and French by Marc Barbey (Collection Regard). Wolff's photographs are not about classic city views. They are about a subjective view of Berlin in...
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