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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
Supertourist is a new interpretation by Max Pam of the large body of work accumulated within the last 10 years during his travels in all parts of the globe. The artist sort-of "traveled" within this large archive to conceive this book, a complete rethinking of his work. We do indeed recognise Max Pam's eye and feel, with lively, colourful, witty, funny...
.Sold out.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 way. Vincent Delbrouck offers a very calm and peaceful account of what his eyes saw on a trip into the Himalayas; they saw forms, colors, textures, contrasts, they saw the beautiful in the insignificant... The body and the...
Zine No. 8 - My Dreamed Stream (*w/ signed...
Éditions Bessard are more and more looking towards China, and offer us for this Zine Collection No. 8 a beautiful journey called My dreamed stream, that of a return to the land of its ancestors by the artist Wei Bi. As he was having difficult moments in the city, Wei Bi decided to return visit his native countryside and the village where his family has...
A Criminal Investigation (2nd edition)
.Sold out.We are offering copies of the third edition .This book 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...
.Sold out.A beautiful and peaceful little book, Unter den Linden is a tribute to the series and books of Ed Ruscha and presents 25 images of windshields on the Unter den Linden Avenue in Berlin, all soiled by dust, rain, and autumn leaves.The book is based on a simple idea, but David Kregenow offers here an hypnotic series of soft hues and patterns that...
Excerpts from Silver Meadows (*signed*)
.Sold out.Unlike his previous series and his previous books, Todd Hido offers with Excerpts from Silver Meadows a very personal book in which he talks about his childhood in Kent, Ohio.This book with complex narrative, and images of extremely different natures (archive images, facsimiles, nudes, stagings, etc.) takes us on a rather dark journey in the...
.Sold out. Ouvrage de référence sur le photographe chilien Sergio Larrain (Magnum Photos), qui - bien que n'ayant été actif qu'entre 1949 et 1971 - restera comme l'un des grands maîtres de la photographie de rue et du noir et blanc. L'artiste a été honoré d'une rétrospective aux Rencontres d'Arles 2013 et une exposition différente présente son travail...
.Last 2 copies.February 2014 : Karczeby has been announced "Best Photography Book" of 2013 by Picture of The Year International !Karczeby is a book about the soil, the ground of Poland, about a peasant's life; a life, a world that seems to remain frozen in the 1950s or the 1960s.The word Karczeby - that means "stump" – designates people who are rooted to...
.Back in stock. Presentation by Dewi Lewis: "Recognised as one of the UK's most important photographers of the last forty years, Brian Griffin grew up near Birmingham amongst the factories of the Black Country. His parents were factory workers and from birth Griffin seemed set to follow in their footsteps. And so, on leaving school at the age 16, he began...
One last signed copy available ! Unsigned copies afterwards... Love and War is a simple title. These are also the two things that are certainly the most complicated and the most dramatic in the interaction between men. Love and War is a book that catches you, but seems very difficult to talk about ...The story of Guillaume Simoneau begins with a love...
.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 –...
Presentation by the publisher: " From the outside, everything seems undecidable in Finland, as if the in-between was its peculiarity: in-between two continents, two eras, two atmospheres. Pour aller vite, statisme et vivacité. Les liens contraints avec l'ex-URSS et le fantasme d'une Amérique de voitures et de surf music expliquent en partie cette...
Présentation de l'éditeur : "Le livre a la forme d'un début d'enquête : attentive aux détails et sensible à l'atmosphère où le sens demeure suspendu. En revenant au Maroc, pays de son adolescence, Christophe Bourguedieu évoque un sentiment mêlé : la jouissance d'images retrouvées croise le sentiment d'une intimité éteinte. Le narrateur du texte, de retour...
Présentation de l'éditeur : "Ces photographies, anciennes ou récentes, ont été réalisées en Europe et au Japon. Mais le temps et le lieu, en l'occurrence, importent peu. Il s'agit essentiellement de rencontres ramassées en elles-mêmes, qui ne contiennent aucune information, ne désignent aucun contexte. Le caractère poétique, si on veut risquer ce...
Looking for Love, 1996 reprend des clichés réalisés par Alec Soth avant Sleeping by the Mississippi et avant la célébrité, à une époque où il vivait dans le noir - travaillant comme développeur dans un laboratoire de tirage et traînant dans les bars le soir... Il avait alors 25 ans et se sentait seul, attendant la lumière, attendant l'amour. Ces images...
.Sold out. Carolyn Drake's Two Rivers is a wonderful and gorgeous book ! Stunning images, an original design and a beautifully crafted production (by SYB), carry us through a story and a journey that are really captivating... This books grabs you and won't let go ! It is really a success on all levels, that appeared in many lists of the best 2013...
Skeletons in the Closet (*signed*)
All the images in Skeletons in the Closet were made in the basements and storage areas of the Museum of Natural History in Vienna (Austria). One evening, from the street outside, Klaus Pichler spots a stuffed antelope in an office from a lit-up window; that was a regular office room, with shelves, a computer, etc. It is this single occurrence of what the...
.Sold out.Ramadan in Yemen was the first title published, in 2011, by Éditions Bessard. And, from the very beginning, the high quality standard is obvious, in production, choice of paper and other material, the fonts, the editing, the sequence, each element must meet the highest requirements, to come up with this really beautiful book, this beautiful...
Autodafé by Coralie Fournier Moris is a very refined photobook, with a simple and elegant layout.Short texts in the introduction tell us about meetings, bodies and death ... Then come the photographs, organized as in acts. The atmosphere of the work is both light and evanescent thanks to prolonged and controlled fuzziness, but also dramat-(urg)-ic because...
.Sold out.Blue Mud Swamp est la chronique d'un séjour dans la ville chinoise de Dalian, grande ville côtière et portuaire, dynamique, d'ambiance et d'architecture assez occidentale, et où les classements locaux disent qu'il fait bon vivre. Ce n'est pas le tableau que nous en dresse Filipe Casaca. Le Dalian présenté ici est sombre, triste, bétonné,...
.Sold out."Éclatant" ou - en référence au chef-d'oeuvre de Viviane Sassen - "Flamboyant" sont les mots qui viennent à l'esprit en découvrant Parasomnia. Le sens de la couleur, de la lumière est quelque chose de très aigü chez cette artiste travaillant beaucoup dans la mode. Cet ouvrage présente des images rapportées de plusieurs pays d'Afrique de l'Est,...
Le titre complet de ce livre édité par la Fraenkel Gallery de New York est Eye of the Beholder - Photographs from the Collection of Richard Avedon. Cet ouvrage est un recueil de 5 fascicules thématiques présentés dans un emboîtage souple : - Vol.1 : Diane Arbus (36 pages - 14 illustrations) - Vol.2 : The Countess de Castiglione (44 pages - 18...
Presentation by GHOST: " « The dogma of those who govern in Lisbon nowadays is that there is no alternative to the system of collective penury signed with the Troika. The Portuguese National Budget for 2013 is a historical watershed. It puts an end to an age by tearing up a contract with a society which, after the Carnation Revolution, dreamed of being...
.Sold out.Le voyage de Anders Petersen dans le quartier de SoHo (celui de Londres), jeune et animé, créatif et interlope, où l'artiste développe - dans son style et avec son oeil particuliers - un récit de la vie, de la nuit, des personnages qui animent les parcs, les rues, les bars et les clubs... Cet ouvrage fait partie de City Diaries, la série de...
.Sold out.Contraint d'effectuer une année - 365 jours - de conscription dans l'armée russe, Alexander Aksakov a pu documenter l'ennui de ses journées grâce à un petit appareil photo de type Smena-8M qui lui avait été initialement confisqué, mais qu'un officier amateur de photographie lui rendit au bout de 2 mois... Ce récit, constitué d'images...
.Back in stock - French and English versions.Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral: "At the end of the year 1975, Jane Evelyn Atwood, who had recently moved to Paris, produced her first photo report in black and white, with a simple, effective and sensitive style. By meeting a prostitute on Rue des Lombards, she discovered a world in which everything...
Zine N°7 - Un Roman Gris (*w/ signed print*)
.Sold out.Un Roman Gris de Bernard Plossu est le N°7 de la superbe "Zine Collection" des Éditions Bessard. Cette petite série au tirage très limité (entre 100 et 250 ex.) est proposée avec un tirage original signé par l'auteur ! L'Ascenseur Végétal vous propose également dans cette série très exigeante les auteurs suivants : Zhu Mo (N°3 - The Emptiness),...
Zine N°6 - Business as Usual (*w/ signed...
.Sold out.Business as Usual de Brian Griffin est le N°6 de la superbe "Zine Collection" des Éditions Bessard; une série de portraits décalés, bancales, voire loufoques de businessmen dans des situations ou des postures surprenantes voire cocasses. Cette petite collection au tirage très limité (entre 100 et 250 ex.) est proposée avec un tirage original...
Zine N°5 - Scheme (*w/ signed print*)
.Sold out.Scheme du photographe ukrainien Roman Pyatkovka (élève de Boris Mikhailov) est le N°5 de la superbe "Zine Collection" des Éditions Bessard. Ce numéro est épuisé chez l'éditeur. Cette petite série au tirage très limité (entre 100 et 250 ex.) est proposée avec un tirage original signé par l'auteur ! L'Ascenseur Végétal vous propose également dans...
Zine N°4 - Burma (*w/ signed print*)
.Sold out.Burma du plus célèbre photographe australien (on considèrera Helmut Newton "hors catégorie") est le N°4 de la superbe "Zine Collection" des Éditions Bessard. Cette petite série au tirage très limité (entre 100 et 250 ex.) est proposée avec un tirage original signé par l'auteur ! L'Ascenseur Végétal vous propose également dans cette série très...
The series Forbidden City was made using a concealed camera in a swingers club. Bourcart captures mingled bodies, with no real distinction of gender, on the floor or in small pools, bodies in embraces or clasped in a quest for pleasure one could consider animal or mechanical... The people who are there in the pictures are of course here to consume,...
.Sold out. Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral: "“The slow ruin of a man with no ties, a refugee from a long expedition, which repeats itself from room to room.” Antoine d’Agata does not stage the world he photographs, he is merely the silent witness, the assiduous spectator. He plunges himself into it headlong, and carries us along with him in these...
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