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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
Dive Dark Dream Slow (*signé*)
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Photographer and bookseller Melissa Catanese has recently been editing the vernacular photography collection of Peter J. Cohen, helping to organize this massive curated archive (a trove of 20,000+ prints) into a series of single-theme catalogues. Along the way, she has pursued an alternate reading of the collection,...
Le rivage - Une épopée indochinoise
.Sold out. Intéressant dialogue entre des clichés d'Indochine du début du XXème siécle réalisés par la grand-mère de Tiane Doan na Champassak, et des images du Vietnam et du Cambodge aujourd'hui réalisées par l'artiste. Le travail de Tiane Doan na Champassak a gagné le monde l'édition indépendante en 2011 et 2012, lorsqu'il a publié plusieurs livres...
.Sold out. Presentation by Claudine Doury on the Agence VU' website: " C'est l'histoire d'une lente disparition, dans les sables et dans le temps, la fin d'un monde, un voyage dans l'Asie centrale post-soviétique et le Xinjiang chinois. J'avais lu Djamilia du poète kirghiz Tchinghiz Aitmatov, et je rêvais aux kolkhozes perdus dans la steppe et à ses...
.Currently out of stock. Publisher's presentation: "The disparate photographs assembled here were made over the course of twenty years. None of them were originally intended to be used in this book. By ordering and shaping them I tried to investigate the possibilities of narrative both within a single image and especially in relation to the other...
Presentation by Hatje Cantz: "Finnish photographer Nelli Palomäki searches for the lost magic that was once inherent in photography in the days when having your portrait taken was something special. Palomäki's timeless black-andwhite portraits of children and young adults reveal the fragility of the moment shared with her subject. Her photographs deal...
Hattfabriken / Luckenwalde (*signé*)
.Sold out.Catalogue for the exhibition "Moment" at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm (Oct. 27th 2012 - March 31st 2013). A body of work inspired by a painitng by Dick Bengtsson ("Hatt & Mössfabrik"), that Gerry Johansson had met for a portrait in 1996. This series takes us to an old hat-making factory, and to the now vacant social housing in the city of...
People in Trouble Laughing Pushed to the...
.Sold out. Presentation by MACK: "People in trouble laughing pushed to the ground. Soldiers leaning, pointing, reaching. Woman sweeping. Balloons escaping. Coffin descending. Boys standing. Grieving. Chair balancing. Children smoking. Embracing. Creatures barking. Cars burning. Helicopters hovering. Faces. Human figures. Shapes. Birds. Structures left...
Sophie Calle (Sprengel Museum Catalogue,...
.Sold out.Exhibition catalogue from the Sophie Calle retrospective at the Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany. Already included in this catalogue in 2002, Sophie Calle's work on the blinds, numerous images from the road-movie "No Sex Last Night", and of course many autobiographical texts & images.178 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Walther Koenig, 2002 Format...
.Copy sold.A series of nudes in the Araki tradition. In this book, Nobuyoshi Araki paints colors patches on the prints; flowers or firework-like patterns in bright primary and secondary colors. Beautiful nudes, and the paint that adds an interesting feel and a touch of poetry to the images.Approx. 120 pages - Hardcover w/ DJ AaT Room / Eyesencia, 2005...
.Sold out.Roxane is an intimate visual diary; Roxane follows Vivane Sassen's instructions with her body and attitudes in a sequence of poses and portraits, over the course of several years. The reader gets to have an insight into the artist's creative process through this long-term relation / connection betwwen the artist and her model, her muse 76 pages...
Presentation by MACK: "Torbjørn Rødland's photography is direct but idiosyncratic, pushing at the boundaries of aesthetic and social norms. His fifth book, Vanilla Partner, continues in this vein, combining images of fetishized isolation in a layout that rejects the linear structure of thematic photography books. Rødland’s practice navigates through the...
.Currently out of stock.Presentation by Mack: " « Winters, like ice ages, are Janus faced, for after the freeze comes thaw and flood, as water is returned to life and movement. Freeze, thaw, flood: the great climatic cycles that created the topography of the northern hemisphere, and which continue to shape the idea of winter that lies deep in our cultural...
Position(s) is a retrospective and introspective essay on the work of French photographer Antoine d'Agata (Magnum Photos) known for images that are often raw or crude, sometimes pornographic or violent, but always captivating. One way or another these images always provoke strong reactions from the public.124 pages - Softcover Avarie, 2012 New - Mint...
The Americans List (by the glow of the...
.Sold out.Presentation by Red Hook Editions : "While working as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Jason Eskenazi began to ask photographers he knew visiting the exhibition "Looking In : Robert Frank's The Americans", to choose their favorite image and why. In the years since he quit, as he himself got back out on the road again...
Signs of the Times, a Portrait of the...
72 pages - Softcover Cornerhouse, 1992 2nd-hand - VG+
This satirical red book compiles some of the images accumulated by João Rocha between 2010 and 2011 on a Tumblr. The artist simply selected images of the Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il among the photographs provided by the official PR agency of North Korea. These images from insignificant and trivial events or visits - where considered on by one - are frankly...
.Sold out.A beautiful object, a unique theme, a homogeneous series, simple and improbable at the same time, delusional pictures, this book is a small UFO! Signed by the author!This series shows images of Tiane Doan na Champassak's father, photographed in the 60s in a Los Angeles studio, during a presentation session of the dance moves of the time.To the...
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