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.Sold out. Presentation by Loose Joints: " Bastard Countryside collects together 15 years worth of exploration within the British landscape, dwelling on what Victor Hugo called the bastard countryside: « somewhat ugly but bizarre, made up of two different natures ». Friend's large-format colour images scrutinise these in-between, unkempt, and often...
Borders of Nothingness - On the Mend
Presentation on the artist's website: " « In the infinite flow of everything, people come and go in our lives. While the presence of some can be so subtle that we hardly register when it begins or ends, with others it's far clearer: they enter, or leave, with a bang. In her delicate and powerful series of black and white images, Dutch photographer...
70,00 €Out of stockPresentation by the(M) éditions: " Casa Azul is part of a socio-visual research about the life stories of five trans women imprisoned in one of the male penitentiaries in Mexico City. The project shows the process of identity construction and corporal practices of people whose bodies are considered doubly abject: due to their identity and to their...
56,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Dewi Lewis: " Give My Regards To Elizabeth is a record of Peter Bialobrzeski's time in England in the early 1990s, when having finished his studies at the Folkwang School, Essen he was awarded a one year DAAD stipend at London College of Communication. Germany was then experiencing a booming, optimistic post-unification economy whilst the...
36,00 €In StockPresentation by André Frère: " In many beliefs there is an alternate world that exists between what we are taught is real and what lies beyond. Piotr Zbierski seeks to explore pathways between these two realities by crafting an impressionistic visual record of humanity. He has travelled extensively, focusing on a number of different communities,...
38,00 €Out of stockPresentation based on the IIKKI Books website: [adaptation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " Through a Vulnerable Occur is a dialogue between artists Sophie Gabrielle and Seabuckthorn. Sophie Gabrielle is a young Australian photographer. Through her fine art practice, she has channelled her interest in mythology, spiritualism and psychology. Her poetic works...
42,00 €In StockPresentation by Skinnerboox: " Immediately after Zuma I made some rather straightforward photographs of the abandoned MGM Studios New York City back lot, in Culver City, Los Angeles. These were in black and white. I then decided to try something entirely different and around 1980 I started a body of work about things you can't photograph: Gravity,...
45,00 €Out of stockPresentation by L'Artiere: " « I photographed August Song during summers 2013-2018 in rural parts of Sweden; venues hidden in the woods on the outskirts of the villages. A winding road leading into the forest, hidden away on its own and divided by a fence from the world out there / the outside world. At the back, a stage with an orchestra playing...
45,00 €Out of stockPresentation by André Frère Editions: " The intimate portrait of a city on the brink of a change. Istanbul, as you never seen it before. With the book Güle Güle (« goodbye » in Turkish) we’ll take you on a surprising journey through the immense city of Istanbul, rapidly changing, bursting of energy and contrasts. Photographs are the result of our multiple...
36,00 €In StockEarly Sunday Morning (*signed print*)
PLEASE NOTE: THIS BOOK IS "ACTIVATED" ONLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF TECHNICAL TESTS!THE BOOK IS NOT AVAILABLE, PLEASE DO NOT PROCEED TO PURCHASE IT (YOUR ORDER WOULD BE CANCELLED) Presentation by RRB Photobooks: " The book is made up of over 90 largely unpublished images, each one selected from a cache of five hundred negatives which have sat unseen for over...
69,00 €Out of stock.Copies of the 2nd printing of this books are now in stock!. Presentation by Steidl: " When Life magazine asked Gordon Parks to illustrate a recurring series of articles on crime in the United States in 1957, he had already been a staff photographer for nearly a decade, the first African American to hold this position. Parks embarked on a six-week journey...
55,00 €Out of stockWe Have No Place to Be 1980-1982
.Last copy!. Presentation by Session Press: " We Have No Place to Be (originally published by Soshisha in 1982) launched Hashiguchi's illustrious 40-year career, and remains widely regarded as one of the photographer's seminal early works. This new edition from Session Press, supervised and edited by Hashiguchi himself, is comprised of 139 black and...
85,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Fw: Books: " This is the third publication in which Awoiska probes deeply into the essence of the remote unspoiled natural worlds where her images are created. The book is published alongside the music composition The Living Mountain written by Thomas Larcher as composer-in-residence at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (2019-2020). The...
36,00 €In StockLes Mois Noirs (*shrinkwrapped / imperfect*)
.LAST COPY!. Presentation by Editions 77: [ adapted by L'Ascenseur Végétal - Full text in English on the publisher's website ] " « I encountered the land of the Bigouden, in Brittany, only a few days after meeting my partner, Catherine. I was in my twenties, we had just decided to spend our life together and I had already had to go to Malaysia for...
40,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Stanley / Barker: " When Judith Black moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1979 with her four children, a friend asked her if they were going to be all right there. Frankly, she didn't know. They had just moved into a dilapidated apartment in a neighborhood that the real estate lady admitted was as good as they were going to find. The...
46,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Stanley / Barker: " Beginning in 1976, the American photographer GARY GREEN immersed himself in New York City's burgeoning downtown music scene. By day a photographer's assistant, he spent his nights at Max's Kansas City and CBGB documenting some of the decade's most iconic musicians and figures. Included in this collection are Lou Reed,...
30,00 €In StockD'ici, ça ne paraît pas si loin
.Available. Presentation by Le bec en l'air : [all texts in the book in French only] " D'ici, ça ne paraît pas si loin is the story of a map of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, an administrative one, one that is essential. It is a map with hazy borders, which raises questions: is it a territory in its own right? Does it federate its inhabitants? It combines...
35,00 €In StockI Often Be Asked How I Get Models (*signed*)
.Available. Presentation of this zine by the artist: « I often be asked how I get models, this book is about that. » Signed in ink by the artist. Includes a tipped-in bookmark-format half-sheet with the text of a typical conversation with a person in the street, and the artist's stamp. PLEASE NOTE: - This is handmade zine, with possible small...
30,00 €Out of stock.Last copy!. Presentation by Libraryman: " Tadaima by Annemarieke van Drimmelen is an intimate portrait in respect to the heartache and its beauty of a journey homeward. At age ten Annemarieke acquired a camera for the first time, her mothers, merely after her passing. By picking up the camera she was adept to perceive her mother slightly better by...
75,00 €Out of stockFrom the preface by François Cheval: " Lucile Boiron explores and exhausts fragments of flesh, these moments when human nature appears for what it is, that is, perishable. Far from making an inventory of the feeling of revulsion, she questions the body’s biological truth, and attempts a photographic answer to the issue of good and bad taste. Bodies, to...
75,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Libraryman: " John Balsom's first book Diamond Cross evokes an intimate and poignant contemplation and self-examination through the religious part of American West culture. With its enduring and symbolic icon of the cowboy, which has predominantly been characterised through centuries in the media as gunfighters on horseback, the series...
48,00 €In StockIconography - XXV Figures of Jeanne Damas
Presentation by Libraryman: " In the expression « aesthetic canon » which structures the standard of beauty, the term « canon » refers to the idea of « rule ». These rules, however, inscribed nowhere, enact in a changing way the representation of the beauty in its dimensions certainly aesthetic but also cultural and social. Jeanne Damas is a so called...
42,00 €Out of stockDeeper Shades 6 LISBON (*signed*)
.Two new copies with obi + booklet available. Presentation by João Miguel Barros, curator of the exhibition « Deeper Shades, Lisbon and Other Cities » held during the spring 2020 at Museu Coleção Berardo : " LOOKING AT THE CITY Andreas H. Bitesnich has built up a systematic and coherent body of work around particular cities. He began in 2011 with New...
Presentation by the photographer Regina Anzenberger: " Just as the ashes of the recently deceased dog, Shakeera, were about to be scattered around her favorite place, a large white swan appeared in the sky. « Is this the reincarnation of our beloved white dog? » the artist and her 13-year-old dog sitter, Leila, wondered, sadly. But as it turned out...
56,00 €In StockSmall God, Big City (*signed*)
Presentation by Peperoni Books: " For Michael Wolf Hong Kong is a lifelong love affair. With its outstanding architecture, vital dynamics and rich vernacular culture Hong Kong was the inspiration and starting point for his ever growing body of work about life in megacities and some of the most important series have been created here. But Michael Wolf is...
195,00 €In StockThe Land in Between (*English*)
.Sold out. Presentation by Mack Books: " Ursula Schulz-Dornburg's The Land in Between presents the complex bond between landscape and human civilization, exploring the construction of power though the built environment and its inevitable impermanence. By looking back at areas of past historical or political importance her images highlight how conflict,...
Presentation by RVB Books: " The book Damaged Inc. is the result of a long-term project that mixes screen shots, photographs and sculptures reproduction. During several years, from race tracks to parking lots or bare farm fields - French artist David de Beyter followed the « Big Bangers » in the north of Europe. They describe themselves as a community...
25,00 €In StockPresentation by FotoEvidence (publisher of the English edition): " 46750 is a visual account of the Rio de Janeiro last decade, a portrait of the so-called « wonder city », with all its contrasts and complexities. 46,750 is also the number of homicides that occurred in Rio de Janeiro's metropolitan area during the decade between 2007 and 2016, the time...
49,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Presentation by Delpire : " This publication brings together the work of two major Belgian artists. In a unique approach, the photographer and the writer are offering their vision of Belgium. The vivid colors and the poignant gaze of the former merging with the poetry of the latter, they are offering us a powerful piece, where their...
.Sold out. Presentation by Chose Commune : " Howling Winds is the fifth chapter of Vasantha Yogananthan's long-term project A Myth of Two Souls, which offers a contemporary retelling of The Ramayana. A seven-chapter tale first recorded by the Sanskrit poet Valmiki around 300 BC, The Ramayana is one of the founding epics of Hindu mythology and has been...
Presentation by Editions Bessard: " From death masks in the Middle Ages through to paintings in the 19th century, and photography in the 21st century, portraits have been the constitution of both an intimate space and a space of appearance under social control. Portraits make the face, a part of the body, into object for individual and collective...
66,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Editions Bessard: " What is this body wearing traces of my pregnancy, my plumpness, my body deformity where only the slightest change can lead to mental distress? Who is this stranger with whom I mutate, finding ourselves in a cellular osmosis evolving together, speaking to each other through our skin, losing ourselves, trusting each...
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