This book received the PRIX NADAR 2022! Presentation by lamaindonne: [Translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " « Siempre que estemos vivos nos veremos » « As long as we are alive, we will see each other » It is the last thing Yair told me. We were on the azotea (roof) of block 11, the fog was engulfing Caracas, the crazy rumor of the city feeling like a dirge....
Presentation by lamaindonne : [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " Georgia, is the name of the boat on which embarked in 1906 a certain Ljubiša Danilovic, a young Montenegrin of nineteen years of age, dreaming of a future full of promises. It is in Butte, a mining town in Montana, that he finally arrived, as many other Montenegrins or Italians at the...
Presentation by Editions lamaindonne: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " « From Berlin to Saint Petersburg, passing through Odessa or Italy, the ultimate location of this photobook is the night. Alisa Resnik crosses it, explores its entrails, on a path to meet it, in the desert streets and landscapes where few stealth figures creep in, in the pale...
Presentation by Editions lamaindonne: [unvetted translation by L'Ascenseur Végétal] " « A major figure of contemporary Swedish photography, Martin Bogren is creating a body of work where the personal and poetic dimension is getting stronger along with a practice of photography that finds its way in a form of path of initiation. For Passenger, even though...
Presentation by éditions lamaindonne: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " With this new photobook, Tropiques, Julien Coquentin delves farther into his familiar themes of childhood, family, territory and otherness. It is after traveling to the French island of La Réunion [in the Indian Ocean, off Madagascar] that he elaborated his new series....
Elegy for the Mundane (*signed*)
Presentation by éditions lamaindonne: [translation by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "For a long time, Gaël Bonnefon had titled his whole photography work About Decline. A corpus of images spreading over more than 10 years, a tribute to the daily and the banal. He explores the little cracks, between visible and invisible, where the daily life reveals its...
.SIGNED copies available again!. Presentation by Editions lamaindonne : [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "« Gilles Roudière belongs to that family of intuitive and sensitive photographers; he does not tell the world as it is, but as he feels it. And in the images of Cuba he brings to us, there is no will to testify, no intention to document. Nothing is...
Presentation by lamaindonne : [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "in 2015, Ljubisa Danilovic piblished Le Désert russe with éditions lamaindonne. The book was very well received by both the public and the critic, and is now long sold out. Three years later, La Lune de Payne, his new book, brings to our eyes a completely different side of the work of...
.Last signed copy, unsigned after that. Presentation by lamaindonne : [translation by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "In 2014, Gabrielle Duplantier published Volta with Editions lamaindonne. The book received critical and public acclaim and is now long sold out. Four years later, Terres basses (Lower Lands) confirms the artist's talent. A journey in a dense and...
.WARNING : We are offering only the French version of this book. An English version will be released by University of Texas Press, but - to our knowledge - it will not be available for distribution outside of the United States. Presentation on the French publisher's website lamaindonne: "Antebellum South: of this appellation which designates the Deep...
Text from the back cover : "My childhood is bounded by a few hills, a few meadows, a forest, a village: a countryside as a playground ... More than the children of a country, we were the children of a landscape. A handful of friends in the heart of a huge territory. Young dogs peeing in the grass and to the wind to mark their territory. Huts, hiding...
україна La frontière (*signed*)
Presentation by the artist on the publisher's website : "Summer 2013. I leave for Ukraine with Florence. No real destination. We're improvising. Kiev. Night train to Crimea. We meet Vlad and Anna at Simferopol. Together, we spend time near the Black Sea. We walk a lot. We sleep outside. It's very hot. We move often. Just the two of us, we go farther into...
Le vent qui a des yeux (*signed*)
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Florence Cats et Joseph Charroy sont venus en Islande en août 2011 et ont décidé de faire le tour de l’île en auto-stop munis d’une tente, d’un carnet de notes et d’un appareil photo. Ce « road trip » a donné naissance à un projet de livre : Le Vent qui a des yeux. Une quarantaine de photographies argentiques couleurs...
.Sold out.Presentation by the artist on lamaindonne's website: "By the year 2050, it is estimated that Russia, the largest country in the world, will decrease its actual population by a third and would have a hundred million citizens. Le Désert russe is my personal photo report around the snowy Russia suggesting this inevitable demographic disaster. I...
Tôt un dimanche matin, journal de Montréal...
.Back in stock.Presentation by Julien Coquentin on the publisher's website:"For two years I photographed Montreal. I wanted to write a poetic of the city and remoteness, an American ride in short. I worked at night in the emergency room of a big hospital and lived in the cosmopolitan district of Mile-End. This America was mixed with my childhood dreams...
Publisher's presentation : "After presenting his vision of Montreal in Early Sunday morning / Journal de Montreal, we discover Julien Coquentin's vision of New York in this photobook.This time, unlike Montreal, it's a short one-week trip. A week to photograph New York is not enough. But it requires being on the lookout, trying to capture every moment that...
Volta (*2nd edition / signed*)
.One new signed copy. Presentation by lamaindonne: "Volta, in Portuguese, can mean all at once and among other things around, return, stroll, ride, but also change. The photographs by Gabrielle Duplantier seem to echo this word : roaming and erratic, crossed by intriguing figures, delicately anchored between reality and fiction. These wanderings always...