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Presentation on the "Archive of Modern Conflict" website, sponsor of the project : "In 1911 an Arctic expedition set sail to rediscover the island of Jan Mayen, which lay off the eastern coast of Greenland. Not all went according to plan, however, and the end result was a series of staged images produced on the shores of Iceland. Using the original...
34,00 €In StockFukushima, Fragments (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation : "March 11th, 2011. Following the earthquake that rocks the Pacific Coast of Tohoku, 30-meter waves devastate Japan's inner lands. Carrying along his Geiger counter, Kosuke Okahara walked through these wounded areas. His images allow us to enter a world crowded with ghosts, and to grasp a reality that lost its colors."Bilingual...
50,00 €Out of stockPueblos sin retrato (*signed*)
Presentation on François Mouriès' website: "The vast and arid deserts of the southern province of Spanish Navarre, selected by Terry Gillian for his disastrous « Don Quixote », seem to have rubbed off on a handful of villages that border it. The landmarks there are distorted. No noticeable features mark the silent streets where shuttered houses are...
45,00 €In StockPresentation on Jacek Fota's website : "The Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw – less and less a symbol of Stalinist domination, more and more an icon of the city. It evokes strong emotions all the while remaining largely unexplored, and as such a tad alien. At the time of planning, in 1952, the monumental structure was intended to transform the...
50,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "春爛漫 Haru Ranman, in Japanese, means « Spring in full bloom ». But there are two sides to every story. What happens in Tokyo in Spring? Underground is still where the ant farm is, a giant hub where everybody transits. Above the ground, the melody is different – and in the coming night, screens and fantasies mix to build a...
39,00 €In StockPresentation on the artist's website: "A middle-sized city in the center of Poland, halfway between the mountains and the Baltic Sea. Neither rich, nor really poor, with a typical history of a region’s industrial capital which blossomed in the time of state socialism and lost that position after 1989. Such places evolve in a very special way. With...
30,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "It looks as if the body extends its functionality and physicality beyond the subject. As if the only way to feel the world is by applying the humane affects to every visible structure. So that every liquid is seen as if it comes from body, every crack - as if it is a scar…Here Nausea as an idea of corporal experience which...
24,00 €Out of stockNow I wanna be your dog ! (*signed*)
.Back in stock.Presentation by Média Immédiat: "In the beginning of the 90's Morten Andersen was student at the ICP (International Center of Photography) in New York together with his friend Antoine D'Agata. The photographer exhumed for this mini book the portraits he made of Antoine during their student years in the Big Apple. Unpublished to date, these...
15,00 €In StockLetzte Generation Ost (*w/ signed print*)
Presentation by the artist : "The narrative book Letzte Generation Ost deals with various lifes of a generation who were born in the final years of the GDR. Central place in the photographic exploration of the different biographies was the housing area in Hagenow in east Germany where the photographer and their protagonists were growing up together. Their...
75,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "« When it is all over, a few of the wrecked buildings might well be left as permanent ruins… To posterity they will as effectually represent the dissolution of our pre-war civilisation as Fountains Abbey does the dissolution of the monasteries. » From the preface to The Architecture of Destruction, by John Piper...
56,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "Laurent Chardon's Dédale includes various series of photographs taken during the years 2003 to 2013 and documents a Paris and its surroundings in transformation. If as indicated by the legend, Daedalus is the inventor of architecture and sculpture, the new Paris area that draws us here makes no longer any distinction between...
30,00 €Out of stockPresentation on the artist's website: "Devotos, Toni Amengual's second self-published book, aims to portray the Spanish democratic system. Forty photographs divided in two blocks (left and right) are displayed opposed due to the leporello binding of the publication. Forty photographs that show the faces, the bodies and the emotions of those who around May...
45,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "Made over a four year period defined by economic uncertainty, increased worker insecurity and the decline of traditional work practices, Union responds to how the institutions of organised labor, designed to protect workers from exploitation in the nineteenth century, have responded to the crisis of today. Bowler's photographs...
48,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "This book is a trip! I never thought that I would publish another book with pictures from India. Until Pierre Defaix showed up with his photos from Kolkata. So strong. Took 5 minutes and it was clear, that this must become a Peperoni Book. Now it's done and it's damn good. Let's don't talk about when and how Pierre did it, let`s...
45,00 €Out of stockWARNING : Reduced price because the remaining copies have one bumped corner.Retrospective monography covering James Barnor's career.Short biography of James Barnor on the publisher's website : "Born in 1929 in Accra, James Barnor is considered a pioneer of Ghanaian photography. James Barnor’s career bridges continents and photographic genres to create a...
42,00 €Out of stockMaydan – Hundred Portraits (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation : "Maidan Nezalezhnosti is the name of the main square in the centre of Kiev that became the theatre of pro-EU, anti-government demonstrations at the end of 2013. The protests united thousands of Ukrainians who were tired of the government’s corruption and the Russian grip on their country. After three months the situation...
29,00 €Out of stockLa Banlieue de Paris (1ère edition)
.Copy sold.We are offering a rare copy of one of the most sought-after and most important photobooks : "La banlieue de Paris", with texts by Blaise Cendrars and photographs by Robert Doisneau, in the scarce first edition with dustjacket (Seghers, 1949).This book is listed in "The Photobook: A History volume I" by Martin Parr & Gerry Badger.Four texts...
895,00 €How to be... A Photographer in Four...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation : "In early 2012, an old analog photobooth was installed in Brussels, in a cultural center located near the home of Thomas Vanden Driessche, documentary photographer and member of the group « Out Of Focus ». Following in the footsteps of artists like Topor, he decided to use this medium and its constraints to tell...
Publisher's presentation: "Will Steacy spent five years photographing the newsroom and printing plant of The Philadelphia Inquirer. Through a depiction of The Inquirer's efforts to prevail despite shrinking advertising revenue, falling circulation, lay-offs, buy-outs, and bankruptcy, Steacy reveals the challenges and harsh realities that confront the...
20,00 €In StockPresentation by Jiazazhi: "Until Death Do Us Part focuses on the unexpected role cigarettes play in Chinese weddings. As a token of appreciation, it is customary for the bride to light a cigarette for each and every man invited. The bride and the groom are then invited to play some cigarette-smoking games of an unprecedented ingenuousness. This...
36,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "By putting together the two extremes of childhood Pony Congo brings to the surface the shameful coexistence of two stereotypical realities. With a series of diptychs the viewer is confronted with the extreme depiction of strongly opposed routines. On one hand the stress of the wealthy for gaining recognition and social status...
33,00 €In StockPresentation by the artist: "This book is PART 3 of The Himalayan Project, a collection of artist's books designed with Philippe Koeune as different installations, embracing the city of Kathmandu where I lived with my small family and the nature of the Himalayas with a strong and dreamy empathy. DZOGCHEN is a colorful, dense and challenging photo book,...
300,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "La La Land is the first book by photographer Chus Antón, but more than a photobook it is a travel book. Not a travel guide, although it is that too, but a travel book in the Petrarca’s Mont Ventoux tradition. Travelling to live things, travelling to tell things, and above all travelling to see things. I want to climb that...
39,00 €In StockNo Photos (*signed / imperfect*)
Presentation on Tiane Doan na Champassak's website : "All photographs were taken in the red-light district of Amsterdam. The title No Photos has different meanings. First, the forbidden act to photograph the sex workers in their environment. Secondly, the images are printed on very old photographic papers which are fading away even further in the book...
15,00 €In StockPresentation on the artist's website : "On January 25, 2011, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets across the country demanding the fall of Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, who had ruled the country for nearly 30 years. This was only the beginning. More than four years on, الشعب (The People) chronicles how citizens in the Arab world’s largest...
28,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "Fashioned as we are by Western values, we take pleasure in observing, ironically and delightedly, the simulacra of Korean happiness. But who are we to judge their happiness? The great strength of this album is that it sows doubt in our mind. These couples, these families, these men and women presented in the intimacy of their...
38,00 €In Stock.A few UNsigned copies available, from the first edition.Publisher's presentation : "Bottom of the Lake is a 256-page facsimile of the artist's family's telephone book for his hometown of Fond du Lac ("Bottom of the Lake"), printed in 1973, soon after his birth. The book includes found markings and reproductions of inserted materials, along with...
48,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation : "Salitre :1. Saline Substance, particularly abundant in soil and walls2. When sailing, the mixture of sweat and salt that sticks to the skin3. Lavapiés Street (Madrid) where twelve Senegalese immigrants lives in an overcrowded house4. Collective photography and publishing experience resulting in a box of 12 + 1 books...
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...
.Sold out.Catalogue of the exhibition Total Records - The Great Adventure of Album Cover Photography at the Rencontres d'Arles festival 2015, sold out by the publisher.Presentation on the festival's website: "A history of photography through the prism of the vinyl record: both media, which left their mark on the 20th century, were combined in all their...
49,00 €Presentation on the project's website : "Atlantus is a transoceanic photography project between Marlin Toft and Gareth Syvret at « Archisle: the Jersey Contemporary Photography Programme », hosted by the « Societe Jersiaise Photographic Archive » on the Island of Jersey. Prompted in part by the 350th anniversary in 2014 of Sir George Carteret naming of...
15,00 €In StockLife is One Live it Well (*signed*)
256 pages - Hardcover Kominek Books, 2015 (375 copies) *Signed* New - Mint conditionPublisher's presentation: "Life is One Live it Well takes us back to the dodgy area of St. Georg in Hamburg and to many of its barrooms: Mickey Mouse, Windstärke 11, Zum Frühaufsteher, Rund um die Uhr, Moin Moin, Treff Hamburg-München, also the Vanessa Bar, Dschungel...
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