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éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation...
Full title : "éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation contemporaine d'un village français de deux mille huit cent trente neuf habitants - volume 6"The artist photographed the small city where he lives, Noyers-sur-Cher, and publishes in a series of 10 booklets this documentary work about a place that could be considered a fair example of the average...
15,00 €In Stock.Last copy!. Publisher presentation : "In this publication, Paul Seawright explores the theatre of war through the internal landscape of the US television news studio. Developing Virilio's theories about electronic warfare and weapons of mass communication, Seawright focuses here upon the illusory nature of these spaces where information is selectively...
25,00 €Out of stockGomma Books' presentation : "1975. Okinawa, Japan. The Vietnam War has just ended.Koza City is where the Kadena U.S. Air Force base is located.The B-52s that attacked North Vietnam took off from here. With the end of the war the city becomes the epicenter of a celebrative rush that lasts for a few years.The city experiences a momentary crazed and raucous...
49,00 €Out of stock.Last TWO copies!. Publisher's presentation: "John Gossage made the images in Nothing during a month-long visit to The Kingdom in 1985 when he was the guest of a Saudi prince. Describing Nothing, Gossage said, «You can sometimes go so far from home, and what you know, that your pictures have to teach you what they are about. In this case that process took...
85,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "El Jebha (El Frente en espagnol) is a small coastal town in the foothills of the Rif Mountains of northern Morocco. Known as Puerto Capaz during the Spanish Protectorate, El Jebha is and was a privileged witness to the recent history of co-existence between Spain and Morocco. «The photographs are not the final goal of our work...
25,00 €In StockAbove and Below (*w/ signed print*)
Excerpts from the text included in the book : "Above and Below is a reference to the title of a work by Mark Lewis which he made in Sao Paolo in 2014: Above and Below the Minhocão. The film was shot in the city centre and its subject is an elevated motorway that crosses the city. The motorway, nowadays, is closed to traffic on weekday evenings and all day...
52,00 €In StockPresentation by Ediciones Anómalas: "The Bonavista quarter is a complex and heterogeneous territory whose origin lies in rural emigration from Andalusia and Extremadura. Located on the outskirts of Tarragona, where the city converges with the countryside, the infrastructures and the petrochemical industry, it shares the complex chaotic look of similar...
27,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock.Presentation by Peperoni: "This book has been published before as part of the two-book set Hong Kong Inside Outside, which is completely sold out. Now Architecture of Density comes in a new edition as a stand alone book. Focused on the specific visual elements Michael Wolf has depicted high density living in one of the world’s most crowded...
36,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "With over 200 images of t-shirt ‘messages’, T: A Typology of T-shirts looks at those individuals who stand out in a crowd through their choice of the message on their back. These photographs are not just about the T-shirt. With their combination of pictures and words these messages reveal much about the identity of the wearer....
34,00 €In StockFull title : The Black Photo Album / Look at Me: 1890–1950Publisher's presentation: "For this book Santu Mofokeng collected private photographs which urban black working and middle-class families in South Africa commissioned between 1890 and 1950, a time when the government was creating policies towards those designated as «natives». Painterly in style,...
34,00 €Out of stockLooking for M. (*signed w/ Print*)
Presentation of the project by the artist (full text in the "More Info" tab) : " (...) In 1997, I visited the Museu da Revolução in Maputo. As a history student, the exhibitions depicting the struggle for independence were enormously fascinating. An old warrior, dressed in rags, worked as attendant and led me around as the sole visitor of this deplorably...
35,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Hide and seek / Al Escondite is the second installment in Cristóbal Hara’s collection The trivial essays. The language of photography, especially that which aims to be documentary photography, is subject to a multitude of rules and conventions. Cristóbal Hara’s work is devoted to the search for ways to escape those conventions....
18,00 €Out of stock.Last copy!. Publisher's presentation: "Ontem (yesterday in Portuguese), is the result of a work of several years during which André Cepeda was interested in the life of the inhabitants of Porto, photographing landscapes, interiors, and portraits.The photographer, concerned by poverty and social injustice, has interfered in these small neighborhoods...
36,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Stephen Shore is a pioneering photographer and influential teacher. From Galilee to the Negev is an intimate portrait of a multi-faceted place, exploring the landscape of Israel and the West Bank; its complexities and its contradictions. Shore travelled the length and breadth of the region, questioning and revealing through his...
65,00 €In StockMaidan - Portraits from the Black Square
Publisher's presentation: "Maidan - Portraits from the Black Square by Anastasia Taylor-Lind is a series of portraits of anti-government protestors and mourners made in a makeshift photographic studio in Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), Kiev during February 2014. When Taylor-Lind arrived in central Kiev on February 1st, 2014, Independence...
49,00 €In Stock.In stock. First volume in a collection of long-format interviews made by writer, editor and journalist Rémi Coignet with photographers and leading figures of the photography and photobook publishing world. Among other interviews in this volume: Lewis Baltz, JH Engström, Paul Graham, Rob Hornstra, Pieter Hugo, Daido Moriyama, Michael Mack, Mathieu Pernot,...
20,00 €Out of stockDavid Goldblatt is a long interview (texts in English) with the artist, analysing his career, his work process and the body of work produced, its significance in the medium.Presentation of the series, and of this first book, by the publisher: "PHOTOGRAPHERS’ REFERENCES is a book collection of in-depth interviews with established photographers. Created in...
20,00 €Out of stockPpresentation by Editions du LIC / Skinnerboox: "Big Sky Hunting, the debut volume by Italian photographer Alberto Sinigaglia, presents a voyage to the edge of representational space. 'Hunting' used not in the sense of the killing of animals by man, but as an expression of man’s dominance over this space: An expression of man’s atavistic obsession with...
60,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "An intimate portrait of Russian women in their private spaces. Andy Rocchelli started to travel to Russia in 2010; there he spent a considerable amount of time working as a freelance photographer. During this time he covered several stories in different places. The book Russian Interiors, however, sees the light as...
.Back in stock.Presentation on the artist's website : "Ibidem is a project about globalization, about the lack and the loss of roots, about the mutation of cities. I started this project in New York in 2002 after realizing that the pictures I took at the time could have been shot in some of the other cities I had lived in. Back to Milan I confirmed my...
45,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "In 1930, duck farmer Martin Maurer from Flanders, Long Island, decided to construct a giant duck-shaped shop to sell the Peking ducks he raised to motorists passing by. In 1972, in the book Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott-Brown, and Steven Izenour, studying the architecture of that city, outlined 2 main...
32,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation (excerpt): "L’univers d’Oliver Sieber explore la contre-culture de groupes sociaux, jeunes pour la plupart, qui fréquentent des clubs où se produisent des formations musicales au style affirmé. De cette subculture, qui se vit à l’échelle de la planète, nous connaissons aujourd’hui la forme visuelle développée par ses...
Tauromaquia by Julián Barón is an open edition, but the singed and numbered copies offered here are from a print run of 200 copies made during a "one day printing show" as part of an exhibition at P2P during PhotoEspaña 2014. This edition is almost sold out by the artist. Two other editions of 200 copies have been made : one for the exhibition "Lonja del...
25,00 €In StockThe Mecca of Coney Island (*signed*)
Presentation on the publisher's website of Fabrizio Albertini's photobook: "In the opening scenes of the first «Rocky» (1976), Balboa is always holding a handball ball. For the aspiring boxer, a perfect archetype of the crude and penniless hero and destined to achieve the ‘American dream’, that is probably a simple exercise to train reflexes and a form of...
25,00 €In StockA Question of England (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation: "As a small boy, John Comino-James stood in school cap and Sunday suit to have his snapshot taken under flags put up for Queen Elizabeth's Coronation. The resultant photograph resonates with an England long since disappeared, yet still fertile in the imagination. That sense of how that England has changed is the focus in John...
42,00 €In Stock.Sold out. As presented by Éditions du Lic : "Comprising of images taken between 2010 and 2011 in the Mennonite colonies of Santa Cruz, in Eastern Bolivia, Los Menonos presents a portrait of a community of self-styled, self-willed outsiders that have voyaged out into the wilderness of a foreign land to escape that which may yet prove to be inescapable:...
Zine N° 17 - Reliefs (*w/ signed print*)
In this series Reliefs, Agne presents what could seem to be an obsession: leftovers in a plate after a meal. Described in this manner, the subject is surprising at best, but it is by thoroughly exploring the topic and in the repetition that the body of work gains depth and meaning, as a formal study on a very specific and rather peculiar subject.40 pages...
36,00 €Out of stockPresentation by FIshbar: "Since 1999, American artist Eric Gottesman’s ongoing collaboration with Sudden Flowers, a collective of children living in Addis Ababa, has produced a body of work of profound depth and poetic lightness. In reimagining the harsh realities the children experienced on the streets and in their homes in the wake of their parents'...
59,00 €In StockAnother Twenty-Six Gas Stations (*signed*)
Presentation by In the In-Between: "Gregory Jones' Another Twenty-Six Gas Stations is a new media artist book comprised of twenty-six screen captures culled from gas station surveillance videos found on YouTube. The book blends notions of surveillance, crime photography, advertising, and found text; which together form an incisive dark-humor commentary...
28,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "In 2001, through a grant from the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, Gerry Johansson traveled to the inaccessible and distinct landscape of Antarctica on a research trip for two months. With him on the journey he had a large-format camera and his fearless curiosity. The series of photos eventuate in an unusual reality relevant...
.Available.Presentation on the Paris Photo website: "This book's folio design is shaped by its content: Lithuanian identification photographs from 1946, when citizens were required to get new, Soviet documents. What's distinctive about these images—taken by Vytautus V. Stanionis's father, also named Vytautus—is that, to save money and materials, each...
38,00 €Out of stockExit Ghost is a dark and powerful book that - with explicitly naming the location of shooting - displays in a somber manner the real estate development in Dubai, at the fringes of the city, and the life of the inhabitants and workers.Black & White (tritone) images that suggest more than they show, where blurring (out of focus) and grain of the image...
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