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.A few copies back in stock!. Publisher's presentation of the project: "Rasclose by Geoffroy Mathieu is the first of the three residencies initiated by Lumière d’Encre focused on the coastal rivers of the Oriental Pyrenees : The Tech, The Têt and The Agly. The photographs were taken between February and September 2012 in the Tech Valley." This book is...
18,00 €In StockIn Pastoral / Moscow Suburbs, Alexander Gronsky explores the outer limits of the city of Moscow, in places where the bedroom communities border on the countryside and the forest.This is a great series; at the same time a document on urbanism, a portrait of a population, and a chronicle of the life in the far out low-income suburbia of our western...
42,00 €Out of stockbe Berlin is a walk in the city of Berlin using pinhole photography (in Black & White and in colour). We are taken more specifically to the less interesting and somewhat derelict neighborhoods, where old factory buildings with broken windows are walled-up and covered in tags. The city is seen from an unusual and original standpoint in this very...
16,00 €In StockHave you ever heard of "Gangnam Style"? Of the South-Korean singer and "k-pop" ambassador Psy?No? First, that is very surprising, and consequently, this book may not be for you... or may be it still is!So, one night at a fashion event called "080 Barcelona Fashion 2013", Denis Carré, self-proclaimed "double" of Psy, triggers a general frenzy in the public...
22,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Ping Pong Conversations is a long, friendly conversation between Alec Soth, one of the most prominent artist of this time, and the Italian curator and critic Francesco Zanot. Analyzing his most famous photographs as well as others that have been published or are virtually unknown, Soth reflects upon his career as a...
24,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation:"Grace and John comes from the collaboration between the photographer Patrícia Almeida and the performers Cláudia Dias and António Pedro Lopes at the time they were rehearsing the play "Where Does the Light Go when it's Off" by the Portuguese choreographer João Fiadeiro. Through daily rehearsals, the performers started to create...
15,00 €In StockMy Brother Guillaume and Sonia
.Back in stock!. Artist's presentation: "I started taking pictures of my brother Guillaume and his partner Sonia in 2008; both living behind closed doors with the alcohol addiction. In this closed doors where I found my place and felt good, I photographed their relationship, the intimate moments, happy or unhappy, that I share with them. Unfortunately...
42,00 €Out of stockStanley Greene started taking pictures of the punk and rock scenes in 1975, at a time when he had roommates who played in some of the bands... It was San Francisco, these musicians were often artists as well, and after some time, when they needed images of their performances to be included in magazine articles, they naturally turned to their roommate. In...
54,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation : "The Grey Line is a reflection on war told from the perspective of US and UK soldiers who have spoken out against the Iraq War. Publication marks 10 years since the invasion of Iraq. Photographer Jo Metson Scott began the project after meeting a young American soldier who had been denied Conscientious Objective status...
Stormbelt is a book about the decline, sometimes the dereliction, of this wide portion of American land called the "Sun Belt", which - until the end of the 90s - was a symbol of the American economic might. Recession and natural disasters (drought, hurricanes, forest fires) have hit hard on this area, from the East to the West coast. Robert Leslie looks...
38,00 €Out of stockWith the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States have been signing nearly 300,000 new recruits each year since 9/11, as they need to face an important turnover among the troops. In Volunteer, Paul Seawright draws the portrait of the young recruits of the US Army, but we have to "read between the lines": instead of photographing the young recruits,...
30,00 €Out of stockBottrop-Ebel 76 is a re-reading of one of Michael Wolf's student project. In this body of work, the artist documented life in a small mining town in the Ruhr District, a region he new quite well for having lived some time there. This "early" series (he was 22 at the time) shades a different light on Michael Wolf's work, as we are mostly familiar with his...
45,00 €Out of stockéléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation...
.Currently out of stock.Full title : "éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation contemporaine d'un village français de deux mille huit cent trente neuf habitants - volume 3"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...
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.Sold out.Titre complet : "éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation contemporaine d'un village français de deux mille huit cent trente neuf habitants - volume 2"L'artiste a photographié la ville où il réside, Noyers-sur-Cher, et publie en une série de 10 livrets ce travail documentaire qui se veut en quelque sorte être un exemple représentatif de la...
.Last copy. A surprising and tragic yet beautiful images of an environmental disaster that took place in Hungary in 2010. A dam containing the toxic waste of an aluminum plant brike and the liquid spilled off into the surrounding countryside, flooding two villages, fields and forest. The images were taken a few months after the catastrophy.With a text by...
25,00 €Out of stockFrom the publisher :"The vision of Ciociaria that Douglas Stockdale presents in this book remains way further from grandiose than picturesque, in line with the desire to reject stereotypes of landscape and cultural anthropology. Observing the region through a careful eye of a ‘flaneur’ photographer, almost an ideal recreation of what once were the...
35,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Strangely familiar is the first publication of Peter Mitchell's celebrated work about his home city of Leeds that he photographed in his rounds as a driver in the 70's.A body of work that has been exhibited quite often - including in the famous "How We Are: Photographing Britain" at the Tate Britain in 2007 - but that never appeared in a book...
Salaryman Project 2014 (*w/ print*)
.Sold out.Salaryman Project is an ongoing series by Bruno Quinquet, who publishes each year a business schedule with his images of working men in the streets of Tokyo. In this work, we discover the atmosphere and the evolution of the city around the year and the seasons. We follow the inhabitants and workers - always faceless for rights issues - in the...
For Birds of the West Indies (a tribute name to the actual James Bond, the ornithologist), Taryn Simon has photographed everyone and everything that has made and still makes the world of the James Bond movie franchise in the manner of a biologist or an archivist. The catalogue of images alone is really interesting. But in these pictures of weird things,...
45,00 €In Stock_08.08 Operating Theatre (*signed*)
_08: 08 Operating Theater contains 7 images; 7 operating rooms photographed with a view camera, in one take, exactly 5 minutes after the end of an operation ...The author exploited the English term for an "operating theater", a terminology inherited from the first universities of medical education where the surgeons operated in amphitheatres.And it is...
60,00 €Out of stockThe hill that wasn't (*signed*)
The hill that wasn't is a series of beautiful and peaceful images of the weeds on a small hill, a pile of dirt, in front of which Stefan Vanthuyne had been passing for a long time when he decided to stop and take pictures, only to realise - a few days later - that it had been removed and flattened...Stefan Vanthuyne makes a connection between this...
22,00 €Out of stock.LAST copy of the two we stumbled upon recently in our stock: NEW, shrinkwrapped and in mint condition!. The images in this book are quite wild ! Russian youths: teenagers and misfits Igor Samolet takes us in the life of a group of young Russians, whose days and nights revolve around alcohol, acting nonsense and sex, adrift in some apparently derelict...
45,00 €Out of stockPrésentation de l'éditeur : "Claire Tenu a travaillé pendant deux ans à Cherbourg. La ville que nous voyons désigne non seulement cette ville en particulier, vue à travers le livre, mais aussi toute ville, dont la découverte renouvelle une expérience semblable de la vision. Dans cette expérience, l'espace concret se superpose à un espace imaginaire. Dans...
27,00 €In StockThe Widest Prairies (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation : "The Widest Prairies features a new series by Charlotte Dumas on the wild horses of Nevada, showing a cinematographic portrayal of these undomesticated animals as they roam the fringes of the foothills into the residential areas of the desert population where peoples and animals paths cross. This proximity has created new...
48,00 €In StockSworn Virgins is a series of portraits of women from Northern Albania who vowed to remain virgins their whole life, in order to be allowed - following ancient rules of their community - to assume the role of patriarch of this community, becoming in the process "men-women". The respect these women are shown within their communities is really clear in Pepa...
50,00 €In Stock.Sold out. After We English, Simon Roberts follows in the same tracks of visual documentation of England's (and Britain's) specific elements : what makes England, England, and Britain, Britain. For the Pierdom project, the artist photographed each of the 58 remaining piers of Britain, in a very still manner, like if it were a work of portraiture. Only the...
.Sold out. Anatopées is a journey, a quest, a graphic and esthetic obsession.For many years, after observing graphic similarities in images of very different natures, Arnaud Lesage has been looking for a certain shape or form in his numerous trips. This book is the result of this extensive quest, presented in a simple yet superb "Leporello" design...
96 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Kominek Books, 2013 *Signed* New - Mint conditionFirst Journey Home is the result of Misha Kominek's travels throughout Poland, made in 1997 after his graduation from university; his first trip alone to his homeland, after leaving it with his family for Germany when he was twelve. Misha Kominek shoots a galery of portraits...
38,00 €In StockMars - Une exploration photographique
Mars - Une exploration photographique is the French edition of the book This is Mars released simultaneously by Aperture (not offered by L'Ascenseur Végétal). The French publishing house is actually that of the man behind this project : Xavier Barral. This book is IN FRENCH ONLY. The book is an incredible B & W journey on the surface of planet Mars....
79,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Ouvrage de référence sur le photographe chilien Sergio Larrain (Magnum Photos), qui - bien que n'ayant été actif qu'entre 1949 et 1971 - restera comme l'un des grands maîtres de la photographie de rue et du noir et blanc. L'artiste a été honoré d'une rétrospective aux Rencontres d'Arles 2013 et une exposition différente présente son travail...
Skeletons in the Closet (*signed*)
All the images in Skeletons in the Closet were made in the basements and storage areas of the Museum of Natural History in Vienna (Austria). One evening, from the street outside, Klaus Pichler spots a stuffed antelope in an office from a lit-up window; that was a regular office room, with shelves, a computer, etc. It is this single occurrence of what the...
30,00 €Out of stock.PLEASE NOTE: All texts in French only in this book. Photographe et vidéaste, Édith Roux nous présente dans Les dépossédés un travail sur la communauté Ouïghour, minorité ethnique turcophone et musulmane du Xinjiang, dans la partie nord-ouest de la Chine. De nombreux travaux liés à l'exploitation des ressources naturelles de cette région, associés à la...
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