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Presentation by GHOST: " « The dogma of those who govern in Lisbon nowadays is that there is no alternative to the system of collective penury signed with the Troika. The Portuguese National Budget for 2013 is a historical watershed. It puts an end to an age by tearing up a contract with a society which, after the Carnation Revolution, dreamed of being...
15,00 €In StockMass is a series of 18 pairs of images presented in a very elaborate book.Mark Power, during a stay in Krakow (Poland) gained access to many churches in the city and the right to photograph the offices from a high position at the end of the nave. Mass consists of 18 shots made in different churches of Krakow, whose interiors are all equally beautiful and...
75,00 €In Stock.Back in stock - French and English versions.Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral: "At the end of the year 1975, Jane Evelyn Atwood, who had recently moved to Paris, produced her first photo report in black and white, with a simple, effective and sensitive style. By meeting a prostitute on Rue des Lombards, she discovered a world in which everything...
46,00 €Out of stockThe series Forbidden City was made using a concealed camera in a swingers club. Bourcart captures mingled bodies, with no real distinction of gender, on the floor or in small pools, bodies in embraces or clasped in a quest for pleasure one could consider animal or mechanical... The people who are there in the pictures are of course here to consume,...
19,50 €Out of stock.Only one copy.Tiane Doan na Champassak (Looters, King of Photography, Tantra, Father of Pop Dance) presents in Credo images of Haiti and India made between 2004 and 2007 around rituals related to cults and beliefs.Faithful to the process of reproduction "Risograph" for his small productions such as Credo (200 ex.), The artist here takes advantage of a...
129,00 €Out of stockFabrik - A Photo Epos of Technology
Presentation by Steidl: "Jakob Tuggener’s Fabrik, published in Zurich in 1943, is considered to be a milestone in the history of photography books. The series of 72 photographs in this Photo Epos of Technology is oriented toward the expressionist aesthetic of the silent movie. It imparts a sceptical view of the destructive potential of unbridled...
49,00 €Out of stockMichael Jang found this series of portraits nearly 30 years after making the pictures. During a casting for a local American channel that offered 5 people the chance to present the weather, he was asked to make a portrait of each candidate after his test in front of the camera.A very simple, almost innocent series, which simply reminds us of the 80s and...
39,00 €In StockRien de mieux que les mots de Bernard Plossu lui-même : "[…] Des photos de ce que la vie apporte comme moments non prévus, des photos qui vous prennent pourrait-on dire, le Nord aussi beau et sauvage que le grand Ouest américain ! Je me suis mis à l'aimer, petit à petit, ce Nord qui rentrait en moi au fur et à mesure que Pierre Devin m'y faisait découvrir...
The Hasselblad Award 2002 - Jeff Wall
Presentation by Steidl: "For over 20 years, Jeff Wall has been developing an outstanding body of work, using photography in an innovative way which has contributed significantly to placing the medium of photography firmly on the map of contemporary art. In his carefully staged and composed images, sometimes digitally altered, placed in back-lit boxes...
79,00 €Out of stockFrom the publisher : "A comparison and photographic panorama of “tables of power” The financial crisis of 2009 shook the global economy to its very foundations. Yet has anything changed at the centers of power since? Do executive suites look different than they used to? And what do they actually look like? A decade ago, Jacqueline Hassink captured images...
55,00 €In StockLa 4ème de couverture est on ne peut plus précise : "Ce livre est le livre d'une passion. Une passion commune à Robert Doisneau et Henri Alekan : la lumière. Ces deux grands maîtres se sont réunis pour la première fois, le 8 juillet 1992, au Théâtre du Ranelagh. Cette rencontre a fait l'objet d'un film. Nous vous proposons la transcription intégrale de...
Please note : the book offered is a French-only version (the book was also printed in the English version Divided Soul which we are not currently offering...)Presentation of Divided Soul on the Magnum website: " David Alan Harvey's Divided Soul is a collection of more than 100 color photographs and personal texts representing his 30-year journey...
25,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Dewi Lewis : "When Elin Høyland heard about two elderly brothers, Harald and Mathias Ramen, living together in Tessanden, a small hamlet in rural Norway, she approached them to see if they would collaborate with her on a photographic project about their lives. The result is a fascinating and warmly human study of a way of life that has now...
35,00 €In Stock.Sold out. From the publisher : "Gerry Johansson's sensitive and subtle photographs hint at human life through the occasional car or lone figure but for the most part they draw the reader’s eye to the simplistic architecture of a small American town. In singling out Pontiac, Johansson offers comment on more than the landscape, photographing a microcosm of...
Redheaded Peckerwood (*1st edition*)
.Only one copy.Publisher's presentation of Christian Patterson's photobook: “Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land”Luc Sante Redheaded Peckerwood is a work with a tragic underlying narrative – the story of 19...
295,00 €In StockAfter immigrating to the United States, Leon Borensztein earned his living as a traveling photographer among the lower classes.He moved with a backdrop to make his portraits, but then retreated his camera to capture beyond the decor part of the homes of his subjects.Recognized photographer and portraitist (we think of Mike Disfarmer), Leon Borensztein has...
45,00 €Out of stock.Currently out of stock.Presentation by Mack: " « Winters, like ice ages, are Janus faced, for after the freeze comes thaw and flood, as water is returned to life and movement. Freeze, thaw, flood: the great climatic cycles that created the topography of the northern hemisphere, and which continue to shape the idea of winter that lies deep in our cultural...
65,00 €Out of stockThe Americans List (by the glow of the...
.Sold out.Presentation by Red Hook Editions : "While working as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Jason Eskenazi began to ask photographers he knew visiting the exhibition "Looking In : Robert Frank's The Americans", to choose their favorite image and why. In the years since he quit, as he himself got back out on the road again...
This satirical red book compiles some of the images accumulated by João Rocha between 2010 and 2011 on a Tumblr. The artist simply selected images of the Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il among the photographs provided by the official PR agency of North Korea. These images from insignificant and trivial events or visits - where considered on by one - are frankly...
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