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To tell one's story, our story, life
Publisher's presentation: "It is a cyclical journey. I talk about my family and the one that biologically is not, but that I consider as such. I explore the roles we play in our emotional relationships, as well as the shelter and support we find in them. I reflect on memory, the similarity in our patterns of behavior and what we reflect on the other. Also...
Publisher's presentation of the photobook: "Since February 2015 and for about a year, Iacopo Pasqui started hanging out with and taking pictures of a bunch of teenagers who were born in 1999. Motivated by curiosity towards contemporary social dynamics and by the need to photograph others, he finds in this bunch of young friends a suitable dimension for...
Red Flower, The Women of Okinawa
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Red Flower, The Women of Okinawa, the first United States monograph by Okinawan photographer Mao Ishikawa. Red Flower consists of 80 b/w photographs that date from 1975 to 1977 in Koza and Kin, Okinawa, primarily from Ishikawa’s first book Hot Days in Camp Hansen by A-man Shuppan in 1982, but it also includes...
Presentation by Light Motiv: "On March 11th, 2011, a powerful tsunami hit the northeastern coast of Japan, destroying nearly everything on its way. The photographer Naoya Hatakeyama was personally affected as his hometown, Rikuzentaka, was wiped away, along with the markers of his memories. Kesengawa, published by Light Motiv in 2013, was a book about the...
Presentation on the artist's website: "The project titled At Mirrored River was inspired by the Gaelic word Teannalach (pron. “chann-ah-lack”). Teannalach is a Gaelic word used in the West of Ireland which means awareness. In particular, it is awareness of that which is intangible and hushed; of being aware of the quietness and presence of people and the...
Two friends - art students - on holidays in Corsica; a sort of slow and sunny travelogue looking both inward to the friends' companionship, and outward to the surroundings. A first book, self-published and created 100% by Chloé and Alexane : photographs, editing and design. There are certainly some beginners' mistakes if your eyes are looking at many...
Publisher's presentation: "In the summer of 1970, Gabriele Basilico set off from Milan in a Fiat 124, nominally heading for Kabul. The journey towards India was a rite of passage for the flower children generation, and Basilico had plans to take a series of photos to then sell on to some magazine. The journey didn’t quite turn out as planned, but in his...
.Currently out of stock.Publisher's presentation: "Common Love is based in Bangkok, Thailand, and aims to explore the city and its inhabitants. It focuses on some of the notions and cultural conventions that surround the city and how it is imagined. Common symbols and allegories connected to Thai culture help to create an unraveling narrative that takes...
Je n'ai plus peur du noir (*signed*)
Presentation by Filigranes: "Le 25 décembre 2014, je fais des photographies ce matin-là, en Corrèze.Le lendemain, nous apprenons, suite à une analyse de sang de routine, que Suzanne, notre fille de 7 ans, est atteinte d’une leucémie.Elle est rapatriée le 29 décembre à Paris, à l’hôpital Trousseau.À partir de ce moment-là, je photographie Suzanne à...
.Sold out. Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral: "From Lebanon in the 1960s to Marseille today, via Alexandria, Valence, the beaches of Palavas, Naples, and Rimini, Raymond Depardon offers us golden moments in the Mediterranean, comprising many previously unpublished photographs. On the occasion of the exhibition Un Moment Si Doux [Golden Moments]...
the only thing that matters (*signed w/...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "If I’ve ever felt used by you photographing me... I had never even thought about that. And frankly, I got slightly offended by your question. People asked – you said. I don’t understand – I said. For me that topic was beyond debate. Your work had nothing to do with a superior male view on a beautiful young girl. Not...
.Very last copy!.Publisher's presentation: "Tamarind Ghosts by Tiane Doan na Champassak presents an exploration of eroticism, censorship and prostitution in Thailand. In days gone by, most prostitutes in Bangkok plied their trade in the area around Sanam Luang Park; under the watchful gaze of the Royal Palace. As they stood soliciting customers beneath...
Publisher's presentation: "Afterword is composed of photos used in the afterword ’Sasuke’s Diary’ from Sasuke, My Dear Cat, published by Seinen Shokan in 1978. In the small pocket-sized printing manuscript were instructions and numbering written by Fukase himself. Sasuke the First went missing quite early on, but some time afterwards, someone who had seen...
It’s beautiful when it flies (*signed*)
Presentation on the artist's website : "If you close your eyes, Do you fall? Or do you fly? As a child I dreamt of flying. Sometimes I actually felt the wind against my cheeks. Sadly, somehow aging goes hand in hand with the inability to believe in something so close to carelessness. It’s beautiful when it flies is my attempt to refind this childlike...
Publisher's presentation: "Maxwell Anderson has been accumulating his photographs of flowers over the last 6 years. His choice of photographs are deliberately awkward and unceremonious. In the book, Anderson combines his snapshots of common flowers with equally common and often inane human interpretations and interactions with them. His interst lies...
The Incomplete Princess Book (*signed*)
Presentation of the project : " « I always had a problem with my name being so common. If you search my name on the web, the first thing you will find will be a belly dancer, following by all sorts of girls with cheesy smiles (or in explicit poses). At first I hated that. But if you have something that bothers you, you have to work with it, process it,...
Publisher's presentation: "寓喩 « Gûyu » in Japanese, means « allegory ». For Maki, the figure of speech is a photographic category. At the core of his photography practice, lies the question of re-presentation, of the relationship to space... The involvement of known elements in new sets - or the opposite. During his travels in Japan of the past 15 years,...
Publisher's presentation: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Reviens va-t’en (in English « come back go away ») is an intimate book made of 46 images of the same cat. Under an innocent approach, the book deals with the themes of death and passing. Through photography and layout, the souvenir of this now-dead cat is frozen in time and also slowly...
Publisher's presentation : "instants confondus is the testimony of one of Nolwenn Brod's first photographic works, where she evokes a blinding disappearance, that of her father.She looks soothingly at this suffering she shares with other children. Her images are simple, without artifice ...This book is also one of the last steps in her quest. A quest that...
Excerpt from the introduction by Andrea Díaz Mattei : "[…] As a kind of visual poetry (fixed and in motion) and with subtle reminiscences of refugees and displaced people around the world –and while questioning the viewer– Hamzehian and Mortarotti portray these inhabitants of the borders (and all their polysemic meanings) and in doing so place a current,...
Book published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery, New York in the spring 2014.182 pages - Softcover Karma, 2015 Format : 21 x 28 cm New - Mint condition
Text from the next-to-last page : "This is not Helsinki, but Hellsinki. Discipline, order, accuracy. These three characters define the Finnish society pretty well. But, because this book has no vocation to be documentary, these features are replaced here by coldness, darkness and loneliness. My aim with the book is to give a portrait, from a subjective...
Everything you do is a Balloon
Publisher's presentation: "« The buzz of fatigue drones louder in your head. It fills your body, making it taut with tension. You sit in the dark for a couple of hours, draining the mundane memories of the week. You drink a beer. Your skin seeks release. Overtired, overstressed, overworked, undersexed: you burst like a balloon. The weekend has begun. » S....
The Eyes N°6 - spring-summer 2015 (100% English/French) For this issue, The Eyes has decided change tack. We have chosen to reflect on the notion of territory. Whether geographical, political, legal, cultural or mental, it is consistently subject to friction, even conflict. Think of the refugee crisis and the reaction it elicited: barriers being erected...
Presentation by Yan Morvan : "Why and how to photograph the war?Willingness to inform, to participate in the movement of history? How to tell the unbelievable - the images of horror follow the images of horror. The spectacularization of the world through television, the press, the Internet and real-time information has undermined our capital of empathy...
DOM (Document Object Model - 2nd ed.)...
Presentation of the project by the artist: "In my project DOM I refer to the concept of home.«Dom» means a house, home, a building or a household in the Russian language. As a model for creation of the maquette of houses, I chose the kind of mass housing, so-called «Khruschyovka». They were built in Russia in the era of Khrushchev. After Stalin's Empire...
Presentation on the artist's website: "I’m looking at old cosmetic bag to discover my mother's lipstick, eye shadows and blushes, which she used to enjoy when she was a little older than I’m today. I’m pulling out of the closet a suitcase with shoes to find a pair of her unprocurable Yugoslav sandals bought back in the 1980s. I’m turning over a pile of...
Publisher's presentation: "In Las Vegas, everything seems possible, indifference above all. « Insert Coins is a blues » in the words of the author. Its pace is melancholic and dark, intertwined with a poem that makes the unacceptable watchable, injecting humanity where the die is definitely cast. Christian Lutz shows a committed approach, he comments on a...
.Temporarily out of stock.Presentation by the artist: "This was one of the strangest shooting I ever had. And when you see the images, and if you know my other zines, books and photos, you'll know why."50 numbered copies, we are offering No. 8 / 50.36 pages - Softcover Dienacht Publishing (50 copies) Format : 13 x 18 cm New - Mint condition
.Signed copies back in stock.Presentation by Ilka Kramer: "This series shows children in their approach to nature according to their imagination and their fascination for fairy tales. Behind the house, far away from the life of adults, the garden, the fields and the forest become an immense land to explore. The murky spot under the fig tree, the tree...
Publisher's presentation : "À travers cette fresque photographique, Hervé Lassïnce constitue le journal impudique d’une communauté formée autour de lui, saisie dans des moments domestiques et intimes, à l’endroit où les personnalités s’expriment sans filtre, ni préjugé social. Contrariant les stéréotypes, notamment ceux liés à la virilité, le projet...
Publisher's presentation: "While combining personal and archival material and drawing references from the experiments in social psychology carried out by Solomon Ash, Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo, this is a tale of psychological reality experienced by an individual upon encountering and ultimately losing one’s identity in the social environment....