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.Back in stock.Presentation by Kehrer: "Inshallah («God willing» in Arabic) explores the Soviet and American occupations of Afghanistan, and draws on my childhood fantasies that romanticize the military and intertwine with my past and present personal conflicts. As a Ukrainian, who was born and raised in the FSU and residing in the US, this is the second...
Songbook (1st ed. / 2nd printing)
.In stock.Presentation by Mack: "Known for his haunting portraits of solitary Americans in Sleeping by the Mississippi and Broken Manual, Alec Soth has recently turned his lens toward community life in the country. To aid in his search, Soth assumed the increasingly obsolescent role of community newspaper reporter. From 2012-2014, Soth traveled state by...
Pubisher's presentation: "Dana Stölzgen has made a tremendously tender book. Time seems to stand still in the landscape shots, close ups and interiors exactly as in the portraits of young girls, adult and old women. But actually time expands. Into the past and into the future. In perfect moments the old feel the same way as they were young again and the...
.Currently out of stock. Presentation by Juan Aballe: "Produced between 2011 and 2013 in Iberian Peninsula, this book deals with my relationship with the rural environment and the emotions brought about by the possibility of taking the big step of leaving the city and living closer to nature. Country Fictions also reflects on the photographic language...
Looking 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...
.Last copy!.Introduction to the project on the Kickstarter crowdfunding page : "In 2008 I returned to London having spent the last nine years living and working in Eastern Europe and Turkey and was surprised by the speed of change that had taken place. I wanted to document the city, its movements and migrations, its landscape and architecture, its...
Publisher's presentation: "A Story of Bears explores personal stories about teddy bears and other stuffed animal toys that become lifelong companions and hold a special place in the lives of their owners. Sylvie Huet rediscovered her own childhood teddy at the age of 49 in a fleamarket. Until then he had lived only as a memory and in family photographs....
Presentation by Steidl: "For a decade, Ken Schles watched the passing of time from his Lower East Side neighbourhood. His camera fixed the instances of his observations, and these moments became the foundation of his invisible city. Friends and architecture come under the scrutiny of his lens and, when sorted and viewed in the pages of this book, a...
Publisher's presentation: "In the 70s and 80s, the Tabernas desert near Almeria in Southern Spain became the Hollywood of Westerns. It was here that legendary filmmaker Sergio Leone made movies like Once Upon a Time in the West, For a Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, making the desert of Tabernas, with its...
Publisher's presentation: "A family album preserves only carefully selected photographs. Out of an entire life, it stores only handpicked moments, privileging special occasions, happy ones usually, and consigning the rest to oblivion: happy faces, relaxed moments, places of leisure rather than work. It tends to underline a group’s social links and...
.Sold out. A journey in a remote locality of the United States, under the scorching sun...Numbered edition of 150.68 pages - Hardcover Witty Kiwi, 2014 (150 copies) New - Mint condition
.Sold out.No Real Time Info Available is introduced by the author with this very simple text : "A personal story. July-December 2012.".Please note we are also offering this book with a 13 x 18 cm C-Print in an edition of 25, signed and numbered (see "Suggestions" tab).96 pages - Hardcover Dienacht, 2014 (200 copies) New - Mint condition
Publisher's presentation: "«In this centralized humanity, the effect and instrument of complex power relations, bodies and forces subjected by multiple mechanisms of segmentation, we must hear the distant roar of battle.» Starting from this words by Michel Foucault, Matteo Pasin enquires the city with this photographic research. The city, as a molar...
This sequence of 12 images – all taken in Los Angeles, California on the same day in 1971 – represents some of the earliest black and white work by Anthony Hernandez. Beautifully printed in tritone on McCoy Silk coated paper, the book features cloth end sheets and printed aluminum front and back covers.32 pages - Hardcover Silas Finch, 2014 Format : 30.5...
Publisher's presentation: "We made these photographs between October and April 2013/2014 in Sweden, in Sunne, in the middle of nowhere and far away from everything. It was winter and every Saturday night Pizzeria Sunne transformed from a fast food restaurant into a karaoke bar. This was the only place to go if you wanted to meet other people during the...
Publisher's presentation: "Medianoche refers to a border that confronts us with certain limits. A temporary space in which we can explore the relationship between instinct and desire, the behaviours that they give rise to and the manifestation of our fantasies of seduction. In this work the night leads us to an exercise that gives us the opportunity to...
.Sold out!. Presentation by the artist: "Mutti - a conceptional work Memory is a strange thing. We tend to think of ourselves as cameras, recording events which we can truthfully and repeatedly recall without distortion. Yet each time we remember an event, a person, those memories become slowly and inevitably modified. Just as the cells in our bodies...
Presentation by Ana Galan: "I have always thought that arriving to a certain age, we become invisible, towards ourselves and towards the rest of the people. The project Viv(r)e la vie! pays homage to those who decide not to become invisible, to those who continue to live “in the moment”. With curiosity, being the main character of their lives and...
Full title: Sound of Midnight, the theory of bitter funPresentation by Clément Paradis: "One night I was outside of a club in London, I think at that moment I started to hear it… The Sound of Midnight… How many pictures did I take that night? One roll? Two rolls, three? When I ran out of rolls, I'd re-expose the previous ones anyway. I'm a trigger happy,...
Grand Circle Diego (*imperfect*)
.One copy found in a forsaken box (April 2021)!.Presentation by AKina Books: "Bay of Diego Suarez. strip of land in the far north of Madagascar.a terrible accident10 years later, Cyril Costilhes comes back to close the circle,the descent into his heart of darkness begins.There is danger lying there, Diegoit's like smoking on a sea of gasolineDon't fall in...
.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...
Je ne peux pas comprendre Eddy (*signed*)
Presentation by the artist Andrew G. Smith: "I still have no idea what was driving him. It's easy to flippantly say that he was a monster, or «The Cannibal», or to document the palmarès. But, given the manner of those vitories, it's a mystery."Je ne peux pas comprendre Eddy (I cannot comprehend Eddy) is a tribute to Belgian bicycle racer Eddy Merckx,...
Publisher's presentation: "Patrick Messina est un amateur de la forme urbaine dans ce qu’elle contient de hasards et d’hypothèses. Il aime arpenter la ville et faire partager son étonnement, sa curiosité, son attachement pour ce monde de transformations incessantes où des femmes et des hommes poursuivent une multitude de destinées singulières. Le regard...
Publisher's presentation: "Touch is a moving photo story about Stijn, a young man of 23 years old. He was born blind and lives in a modest apartment somewhere in the city. This is the only place in the world where he can move so freely. The table, the kitchen and the bed aren’t obstacles for him, while being part of his territory, the objects guide him...
Father Figure (*signed / not signed*)
Presentation project on the artist's website: "Black father absence is a contentiously-debated social issue in the US and other countries. Too many Black men, so the argument goes, are missing, irresponsible, selfish, not stepping up to the plate. Visuals of deadbeat, absentee Black fathers abound in mainstream media, often intended to sensationalize and...
Publisher's presentation: "In the surroundings of the Bugarach peak, in the region of Aude, in France, micro communities live as if they were hermetic to time. Far from the cities, filled with beliefs, they have a special conception of freedom. Their marginality is nothing but the result of their search for a peaceful happiness."On the "Pech de Bugarach",...
She Comes in Colors has this short text as introduction :"I met a girlI fell in loveWe had a brief romanceShe left home"The book is a poetic evocation of this romance, through little "brushstrokes", little signs, little moments. With a text by Alexander Norton.The book is a re-publication (announced second edition) of Florian Braakman's photobook...
.WARNING: Our last copies have small bumps to one or 2 corners and possibly one or 2 wrinkles to the cover. Presentation on Kate Nolan's website: "Neither is an exploration into the dreams and fears of young women in Kaliningrad - a tiny and isolated Russian region on the Baltic Sea - through both image and text. The women I met and be-friended...
The time of dreaming the world awake...
.Last copy. Introduction to the book by Yvette Monahan: "Certain landscapes hold stories of what has been and what could be. Like an ancient face these places mirror their own odyssey; a silent biography. What is seen is temporal, what is unseen perpetual. Concealed are the myths, legends and histories, ready to be known if we put our mind in nature, not...
Home Is Where the Dog Is (*w/ Print*)
Publisher's presentation: "Four white walls that enclose a tropical garden set the limits for this carefully directed view that Van der Weijde offers us into his Home is where the Dog is..."We are offering here the version of this book that includes a silkscreen; you currently still have the choice between the two diffrent ones produced. Please see the...
Home Is Where the Dog Is (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation: "Four white walls that enclose a tropical garden set the limits for this carefully directed view that Van der Weijde offers us into his Home is where the Dog is..."We are also offering the numbered edition with a silkscreen (please see the "Suggestions" tab).160 pages - Softcover 4478ZINE, 2014 *Signed* New - Mint condition
.Temporarily out of stock.Natural cotton - One-side print "L'Ascenseur Végétal Librairie Photo" - Long handles (to carry on the shoulder).To carry your photobooks around, or anything else, to avoid using plastic bags, and to represent for L'Ascenseur Végétal !