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Martin Parr Looking at Books (*signed*)
Martin Parr Looking at Books is at the same time a joke, a tributte to the Man, and the truth of the influence of Martin Parr on the world of the photobook today...The title says it all; this book is "simply" the compilation of 22 photographies of Martin Parr with a photobook in his hands : at a photobook fair, during a workshop, etc.A must-have book for...
.Back in stock.Presentation by Jean-Marc Caimi: "Sex, food, nature, the city where I live, my son, relationships, friends, family, even fleeting encounters, these moments enrich me as a human being. They are archetypal, belonging to a common DNA, the essence of our very biology. They are at the root of my existence, hovering in the pictures of my...
Morning Sun (*Limited Edition*)
.Sold out. Presentation on Matej Sitar's website: "What does it mean to become a father for the first time? How will everything change, what will the days look like and what will be the new routine? Well, I can’t tell the answers to any of those questions, at least not now anyhow. The intriguing part before going through all of this is the relationship...
Same Player Shoots Again (*signed*)
Following a workshop on editing and producing a dummy where they met and had a good time together, Jean-Pierre Viguié (in France) worked on a corpus of images by Sean Davey (in Australia) that were made during nights out and in bars... Out of this came Same Player Shoots Again, a funny and a bit inebriated book, where the story of a pinball player mingles...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Dealing with the grief she suffered following the death of her mother, Where Mimosa Bloom takes the form of an extended farewell letter; with photography skillfully used to present a visual eulogy or panegyric. This grief memoir about the loss of her mother is part meditative photo essay, part family biography and...
.Back in stock. Presentation by Mack: "In a series of black and white images of the German landscape made between 1987 and 1997, Michael Schmidt has forged a new pictorial language to deconstruct the world he observes. Concerned with light and form, Schmidt’s images contain a wealth of silver tones, a spectrum of rich greys which evolve from light to dark...
.LAST SEALED COPY!. Mengxi 2 resonates with the Zine No. 8 My Dreamed Stream published by Editions Bessard as it explores the same personal themes and could be considered as coming from the same body of work. Wei Bi brings back childhood memories in confronting images from the village of Dalian where he lives, and the village of his family, where he grew...
Publisher's presentation: "James Joyce occupies a central role in how Irish identity is constructed both at home and abroad. His novel Ulysses opens in the Forty Foot bathing place near Dublin, the subject of Sea Change. Immersing herself within a dedicated group united by the act of swimming, Redmond uses the camera to document how the everyday cares of...
Land Without Past (*limited edition*)
Publisher's presentation: "Land Without Past is a deeply personal photographic essay on growing up in a small village in the north of Germany and a meditation on the relationship contemporary Germany has with its past. Documenting the quiet, precise way in which people conduct their lives, the obsession with making everything new and the almost fearsome...
Publisher's presentation: "Spanning almost three decades, Moonshine is a portrait of the American Appalachian folk, a mythologised region populated by ‘moonshiners’. Van Manen’s images are defined by a fierce intimacy with her subject, as the viewer teeters on the edge of the frame, perpetually trespassing on private moments: rollicking children...
.Back in stock. Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral: "This book contains 90 photographs that aim to present the backbone of photographer Patrick Faigenbaum’s black and white works, since his beginnings in 1973 until today. Most of the photographs are previously unpublished works, following a rhythm here that makes them, as a whole, resemble a musical...
Je suis un piéton, rien de plus
Publisher's presentation: "Born in Charleville-Mézières, Éric Guglielmi suffered in his childhood the omnipresence of Rimbaud, his tyranny: Rimbaud street, the Rimbaud place, the Rimbaud museum, the Rimbaud school ... Then comes the adolescence, and the poignant reading of the poet. Eric Guglielmi followed in the footsteps of Rimbaud and visited...
Embera-Chamis – ¡Chao Nos Vemos!
In the "POV Female" series ("POV" for point of view) by the English publishing house oodee, the fourth city to be visited (after London, Tokyo and Johannesburg) is Bogota, Colombia. This series presents works by unpublished female photographers from each city, and each city is represented by 5 photographers (see "Suggestions" tab for the other Bogota...
Le Temps d'Avant - Ltd edition (*signed w/...
Publisher's presentation : "I was 15, 16, 17 years old, I took a crazy pleasure making my 6 x 6 color slides, seeing the world moving on the surface of the focusing screen, then contemplating my little transparent squares, burning imprints of what I was, of what I loved, the glow of the setting sun through the trees, the faces of Pierre, the little...
Publisher's presentation :"I was 15, 16, 17 years old. I took an immense pleasure to make my 6 x 6 slides, to see the world moving on the matte surface of the focusing screen, then to contemplate my little transparent squares, burning imprints of what I was, from what I loved. The glow of the setting sun through the trees, the faces of Pierre, the...
.Back in stock.From the back cover: "While growing into one of the biggest European centers of coal and steel, Charleroi in Belgium was populated by migrant workers coming from many countries. Today overgrown slag heaps and closed down steelworks remind of the city's heyday. Jens Olof Lasthein walks the streets to discover the power and spirit of...
Publisher's presentation: " In the shape of a true Paris map, Martin Parr invites us to follow him in the French capital. For three years, commissioned by the Maison Européeenne de la Photographie (MEP), Martin Parr has focused his lens on Parisians and photographed the Champs-Elysées, tourists, Bastille Day, fashion shows, Paris Air Show, museums and art...
No Pain Whatsoever is a series made on a rather long period (1985 - 2009) during which Ken Grant took pictures of his contemporaries in his hometown of Liverpool. Lively Black & White portraits, often touching, of people leading a difficult life in neighbourhoods that look much like others often seen in the works of what is sometimes called the...
A Criminal Investigation (3rd edition)
.Sold out. This Watabe Yukichi photobook tells the story of a criminal investigation, in B & W images, in the japanese countryside of the 50's. The artist followed the investigators in their roaming of the area, the crime scene, the surrounding neighborhoods, and into their offices... The images he brought convey a deep feeling of doubt, a strange...
.Back in stock.Eternal London is a beautiful Black & White series of images made in the streets of London by a stroller with a keen eye, that notices the light, the shapes, the contrasts and offers a rather romanticized sense of the city, with grainy images that are sometimes out of focus, but always working very well in their form of uncluttered...
Introduction to the project Another Family by Irina Popova on the "Indiegogo" platform: "This story started in 2008 when i got an assignment to make a project about feelings.I was wandering through the streets of St. Petersburg at night and there I met Lilya, a punk girl, who was completely drunk. She was pushing a baby carriage with her little daughter...
Artist's presentation : "I grew up in a world surrounded by women. This work is about the relationship between my mother and me. I photograph the atmosphere between us. What happens between us and what doesn't happen. The way I look at her and the way I sometimes see myself in her. How we as children are shaped by the way our parents see the world. How...
Beautiful little book of intimate "diaristic" portraits. 64 pages - Softcover dienacht Publishing, 2013 (2nd edition 2014) New - Mint condition
.Sold out.NB : Click on the "Suggestions" tab for the second edition of this bookBeautiful little book of intimate "diaristic" portraits, here in the first (sold out) edition.64 pages - Softcover dienacht Publishing, 2013 New - Mint condition
Publisher'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...
.Sold out. Second edition of Avec le Coeur, after a quickly sold-out first edition in 2013.Presentation by Editions du LIC: "Whilst clearly indebted to the photography of Ryan McGinley, Nan Goldin and Larry Clark, unlike the self-confessed «pseudo-fiction» of McGinley's work, the subjects in Théo Gosselin's images are friends rather than models, and the...
Beautiful portraits of people from India's Rajasthan who discover the ocean for the first time.The Black & White, grainy, and highly contrasted style of Martin Bogren suits perfectly the atmosphere of these moments, the smiles, the bodies, the waves, the water.36 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Journal, 2008 New - Mint condition
Publisher presentation: "One Another features images mainly taken at night in St Petersburg and Berlin. Leaden-coloured scenes, greasy spoon cafés, empty halls and old hotel rooms that seem to echo with traces of the past. And people’s faces…… hurried glances, small awkward gestures, hands searching for support, the signs of grief or desparation in the...
Publisher's description : "Phillip Toledano became a father in July 2009. He fell in love with his daughter about a year and a half later, when he realised she was the most bewitching human being he'd ever seen. Initially though things were different. The Reluctant Father follows Phillip's journey at the beginning of fatherhood. From dismay and confusion,...
Bottrop-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...
.Back in stock.Presentation by Dewi Lewis of Martin Bogren's photobook: "Youngsters meet up on the village outskirts, racing their tractorcars, burning tyremarks into the warm summer asphalt. The smell of rubber, oil and souped-up engines fills the air when the engines speed. The cars form into a circle as the boys take turns in the middle. It is a game –...
.Back in stock. (no signed copies available)In a variation of shapes, textures, atmospheres and tones, Daniel Reuter offers with History of the Visit a book both simple and elaborate. Simple in its subjects, even if they are treated from a vantage point that evolves between the obvious and the sphisticated; and elaborate in its construction, in the...