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From the back cover: "Did Man Ray capture our era almost a century ago? Painter, photographer, sculptor and filmmaker from New York to Paris, Man Ray is a global artist. While his work is disseminated worldwide, Man Ray nonetheless reinvents photography. He manipulates, solarizes, and composes his shots. He challenges standards, prolifically creates, and...
All Quiet on the Home Front (*signed*)
112 pages - Softcover ICVL Studio, 2017 Format : 20 x 25 cm *Signed* New - Mint conditionPresentation by the artist: "When Isabel was a baby I had a dream. In the dream it was Christmas. We lived above a pub in a single room crammed with old pub furniture. In one corner was a Christmas tree. It had real candles, all of which were balanced precariously on...
A Place Both Wonderful and Strange
Publisher's presentation: "A Place Both Wonderful and Strange is a photographic anthology published by Fuego Books that brings together the work of 12 international photographers in a narration inspired by Twin Peaks and the work of David Lynch. With the work of Anna Beeke, Carl Bigmore, Melissa Catanese, Cristina de Middel, Salvi Danés, Enrico Di Nardo +...
Publihser's presentation: "Japan’s southernmost prefecture, Okinawa, hosts a concentration of US military bases unlike anywhere outside the continental United States. More than half the 50,000 US troops stationed in Japan are based here. On the main island of Okinawa nearly 20% of the land is occupied by these bases. This large US military footprint, and...
Publisher's presentation: [ Translation from Japanese by Japanese bookshop / distributor Shashasha] "Life expressed through the remains of art. The latest extreme work by world-renowned photographer Antoine d’Agata. Following his sold-out success work Antibodies, Aka Ana (lit. red hole) is the latest series by French photographer Antoine d’Agata. It was...
Tales of Lipstick and Virtue (*signed print*)
Publisher's presentation of Anna Ehrenstein's photobook: "Authenticity has always been a central question in discussions concerning society. It is continuing to gain importance with the emergence of new phenomena such as fake news, alternative facts and instant online control possibilities. However, our definition of an authentic being or an authentic...
Picture of My Life (*signed / not signed*)
.Sold out. Presentation by Ceiba: "I have this desire to sum up my life in the form of a story. My parents killed themselves, one after the other, in the winter of 1998. My mother’s depression led her to take her own life, and my father followed her nine days later. Having suddenly a closer relationship with death at just 21 years of age, I decided to...
Nouveau démenti de la mission spatiale...
Publisher's presentation: [ from RRB Publishing, co-publisher ] "Peter Mitchell’s groundbreaking show was first presented at the Impressions Gallery of Photography York in November 1979, and more recently at the Rencontres d'Arles festival in 2016. Now, only 38 years overdue, it will be published as a book for the first time. In the mid-seventies, the...
Nouveau démenti de la mission spatiale...
Publisher's presentation: [ from RRB Publishing, co-publisher ] "Peter Mitchell’s groundbreaking show was first presented at the Impressions Gallery of Photography York in November 1979, and more recently at the Rencontres d'Arles festival in 2016. Now, only 38 years overdue, it will be published as a book for the first time. In the mid-seventies, the...
Memento Mori (*Limited Edition*)
Publisher's presentation: "A long overdue corrected reprint of a title that has been out of print for many years. Memento Mori, Peter Mitchell’s first publication, was published in 1990 and documents the dramatic impact of the Quarry Hill redevelopment project in Leeds, England. « I photograph dying buildings and Quarry Hill was terminal by the time I...
Publisher's presentation: "A long overdue corrected reprint of a title that has been out of print for many years. Memento Mori, Peter Mitchell’s first publication, was published in 1990 and documents the dramatic impact of the Quarry Hill redevelopment project in Leeds, England. « I photograph dying buildings and Quarry Hill was terminal by the time I...
.Sold out. Presentation by André Frère Editions: "Captivated by the Scandinavian lands from a residence in Norway, Sébastien Van Malleghem has since advanced his travels from Denmark to Iceland, passing through Finland and Sweden. Nordic Noir is the visual recital of this contrasting trek. With breathtaking and timeless landscapes, scenes of life and...
Publisher's presentation : FRAC Auvergne devoted an exhibition to American photographer Gregory Crewdson, from May 20 to September 17, 2017.This was the first exhibition of this major artist, internationally acclaimed, in a French institution. It is accompanied by the publication of the photobook The Becket Pictures.The exhibition brought together the...
Publisher's presentation of Lionel Bayol Thémines photobook: "The Ghost project started with a walk along the ocean coast begun at the tip of the Bay of Arcachon (Cap Féret, France) during the summer 2015. Along this walk, going away from crowded and cleaned daily beaches, wastes rejected by the sea seem more and more numerous in the form of strips,...
Santa Barbara shame on US (*signed*)
Presentation by Skinnerboox: "After Santa Barbara Return Jobs Back to US, the second chapter by Alejandro Cartagena on the US is a more tragically constructed visual landscape. The current state of things in « America » has created a greater divide and contrast socially and especially politically. As such, the book carefully suggests and addresses these...
Presentation on Alejandro Cartagena's website: "In 2008 the war against the drug cartels erupted in Mexico. The state of Nuevo Leon in northeastern Mexico became an increasingly violent place. This book is a compilation of images and texts that obsessively revisit places where the war was eventually fought and look for signs of an evil that lay underneath...
Publisher's presentation: "Masako Tomiya is a photographer originally from the region of Aomori, north Japan. She has lived in Tokyo for years, and one day, she received news that her sister and sister-in-law, who live near her hometown, were both pregnant. This news inspired Tomiya’s series Kito, a reflection on identity, family, transmission and the...
Publisher's presentation: "Mr. & Dr. is a photobook aimed for children and youngsters that explores the notion of the unknown through images and text. This photobook is an appropriation of a classic horror story, The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson that challenges the overriding illustrative relation between text and...
Presentation by Editions Bessard: " (...) By conceiving a work on the sites of the Odyssey, equipped with a simple smartphone, Stefano De Luigi perpetuates the relationship with modern technologies. Yesterday it was the first films, today is the digital medium, new companion of travel, of which he explores the infinite potential. Accustomed to lengthy...
.Back in stock.Publisher's presentation: "Published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition curated by Pauline Vermare at the Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo, this sincere, beautifully conceived volume offers an in-depth look at this American visual artist’s oeuvre. Saul Leiter: a combination of Japanese and French influences Known for his...
Time from Different Sources (*signed*)
.Sold out. Titre complet : "Time from Different Sources : Images from Ciman Village"Publisher's presentation: "In this body of works Cheng uses polyphonic narrative to present the reality of a Naxi village in Southwest China during urbanization. This book, as response of the “comprehensive” series, is visualized polyphony. It’s no exaggeration to say that...
Publisher's presentation: "Mike Mandel grew up in the San Fernando Valley, and as an kid in the 1950s could walk just about everywhere he needed to go: to school, or later down the street to the open field to collect rocks or catch lizards. All of his friends lived on his block, so he didn’t think too much about the time he spent in a car. But by the time...
.Last copies.Presentation by the artist, Yusuf Sevincli: "Put (tr): Idol (eng) Idol: noun A representation of a god used as an object of worship. The Put series traces the faith of sculptures and monuments in public spaces. In addition to focusing on a single narrative, each photograph tells the story of the polarization and the struggle for power in...
I Ditched Class and I Took a Bath (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation: " « In the spring of 2016 a friend of mine asked if a girl named Agathe could stay with me for a few nights while she visited the Bay Area from Paris. Unbeknownst to me Agathe had booked the ticket on a whim amidst a nervous break down, without knowing anything about San Francisco or anyone who lived there. She ended up staying...
.Currently out of stock.Italia is an almost romantic representation of Italy; the images were created over a period of 3 years.The images visible here were taken from the artist's website.80 pages - Hardcover Max Ström, 2016 Format : 23.9 x 31 cm New - Mint condition
.Sold out. Présentation de l'éditeur : "Blitz Club Blitz Kids is a series of images taken in 1980 by the photographer Homer Sykes in the famous London club the Blitz Club.« In the 1970s Britain was still in the midst of economic depression, a three day working week, unemployment was rising sharply, there were frequent strikes and severe inflation. Steve...
Publisher's presentation: "The photographer found the photos in this series in antique markets. They were taken in China in the 1970s and 80s. He used collages and drawing to destroy or carry forward the stories in the photos, with his imagination or restoration about the social news in recent years. Maybe the original photos recorded real things which...
.Very limited number of signed copies available.Presentation on the artist's website: "Marie Mons spent three months in winter in a small village in the fjords of eastern Iceland where she became Aurore Colbert. Speaking of winter and its polar nights, the rhythm it induces through a great shamanic ritual, she embodies her character, always leaving the...
From the backcover: "She is the muse and the lover, Milo. Sometimes feline, sometimes mysterious or melancholic." A hand with painted nails brushes a silk curtain, a leg in tension on a colourful striped staircase, a body leaning over the lines of the city, naked or adorned with a garter belt. Vulnerable but strong, in the middle of the forest, on a bed,...
Shinjuku Lost Child (*signed*)
Presentation by Zen Foto Gallery: "Somewhere the crow flies carrying a coin in its beak could even be an essential place of comfort to someone. Shinjuku Lost Child are photographs taken by Tokyo-based Korean photographer Seung-woo Yang during the years 1998 to 2006, depicting the vivid character and vibrant energy of the people and the district of...
Afterword to the book by the artist: "I had a child at an age far older than the age at which my parents had me. My son is my second generation. Around the same time, my aged father was diagnosed with cancer. Searching for alternative medical treatments, I learned of a remote valley in Northern Japan where cancer patients go. The rocks in this valley emit...
Publisher's presentation: " After his debut work Sachin won the Taiyo Award in 1964, Nobuyoshi Araki's photos had been selected for publication in a magazine. Due to the printing methods of the time, they asked he send in the actual negatives, which were then never sent back to him. While in 1994, Araki's debut work was re-issued as Sachin - an outtake,...