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Works of fiction, the photo book as a means of telling a story
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Première courbe, Saint-Sever (*signed*)
Presentation by Ici & Là: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "And then it's there. He makes it out, getting closer slowly so that it appears without any constraints. This curve that must be climbed up, this furrow of a forgotten first time, the strength of the landscape outside that capsizes the doubt inside. Capsizes, submerges, pacifies..."NB :...
15,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Presentation by RVB Books: "Champagne is the first title of a book series to be published by artists Mazaccio & Drowilal with RVB Books. In this project closer to iconography than to photography, the duo confronts a series of representations of Misses of all sorts to those of various car racers celebrating their victory by sprinkling...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation : "The book Aeroporto, by the photographer Cássio Vasconcellos, is a result of a year of work with thousands of photographs in many airports in Brasil and in the United States, in which he created his own “imaginary airport”. The final image, unique, in large dimensions (2m x 5m) was fragmented in 32 parts, each page...
Presentation on the "Archive of Modern Conflict" website, sponsor of the project : "In 1911 an Arctic expedition set sail to rediscover the island of Jan Mayen, which lay off the eastern coast of Greenland. Not all went according to plan, however, and the end result was a series of staged images produced on the shores of Iceland. Using the original...
34,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "The thing is, we are controlled by a compulsion to get rid of dust. DUST, we believe, does not agree with us, because it conceals everything we create. DUST is the devil’s trap, revealed only once it has caught its prey. Haven’t we been forever treading all evil into the dust? Was the snake not cursed to grovel in the dust?...
48,00 €Out of stockPrésentation sur le site de l'artiste : "« The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance » said ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. The inward space is the basis for ZONA. Can we visualize the invisible?ZONA emerged directly from faded memories and notes from a dream-diary. It’s a visual exploration on...
30,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "Working within the parameters of his established technique, Thomas Demand created carefully formed paper and card sculptures, a parallel world which is photographed and then destroyed. The Dailies offers only traces – signs of consumption, or the spectres of things left behind. His creations are based on things he saw and...
36,00 €Out of stockPresentation by the artist: "This book is PART 3 of The Himalayan Project, a collection of artist's books designed with Philippe Koeune as different installations, embracing the city of Kathmandu where I lived with my small family and the nature of the Himalayas with a strong and dreamy empathy. DZOGCHEN is a colorful, dense and challenging photo book,...
300,00 €In Stock.Last copy!.Presentation by Dalpine: "Because of its own nature, every photograph is born to reproduce an image. Faces, stories and landscapes are all framed and fixed forever within the four corners of the print. Nevertheless, it would be wonderful if these corners could be somehow opened, thus breaking the perimeter of the photograph and letting the...
33,00 €Out of stockPierre de Fenoÿl, une géographie imaginaire
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "From his first journeys to India and Egypt to the observation of the French southwest landscape, as part of the DATAR project, the book offers an exploration into Pierre de Fenoÿl’s work through about 150 photographs. Haunted by the question of time and memory in photography, de Fenoÿl tirelessly photographed...
.Last copy. Publisher's presentation : "pomodori a grappolo is a set of three interconnected books by photographer and bookmaker John Gossage. Each book gathers images made in Northern Italy and Sardinia between 2009 and 2011, and each includes a short text by Marlene Klein. The written pieces — two stories and one epilogue — have been created in response...
89,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "«Most of my life has been lived in a golden shimmer of love and privilege. I’ve been lucky in more ways than most. And intertwined through that daydream was the illusion of control. The reassuring sense of my firm hand on the tiller, irrevocably guiding me upwards, towards a bright, certain future.When my mother died suddenly...
42,00 €In StockKumogakure Onsen / Reclusive Travels...
Presentation by the artist on the publisher's website : "There was a time in my late 20's when I had a desire to disappear from the plane of worldly affairs. Kumogakure has no direct translation in English. It means to be hidden by clouds, shrouded, invisible. No longer able to endure my world and the affairs that surrounded it, I spent two years...
42,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock - Last copies!. Presentation by the artist : "It all started with one particular tree in the winter forest that caught my eye during one of my walks with my dog Shakeera. I kept returning there over an entire year and photographed the tree through every season. What especially fascinated me were the vines which elegantly wound themselves...
60,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation of the photobook: "As an assembly of archival images and new images, the author realizes with Gravity a photographic poem, a tribute to the first space missions, a narrative fiction inspired by real events. (...) However, Michel Mazzoni's photography is not motivated by nostalgia. Gravity primarily addresses our relationship with...
38,00 €In Stock.Stock épuisé. Presentation by Kehrer: "In Find a Fallen Star, Regine Petersen uses the stories of meteorite falls as a background for her multifaceted narratives; a rock crashing through the roof of an Alabama home in the 1950's and hitting a woman, a group of children recovering a meteorite in their village in post-war Germany, and a more recent event...
Publisher's presentation: "Meshes, curtains of twigs, thickets and foliage, doors and screens, hair: the frontal views always find an obstacle in their path which constrains our vision from penetrating any deeper and completing the perspective geometry. Sometimes we have to give up. This frustration is in reality an incitement to pursue the journey, to...
26,00 €In StockPresentation by Le bec en l'air: [traduction by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "The Marseille(s) collection offers each year a carte blanche to a Mediterranean photographer who gives his vision of the city. Year after year, the diversity of the ways of photographic expression draws the portrait of a multicultural city and brings it in a new light. The first...
15,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "You Won’t Be With Me Tomorrow is a sequel to the narrative Harvey Benge developed in his 2013 book, Some Things You Should Have Told Me. Both deal with the pain of relationship, the seeming inevitability of separation and the mistrust that is its consequence. Women drift, lost and hostile, throughout the pages – they’re masked...
32,00 €In StockPpresentation by Editions du LIC / Skinnerboox: "Big Sky Hunting, the debut volume by Italian photographer Alberto Sinigaglia, presents a voyage to the edge of representational space. 'Hunting' used not in the sense of the killing of animals by man, but as an expression of man’s dominance over this space: An expression of man’s atavistic obsession with...
60,00 €In StockPublisher'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...
32,00 €In StockGrand 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...
65,00 €Out of stockPresentation by the artist: "When I was learning How to ride my bike My uncle told me: «to learn, you will have to fall many times» I started falling on purpose.Almost Fiction, a book made on the road, passing through different countries with a bicycle and a 35 mm camera."60 pages - Softcover Self-published, 2014 (150 copies) *Signed* New - Mint condition
32,00 €In StockPublisher'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...
35,00 €In StockPublisher'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...
30,00 €Out of stockExit Ghost is a dark and powerful book that - with explicitly naming the location of shooting - displays in a somber manner the real estate development in Dubai, at the fringes of the city, and the life of the inhabitants and workers.Black & White (tritone) images that suggest more than they show, where blurring (out of focus) and grain of the image...
35,00 €Out of stockPublisher'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",...
24,00 €In StockRemolino de Tierra (whirlwind of earth) is a successful and beautiful research in shapes, matters and textures, contrasts in B & W images that clearly convey a feeling of poetry. Photographs of the waves and ripples at the surface of the sea, of birds in the sky, of a scorched surface of land, of a methodically mowed pitch/field; a series in...
42,00 €Out of stock.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 !
5,00 €In StockGood Day Mr Knutsen (*signed*)
Presentation by the artist on the publisher's website: "Everyday we greet each other and everyday we smile. We say «how are you?» and talk about the weather and other unimportant topics we are meant to talk about in order to move on in the day in hopes of avoiding those awkward silences. But everyday I’m left wanting to know more. I wonder who is...
35,00 €In StockIls pensent déjà que je suis folle
Publisher's presentation: "Kourtney Roy (...) is the example of the uninhibited and sincere artist who does not take herself seriously." A rising star in fashion and commercial photography, she was awarded the Carte Blanche PMU in 2013. Model and photographer at the same time: to play, to experiment, to have fun, these words seem to guide the personal...
25,00 €In StockPresentation on the artist'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 with the...
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