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The heart of our catalogue... each book presents the photographic work of an artist, whether on a specific project or under the form of a retrospective or compendium.
Monographs There are 1436 books.
Publisher's presentation : "Penelope Umbrico cropped the screens from hundreds of images of computers and TVs she found for sale on websites such as eBay, Craigslist and Alibaba between 2008 and 2016. Out of Order : Bad Display gives a second lease on life to these worn, obsolete and sold for parts objects. The book reproduces these ephemeral images of...
26,00 €Out of stockPublisher'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...
28,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "My brother died in a car accident in 1999. His last girlfriend, Kaori, was Japanese. She kept on writing and sending photos for months after the accident. The search for Kaori led me to Fukushima and the tsunami area, working as a pretext to look for stories of loss and reconstruction across Japan. -- Vittorio...
38,00 €Out of stockPresentation on the artist's website: "Since leaving University in 2010, Alma has been working on self-portraits, being her own willing and available model. More recently she has started taking portraits of other people and is interested in making work that has a disquieting or disconcerting resonance. Alma has always made things with her hands and now...
48,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Presentation by the artist: "An incident that happened in the end of the XVIth century Russia became a starting point for this work. Tsarevich Dimitry, the last son of Ivan the Terrible died under mysterious circumstances from a knife wound to his throat, people speculated on the possible various causes for his death. I was intrigued by how the...
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....
25,00 €In Stock.Last copy.Publisher's presentation: "Touched by the flame, images retrieved from strangers’ archives change their structure. The nature and urban scenes they originally depicted mutate into abstract glimmers of parallel worlds. Creative rather than destructive, the flame expands the borders of perception and interpretation of these images, opening up...
25,00 €Out of stockéléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation...
Full title : "éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation contemporaine d'un village français de deux mille huit cent trente neuf habitants - volume 8"The artist photographed the small city where he lives, Noyers-sur-Cher, and publishes in a series of 10 booklets this documentary work about a place that could be considered a fair example of the average...
15,00 €Out of stockéléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation...
Full title : "éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation contemporaine d'un village français de deux mille huit cent trente neuf habitants - volume 7"The artist photographed the small city where he lives, Noyers-sur-Cher, and publishes in a series of 10 booklets this documentary work about a place that could be considered a fair example of the average...
15,00 €Out of stockPresentation by the artist: "The images of SOKUT (silence in Farsi) penetrate into the soil of intimacy bringing us to collective sense of the sacred. The images are alternated with verses from the famous Iranian women poets Forough Farrokhzad and Simin Behbahani."Manuela Marchetti's SOKUT is a joint project (shooting, crowdfunding and publishing were...
29,00 €In StockText from the back cover : "My childhood is bounded by a few hills, a few meadows, a forest, a village: a countryside as a playground ... More than the children of a country, we were the children of a landscape. A handful of friends in the heart of a huge territory. Young dogs peeing in the grass and to the wind to mark their territory. Huts, hiding...
34,00 €Out of stockPresentation by the artist: "Traditionally, instruction manuals have been the perfect source for practical solutions. Experts in specific subjects provide written authority on how to repair faults and carry out tasks from scratch. I typed ‘how to make a home’ into Google, and was directed to an online chat forum in which self-described experts were...
28,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "1.7 million Commonwealth War dead from the First and Second World Wars are commemorated individually and by name, on graves and memorials in 153 countries throughout the world. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintains these – 2,500 cemeteries, 21,000 other burial grounds and 200 memorials to the missing. This involves an...
36,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "The burrow is subjected to fantasy because we usually only know its shape or its threshold ; we have to imagine the rest. Symbolically, this also applies to the Maginot Line : everyone has already heard about it but not many people can describe it. Its name echoes like a receptacle for fantasies. The shapes of its bunkers match...
24,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "« Capturing a few small moments, Not All is a series of photographs that constructs a singular picture of Southeastern United States and evokes the passage from Winter to Spring, and the upcoming birth of a son. Pascal Amoyel develops his own subjective approach to photographing this territory, which exists both as a concrete...
20,00 €In StockPresentation by the artist: "Before the Second World War in Japan, dog fights were common. But, as the war worsened, so did the food situation, and consequently, owning a big dog was criticized. Some military policemen who were afraid that the dogs might escape and become strays if their cages were destroyed in an air raid, shot and killed many dogs....
28,00 €In StockPrésentation de l'éditeur : "In addition to his personal photographic practice, A French artist of Asian origin, Tiane Doan na Champassak carries out a reflection about anonymous photography, collected via various sources such as Internet, family albums, or again periodicals. His work often translates into bookmaking and publishing and he has already...
35,00 €Out of stockCartographie de la Photographie...
Publisher's presentation: "Loosely inspired by paper maps, and born from a strong desire to promote contemporary photography and foster a visual literacy adapted to current uses of photography, the Cartographie de la photographie contemporaine is a collection of take-away exhibitions. Each Cartographie is curated in complete freedom by a different artist,...
10,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "Street-walkers, good-time girls, vagabonds, village fools, rastas, pimps, drunken expats, drunken locals, drunken everybody, underpaid guards, overworked bouncers, old-timers, orphans, urchins, beggars, hoodlums, hustlers, grasshopper vendors, all kinds of cops, NGO workers and back-alley exorcists. Some Peace Corps blogger...
43,00 €In StockA Plastic Tool (*signed*) (*imperfect*)
Presentation by Meta/Books: "The book questions the value of the contemporary image, using strategies of détournement and deconstruction to form complex visual ensemble, based on [Maya Rochat's photographs]. Interweaving these images with the print technology, she creates multi-fold narratives. The book is printed making use of various print technologies...
75,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Presentation by the artist : "Over there, there are so many horses that they don’t even have a name.This area of the Faristan, wild, unknown and so fantasied,is a mix between beauty and wildness landlocked between mountains.It’s a quest for the sublime, the distance, but also the imagery andbeliefs that are related with it. It’s like making an...
Publisher's presentation: "This book brings together rare photographs taken in the 1890s through the 1950, throughout the world. This corpus of photographs from the Jean-Marie Donat Collection gives the concept of landscape a greater breadth, and, with it, a more penetrating mystery. The collector, bt an act of tilting, switches the original print from a...
66,00 €In StockHello and Welcome to Paris (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation : "Breaking news such as the terror attacks in Paris are a veritable jackpot for traditional media in their race for a larger audience. The endless stream of repetitive news, horrifying images and rhetoric create terror's outlook and converts it into a mass consumption product. Much like advertisement, which twists reality in...
30,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "« It was not an image, nor a sound: it was only a rhythm that – from time to time – attempted to be both. Only then I began to discover the city, which up until that moment had almost passed unperceived. » -- Peter Handke The images of Ciudad Sur have found in Sergio Castañeria’s camera a way out of silence and oblivion....
15,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Indago is a work which comes from contemplating the natural environment and its different guises. In these photographs the author rediscovers forms and endows them with new meanings reflecting states of mind as well as inner feelings. These images in black and white conjure the night, and speak to the viewer of man and nature,...
29,00 €In Stock.Signed copies now available.Publisher's presentation: [translated & adapted from the French text by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Denis Dailleux is famous for the unique and passionate portraitof Egypt he has been building for more than fifteen years. In a search for new creative spaces, he also visits Ghana regularly since 2009. The fishermen of the port...
42,00 €In StockMarseillais du Nord - Les Seigneurs de...
Publisher's presentation : [translated & adapted from the French text by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "In the early 90s, the French Ministry of Culture wishes to assess how France is living and commissions Raymond Depardon to travel the countryside. Four other photographers are in charge of the "banlieues sensibles", or the outskirts of the big cities, areas...
29,00 €In Stock.PLEASE NOTE : the copies we are offering have one slightly bumped corner.Publisher's presentation: "This work by photographer Florian van Roekel is from a residence set up by Diaphane at the Jean Fernel Collège in Clermont-de-l'Oise.Present regularly during a school year in this establishment, the photographer takes a fragmentary look at these suspended...
39,00 €In StockPresentation on the artist's website: "Aby Warburg states that the historic discourse is never born, that it can always begin again. The past, according to Warburg, is as invented as discovered and it's the mere product of an inventor of history, the historian, who reconstructs the absence of his lost object and shapes, from his point of view and context,...
32,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation of Brad Feuerhelm's photobook: "Soft Touch re-works images pulled from various magazines and re-formatted into a sticker album where what remains becomes a comment on the use of empathy within photography and its economy of mass distribution. Considering the image consumer and image collection practices, the book highlights a...
25,00 €In StockBill Henson (*w/ signed print*)
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Bill Henson is a visionary explorer of twilight zones, between nature and civilization, youth and adulthood, male and female. His photographs are painterly tableaux that continue the traditions of romantic literature and painting. Henson's elegant, formal photographs – of battered landscapes and fragile, wispy youths –...
The critical conditions of my awareness...
Publisher's presentation: "The critical conditions of my awareness will sometimes trigger the shutter. The first condition that arose my interests towards photography is Chinese reality. So far until now, it is still the most convincing condition of my photographs. Usually I’ve always been carrying the overwhelming sensitivity towards those indecent...
66,00 €Out of stock
