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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.
.Two copies available - First printing! - In publisher's shrinkwrap - Mint condition. Publisher's presentation : "Something is going to happen. We can feel it. A car pulling up. An argument overheard. The shattering of glass. Or maybe it already happened: a crumpled bed, a lamp left on, a door slammed shut. In his celebrated shots of American suburbia,...
129,00 €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...
Images of Conviction - The Construction of...
Publisher's presentation : "What can really be learned from an image? Since its origins, how has photography built itself up within a discourse of truth? The book and eponymous exhibition respond to these questions through eleven cases of images produced by experts, researchers and historians. Whether it be the famous shots of the Shroud of Turin, the...
45,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation : "In 1958, at the age of eighteen, the photographer Larry Fink left his childhood home on Long Island and moved to a one-bedroom apartment in Greenwich Village. Fink was immediately drawn to New York’s counterculture, and he soon met a group of artists, writers, and musicians affiliated with a late stage of the Beat...
Publisher's presentation : "Fashioned as we are by Western values, we take pleasure in observing, ironically and delightedly, the simulacra of Korean happiness. But who are we to judge their happiness? The great strength of this album is that it sows doubt in our mind. These couples, these families, these men and women presented in the intimacy of their...
38,00 €In Stock.A few UNsigned copies available, from the first edition.Publisher's presentation : "Bottom of the Lake is a 256-page facsimile of the artist's family's telephone book for his hometown of Fond du Lac ("Bottom of the Lake"), printed in 1973, soon after his birth. The book includes found markings and reproductions of inserted materials, along with...
48,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Presentation on the artist's website: "The project Forget Your Past (2009-2012) traces the fate of the most important communist-era monuments in Bulgaria. The title of the series is borrowed from graffiti writing over the entrance of the Bulgarian Communist Party Memorial at Mount Buzludja that poignantly illustrates the fate of the...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation : "Salitre :1. Saline Substance, particularly abundant in soil and walls2. When sailing, the mixture of sweat and salt that sticks to the skin3. Lavapiés Street (Madrid) where twelve Senegalese immigrants lives in an overcrowded house4. Collective photography and publishing experience resulting in a box of 12 + 1 books...
Publisher's presentation: "Mise au jour edited and designed by Willem van Zoetendaal consists of 45 photographs made by Johan van der Keuken (1938-2001) during the period 1956-1982 with his Leica M3 camera. Mainly unknown photographs are selected from France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Greece and USA completed with a bibliography. Mise au jour means to...
56,00 €In StockFacsimile reproduction of a notebook of minimalist painter Brice Marden. The work includes photographs, collages (newspaper clippings, show tickets, etc.), drawings and scribbles, notes and texts; all that is a window into the artist's mind, his interests, his influences, his reflections...This notebook covers the "open" period starting in February 1968,...
26,00 €Out of stockNotebook Sept. 1964 - Sept. 1967
.Sold out.Facsimile reproduction of a notebook of minimalist painter Brice Marden. The work includes photographs, collages (newspaper clippings, show tickets, etc.), drawings and scribbles, notes and texts; all that is a window into the artist's mind, his interests, his influences, his reflections...This notebook covers the period "September 1964 -...
Publisher's presentation: "Slowly but steadily we become immersed in what Henrik Malmström saw and photographed from the window of his living room. The pages of A Minor Wrongdoing unfold as a hypnotic sequence of candid shots taken at the neighbourhood of St. Georg in Hamburg, between 2011 and 2014. Hundreds of them, they record the last remains of street...
55,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "The Building Berlin / Constructions series was photographed in Berlin’s empty lots between 2009 and 2012 on 8x10" negative material. The stills are from Blockbuster, a 5'-long, 16 mm black and white film, made in Berlin in 2012, starring Patrick Holderness, Camera Berbank-Green."Large format co-published with Le BAL. Sold out by...
30,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "In May 1942, Sobibor became fully operational and began mass gassing operations. Himmelstrasse (Heaven Street) was a cynical Nazi joke used to describe the final journey to the gas chambers. Brian Griffin has documented the railway tracks in Poland that transported approximately three million prisoners from around Europe to the...
72,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock (2nd edition).Presentation on the publisher's website: "Andrea Modica works with sensual love as her base but aligned with a darkness which is pervasive, so much so that it can color your dreams. The work is not hopeless but breathless, as if there is an atmospheric gauze placed over the larynx so that breathing has to be softened, done in...
45,00 €Out of stockPresentation on the publisher's website: "Golden Youth is not a document of any particular Joburg sub-culture, nor is it a study of consumerism. It does not explain the izikhothane, those cloth-burning youths from Soweto who are the latest subject of written enquiry by pedigreed explainers of things. Golden Youth is, quite simply, a portrait study of some...
38,00 €In Stockукраїна La frontière (*signed*)
Presentation by the artist on the publisher's website : "Summer 2013. I leave for Ukraine with Florence. No real destination. We're improvising. Kiev. Night train to Crimea. We meet Vlad and Anna at Simferopol. Together, we spend time near the Black Sea. We walk a lot. We sleep outside. It's very hot. We move often. Just the two of us, we go farther into...
25,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Presentation on the artist's website: "Bunga Bunga, an expression frequently quoted by the italian and international press during the 2011 investigation surrounding S Berlusconi's underage prostitution charges."The artist uses portraits of young women presumably involved in this scandal, and cuts the photographs to create a satirical book in the...
Mühit - 2nd edition (*signed*)
.Second edition, 2015.The background for Mühit is Ilkin Huseynov's own personal life. His dad had to leave Azerbaïjan and the family soon after his birth to look for a job, as the USSR was collapsing. The book follows the traces of the author's memories of the trips to see his father abroad, it is his way to revisit these memories by going to the...
42,00 €In StockL'esprit des hommes de la Terre de Feu
.Currently out of stock; please inquire for future availability.Publisher's presentation: "Between 1918 and 1924, over four journeys to Tierra del Fuego, the German missionary Martin Gusinde became the only anthropologist who had been capable of conducting an in-depth study of the Selk’nam, Yamana, and Kawésqar. What might have remained simply a classic...
60,00 €Out of stockPresentation by the artist : "As I walked through these villages where everything had been washed away, including houses and sea walls, there were traces to indicate where once had been a road. People had started to walk again on these traces, reforming a path on top of the original. It was as if the road had a life of its own.I have taken countless...
68,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Presentation on the artist's website : "M is for Metro Misha Pedan’s new book M is a poetic chronicle of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. All the photographs are taken, while communting on the subway of Kharkov during 1985-86. Each day Pedan travelled for 45 minutes into town and 45 minutes back, spending some 1000 hours in the tube....
Le vent qui a des yeux (*signed*)
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Florence Cats et Joseph Charroy sont venus en Islande en août 2011 et ont décidé de faire le tour de l’île en auto-stop munis d’une tente, d’un carnet de notes et d’un appareil photo. Ce « road trip » a donné naissance à un projet de livre : Le Vent qui a des yeux. Une quarantaine de photographies argentiques couleurs...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "The Album project consists of found photographs. The images employed in the project have lost their original function (memory). To be more specific, no one remembers anymore what is depicted in these photographs, and why they were taken. The most comprehensible signs in the photographs are the notes and the marks of...
.Sold out.Presentation by the artist on lamaindonne's website: "By the year 2050, it is estimated that Russia, the largest country in the world, will decrease its actual population by a third and would have a hundred million citizens. Le Désert russe is my personal photo report around the snowy Russia suggesting this inevitable demographic disaster. I...
Publisher's presentation : "The book brings together a set of works, selected by the artist and devised from the outset in small formats. Through a chronological sequence from the early 1970's until today, we observe the sharpness and precision of Jeff Wall's approach all the better here, with all of his passion for art history and broad knowledge of...
35,00 €In StockTôt un dimanche matin, journal de Montréal...
.Back in stock.Presentation by Julien Coquentin on the publisher's website:"For two years I photographed Montreal. I wanted to write a poetic of the city and remoteness, an American ride in short. I worked at night in the emergency room of a big hospital and lived in the cosmopolitan district of Mile-End. This America was mixed with my childhood dreams...
25,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "After presenting his vision of Montreal in Early Sunday morning / Journal de Montreal, we discover Julien Coquentin's vision of New York in this photobook.This time, unlike Montreal, it's a short one-week trip. A week to photograph New York is not enough. But it requires being on the lookout, trying to capture every moment that...
Presentation by the artist : "Something unknown lurking in everyday life somehow stole into me. I shout inside my heart, swirling inside. It's like pieces of a puzzle, in disassembled shapes and incomprehensible."56 pages - Softcover Zen Foto Gallery, 2015 (500 copies) *Signed* New - Mint condition
45,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Catalogue of the exhibition Total Records - The Great Adventure of Album Cover Photography at the Rencontres d'Arles festival 2015, sold out by the publisher.Presentation on the festival's website: "A history of photography through the prism of the vinyl record: both media, which left their mark on the 20th century, were combined in all their...
49,00 €Publisher's presentation: "The Whiteness of the Whale brings together Paul Graham’s three bodies of American photographs: American Night, a shimmer of possibility and The Present, made from 1998 to 2011. These 3 remarkable photographic series reflect upon the social fabric of contemporary America, whilst trying to find something closer to the experience...
79,00 €Out of stock.Currently out of stock. Publisher's presentation: "In Lago, Ron Jude returns to the California desert of his early childhood as if a detective in search of clues to his own identity. In a book of 54 photographs made between 2011 and 2014, he attempts to reconcile the vagaries of memory (and the uncertainty of looking) with our need to make narrative...
