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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.
Publisher's presentation: "We made these photographs between October and April 2013/2014 in Sweden, in Sunne, in the middle of nowhere and far away from everything. It was winter and every Saturday night Pizzeria Sunne transformed from a fast food restaurant into a karaoke bar. This was the only place to go if you wanted to meet other people during the...
.Last copy.Presentation by Super Labo: "How often have you been in your car going somewhere when you suddenly see outside your window some brief, often insignificant event, which nonetheless grabs your attention, and you turn to whoever is in the car with you and say, ‘… quick! Look at that!’ And then it’s too late, you’ve already passed it and it becomes...
Grays the Mountain Sends (2nd ed.)
.Sold out. A few words by Robert Adams from Bryan Schutmaat's website: "Grays the Mountain Sends is like hearing Merle Haggard sing white blues about dreams and grief. Though in the book we are allowed what only the best pictures can convey, a sense of light – in this case light at neglected hours on forgotten places in the American West. And light on the...
Publisher'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...
Excerpt from the newspaper "Libération", Oct. 12th, 2012 : "Une image se trouve à l’origine de ce travail. Une photographie entrevue dans un magazine associatif qui montrait quatre corps allongés à même le sol dans une forêt du nord de la France. La légende indiquait qu’il s’agissait d’Afghans, probablement épuisés, qui se reposaient à l’abri des regards...
H. said he loved us (*signed*)
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Following three years of travels and investigations in Germany, Tommaso Tanini’s H. Said He Loved Us draws on the story of the GDR and the German Ministry for State Security (STASI) to explore the feelings of oppression and dread caused by living in a state of constant suspicion and diffidence. Mingling documentary...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "An intimate portrait of Russian women in their private spaces. Andy Rocchelli started to travel to Russia in 2010; there he spent a considerable amount of time working as a freelance photographer. During this time he covered several stories in different places. The book Russian Interiors, however, sees the light as...
Publisher's presentation: "Immersed in collector Brad Feuerhelm’s vernacular photo collection, artist Anouk Kruithof moved into a bungalow where she developed a niche relationship with the photos and transformed the image archive. She visualizes scenarios in which images, through the imaginary space of our conception, and parallel to digitization, leap...
.Unsigned copies. Presentation by Stephen Gill: "The series Best Before End is an attempt to reflect and respond to the intensity of inner city life by focusing on the phenomenal rise of energy drinks. These powerful and potentially dangerous stimulants are being sold and consumed in ever-increasing quantities as the demands of modern life and the growth...
Publisher's presentation:"The second collaboration between father and son Thomas Roma and Giancarlo T. Roma, The Waters of Our Time is a book that could only be done in the latter part of this renowned photographer’s career and with the unique contemplation of his watchful son. A retrospective of sorts, the book contains 142 of Roma’s photographs spanning...
.Last copy. Presentation by the artist: "Angkor, 23 Juin 2014. Nuit… La methamphétamine apaise la peur. Je parcours les rues et photographie les filles qui arpentent les berges du Tonle Sap, prisonnières de l’obscurité, forcées d’accepter de bonne grâce leur rôle d’esclave, la nécessité de leur soumission et docilité envers les hommes. Le Chrab Srey,...
.Sold out. Presentation by the artist: "The book is built on two photographic archives – mine (photographs of my friends made between 2011-2013) - and photographer Tatyana Soldatova’s archive (photographs of her friends made in 1980s) that I happened to see by chance and compare with mine. This comparison brought out a large number of identical shots...
.Sold out!. Presentation by the artist: "Mutti - a conceptional work Memory is a strange thing. We tend to think of ourselves as cameras, recording events which we can truthfully and repeatedly recall without distortion. Yet each time we remember an event, a person, those memories become slowly and inevitably modified. Just as the cells in our bodies...
.Sold out. Presentation by the publisher: "We experience an infinite number of instants in life. Like scattered dust and seeds, they are so negligible. Few people realize, but these trifles, these most trivial instants are in fact closest to life itself. They enclose beauty that is naked and simple, and embody power that enriches our souls. These...
.Back in stock. An amazing journey, strange places, surprising and sometimes weird locations, all in a myterious, or even mystical atmosphere. A beautiful surprise, and a really bautiful book.An interesting review of this book is available on the blog "who needs another photography blog" (Thank you to Christer Ek, the author of the blog, as we took the...
Presentation by the artist: "My theater complex came from my home. I live in a theater's courtyard filled with playing and watching. The theater life enriched my knowledge about various roles at all times and in all countries. Time was changing the opera gradually. The pop, fashion and foreign elements were added into the traditional, local and folk...
Presentation by Ana Galan: "I have always thought that arriving to a certain age, we become invisible, towards ourselves and towards the rest of the people. The project Viv(r)e la vie! pays homage to those who decide not to become invisible, to those who continue to live “in the moment”. With curiosity, being the main character of their lives and...
Full title: Sound of Midnight, the theory of bitter funPresentation by Clément Paradis: "One night I was outside of a club in London, I think at that moment I started to hear it… The Sound of Midnight… How many pictures did I take that night? One roll? Two rolls, three? When I ran out of rolls, I'd re-expose the previous ones anyway. I'm a trigger happy,...
.Last copy!.Presentation by the publisher: "Daisuke Yokota's latest work CORPUS features his nude photography for the first time. Yokota's unique visual expression mixing reality and fiction shows the human figures in black and white getting tangled with each other in a locked room. These very intimate images give us a strange feeling about life, death...
.Sold out.Presentation by the publisher: "Viviane Sassen's first photo book in Japan, LEXICON includes the series by the same title which was chosen by Massimiliano Gioni to be part of The Encyclopedic Palace at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013). The thirty-one images, encompassing iconic and more recent ones, wove together the themes recurring in her work:...
everything will be ok (*signed*)
.Sold out. Presentation by the publisher: "In life we all go through good times and bad times over and over, tirelessly. I went through one of these cycles and transformed it into this book. It was my story but very well could it be yours. everything will be ok is the chronicle of a magical journey that starts with the emotional collapse that comes after...
.ONE LAST COPY discovered in our shelves.Presentation by the artist on his website: "By a series of fortunate events, Mark Power was present at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. To mark the 25th anniversary, this new production (self-published under his new imprint, Globtik Books) is bound as a pastiche of a newspaper Power purchased in Berlin the...
Grand 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...
.Back in stock.Presentation on the artist's website : "Ibidem is a project about globalization, about the lack and the loss of roots, about the mutation of cities. I started this project in New York in 2002 after realizing that the pictures I took at the time could have been shot in some of the other cities I had lived in. Back to Milan I confirmed my...
Publisher's presentation: "In 1930, duck farmer Martin Maurer from Flanders, Long Island, decided to construct a giant duck-shaped shop to sell the Peking ducks he raised to motorists passing by. In 1972, in the book Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott-Brown, and Steven Izenour, studying the architecture of that city, outlined 2 main...
.Sold out.After the acclaimed Two Rivers (a favorite of L'Ascenseur Végétal), Wild Pigeon is Carolyn Drake's new project and book.Carolyn turns her eyes and lens to the Xinjiang Province in China and its Uyghur population and culture, that are under strong control / coercion from the Chinese government. Taking photographs on separate trips to the region...
.2nd edition sold out - But we are now offering the 3rd edition, with signed copies (see "Suggestions" tab). From the introduction by Martin Parr : "Consider these facts. In Italy the right to worship, without discrimination, is enshrined within the constitution. There are 1.35 million Muslims in Italy and yet, officially, only eight mosques in the whole...
We are offering the ISSP 2015 Weekly Planner with photographs by the participants of the International Summer School of Photography 2014, a gathering of emerging photographers in Riga, Latvia (participants from 26 countries for the 2014 edition). Nice font, friendly design, 53 weekly openings with a special selection of images (1 photography on the left...
Zine N° 19 - The Family (*w/ signed print*)
.Sold out. Alain Laboile is not a trained photographer, he has been taking pictures of his chlidren for years, in the house or in the large garden with a pond, insects, and other animals. Beautiful portraits, very touching images, for which the self-made photographer has won several awards and prizes. With the help of the social networks, his images...
Je ne peux pas comprendre Eddy (*signed*)
Presentation by the artist Andrew G. Smith: "I still have no idea what was driving him. It's easy to flippantly say that he was a monster, or «The Cannibal», or to document the palmarès. But, given the manner of those vitories, it's a mystery."Je ne peux pas comprendre Eddy (I cannot comprehend Eddy) is a tribute to Belgian bicycle racer Eddy Merckx,...
Presentation 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
.ONE NEW copy available!.For Japan Sea, Shunji Dodo traveled the coast of the Japan Sea (delimited by China, the two Koreas, Russia and Japan) with an 8"x10" camera. Through this geographical and certainly historical point of entry, he is looking for a point of entry into the Japanese culture, by immersing the viewer in the daily life he witnessed,...