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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: "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 Stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation (excerpt): "L’univers d’Oliver Sieber explore la contre-culture de groupes sociaux, jeunes pour la plupart, qui fréquentent des clubs où se produisent des formations musicales au style affirmé. De cette subculture, qui se vit à l’échelle de la planète, nous connaissons aujourd’hui la forme visuelle développée par ses...
Yuji Hamada's Statement : "This is a photo book of a series of images that try to capture and seize light. Originally shot under the name «Pulsar» between 2005 and 2006, it was retitled «photograph» when published at P.G.I.(Photo Gallery International, Tokyo) in 2013. Based on the fundamental thought «I want to paint light on photographic paper», I...
59,00 €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 stockPublisher's presentation: "The Arrangement is a group of images Ruth Van Beek made with a collection of books on flower arranging. She has been collecting books on this subject for years, mostly instructional books dating from the fifties to the seventies. They combine colorful still lifes of flower arrangements with the functional photography of a...
38,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock. Publisher's presentation: "Augustin Rebetez in his Swiss Jura House let his imagination run. With a bunch of friends, he builds sculptures, sets, stages and imagines an astonishing permanent theatre. His book takes us into a strange tale, haunted whith masked characters engaged in mysterious activities. As we discover the photographs we...
30,00 €In StockTauromaquia by Julián Barón is an open edition, but the singed and numbered copies offered here are from a print run of 200 copies made during a "one day printing show" as part of an exhibition at P2P during PhotoEspaña 2014. This edition is almost sold out by the artist. Two other editions of 200 copies have been made : one for the exhibition "Lonja del...
25,00 €In StockThe Mecca of Coney Island (*signed*)
Presentation on the publisher's website of Fabrizio Albertini's photobook: "In the opening scenes of the first «Rocky» (1976), Balboa is always holding a handball ball. For the aspiring boxer, a perfect archetype of the crude and penniless hero and destined to achieve the ‘American dream’, that is probably a simple exercise to train reflexes and a form of...
25,00 €In StockA Question of England (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation: "As a small boy, John Comino-James stood in school cap and Sunday suit to have his snapshot taken under flags put up for Queen Elizabeth's Coronation. The resultant photograph resonates with an England long since disappeared, yet still fertile in the imagination. That sense of how that England has changed is the focus in John...
42,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Mother and Father, is a moving journal of the final years of a sixty-year marriage. For ten years, from 1997 to 2007 Paddy Summerfield photographed his parents, reflecting on the bond between them, which even the effects of Alzheimers could not break. They become symbols in a drama of balance and tension, which is...
.Sold out. As presented by Éditions du Lic : "Comprising of images taken between 2010 and 2011 in the Mennonite colonies of Santa Cruz, in Eastern Bolivia, Los Menonos presents a portrait of a community of self-styled, self-willed outsiders that have voyaged out into the wilderness of a foreign land to escape that which may yet prove to be inescapable:...
Zine N° 18 - Rêves de Femmes (*w/ signed...
Text on cover: "Renée Jacobs' work is the result of a very personal vision and interpretation of women. The female form is her intimate sketchpad. Life is a dream and Renée treats us to exquisite images that are a magical feast for the eyes of the beholder. You open this intimate volume and almost feel you are intruding. You are walking past an open door...
36,00 €Out of stockZine N° 17 - Reliefs (*w/ signed print*)
In this series Reliefs, Agne presents what could seem to be an obsession: leftovers in a plate after a meal. Described in this manner, the subject is surprising at best, but it is by thoroughly exploring the topic and in the repetition that the body of work gains depth and meaning, as a formal study on a very specific and rather peculiar subject.40 pages...
36,00 €Out of stockFather Figure (*signed / not signed*)
Presentation project on the artist's website: "Black father absence is a contentiously-debated social issue in the US and other countries. Too many Black men, so the argument goes, are missing, irresponsible, selfish, not stepping up to the plate. Visuals of deadbeat, absentee Black fathers abound in mainstream media, often intended to sensationalize and...
60,00 €In StockDOM (Document Object Model) (*signed*)
Presentation of the project by the artist: "In my project DOM I refer to the concept of home.«Dom» means a house, home, a building or a household in the Russian language. As a model for creation of the maquette of houses, I chose the kind of mass housing, so-called «Khruschyovka». They were built in Russia in the era of Khrushchev. After Stalin's Empire...
58,00 €Out of stockPresentation by FIshbar: "Since 1999, American artist Eric Gottesman’s ongoing collaboration with Sudden Flowers, a collective of children living in Addis Ababa, has produced a body of work of profound depth and poetic lightness. In reimagining the harsh realities the children experienced on the streets and in their homes in the wake of their parents'...
59,00 €In StockAnother Twenty-Six Gas Stations (*signed*)
Presentation by In the In-Between: "Gregory Jones' Another Twenty-Six Gas Stations is a new media artist book comprised of twenty-six screen captures culled from gas station surveillance videos found on YouTube. The book blends notions of surveillance, crime photography, advertising, and found text; which together form an incisive dark-humor commentary...
28,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "In 2001, through a grant from the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, Gerry Johansson traveled to the inaccessible and distinct landscape of Antarctica on a research trip for two months. With him on the journey he had a large-format camera and his fearless curiosity. The series of photos eventuate in an unusual reality relevant...
.Available.Presentation on the Paris Photo website: "This book's folio design is shaped by its content: Lithuanian identification photographs from 1946, when citizens were required to get new, Soviet documents. What's distinctive about these images—taken by Vytautus V. Stanionis's father, also named Vytautus—is that, to save money and materials, each...
38,00 €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 StockOBEN (German word for "above") is a journey in the city, but in a little known part of the city : the wide spaces, the ducts, the antennas, the railings of which the roofs are composed... a journey full of obstacles, of surprises and of large deep breaths...Editing with Paul Gaffney, hand-bound with Nico Baumgarten.44 pages - Softcover Self-published,...
25,00 €Out of stockPresentation of Pearl on Tiago Casanova's website : "Pearl is a book about Madeira Island, nicknamed as «The Pearl of the Atlantic», a highly touristic place known for its Nature and its unique Laurisilva Forests. But firstly I was intrigued by this phenomenon of natural transformation of a living being through the creation of a non-living hard object,...
30,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "The word Sumimasen («I am sorry») is used in Japanese society to express both apology and gratitude. It anchors a formal code of behaviour which is mainly used in public interactions and uncommon within intimate relationships. This reflects a unification of social behaviour that can be seen as a mask, thus further alienating the...
60,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Photographer Heikki Kaski (Finland) crawled into the skin of the small town Tranquillity, 800 inhabitants, in the desert-like San Joaquin Valley, California. The images show a strange, introverted world in a stiflingly hot desert; the heat is almost palpable in this book."Text from the cover: "And there was. Sounds...
She Comes in Colors has this short text as introduction :"I met a girlI fell in loveWe had a brief romanceShe left home"The book is a poetic evocation of this romance, through little "brushstrokes", little signs, little moments. With a text by Alexander Norton.The book is a re-publication (announced second edition) of Florian Braakman's photobook...
24,00 €In StockBlack Country Stories (*signed*)
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Over the last four years Martin Parr has been working on a commission for Multistory (Sandwell) photographing the Black Country (a region of the West Midlands in England). It was an area he knew little of, other than its reputation as a densely populated, post-industrial area; one in decline. Many of the industries...
Wandering at Midnight (Teikai)
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "TEIKAI (Wandering at midnight) is the second part of the TEIKAI trilogy in progress by Daisuke Yokota and AKINA.TEIKAI is a lonesome midnight drift through the outer edges of the city exploring the human obsession of reaching for the sky, circling around industrial areas and the construction sites' modern wasteland,...
.Sold out. Presentation by Akina Books: "Mysterious and austere, Italia O Italia metaphysical cities hide the enigma of a timeless place between sunburst dead-ends and shadowy arcades; the disquieting muses of Federico Clavarino shape an Italy of the mind, made of dark symbols in sunlit piazzas.A kind of stillness permeates every photograph of this book,...
.WARNING: Our last copies have small bumps to one or 2 corners and possibly one or 2 wrinkles to the cover. Presentation on Kate Nolan's website: "Neither is an exploration into the dreams and fears of young women in Kaliningrad - a tiny and isolated Russian region on the Baltic Sea - through both image and text. The women I met and be-friended...
35,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "In 2013, with dwindling assignments from the newspapers and magazines for which he worked, Augusto Brázio, a freelance photographer, began to wander the streets of Lisbon. He soon discovered innumerable stores with closed shutters. In the centre of Lisbon and surrounding suburbs, in Porto, the Algarve and all over Northern...
23,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "In 2009 André Príncipe and Marco Martins travelled to Tokyo to shoot a film about elliptical narratives and the importance of the diaristic practise in Japanese photography. During a month and in a totally improvised way, the Portuguese filmmakers shot hours of 16mm footage and thousands of photographs of their daily...
