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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.
.Sold out. A strange and kind of crazy book, and certainly a monochromatic and monomaniacal book!Tim Smyth got interested in carrot sorting... what happens between the producer's patch and the supermarket's aisles; and more specifically how are these roots sorted with machines using cameras and image analysis software!The author displays in Defective...
.Sols out.Almost is a peaceful book, that takes us in a labyrinth of personal memories where expectation, melancholy, oblivion, and disappearance join us or lead us in every nook; a labyrinth in which the reader has to make their own path, and see or imagine their own fiction.48 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Bemojake, 2013 New - Mint condition
Motohiko Hasui is a young fashion photographer, offering with Personal Matters a journey in his daily life, sharing insignificant moments, surprising or funny ones, in and around his hometown Tokyo, with sometimes his friends appearing. A sort of tug-of-war of feelings shows through these images, as one can sense an attraction for western culture and...
27,00 €Out of stockZine N° 11 - They (*w/ signed print*)
In this 11th number in the Zine Collection, called They, Xiao Zhang tells the story of the millions of Chinese uprooted from their hometowns to search for a job in a nearby industry or on the other side of the country. This series of portraits points the finger at a problem, an illness that is inherent to the economic development of China in the recent...
36,00 €Out of stockZine N° 10 - Circle (*w/ signed print*)
In this 10th number in the Zine Collection, called Circle, the young South-Korean artist Jung S. Kim deals with negative emotions from her childhood that she projects onto characters from traditional Korean folk tales...This book comes with a tipped-in signed Kodak print on the first page.Please note that L'Ascenseur Végétal lists several other books from...
36,00 €Out of stockZine N° 9 - Zimbabwe (*w/ signed print*)
In this 9th number in the Zine Collection, called Zimbabwe, Robin Hammond shows us the terrible life conditions in this country, more than 30 years after Robert Mugabe reached power.The introduction by Wilf Mbanga explains the hope that Mugabe initially raised in 1980, and the suffering he since has imposed on his people, and the failure and imposture he...
36,00 €Out of stock.The very last copy!.Ce livre, dont le titre complet est The Sochi Project - An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus, est un travail documentaire de plusieurs années sur l'évolution de Sochi et sa région après l'obtention de l'organisation des Jeux Olympiques d'hiver de 2014 : les aspects sociaux, environnementaux, politiques sont présentés en texte...
75,00 €Out of stockMicronations est une galerie de portraits étonnants, qui racontent chacun un territoire, la passion d'un territoire... Présentation de l'éditeur :"Qui a déjà entendu parler de la République des Conques ? Du Royaume d’Elleore ? De la Principauté du Sealand? De la Couronne de Forvik? De l’Empire d’Atlantium? Ou du Consulat de la Boirie ?Qui sait qu’en 2010...
éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation...
.Currently out of stock.Full title : "éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation contemporaine d'un village français de deux mille huit cent trente neuf habitants - volume 3"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...
15,00 €Out of stockéléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation...
.Sold out.Titre complet : "éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation contemporaine d'un village français de deux mille huit cent trente neuf habitants - volume 2"L'artiste a photographié la ville où il réside, Noyers-sur-Cher, et publie en une série de 10 livrets ce travail documentaire qui se veut en quelque sorte être un exemple représentatif de la...
Swell - 2nd edition (*signed*)
.Sold out.Swell is both a tribute to the Baltic Sea and the tale of a separation, both a poem and the chronicle of a journey, both in colours and Black & White.This rather small book is alos a beautiful object, with a unusual design that has two "half-books" that are respectively bound to only one cover, making a cleft, a cesura between these two...
Some Windy Trees (*Limited Edition*)
.Sold out. Some Windy Trees is the second opus of Vincent Delbrouck's "Himalayan Project".This book is comprised of 10 portraits of trees. Trees that grew and developed against the wind and are leaning, bent and tilted by this physical constraint.This very homogeneous series invites us to give these trees - these characters - a closer look, to discover...
.Sold out.Some Windy Trees is the second opus of Vincent Delbrouck's "Himalayan Project".This book is comprised of 10 portraits of trees. Trees that grew and developed against the wind and are leaning, bent and tilted by this physical constraint.This very homogeneous series invites us to give these trees - these characters - a closer look, to discover...
.Last copy. A surprising and tragic yet beautiful images of an environmental disaster that took place in Hungary in 2010. A dam containing the toxic waste of an aluminum plant brike and the liquid spilled off into the surrounding countryside, flooding two villages, fields and forest. The images were taken a few months after the catastrophy.With a text by...
25,00 €Out of stockHester is a series of reconstructed portraits offering a re-interpretation of the body that is sometimes disturbing, and always surprising.48 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Mörel Books, 2013 New - Mint condition
59,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Mörel Books: " Långt från Stockholm (or Far from Stockholm) finds JH Engstrom on a journey into the surrounding world away from the big city.... Shifting between isolated small communities and the untamed wilderness of the Swedish landscape -Engstrom weaves the two worlds with portraits of 'dance bands', youths etc and juxtaposing them...
52,00 €In StockFrom the artist's website : "Between 2008 and 2010 Sipke sent out 500 handwritten letters accompanied by a photograph to random addresses all over the UK. He asked the receivers for a response. The book Return to Sender is the result of this exercise and contains over one hundred of his photos and the correspondence that came from it."Design by Kummer and...
39,00 €In StockThe Looking Game - 2nd Edition
.Sold out. From the publisher : "A serial killer and amateur photographer currently imprisoned in the Death Row: Rodney Alcala. An alias he adopted while on the run from the police: John Berger, as the famous British art critic. Starting from this coincidence, The Looking Game explores the once-secret archive of pictures taken by Alcala and sets up a...
From the publisher :"The vision of Ciociaria that Douglas Stockdale presents in this book remains way further from grandiose than picturesque, in line with the desire to reject stereotypes of landscape and cultural anthropology. Observing the region through a careful eye of a ‘flaneur’ photographer, almost an ideal recreation of what once were the...
35,00 €In StockA funny collection of images of misspelled road markings & signs. PLEASE NOTE : Our last copy shows imperfection to the thin plastic lamination at the top of the front cover (coming off a tiny bit)50 pages - Soctcover RVB Books, 2013 New - Mint condition
25,00 €Out of stockFrom the rediscovered archive of this great "unknown" photographer, a beautiful series of self-portraits in mirrors, shop windows, cars, etc.120 pages - Hardcover, no DJ powerHouse Books, 2013 Format : 25.5 x 28 cm New - Mint condition
49,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Iris Garden contains 22 texts by John Cage (the composer) and 44 photographs by William Gedney, presented in an original way.This book was selected for the "Paris Photo / Aperture Award 2013".64 pages - Softcover in slipcase Little Brown Mushroom, 2013 New - Mint condition
Alec Soth's personal collection of Ping Pong players, gathered from here and there over the years...A book of vernacular photography, but weird and funny !46 pages - Hardcover Little Brown Mushroom, 2013 New - Mint condition
.Sold out.NB : Please note we are offering signed copies of the 2nd edition (see "Suggestions" tab)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...
This books presents the still relatively unknown work of one of the greatest female photographers of the second world war and of the post-war years : the Dutch artist and reporter Emmy Andriesse.Compiled and presented by writer Louise Baring.224 pages - Hardcover with DJ Schilt Publishing, 2013 New - Mint condition
35,00 €In StockFrom the publisher : "Gasoline presents 35 archive press images of gas stations taken between 1944 and 1995. They have been collected by writer David Campany, purchased from the photography archives of several American newspapers which have been discarding their analogue print collections and moving to the now ubiquitous .jpeg or .tif formats. Gasoline...
30,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Strangely familiar is the first publication of Peter Mitchell's celebrated work about his home city of Leeds that he photographed in his rounds as a driver in the 70's.A body of work that has been exhibited quite often - including in the famous "How We Are: Photographing Britain" at the Tate Britain in 2007 - but that never appeared in a book...
Salaryman Project 2014 (*w/ print*)
.Sold out.Salaryman Project is an ongoing series by Bruno Quinquet, who publishes each year a business schedule with his images of working men in the streets of Tokyo. In this work, we discover the atmosphere and the evolution of the city around the year and the seasons. We follow the inhabitants and workers - always faceless for rights issues - in the...
Sharing Paths (*Limited Edition*)
.Sold out.Sharing Paths is the book of a traveler, a hiker, a lover of nature, of landscapes, of encounters. Ruben Brulat, while traveling just about everywhere, is always yearning to share something with the inhabitants of the lands he crosses and the other travelers he meets. To immortalize these encounters, he asks his friends of the day, friends of...
.Sold out.Sharing Paths is the book of a traveler, a hiker, a lover of nature, of landscapes, of encounters. Ruben Brulat, while traveling just about everywhere, is always yearning to share something with the inhabitants of the lands he crosses and the other travelers he meets. To immortalize these encounters, he asks his friends of the day, friends of...
For Birds of the West Indies (a tribute name to the actual James Bond, the ornithologist), Taryn Simon has photographed everyone and everything that has made and still makes the world of the James Bond movie franchise in the manner of a biologist or an archivist. The catalogue of images alone is really interesting. But in these pictures of weird things,...
45,00 €In StockSheets is a retrospective of Rinko Kawauchi's work over the last 10 to 15 years, presented as excerpts of her contact sheets. From an artist recognized for several famous and acclaimed books : Utatane, Cui-Cui, Ametsuchi, etc.This new presentation is a re-interpretation of the artist's work from that period. Beautiful book with numerous foldouts.152 pages...
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