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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.
.Sold out. Presentation by André Frère Editions: "Captivated by the Scandinavian lands from a residence in Norway, Sébastien Van Malleghem has since advanced his travels from Denmark to Iceland, passing through Finland and Sweden. Nordic Noir is the visual recital of this contrasting trek. With breathtaking and timeless landscapes, scenes of life and...
Publisher's presentation : FRAC Auvergne devoted an exhibition to American photographer Gregory Crewdson, from May 20 to September 17, 2017.This was the first exhibition of this major artist, internationally acclaimed, in a French institution. It is accompanied by the publication of the photobook The Becket Pictures.The exhibition brought together the...
Présentation de l'éditeur : [ Book in French only ] "For three years, Carlos Spottorno and Guillermo Abril have traveled the borders of Europe, and from the 25,000 photographs and 15 notebooks they reported, they composed a" comic strip "of photos.From Africa to the Arctic, the journalists tell a story: a meeting with the Africans of Gourougou, the...
Presentation of the series on the photographer's website: "The mountain range of Caucasus is a borderland where Europe meets Asia and Christianity meets Islam; a myriad of nationalities, languages and cultures live side by side. Well-known in the Soviet time as the land of wine and pomegranates, clean mountain air and sunny beaches, the Caucasian...
Publisher's presentation: "Karlheinz Weinberger’s day job may have been relatively uneventful—working in a Siemen’s warehouse—but the photos he took in his spare time are anything but conformist. Weinberger’s passion, and the focus of this book, is the rebel youth of 1950s and ’60s Switzerland, who channeled American rock-’n’-roll culture and made it...
Presentation by Spector Books: "Since the 1979 revolution, Iran has developed its own image culture, with public space serving primarily as a transit zone and a screen where state-sanctioned religious ideology is projected. Pride of place is given to memorials to the first Gulf war (the Iran-Iraq War of 1980–88), which is part of the founding myth of the...
Publisher's presentation of Lionel Bayol Thémines photobook: "The Ghost project started with a walk along the ocean coast begun at the tip of the Bay of Arcachon (Cap Féret, France) during the summer 2015. Along this walk, going away from crowded and cleaned daily beaches, wastes rejected by the sea seem more and more numerous in the form of strips,...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: [ Please note : content in French only ] "La photographie contemporaine iranienne depuis la révolution de 1979; un panorama exceptionnel de la photographie contemporaine iranienne. Cet ouvrage rassemble les œuvres de 66 photographes et interroge la réalité iranienne par un jeu de confrontations entre images...
Publisher's presentation on Léa Habourdin's website: "Survivalists is a book by French artist Lea Habourdin. Halfway between a survival manual and an inquiry into the complex relationship between human beings and Nature, its quiet images move between the almost clinical and the intimate, forming a subtle narration in three distinct chapters."108 pages -...
Publisher's presentation: "Burkina Faso photographer Sory Sanlé (b. 1943) began his career in 1960, the year his country (then called République de Haute-Volta) gained independence from France. Sanlé opened his Volta Photo portrait studio in 1965 and, working with his Rolleiflex twin lens medium format camera, Volta Photo was soon recognised as the finest...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "We show the images that Anders Petersen highlighted and marked on the contact proof sheets, of the period, with signs, signals and colours. They have lost that original intention of prominance and of status, their Morse code, their meaning, but they have gained the gesture. The footprint. The pride of ingenuity. Their...
Publisher's presentation of Giona Mottura's photobook: " - DIANE a documentary photobook journey on the life of a transexual singer in Switzerland - « Diane is a singer dwelling in the small village of Boveresse close to Môtiers in Val de Travers, Switzerland. Involved in the cultural events of her city till 2009, she now spends most of her time to...
Publisher's presentation: "Nicolas Wormull was born in 1977 in Santiago, Chile. He grew up in Sweden where he studied photography. Nicolas Wormull photography as he lives, he speaks to us of the present of instantaneity, and of all these little things that happen daily, right there under our eyes, under his own. He offers us raw and fragile images in...
Publisher's presentation: [texts in French only] "En mars 1986, dans le quartier de la Bourgogne à Tourcoing, une dynamique s’est mise en route suite au cri de souffrance d’un jeune nommé Joao lors d’une rencontre de jeunes chômeurs en JOC (Jeunesse Ouvrière Croyante : musulmans et chrétiens) : « Il faut faire quelque chose contre la came, sinon ils...
Santa Barbara shame on US (*signed*)
Presentation by Skinnerboox: "After Santa Barbara Return Jobs Back to US, the second chapter by Alejandro Cartagena on the US is a more tragically constructed visual landscape. The current state of things in « America » has created a greater divide and contrast socially and especially politically. As such, the book carefully suggests and addresses these...
Presentation on Alejandro Cartagena's website: "In 2008 the war against the drug cartels erupted in Mexico. The state of Nuevo Leon in northeastern Mexico became an increasingly violent place. This book is a compilation of images and texts that obsessively revisit places where the war was eventually fought and look for signs of an evil that lay underneath...
Publisher's presentation: "Shell shock silence and blinding whiteness, air sucked from the lungs. Masked clowns out of the dust cloud. City limits, a circle of men. Two dogs. The chain goes off. Nervous laughters, hard breathing. Tension as a background noise. The night-blind goes on. Cagdas Erdogan’s first book, Control, was shot entirely in Istanbul,...
Publisher's presentation of the photobook: "Never-ending bridges where concrete is always within touch, the noise symphonic in cacophony, the spectrum between male and female which blurs distinctions and renders them irrelevant, the transition between life and death, the search of intimacy in a place where everything can be found for sale, from humans to...
Monsanto (*signed / imperfect*)
.Please note we are now offering ONE LAST COPY the French version of this book.Presentation by the publisher of the English version (Verlag Kettler): "Monsanto has had a rapid rise and a more than colourful history marked by cover-ups and scandals: dioxins in PCB coolants, genetically modified products such as the bovine growth hormone Posilac and the...
Publisher's presentation: "Masako Tomiya is a photographer originally from the region of Aomori, north Japan. She has lived in Tokyo for years, and one day, she received news that her sister and sister-in-law, who live near her hometown, were both pregnant. This news inspired Tomiya’s series Kito, a reflection on identity, family, transmission and the...
Publisher's presentation: "The Promise is the second chapter of Vasantha Yogananthan’s long-term project A Myth of Two Souls, which offers a contemporary retelling of The Ramayana. A seven-chapter tale first recorded by the Sanskrit poet Valmiki around 300 BC, The Ramayana is one of the founding epics of Hindu mythology. Since 2013, Yogananthan has been...
Publisher's presentation: "Geraldo de Barros (1923-98) is one of the major figures of the Brazilian artistic scene during the second half of the 20th century. He was an inventive and experimental artist with a diverse practice that included painting, photography and design, as well as being one of the founding members of concrete art in São Paulo....
.Last copy!. Publisher's presentation: "January 2016. Every night in the heart of Patpong, Bangkok's oldest red-light district, The Strip opens its doors. By an exceptional favour granted, Tiane Doan na Champassak seizes the most unsettling ballet."352 pages - Softcover Siam's Guy Books, 2017 (475 copies) Format : 20 x 30 cm *Signed* New - Mint condition
Publisher's presentation: "Mr. & Dr. is a photobook aimed for children and youngsters that explores the notion of the unknown through images and text. This photobook is an appropriation of a classic horror story, The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson that challenges the overriding illustrative relation between text and...
Presentation of the series on the artist's website: "In the project Natten I wanted and needed to change totally my way of taking pictures. I felt a pressing need to turn the camera onto myself and started for the first time to make self-portraits. I needed to tame my new surroundings in the Värmland region of Sweden. A place, in the middle of nowhere...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Michael Wolf is a photographer. For more than 40 years. He looks back on an amazing career. As a photojournalist, as a freelance photographer and for nearly 20 years now as an artist. More than 25 books have been published only in the past 10 years, including worldwide successes as Architecture of Density, Tokyo...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "I roamed those streets, again. Some will mark the city, some will get drunk, some will find love. I will be with on their side for the night, again. 3 a.m, finally home."Riso printing.68 pages - Softcover Dienacht, 2017 (200 numbered copies) Format : 13 x 18.5 cm New - Mint condition (outside of possible...
Publisher's presentation: "PAK! is an onomatopoeia which imitates the sound of impact. « Inside these pages are the portraits of people I encounter everyday. What fascinates me about them is their collective rebellion against inhibitions and acceptable behavior in what is largely a conservative Catholic society. Some of them are friends, some I had an...
Presentation by Editions Bessard: " (...) By conceiving a work on the sites of the Odyssey, equipped with a simple smartphone, Stefano De Luigi perpetuates the relationship with modern technologies. Yesterday it was the first films, today is the digital medium, new companion of travel, of which he explores the infinite potential. Accustomed to lengthy...
Beyond Here Is Nothing (*signed*)
.Two copies back in stock : #323 and #325.Presentation by the artist: " « Enclosed between four walls, the sound of silence never seemed louder. It’s claustrophobic. I wait for the phone to ring, check for emails obsessively, eat everything out of the fridge. The hunger remains. I feel like if I dig my hand deep into my soul, I will find nothing. The...
.Back in stock.Publisher's presentation: "Published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition curated by Pauline Vermare at the Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo, this sincere, beautifully conceived volume offers an in-depth look at this American visual artist’s oeuvre. Saul Leiter: a combination of Japanese and French influences Known for his...
Publisher's presentation: "After the well-known disaster in 1986 the Exclusion Zone around Chernobyl became a prohibited area, the ground there is still severely contaminated. And yet for some 140 Samosely or self-settlers, this is their permanent residence, and more than 2,000 people are still working in and around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Why...