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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.
.Very limited number of signed copies available.Presentation on the artist's website: "Marie Mons spent three months in winter in a small village in the fjords of eastern Iceland where she became Aurore Colbert. Speaking of winter and its polar nights, the rhythm it induces through a great shamanic ritual, she embodies her character, always leaving the...
38,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "In 2014, Peter Bialobrzeski arrived in Taipei to print his book Cairo Diary. Almost immediately, he set out to document the urban landscape of what was once considered the de facto capital of China, and what it has become today. Peter Bialobrzeski is a world-renowned photographer and the recipient of several awards...
25,00 €.Sold out. Afterword by the artist: "Excluded from the human diet and useless for clothing or shelter, the undergrowth thrives and engulfs human existence. It transforms under the snow, rain, wind and sunlight. Children play Tarzan in the undergrowth or mountain thickets. When the harvest moon appears, they go out to pick the pampass grass. I pushed my...
42,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: [the texts in this book are in French only] " « Les trains américains sont lents et permettent de voir venir, les décors apparaissent, disparaissent, le hasard a sa place, les images sont fragiles et furtives, la vitesse leur donne un aspect diffus. Je deviens spectateur, comme si je photographiais pendant un travelling...
45,00 €In StockLes non-conformistes (*French ed.*)
Presentation by Aperture, publisher of the English edition : "The Non-Conformists features Martin Parr’s first major body of work from the mid-1970s, published here for the first time in book form. A wonderful and charming surprise for Parr enthusiasts and fans of traditional reportage, this body of black-and-white imagery predates the cutting color work...
35,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Thames & Hudson, publisher of the English edition : "Bernard Plossu has been called “the most American of French photographers” by his friend and colleague Lewis Baltz. Although he is best known for his work in black and white, often capturing a bohemian world of free-spirited adventure, Plossu has also shot in color throughout his...
50,00 €Out of stockAmerican Motel Signs 1980~2008
Publisher's presentation: "Shot over 28 years, American Motel Signs is a unique insight into one of the most fascinating aspects of contemporary American culture. These motel signs, from the Sleepy Hollow Motel [Utah, 2007] to the Teddy Bear Motel [North Carolina, 1983] represent the many faces of everyday America that has become so ubiquitous in...
20,00 €Out of stockFrom the backcover: "She is the muse and the lover, Milo. Sometimes feline, sometimes mysterious or melancholic." A hand with painted nails brushes a silk curtain, a leg in tension on a colourful striped staircase, a body leaning over the lines of the city, naked or adorned with a garter belt. Vulnerable but strong, in the middle of the forest, on a bed,...
33,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "The project for this book has a programmatic quality, like a prefiguration of future works. Perhaps it also works like a mirror—like an optical machine in any case—that brings together distant things, various times, experiences, places, and forms (drawings, photos, writing, etc.), and that’s exactly what Michel Couturier set out...
38,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "I met Cobo on Facebook, not him, nothing of him , but his images flooded the airwaves. Obsessive, dark, full of white heat, and grey smoke. Layers of lace, deeper levels of irregular ritualistic pain. It perplexed me this flow-on voyeuristic event. Who could this guy be? What is he made of? There was enough inventive poetic...
45,00 €In Stock.One imperfect copy available. Presentation by Lecturis: "The photos in I loved my wife were taken on the site of 16 Austrian psychiatric institutions. Tens of thousands of children were murdered in these institutions during the Second World War. Killed because they were considered to be incurably ill. The costs of keeping them alive were too high for...
39,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "In 2011 Jörgen Axelvall moved to Tokyo after living in NYC for 15 years. The work in Go To Become is Axelvall’s expression of his feelings as a newcomer to Japan. It is in every aspect biographical. The oxymoronic combination of feeling excluded and lonely on the crowded streets of Tokyo led Axelvall to seek out desolate and...
52,00 €Out of stockFrom the back cover : [all texts in French only - English version to be published in Sept. 2017] "My Room, portrait of a generation is John Thackwray's first book. For five years he has traveled the world documenting the lifestyles of his generation by asking them about the state of the world. presents in this collection one hundred portraits among the...
30,00 €In Stock.Back in stock. Publisher's presentation: "At a moment when the world is facing the world’s largest refugee and migration crisis since the Second World War, Incoming by Irish artist and Deutsche Börse Photography Prize winner Richard Mosse deals with the major humanitarian and political plight of our time, the displacement of millions due to war,...
.Sold out.Presentation by MACK: " « Contis’s photographs capture the strange beauty of macro and microcosmic views in the high desert. The indistinguishableness of earth and body and the sensual echoes of human and animal give her works an Ovidian sense of imminent metamorphoses. » –- Lawrence Rinder The images in Sam Contis's Deep Springs...
.Sold out.Presentation by D.A.P.: " « A visual conundrum of incalculable mystery. » -- Martin Parr, The Photobook: A History In 1977, photographers Larry Sultan (1946–2009) and Mike Mandel (born 1950) published a book that would radically transform both photography and the photobook canon—a book described by Martin Parr, in The Photobook: A History, as...
Shinjuku Lost Child (*signed*)
Presentation by Zen Foto Gallery: "Somewhere the crow flies carrying a coin in its beak could even be an essential place of comfort to someone. Shinjuku Lost Child are photographs taken by Tokyo-based Korean photographer Seung-woo Yang during the years 1998 to 2006, depicting the vivid character and vibrant energy of the people and the district of...
49,00 €Out of stockAfterword to the book by the artist: "I had a child at an age far older than the age at which my parents had me. My son is my second generation. Around the same time, my aged father was diagnosed with cancer. Searching for alternative medical treatments, I learned of a remote valley in Northern Japan where cancer patients go. The rocks in this valley emit...
65,00 €In StockPresentation by Zen Foto: "West Coast accompanies the Three and Eight group exhibition at Zen Foto Gallery from September 3-17, 2016. Seto’s snapshots give a raw, energetic taste of a photographer who treats the summerly beach as his own movie set, simply recording what presents itself to him. The photos in West Coast aim to bring out the peculiarities of...
32,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: " After his debut work Sachin won the Taiyo Award in 1964, Nobuyoshi Araki's photos had been selected for publication in a magazine. Due to the printing methods of the time, they asked he send in the actual negatives, which were then never sent back to him. While in 1994, Araki's debut work was re-issued as Sachin - an outtake,...
28,00 €In Stock40 pages - Softcover w/ double gatefold cover Super Labo, 2016 Format : 21.6 x 28 cm New - Mint condition
49,00 €Out of stock42 pages - Softcover Super Labo, 2016 Format : 21.6 x 28 cm New - Mint condition
49,00 €Out of stockTokyo - Visions of its Other Sides
44 pages - Softcover w/ double gatefold cover Super Labo, 2016 Format : 21.6 x 28 cm New - Mint condition
49,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "It is a cyclical journey. I talk about my family and the one that biologically is not, but that I consider as such. I explore the roles we play in our emotional relationships, as well as the shelter and support we find in them. I reflect on memory, the similarity in our patterns of behavior and what we reflect on the other. Also...
30,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation of the photobook: "Since February 2015 and for about a year, Iacopo Pasqui started hanging out with and taking pictures of a bunch of teenagers who were born in 1999. Motivated by curiosity towards contemporary social dynamics and by the need to photograph others, he finds in this bunch of young friends a suitable dimension for...
30,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "...The indistinct scenes that appear before us are coming from a trail of memories, and family's tales, intertwined with the photographer's own wondering.It is an exploration into the dreams and fears. The book connects place and memory, disconnected from the passage of time. It is not about the past or the future, or about the...
19,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "In April 2016, when Pino Musi embarked upon a photographic series in Côtes-d’Armor, that geographical area was a terra incognita for him. At the invitation of the GwinZegal Art Centre in Guingamp, which was involved in the promotion of photography in that predominantly rural area, the Paris-based Italian photographer would, for...
35,00 €Out of stockRed Flower, The Women of Okinawa
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Red Flower, The Women of Okinawa, the first United States monograph by Okinawan photographer Mao Ishikawa. Red Flower consists of 80 b/w photographs that date from 1975 to 1977 in Koza and Kin, Okinawa, primarily from Ishikawa’s first book Hot Days in Camp Hansen by A-man Shuppan in 1982, but it also includes...
Publisher's presentation: "Jérôme Sevrette, musicien de formation et photographe indépendant, pratique la photographie depuis plus de 20 ans. Adolescent rêveur, il parcourt alors la campagne sarthoise où il a grandi en quête de nouveaux territoires. Forêts, vieilles bâtisses et manoirs en ruines, marais… ces « bouts du monde » nourrissent son imaginaire...
30,00 €In StockJ'habite une ville fantôme (*signed*)
.Currently out of stock.Publisher's presentation: "J’en avais marre de la capitale. Trop de bruit, trop de gens. Et puis je ne supportais plus mes voisins. Je voulais changer d’air, et surtout de vie. Je passais le plus sombre de mon temps affalé dans mon canapé, à refaire non pas le monde, mais l’endroit idéal où m’installer. Je m’imaginais alors vivant...
25,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation : "In The Face Of Silence is a powerful and moving portrait of the hard lives of French family farmers living and working in the Forez region, on the eastern side of the Massif Central. Born and brought up in the area, photographer Christophe Agou travelled to the less-known parts of the region, where he felt inspired...
Publisher's presentation: "This is the first complete monograph dedicated to the work of the Italian photographer Gabriele Basilico, who is recognised internationally as one of the most important contemporary landscape photographers. With more than 300 photographs included – from Glasgow to Tel-Aviv, from Milan to Beirut – it is a comprehensive overview...
42,00 €In Stock
