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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.
MAGNUM - Les livres de photographies
Publisher's presentation : "Publié à l’occasion du 70e anniversaire de Magnum Photos, cet ouvrage retrace l’histoire de l’agence sous l’angle du livre de photographies, outil essentiel aux photographes pour faire connaître leur travail. Il inclut des pépites puisées dans les archives des auteurs, qui racontent les secrets de la conception de leurs livres....
69,90 €In Stockéléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation...
Full title : "éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation contemporaine d'un village français de deux mille huit cent trente neuf habitants - volume 10"Christophe le Toquin 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 example of the...
15,00 €In Stock.Signed copies back in stock.Publisher's presentation: "In Harrodsburg, Dougie Wallace looks at the excessive wealth and consumerism that can be found around the Knightsbridge area close to the world famous department store, Harrods. From the mid-1970s onwards, Gulf millionaires began coming to the area. They were later joined by the Oligarchs and the...
36,00 €Out of stockText from the back cover: "The photographer René Tanguy discloses a previously unpublished testimony of a deep friendship. It tied writer Jack Kerouac and a New-York-based Breton poet (from Britany, France) named Youenn Gwernig. « You are the only man I know today whose conversation and presence are a gift » wrote Kerouac to his last friend. Out of this...
32,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "In Terra Nostra, Sicilian born photographer Mimi Mollica explores the effects of the Mafia on his homeland. He document the scars inflicted by Cosa nostra on both the physical and social landscape of the island as a result of a system strongly rooted in both fear and corruption. Mollica began shooting Terra Nostra in 2009. For...
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Présentation de l'éditeur : [traduction L'Ascenseur Végétal] "After editing a selection of photographs from Cecilia’s countless family albums, the authors turned the material into a find-the-pair game. Heavily cropped portraits of the young girl together with animals, toys, ice creams, costumes, laughter and tears give a delicate and sincere glimpse...
22,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Depuis près de 10 ans, les photographies de Jérémie Lenoir construisent une anthropologie des paysages contemporains. En observant leurs évolutions, il nous livre un regard distancié et objectif sur nos territoires et un minutieux travail de composition tendant vers l'abstraction. Entre 2014 et 2015, le plasticien se focalise...
26,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Over the last two years John Comino-James has been been photographing demonstrations across many parts of the UK, from those associated with the 2015 General Election right through to the 2016 EU Referendum. In his new book, Shout It Loud, Shout It Clear, he offers extensive photographic evidence of the astonishing breadth of...
30,00 €In Stock.Back in stock. Publisher's presentation of Chris Steele-Perkins' photobook: "1956, sixty years ago, was a watershed year for Teds. In September that year the Bill Haley film Rock Around The Clock arrived in the UK. With five records in the top twenty, Haley was a major star and the film screened at some three hundred cinemas across the country. It wasn’t...
30,00 €In Stock.Back in stock.Presentation by Dewi Lewis publishing: "« Giacomo Brunelli has been looking hard at animals. His focus is not on the framed and caged exotica of zoos but on the ordinary animals that remain with us to some extent: horses, dogs, cats, chickens, pigeons. He shows us a fox, looking sharply at the camera and poised to flee, and there are...
30,00 €Out of stockDiary of an Italian Borderworker
.Last copies - Sold out by the publisher!. Publisher's presentation: "Diary of an Italian Borderworker is a story that wends through the streets as traversed by a border-worker. A passage that describes the relationship between territory and working reality, beyond a merely occupational context. It’s a journey that imparts the sensations of a foreign,...
29,00 €In Stock.Signed copies back in stock.Publisher's presentation: "The Unfinished Me photobook is the first of a series of self-performance works exploring the fragmentation of the Inner Self - “searching for the true me” by the photographer Adelaide Carneiro. The genesis of this work was to dwell between the persona and the characters created for the performances....
28,00 €Out of stockPresentation on the artist's website: "The project titled At Mirrored River was inspired by the Gaelic word Teannalach (pron. “chann-ah-lack”). Teannalach is a Gaelic word used in the West of Ireland which means awareness. In particular, it is awareness of that which is intangible and hushed; of being aware of the quietness and presence of people and the...
36,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Masse en fusion à l’origine de toute création, MAGMA ne se laisse pas photographier. Un magma bouillonnant dort en nous et se réveille parfois. Il est des fenêtres, miroirs brisés ou mares, qui nous confient plus de choses que certains mots. Voyage intérieur, Magma explore ce monde du dessous, étrange et subversif, qui veut dire...
32,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Stanley/Barker: " In the late 50's, New York's Washington Square was a place of rebellion, nicknamed junkie row and described by Simone de Beauvoir as « A cosmopolitan chorus of tourists, ‘intellectuals’, students and a dubious collection of beatniks, hippies and bohemians who gather while in the dimly lit night clubs and coffee houses,...
120,00 €Out of stockOnly The Sky Remains Untouched (*signed*)
.Last copy.Presentation on the artist's website: "Soldiers who suffer from Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are emotionally wounded and carry these wounds with them all their lives. The past 2 years I’ve been working on my new project Only The Sky Remains Untouched: portraits of 15 war veterans who suffer from PTSD. All photos were taken at ‘De...
34,00 €Out of stock(Altre) Avventure di Pinocchio
Presentation on the website of the photographer Lorenzo Tricoli (excerpt) : "An original tale of Italy’s XXth Century. Italy’s XXth Century is narrated through extracts of Carlo Collodi’s novel, matched to a selection of Italian images coming from the web. An artist photobook, surreal and conceptual. An angry and ironic piece of art. « The real...
27,00 €In Stock.Last copy.352 pages - Softcover AVARIE Publishing, 2016 Format : 16 x 30 cm New - Mint conditionPublisher's presentation (excerpt) : "From static oblivion aims to deepen, starting from Ion Grigorescu's rich production, the reflection about the status of the image as a balance of forces in tension, as form of what is in continuous movement and as a...
43,00 €In StockLive in the house and it will not fall down
Publisher's presentation: "Live in the house and it will not fall down is a gallery of fragments, a collection of memories, the story of one and more people, of a house, of a city. Compiled by Italian artists and recipients of the first Lewis Baltz Research Fund, Alessandro Laita and Chiaralice Rizzi, the book was built from an archive of images collected...
37,00 €In StockTwo friends - art students - on holidays in Corsica; a sort of slow and sunny travelogue looking both inward to the friends' companionship, and outward to the surroundings. A first book, self-published and created 100% by Chloé and Alexane : photographs, editing and design. There are certainly some beginners' mistakes if your eyes are looking at many...
25,00 €In StockPresentation by the artist : [adapted from Dutch via Google translate] "Cis and Mien are two eighty-nine-year old identical twins from Brabant. Not only do they share physical characteristics but also their home, hobbies and bedroom. The sisters let us share their daily life, which follows a strict organisation, and where they help each other and...
28,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Living as a kind of job, as something that needs its own rules, as if it were a task in some office and the need, at times mechanic and bureaucratic, of organizing time: to wake up, to eat, to think, to work, to sleep, to live.Yesterday, today, tomorrow. This Business of Living is inspired by the diaries of Cesare Pavese, about...
25,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. they are as they should be.... Now put foundations under them.Hollingshausen is Anne Lefebvre's second book, featuring photographs and paintings done between 1983 and 2016. A highly free and playful sequence of images of castles, women, animals, UFOs, etc. that form a new...
30,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "In the summer of 1970, Gabriele Basilico set off from Milan in a Fiat 124, nominally heading for Kabul. The journey towards India was a rite of passage for the flower children generation, and Basilico had plans to take a series of photos to then sell on to some magazine. The journey didn’t quite turn out as planned, but in his...
20,00 €In StockPresentation by the artist: "The 61 photographs which constitute this book were taken in July 2014 in Palendriai (Lithuania). The only inhabitants of this hamlet are the fifteen Benedictine monks of Saint-Benedict priory, founded in 1998. In 2000-2001, the surroundings, consisting of pastures, forests and swamps were remodeled, tracing out a new, invented...
28,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Le quartier du Mirail, « une opération d’avant-garde, humaniste par excellence », était un rêve d’urbaniste. Cette utopie ne put s’adapter aux réalités changeantes de la ville, aux mutations de la société française. Au-delà des analyses de l’échec, le photographe Luc Delahaye mesure avec ses outils l’espace entre l’idéal d’une...
22,00 €In StockQuel temps il fait, Stéphane Duroy ?
. PLEASE NOTE : This book is IN FRENCH ONLY. Presentation by Filigranes: "« Le texte qui suit, rédigé en 2010, est consacré à L'Europe du silence, un livre majeur de Stéphane Duroy. Il traite des rapports de l'image photographique et de l'histoire, de l'exil, du temps photographique imaginé par Stéphane Duroy. Il explore une question trop souvent ignorée...
8,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "15 Miles to K-Ville is a poetic journey around the outskirts of K-Ville: a fictional town somewhere between Knoxville, Tennessee and Athens, Georgia, where graves dot the terrain and a sense of forbidding hangs heavy in the air. This collection of darkly humorous and melancholy portraits and landscapes date from the early 1990s...
50,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Presentation by Stanley / Barker: "During the 1980s by the Siberian artist Nikolay Bakharev worked as a mechanic and communal services factory photographer in the USSR. To supplement his income he would solicit work as a black market portrait photographer on the public beaches of Eastern Russia. If the shoot went well, he would invite his...
Publisher's presentation: "Lobismuller tells the story of Manuel Blanco Romasanta, Spain's bloodiest and most enigmatic serial killer, from a female perspective. Manuel was born Manuela and originally believed to be a woman: according to modern forensic theories, he (or she) may have lived with a rare syndrome of intersexuality. Blanco Romasanta was...
47,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "« I am not so fond of the idea of taking pictures. But I always return to it. The sense of getting close to something that has no words. This is why I continue. I balance between different worlds that I am trying to relate to. My pictures are memories. To have access to the feeling of solitude and vulnerability. To be allowed...
30,00 €In StockPresentation by the artist : "Nowadays, it is complicated to do street photography in France because of the issue of image ownership rights. Paradoxically, France is the country in which this genre was born in the 1930s, with Cartier Bresson, Doisneau, Ronis, Brassaï and Capa. Unheeded Warnings was self-published so as to be distributed on the margins of...
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