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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.
Le goût des mandarines (*signed*)
Text included in the book: "Sometimes, memories are linked with five senses. And it is sometimes strange. For me, it would be a sound. Sometimes it is linked with a taste, sometimes with a scent.In Japan, people say about love, « taste like a lemon », so there might be a pathway in the human memory to be brought back to the facts by the five senses....
25,00 €Out of stockSweetheart Roller Skating Rink
Publisher's presentation: "Classic documentary photography, at its best, is a transcendent path back to the people of another place and time. Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink is a royal road to that special time in 1972-1973 -- when the love generation in America was at its height. The U.S. was reeling from years of war and turbulent social change and...
60,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : (texts in French only) " Max Pam, voyageur, hippie, père de famille, mari, drôle, tendre, aventurier ? tout ça. On s’est rencontrés par papier interposé ! Vu des photos de lui dans la revue anglaise Creative Camera, en 1973 ! Et je les ai tellement aimées, elles m’ont paru si différentes de tout ce que j’avais vu sur l’Inde...
19,50 €Out of stockthe only thing that matters (*signed w/...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "If I’ve ever felt used by you photographing me... I had never even thought about that. And frankly, I got slightly offended by your question. People asked – you said. I don’t understand – I said. For me that topic was beyond debate. Your work had nothing to do with a superior male view on a beautiful young girl. Not...
Alberto García-Alix (par) Nicolás Combarro
Publisher's presentation (excerpt) : [NB : texts in French only] "Cette conversation intime et familière est le fruit d’une collaboration de près de quinze années avec García-Alix. J’ai eu la chance d’être commissaire de la plupart de ses expositions sur cette période et j’ai pris part à de nombreux projets audiovisuels et éditoriaux qu’il a dirigés....
19,50 €In StockPresentation on Ellen Korth's website : "CHARKOW is about the search for a sense of belonging with on its centre the artist’s mother and her secrets. Her mother fled during World War II from Ukraine through Germany to Holland. She destroyed all personal belongings and concealed her origin. She searched and built her HOMELAND in her daughter. But for her...
83,00 €In Stocka photobook signed by the author Yann Audic Text from the 3rd cover page by Julien Pham : "Keep a low profile, blend in with the crowd. Like the hunter camouflaged in wild grass, like the schoolboy wearing short pants. As would the rhythm of a vinyl reaching the end of the track, tickled by the record player, your pulse gradually slows down, and attunes...
35,00 €In Stock.Back in stock!.Presentation by NoRoutine: [adapted by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "The book reveals photographs taken in between 1985 – 1995 (last decade of the Communist regime in Lithuania) which where used as a visual material and inspiration for paintings. In the photographs, we find surreal Soviet-era surroundings. The constructive look of Algis...
60,00 €Out of stockPresentation by André Frère Editions: "This booklet is the first in a series of twelve that opens up the space for A's journeys, his physical journey through his wanderings, his excesses, his strained progress, his encounters. They will appear over the next five years, at a sustained rhythm. The form, if it can be startling at first, spins the...
32,00 €Out of stockLast Water War, Ruins of a Future (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation : "Since men cultivate the land, rivalries over water are a source of disputes. This concept is expressed directly in the English language, “rivalry” from the Latin rivalis, means “the one who uses the same river as the other.” It was around 2600 BC in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) that took place the first known water war. The...
25,00 €In Stock.Very last copy!.Publisher's presentation: "Tamarind Ghosts by Tiane Doan na Champassak presents an exploration of eroticism, censorship and prostitution in Thailand. In days gone by, most prostitutes in Bangkok plied their trade in the area around Sanam Luang Park; under the watchful gaze of the Royal Palace. As they stood soliciting customers beneath...
60,00 €In Stock.LAST COPY. Publisher's presentation: "Pabaiga by Olivier Pin-Fat presents a crucible of various darkroom processing and analog printing techniques. Working solely with analog materials, often outdated, Pin-Fat's work attempts to shift the image or aesthetic either during the film processing stage or in the darkroom with the photographic print itself....
39,00 €In Stock.Back in stock.Publisher's presentation: "From 2005 to 2009 Antoine d’Agata had spent most of his time in Cracolandia, the crack neighborhoods of São Paulo and Salvador. Doubtless the roughest areas of Brazil. With 169 images and more than 140 unseen photographs, Cidade de Pedra is the most comprehensive document about this period. It reveals the...
65,00 €Out of stockDrop of Light to Rushing Water
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Light escaping from my hands as I try to scoop itStormy red water will circulate around the sea and sky somedayAn eternal scene lies within a moment. In Keiko Nomura's work, women and water have been the motifs in her overarching theme of life’s infinite cycle beyond time and space."Published on the occasion of the...
15,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Afterword is composed of photos used in the afterword ’Sasuke’s Diary’ from Sasuke, My Dear Cat, published by Seinen Shokan in 1978. In the small pocket-sized printing manuscript were instructions and numbering written by Fukase himself. Sasuke the First went missing quite early on, but some time afterwards, someone who had seen...
Presentation by the distributor : "Shooting the things and people I liked or noticed, I found myself as an artist and put my perception of Ukrainian reality into photography that I produce and now I constantly working on my personal projects, combining social documentary with snap-shots from my diary. Both of them are about truth and honesty, although...
15,00 €Out of stockIt’s beautiful when it flies (*signed*)
Presentation on the artist's website : "If you close your eyes, Do you fall? Or do you fly? As a child I dreamt of flying. Sometimes I actually felt the wind against my cheeks. Sadly, somehow aging goes hand in hand with the inability to believe in something so close to carelessness. It’s beautiful when it flies is my attempt to refind this childlike...
37,00 €In Stock.PLEASE NOTE: We are carrying only the French edition of this book (English edition by Dewi Lewis not avilable through us at the moment). Presentation by André Frère: [Text in book in French only] "Photographs of Piotr Zbierski are emotional, though dictated objective which I would call a philosophical reference to his, but also our own image durability,...
39,00 €Out of stockPresentation on the artist's website: " In the 80'-90's clubs, dancings, discotheques were booming thanks to house music. Ten thousands of teenagers enjoyed and lost themselves weekend after weekend. Seeking an escape from everyday annoyance with beats beats beats. The newspapers were interested in drugs, violence, annoyance for the neighbours. For them...
30,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : [translation by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "After Bernard Plossu in 2015 (Couleur Fresson), the new collector by de l'air magazine presents new images by Antoine d'Agata, from his series Paradigmes, exhibited from Oct. 27th to Nov. 26th, 2016 at Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris. 200 copies were printed in Offset by Arts...
190,00 €Out of stockTwenty-Four Modern Lorraine Churches...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Twenty-Four Modern Lorraine Churches, published in conjunction with the exhibition Tables et Matières at the Médiathèque des Abattoirs in Toulouse, serially documents churches of the reconstruction period in the Lorraine region. During the fall and winter of 1944, the Third United States Army advanced from Nancy...
Publisher's presentation: "Maxwell Anderson has been accumulating his photographs of flowers over the last 6 years. His choice of photographs are deliberately awkward and unceremonious. In the book, Anderson combines his snapshots of common flowers with equally common and often inane human interpretations and interactions with them. His interst lies...
25,00 €In Stock.Signed copies back in stock.Publisher's presentation: "Vera confessed to Victoria that she was transexual the day they kissed for the first time. It was in a park. It did not change anything. For the four years that they were together, they loved each other as they had never loved anyone before. The book is a visual diary shot between 2012 and 2016 in...
25,00 €Out of stockText from the first page: "Now let us, by flight of imagination, suppose that Rome is not a human habitation but a psychical entity with a similar long and copious past -- an entity, that is to say, in which nothing that has once come into existence will have passed away and all the earlier phases of development continue to exist alongside the latest...
55,00 €Out of stockThe Incomplete Princess Book (*signed*)
Presentation of the project : " « I always had a problem with my name being so common. If you search my name on the web, the first thing you will find will be a belly dancer, following by all sorts of girls with cheesy smiles (or in explicit poses). At first I hated that. But if you have something that bothers you, you have to work with it, process it,...
29,00 €Out of stock.Currently unavailable. Presentation on Jehsong Baak's website : "One Last Goodbye 1987-1990 / 2002-2013 A journey back in time to late 80s when I started a new life lived on a razor's edge in New York City. Portraits of friends, lovers, neighbors at a single room occupancy hotel on the Upper West Side, interspersed with images taken in recent years...
50,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Far too often African American men live and identify with an idea of “blackness” that is imposed upon them, rather than created by them. Their sense of self worth and identity has primarily been defined by external forces. What happens when an African American man self interprets his own identity based upon ideology,...
Publisher's presentation: "寓喩 « Gûyu » in Japanese, means « allegory ». For Maki, the figure of speech is a photographic category. At the core of his photography practice, lies the question of re-presentation, of the relationship to space... The involvement of known elements in new sets - or the opposite. During his travels in Japan of the past 15 years,...
36,00 €In Stock.Last copy. Presentation by the artist : "This book started with an artist residency in Mulhouse, in October 2015, as part of the Mulhouse Biennial of Photography 2016. It is now the intuitive and flooded river of my working process, with images from a variety of sources (and periods) : c-prints, collages, installations views, photocopies, pages from my...
50,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Anaesthesia is a lament of several voices, a symphony of the evil in us, cinematically edited screenshots from videos, an engagement with the media, an open criticism to war and terrorism, a declaration of neutrality, an act of rebellion to the ego, where one stands alone prevented to feel anything else beyond his own...
44,00 €Out of stockNB : The texts are fully translated into English in the bookPublisher's presentation: "« La genèse de ce livre est tout d’abord venue de l’acquisition d’un ordinateur en 2001. Ensuite emporté par mon sujet, j’ai eu pour but d'inventer des photos flirtant avec les monstres, les maladies, la beauté transformée. J'ai passé beaucoup de temps devant l'écran à...
23,00 €In StockPresentation by André Frère: " What is it that lies behind the UFO phenomena? Is it just a commercially profitable story, a delusion with social consequences, a religious myth, or even a physical phenomenon? Through an investigative journey through the states of Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona, Sara Galbiati, Peter Helles Eriksen and Tobias Selnaes...
43,00 €Out of stock
