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UK and Ireland
United Kingdom & Ireland: British and Irish photographers, as well as photo books on England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Eire.
UK and Ireland There are 123 books.
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Publisher's presentation: [ from RRB Publishing, co-publisher ] "Peter Mitchell’s groundbreaking show was first presented at the Impressions Gallery of Photography York in November 1979, and more recently at the Rencontres d'Arles festival in 2016. Now, only 38 years overdue, it will be published as a book for the first time. In the mid-seventies, the...
42,00 €In StockMemento Mori (*Limited Edition*)
Publisher's presentation: "A long overdue corrected reprint of a title that has been out of print for many years. Memento Mori, Peter Mitchell’s first publication, was published in 1990 and documents the dramatic impact of the Quarry Hill redevelopment project in Leeds, England. « I photograph dying buildings and Quarry Hill was terminal by the time I...
125,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "A long overdue corrected reprint of a title that has been out of print for many years. Memento Mori, Peter Mitchell’s first publication, was published in 1990 and documents the dramatic impact of the Quarry Hill redevelopment project in Leeds, England. « I photograph dying buildings and Quarry Hill was terminal by the time I...
35,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Présentation de l'éditeur : "Blitz Club Blitz Kids is a series of images taken in 1980 by the photographer Homer Sykes in the famous London club the Blitz Club.« In the 1970s Britain was still in the midst of economic depression, a three day working week, unemployment was rising sharply, there were frequent strikes and severe inflation. Steve...
L'Ascenseur Végétal is now offering all available titles from the French collection "Photo Poche". This series of black pocket-size books is a staple among photobooks in France, and all photography lovers and amateurs have at least one in their bookshelves, often dozens! This series initially curated by Robert Delpire and published by "Centre National de...
13,00 €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 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 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 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: "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 StockPublisher's presentation : "instants confondus is the testimony of one of Nolwenn Brod's first photographic works, where she evokes a blinding disappearance, that of her father.She looks soothingly at this suffering she shares with other children. Her images are simple, without artifice ...This book is also one of the last steps in her quest. A quest that...
28,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Once a Year, Some Traditional British Customs was first published in 1977 establishing Homer Sykes as one of the UK’s leading young photographers. Over a period of almost seven years he travelled the country photographing around 100 traditional British customs, with over 80 appearing in the book. Though inspired by the 19th...
42,00 €Out of stockPresentation on the artist's website: "Since leaving University in 2010, Alma has been working on self-portraits, being her own willing and available model. More recently she has started taking portraits of other people and is interested in making work that has a disquieting or disconcerting resonance. Alma has always made things with her hands and now...
48,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "The Irish landscape was littered with electoral campaign advertising during the recent European, local and national by-elections. Vote No. 1 documents this and examines the culture of election advertising in Ireland. The series focuses on the accidental, and often gruesome, disfigurements the electoral candidates' faces suffer...
30,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "In this new body of work, Beyond Maps and Atlases, Bertien van Manen turns to Ireland. Van Manen says, « At first, working in Ireland I wasn’t sure what I was looking for. My husband had died. I dispensed with the people and reflected on the atmosphere. I was guided by a feeling and a search, a longing for some kind of meaning...
40,00 €In Stock.Very last copy!. Presentation by Hotshoe: "To celebrate the 10th anniversary of "Crude Metaphors", a prominent and celebrated section of HOTSHOE magazine since 2005, HOTSHOE is publishing a very special limited edition collectors box of five books featuring a selection of the most renowned photographers of today, including Roger Ballen, Todd Hido, Edgar...
65,00 €In Stock.Second printing (see below). Publisher's presentation : "a Handful of Dust is David Campany’s speculative history of the last century, and a visual journey through some of its unlikeliest imagery. Let’s suppose the modern era begins in October of 1922. A little French avant-garde journal publishes a photograph of a sheet of glass covered in dust. The...
35,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "« When it is all over, a few of the wrecked buildings might well be left as permanent ruins… To posterity they will as effectually represent the dissolution of our pre-war civilisation as Fountains Abbey does the dissolution of the monasteries. » From the preface to The Architecture of Destruction, by John Piper...
56,00 €Out of stockKristall ohne Liebe (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation : "Kristall ohne Liebe (literally translated « Crystal without Love ») is a visual journey into a mystic parallel world. Seen through self-built lenses, prisms and crystals, the photo series captures a psychedelic universe full of contrasts: colourful images, black and white photography, life, death, beauty and ugliness collide....
65,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "The Whiteness of the Whale brings together Paul Graham’s three bodies of American photographs: American Night, a shimmer of possibility and The Present, made from 1998 to 2011. These 3 remarkable photographic series reflect upon the social fabric of contemporary America, whilst trying to find something closer to the experience...
79,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "«Most of my life has been lived in a golden shimmer of love and privilege. I’ve been lucky in more ways than most. And intertwined through that daydream was the illusion of control. The reassuring sense of my firm hand on the tiller, irrevocably guiding me upwards, towards a bright, certain future.When my mother died suddenly...
42,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "On 8th April 1961 the MV Dara, a ship carrying passengers between India, Pakistan and the Gulf, sank just off the port of Dubai. An estimated 238 people lost their lives. Some bodies were never found and relatives of the missing continue to this day to search for their loved ones. Stranger, Olivia Arthur's photobook, imagines a...
56,00 €Out of stockI went to the worst of bars hoping to get...
Publisher's presentation: "I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed. but all I could do was to get drunk again is a diary of sorts, following invisible men, down piss alleyways and into empty bars. The photographer accompanies the seekers of oblivion, their lopsided faces caught between ecstasy and apathy, their mouths chasing the numbness of...
35,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Dodo is the catalogue of an exhibition of the same name by artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin. The exhibition originated with the discovery of unreleased material from the motion picture Catch-22 (1970) in the storerooms of Paramount Picture. Filmed on a coastline in Mexico, which more closely resembled the Sicily of...
42,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "One of the greatest acts of trust a man displays is with his barber. It’s a relationship that goes beyond that of patient/doctor even. A bad haircut is soul-destroying - when you find the one who shears you right there is no other. Every Street by Nik Hartley was photographed over three days in March 2014, in Nelson, North-East...
30,00 €In Stock.Copy sold.Excerpt from a text by T.J. Proechel for Ahorn Magazine : "Paul Graham’s work can hardly be connected by a single theme. [It] is somewhat elusive, often using the conventions of documentary to explore the hidden reality beyond the visible surface. Throughout his projects he attempts to establish an alternative iconography, to explore what is...
.Copy sold.From the back cover : "Beyond Caring is a searing indictment of the conditions in social security and unemployment benefit offices across Britain. Throughout 1984 and 1985 photographer Paul Graham visited the waiting rooms, corridors and cubicles of the Department of Health and Social Security and the Department of Employment, to document the...
.Last copy!.Introduction to the project on the Kickstarter crowdfunding page : "In 2008 I returned to London having spent the last nine years living and working in Eastern Europe and Turkey and was surprised by the speed of change that had taken place. I wanted to document the city, its movements and migrations, its landscape and architecture, its...
60,00 €Out of stockFull title: Sound of Midnight, the theory of bitter funPresentation by Clément Paradis: "One night I was outside of a club in London, I think at that moment I started to hear it… The Sound of Midnight… How many pictures did I take that night? One roll? Two rolls, three? When I ran out of rolls, I'd re-expose the previous ones anyway. I'm a trigger happy,...
26,00 €Out of stockA Question of England (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation: "As a small boy, John Comino-James stood in school cap and Sunday suit to have his snapshot taken under flags put up for Queen Elizabeth's Coronation. The resultant photograph resonates with an England long since disappeared, yet still fertile in the imagination. That sense of how that England has changed is the focus in John...
42,00 €In StockBlack Country Stories (*signed*)
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Over the last four years Martin Parr has been working on a commission for Multistory (Sandwell) photographing the Black Country (a region of the West Midlands in England). It was an area he knew little of, other than its reputation as a densely populated, post-industrial area; one in decline. Many of the industries...
.WARNING: Our last copies have small bumps to one or 2 corners and possibly one or 2 wrinkles to the cover. Presentation on Kate Nolan's website: "Neither is an exploration into the dreams and fears of young women in Kaliningrad - a tiny and isolated Russian region on the Baltic Sea - through both image and text. The women I met and be-friended...
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