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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.
.Temporarily out of stock.Natural cotton - One-side print "L'Ascenseur Végétal Librairie Photo" - Long handles (to carry on the shoulder).To carry your photobooks around, or anything else, to avoid using plastic bags, and to represent for L'Ascenseur Végétal !
5,00 €In StockMartin Parr Looking at Books (*signed*)
Martin Parr Looking at Books is at the same time a joke, a tributte to the Man, and the truth of the influence of Martin Parr on the world of the photobook today...The title says it all; this book is "simply" the compilation of 22 photographies of Martin Parr with a photobook in his hands : at a photobook fair, during a workshop, etc.A must-have book for...
20,00 €Out of stockStags, Hens and Bunnies (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation: "Blackpool has an unenviable reputation for its stag and hen parties. Every weekend marauding packs of brides and grooms, close friends and family, overflow its streets on a mission to consume dangerous, liver-crushing levels of alcohol. This, their rite of passage acted out on the last night of freedom, before the conventions...
40,00 €Out of stockHackney Photographs 1985-1987 (*signed*)
.One signed copy available!. Publisher's presentation: "Located in east London just north of The City, Hackney has a long history stretching back to Tudor times. During the 1980s when Berris Conolly took these photographs it was an area that had been in decline. This was a decade of turmoil in both national and local politics with issues of social justice...
75,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "James Joyce occupies a central role in how Irish identity is constructed both at home and abroad. His novel Ulysses opens in the Forty Foot bathing place near Dublin, the subject of Sea Change. Immersing herself within a dedicated group united by the act of swimming, Redmond uses the camera to document how the everyday cares of...
15,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. The second book by Artist Photo Books (after Paul Seawright's Volunteer), Flock or F L O C K is the documentary work of Ken Grant, shot over a period of several years, about the weekly livestock market in Hereford, England. Everything is shot as if you were part of this event, each image puts you right in the middle of it: the poultry, the...
Publisher's presentation: " In the shape of a true Paris map, Martin Parr invites us to follow him in the French capital. For three years, commissioned by the Maison Européeenne de la Photographie (MEP), Martin Parr has focused his lens on Parisians and photographed the Champs-Elysées, tourists, Bastille Day, fashion shows, Paris Air Show, museums and art...
35,00 €Out of stock.One copy available.Publisher's presentation: "Scarti di avviamento is the technical term for the paper that is fed through the printing press to clean the drums of ink between print runs. This by-product is usually destroyed once the book is printed. But in this case the 'scarti' – Italian for scraps - were saved and safely stored away by publisher Gigi...
50,00 €Out of stockNo Pain Whatsoever is a series made on a rather long period (1985 - 2009) during which Ken Grant took pictures of his contemporaries in his hometown of Liverpool. Lively Black & White portraits, often touching, of people leading a difficult life in neighbourhoods that look much like others often seen in the works of what is sometimes called the...
39,00 €In StockLooters - 2nd edition (*signed*)
Following the 2011 first edition, this second edition of Looters has been slightly modified, in a slightly larger format (but still in the Risograph process), features images gathered on the Internet, coming from CCTV for most of them; enlarged, pixelated portraits of looters during the 2011 London riots.This book (the first edition) is listed in "The...
85,00 €In Stock.Back in stock.Eternal London is a beautiful Black & White series of images made in the streets of London by a stroller with a keen eye, that notices the light, the shapes, the contrasts and offers a rather romanticized sense of the city, with grainy images that are sometimes out of focus, but always working very well in their form of uncluttered...
30,00 €Out of stockHoly Bible (2nd printing) (*signed*)
.One copy available.Holy Bible, by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin was one of the sensations of 2013, one of the most discussed books of that year, and selected in many "best of" lists.This book was for instance shortlisted for the "Book of the Year" award in the "Paris Photo / Aperture Foundation Awards".The books looks like a real Bible, and...
119,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation : "The Grey Line is a reflection on war told from the perspective of US and UK soldiers who have spoken out against the Iraq War. Publication marks 10 years since the invasion of Iraq. Photographer Jo Metson Scott began the project after meeting a young American soldier who had been denied Conscientious Objective status...
Publisher's description : "Phillip Toledano became a father in July 2009. He fell in love with his daughter about a year and a half later, when he realised she was the most bewitching human being he'd ever seen. Initially though things were different. The Reluctant Father follows Phillip's journey at the beginning of fatherhood. From dismay and confusion,...
Stormbelt is a book about the decline, sometimes the dereliction, of this wide portion of American land called the "Sun Belt", which - until the end of the 90s - was a symbol of the American economic might. Recession and natural disasters (drought, hurricanes, forest fires) have hit hard on this area, from the East to the West coast. Robert Leslie looks...
38,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Strangely familiar is the first publication of Peter Mitchell's celebrated work about his home city of Leeds that he photographed in his rounds as a driver in the 70's.A body of work that has been exhibited quite often - including in the famous "How We Are: Photographing Britain" at the Tate Britain in 2007 - but that never appeared in a book...
For Birds of the West Indies (a tribute name to the actual James Bond, the ornithologist), Taryn Simon has photographed everyone and everything that has made and still makes the world of the James Bond movie franchise in the manner of a biologist or an archivist. The catalogue of images alone is really interesting. But in these pictures of weird things,...
45,00 €In Stock.Sold out. After We English, Simon Roberts follows in the same tracks of visual documentation of England's (and Britain's) specific elements : what makes England, England, and Britain, Britain. For the Pierdom project, the artist photographed each of the 58 remaining piers of Britain, in a very still manner, like if it were a work of portraiture. Only the...
.Back in stock. Presentation by Dewi Lewis: "Recognised as one of the UK's most important photographers of the last forty years, Brian Griffin grew up near Birmingham amongst the factories of the Black Country. His parents were factory workers and from birth Griffin seemed set to follow in their footsteps. And so, on leaving school at the age 16, he began...
42,00 €Out of stockMass is a series of 18 pairs of images presented in a very elaborate book.Mark Power, during a stay in Krakow (Poland) gained access to many churches in the city and the right to photograph the offices from a high position at the end of the nave. Mass consists of 18 shots made in different churches of Krakow, whose interiors are all equally beautiful and...
75,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Le voyage de Anders Petersen dans le quartier de SoHo (celui de Londres), jeune et animé, créatif et interlope, où l'artiste développe - dans son style et avec son oeil particuliers - un récit de la vie, de la nuit, des personnages qui animent les parcs, les rues, les bars et les clubs... Cet ouvrage fait partie de City Diaries, la série de...
SPBH Book Club Vol. I (*signed*)
.Sold out.First publication produced for the Self Publish Be Happy "Book Club". Adam Broomberg et Oliver Chanarin working together for 15 years (1997 - 2012)Publisher's presentation: "Mixing private moments, self portraits and images from their documentary projects, the beautiful collection of personal polaroids form an intimate and imperfect inventory of...
.Sold out.From the publisher : "Street photography is perhaps the defining genre of photographic art. Seminal works by Walker Evans, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand display photography’s astonishing dance with life, and its unique role in forming our perceptions of the modern world. The Present is Paul Graham’s contribution to this...
Paul Graham / Hasselblad Award 2012
From the presentation by MACK : "Paul Graham, winner of the 2012 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography, is a vital figure in contemporary photography, working for over thirty years and continually challenging different genres of photographic practice. His work has been widely embraced, with exhibitions at the Tate and the Museum of...
59,00 €In StockPeople in Trouble Laughing Pushed to the...
.Sold out. Presentation by MACK: "People in trouble laughing pushed to the ground. Soldiers leaning, pointing, reaching. Woman sweeping. Balloons escaping. Coffin descending. Boys standing. Grieving. Chair balancing. Children smoking. Embracing. Creatures barking. Cars burning. Helicopters hovering. Faces. Human figures. Shapes. Birds. Structures left...
.Currently out of stock.Presentation by Mack: " « Winters, like ice ages, are Janus faced, for after the freeze comes thaw and flood, as water is returned to life and movement. Freeze, thaw, flood: the great climatic cycles that created the topography of the northern hemisphere, and which continue to shape the idea of winter that lies deep in our cultural...
65,00 €Out of stockSigns of the Times, a Portrait of the...
72 pages - Softcover Cornerhouse, 1992 2nd-hand - VG+
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