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.1st edition - Last copies!!!. Presentation by Fisheye: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " 10 years of trips, 10 years of photography. Fisheye presents the new photobook by Théo Gosselin, Roll, a retrospective look at a decade of photography. Roll gathers about a 100 images by the photographer, iconic or unseen, from the beginning of his career until...
$74.38Out of stockPresentation by the artist: " Fable invites us to seek in everything the overthrow of the known, to call on vertigo, excess, unreason, in order to reconnect with nature and limitlessness, in a brutal confrontation with what is. The photographic gesture tends here towards the visceral and the origin. It is a photographic meditation on the duality of the...
$101.84Out of stockWhat We Leave Behind (*with poster*)
Presentation by Libraryman: " Subsequent to a commissioned sound composition for Deutschlandradio, multidisciplinary artist Stéphan Crasneanscki further examines his significant opus What We Leave Behind, on French film director Jean-Luc Godard's archive, into book form. The book is divided into four comprehensive sections: boxes, collages, still lifes...
$61.79In StockPublished in November 2020, Volta no Vento is a collaboration between French photographer Gilles Roudière and French musician Toàn. This book is almost sold out by the publisher (notification of "last copies" on their website)! We are offering IIKKI's books since 2018 and we are now also offering the music in physical format (vinyl or CD); please make...
$51.49In StockPresentation by Stanley / Barker: " Every summer from the late 1970s through the mid ’80s Sergio Purtell would buy an inexpensive roundtrip ticket from New York to London, and from there get a Eurail pass. Traveling cheaply, he could move freely around Europe. Wandering made sense to Purtell. At the age of 18 he fled an imminent dictatorship in Chile. He...
$68.66Out of stock.This photobook is second-hand, see details below and in the carousel of images.Presentation by Le Point du Jour: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " These images were produced under a public commission in connection with the « Euromed » project in Marseilles. This large operation aims notably at « reconfiguring » some neighborhoods in the central part of...
$399.35In StockPresentation by Building Books : " First monograph by Myr Muratet, Paris Nord offers a sensitive look at the fragile, precarious and inventive forms developed by populations living on the margins. Through images taken from the photographer's major series (Paris-Nord, Wasteland, CityWalk, The flora of the wasteland), we discover the interstices of the city...
$28.61Out of stockLa Jetée (*DVD / Blu-ray / Book*)
Presentation by Potemkine: |translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " In the aftermath of the Third Wolrd War, which made the planet redioactive, a handful of survivors is trying to make it, hidden in the undergrounds of a destroyed Paris. « X », a man tormented by a vague memory of witnessing the death of a man on the Orly airport observation platform...
$62.94Out of stockPresentation by Origini Edizioni: " Movement of body in dance here becomes the ritual with which we try to overcome the gravitational pull: dance is a representation of the myth of flight, of lightness. And this continuous physical struggle of the mass against the attractive force of the ground, of the artist against the tireless search for answers, is...
$54.93Out of stockLes crimes passionnels n'existent pas
Presentation by D'une rive à l'autre: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " The photography series « I would like you to see me » created in 2015 by Arianna Sanesi, about femicide in Italy, at a time when the word was barely used and the phenomenon was essentially ignored by the media, is the starting point of this photobook and of the encounter...
$34.33In Stock56 Days in Arles (*1st printing*)
.Back in stock (1st printing). Presentation by Libraryman: " This book consists of polaroids taken during François Halard's 56 days of confinement in his greatly unimitative hôtel particulier in Arles, France. Foreword written by art dealer and curator Oscar Humphries. "We are offering copies of the first printing of this photobook, quickly sold out by...
$74.38Out of stock.Sold out. The title says it all: "Bizarre". French photographer Alain Laboile takes pictures of his children at home, in their house, in their large garden, in the surrounding countryside. For the second release in the "L'Atelier Risographique" series by Editions Bessard, here is a selection of situations, and images, that are funny, strange, or somewhat...
.Sold out. Presentation by Studio Vortex: " « We are only a little stored, organized solar heat, a memory of Sun. A little phosphorus that burns in the meninges of the world. » -- Paul Cézanne(...) From the first day of confinement ensuing the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic, Antoine d'Agata roamed the streets of Paris with a thermal camera to...
Presentation by André Frère Editions: " Contexts often indicate our meanings so clearly that we do not even have to say what we mean in order to be understood. With The Tourist Kourtney Roy once again distinguishes herself as the virtuoso of context creation. Holidays should be relaxing, but when you are the tourist looking for a husband, the holiday...
$54.93In StockFrancis Bacon / Antoine d'Agata
.One copy available (NOT signed). Presentation by The Eyes Publishing : " Bringing together 27 photographs by Antoine d'Agata and 25 graphic works by Francis Bacon, this bilingual French-English work, presented in the form of a double book, establishes an artistic parallel between the contemporary work of photographer Antoine d'Agata and the expressionist...
$108.71In Stock.Sold out. Presentation by Atelier EXB: " Originally from the French rural area of Saône et Loire, Raymond Depardon was born and raised in the Garet's familial farm that saw him become a photographer. He published a first eponymous book on the farm in 1994 which gained critical acclaim. In 2020, as a tribute to this important place for him, Depardon...
Presentation by Filigranes: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " Filigranes release the first publication by Marilia Destot, La promesse [The promise], a set of 3 photographic booklets, grouped together in a slipcase. For each booklet, the photographer invites an author to a dialogue with her images, leaving them a carte blanche. Dominique A,...
$40.05Out of stockThe book Sillage Melville, Recherche en arts et monde mobile is part of a collective art research project around the book Moby Dick by Herman Melville at University "Montaigne" in Bordeaux involving a group of students over several years, and under the direction of Professor Pierre Baumann. This book Sillage Melville is the third publication in the...
$27.46In StockPresentation by VOID: " Half Light is made out of open-hearted meetings between Loïc and the people he relates to in his real life. There's no artist pretension. Nor any voyeuristic need of representing people from out of their universe. His photograph is genuine, direct, simple. No gimmicks. The way Seguin unveils people from Belleville and Place des...
$40.05In StockPresentation by Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain : " During the 1990s and 2000s, Raymond Depardon crisscrossed agricultural France with his 6 x 9 view camera. From this exploration of the rural world, he made black-and-white photographs that tell the story of the land, the people, manual labour, the isolation and fragility of small farms, but...
$51.49Out of stockPresentation by Les Éditions de Juillet: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " Lost in the fringes of the north of Borneo, of the Celebes archipelago in Indonesia, and of southern Philippines, navigating the Sulu and Celebes seas, thousands of nomads of the Badjao sea are seeing their way of life threatened, just like their sedentary cousins and...
$40.05In StockUne histoire mondiale des femmes photographes
.Available..PLEASE NOTE: Texts in this book are IN FRENCH ONLY, and we are offering copies of the 2021 reprint of the book which quickly sold out before Christmas 2020. Presentation by Editions Textuel : [translation by L'Ascenseur Végétal] " A fabulous collective sum, a manifesto, a book of reference. This book includes over 450 images and...
$78.95In StockAZIMUT Une marche photographique en France
.Available.Presentation by Editions Textuel: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " AZIMUT is a photographic walk over an 8-month period across the French territory, organized as a relay of 31 photographers, and initiated by the collective Tendance Floue. Everyone's itinerary is free. Trails or paved roads, straight lines or winding tracks, the...
$45.77Out of stockPresentation by Chose Commune : " Afterlife is the sixth chapter of Vasantha Yogananthan's long-term project A Myth of Two Souls inspired by the epic tale The Ramayana. Drawing inspiration from the imagery associated with this myth and its pervasiveness in everyday Indian life, Vasantha Yogananthan has retraced the legendary route from north to south...
$62.94Out of stockPresentation by éditions lamaindonne: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " With this new photobook, Tropiques, Julien Coquentin delves farther into his familiar themes of childhood, family, territory and otherness. It is after traveling to the French island of La Réunion [in the Indian Ocean, off Madagascar] that he elaborated his new series....
$45.77In StockLes Mois Noirs (*shrinkwrapped / imperfect*)
.LAST COPY!. Presentation by Editions 77: [ adapted by L'Ascenseur Végétal - Full text in English on the publisher's website ] " « I encountered the land of the Bigouden, in Brittany, only a few days after meeting my partner, Catherine. I was in my twenties, we had just decided to spend our life together and I had already had to go to Malaysia for...
$45.77Out of stockD'ici, ça ne paraît pas si loin
.Available. Presentation by Le bec en l'air : [all texts in the book in French only] " D'ici, ça ne paraît pas si loin is the story of a map of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, an administrative one, one that is essential. It is a map with hazy borders, which raises questions: is it a territory in its own right? Does it federate its inhabitants? It combines...
$40.05In StockFrom the preface by François Cheval: " Lucile Boiron explores and exhausts fragments of flesh, these moments when human nature appears for what it is, that is, perishable. Far from making an inventory of the feeling of revulsion, she questions the body’s biological truth, and attempts a photographic answer to the issue of good and bad taste. Bodies, to...
$85.82Out of stockIconography - XXV Figures of Jeanne Damas
Presentation by Libraryman: " In the expression « aesthetic canon » which structures the standard of beauty, the term « canon » refers to the idea of « rule ». These rules, however, inscribed nowhere, enact in a changing way the representation of the beauty in its dimensions certainly aesthetic but also cultural and social. Jeanne Damas is a so called...
$48.06Out of stockPresentation by RVB Books: " The book Damaged Inc. is the result of a long-term project that mixes screen shots, photographs and sculptures reproduction. During several years, from race tracks to parking lots or bare farm fields - French artist David de Beyter followed the « Big Bangers » in the north of Europe. They describe themselves as a community...
$28.61In StockPresentation by Editions Bessard: " What is this body wearing traces of my pregnancy, my plumpness, my body deformity where only the slightest change can lead to mental distress? Who is this stranger with whom I mutate, finding ourselves in a cellular osmosis evolving together, speaking to each other through our skin, losing ourselves, trusting each...
$75.52In Stock.Sold out. Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral: " In the spirit of both an artist and a prayer book, La Fabrique des idoles questions the role of portrait in the representation of celebrities and particularly the development of the myth of the popular icon. Renowned for their photographs of celebrities (Juliette Armanet, Etienne Daho, Arielle Dombasle,...
