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.Only the ENGLISH version is now available. Publisher's presentation: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "At the heart of Europe, a parallel world existed for almost 10 years. Refugees from Africa and also Middle-East were waiting here to cross the Channel and reach Great-Britain. It is from the farsi word jangal meaning « forest » that the word,...
I Ditched Class and I Took a Bath (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation: " « In the spring of 2016 a friend of mine asked if a girl named Agathe could stay with me for a few nights while she visited the Bay Area from Paris. Unbeknownst to me Agathe had booked the ticket on a whim amidst a nervous break down, without knowing anything about San Francisco or anyone who lived there. She ended up staying...
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...
Presentation by Thames & Hudson, publisher of the English edition : "Bernard Plossu has been called “the most American of French photographers” by his friend and colleague Lewis Baltz. Although he is best known for his work in black and white, often capturing a bohemian world of free-spirited adventure, Plossu has also shot in color throughout his...
From the backcover: "She is the muse and the lover, Milo. Sometimes feline, sometimes mysterious or melancholic." A hand with painted nails brushes a silk curtain, a leg in tension on a colourful striped staircase, a body leaning over the lines of the city, naked or adorned with a garter belt. Vulnerable but strong, in the middle of the forest, on a bed,...
Publisher's presentation: "In the 60s, inside Bangkok's Chinatown, a printer makes a printing test for a book about palmistry..."68 pages - Softcover Siam's Guy Books, 2016 (200 copies) Format : 14 x 19 cm *Signed* New - Mint condition
éléments 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...
Two 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...
Publisher's presentation : "Plein été, un dimanche en début d'après-midi, un homme s'approche, une masse à la main, du bunker coincé entre la plage où se prélassent les vacanciers, et le café-restaurant où finissent de déjeuner les familles venues des environs profiter du grand soleil. Nous sommes quelque part sur la côte nord de la Bretagne. Une rangée...
Publisher's presentation : "To celebrate an 11-year collaboration with Bordeaux-based photographer Frédéric Desmesure, the OARA - Office Artistique de la Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine (Artistic Agency for the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region) produces a book published by Le Bleu du ciel. Designed by Franck Tallon, it includes approximately 100 images chosen from the...
Je n'ai plus peur du noir (*signed*)
Presentation by Filigranes: "Le 25 décembre 2014, je fais des photographies ce matin-là, en Corrèze.Le lendemain, nous apprenons, suite à une analyse de sang de routine, que Suzanne, notre fille de 7 ans, est atteinte d’une leucémie.Elle est rapatriée le 29 décembre à Paris, à l’hôpital Trousseau.À partir de ce moment-là, je photographie Suzanne à...
Publisher's presentation: " « Security barrier » for the Israelis, « wall of apartheid » for the Palestinians or « separation barrier » for Human Rights Watch, beyond the political debate, Josef Koudelka shows the wall as a manmade scar that mars the natural landscape. Wall assembles panoramic landscape photographs in black and white, taken between 2008...
Publisher's presentation: "L'Indifférence des Étoiles (« The Indifference of the Stars ») is Julien Mauve's first photography book. It is about the quest for meaning and the difficulty to live with the knowledge that we exist. The stars somehow become a shelter for the mind and help us bear with the briefness of human life."88 pages - Hardcover Poursuite...
a 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...
Presentation 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...
.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...
.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...
Publisher'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...
.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...
Publisher'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...
.Sold out.Presentation on the artist's website : "By selecting details of naked bodies from photographs found in Thai hardcore magazines from the 70s, Tiane Doan na Champassak delivers an unexpected vision of pornography: invisible sexes and skillfully framed and enlarged, nearly rasterized details, compose images that verge on abstraction. The absence of...
Presentation by Yan Morvan : "Why and how to photograph the war?Willingness to inform, to participate in the movement of history? How to tell the unbelievable - the images of horror follow the images of horror. The spectacularization of the world through television, the press, the Internet and real-time information has undermined our capital of empathy...
"Then comes the tenderness that results from this astonished look. Where are you, then, when you walk with me in a city?"Rhythms", movement is the key to this journey.Movement of gazes on our walls, our grass, our materials, our windows, the lines of our streets, our life lines. But also on the top of our walls, imposing, striking, resonant, encircling...
Presentation on Marie Mons' website: "I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time... For me, it was lying on my back watching falling stars... And yellow leaves, from the maple trees, that lined my street......
.Copy sold. Excellent copy of one of the best books (and most sought after) by Antoine d'Agata, his second, published the same year as his first one "De Mala Muerte". Second volume in the "Impression de Voyage" collection, published by "En Vues" in 1998.With texts (in French only) by Bruno Le Dantec and Jose Agustín. Copy in very good / excellent...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation : "Dominique is the most given mixed first name in France, it is also the twenty-seventh most popular first name, associating it with Lambert, the twenty-seventh most comon surname, Stéphanie Solinas defines as a study population the one hundred and ninety-one Dominique Lambert listed in the directory of individuals...
Publisher's presentation : "À travers cette fresque photographique, Hervé Lassïnce constitue le journal impudique d’une communauté formée autour de lui, saisie dans des moments domestiques et intimes, à l’endroit où les personnalités s’expriment sans filtre, ni préjugé social. Contrariant les stéréotypes, notamment ceux liés à la virilité, le projet...
éléments 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 8"The artist 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 average...
éléments 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 7"The artist 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 average...
Text from the back cover : "My childhood is bounded by a few hills, a few meadows, a forest, a village: a countryside as a playground ... More than the children of a country, we were the children of a landscape. A handful of friends in the heart of a huge territory. Young dogs peeing in the grass and to the wind to mark their territory. Huts, hiding...
Présentation de l'éditeur : "In addition to his personal photographic practice, A French artist of Asian origin, Tiane Doan na Champassak carries out a reflection about anonymous photography, collected via various sources such as Internet, family albums, or again periodicals. His work often translates into bookmaking and publishing and he has already...
Publisher's presentation: "This book brings together rare photographs taken in the 1890s through the 1950, throughout the world. This corpus of photographs from the Jean-Marie Donat Collection gives the concept of landscape a greater breadth, and, with it, a more penetrating mystery. The collector, bt an act of tilting, switches the original print from a...