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Hello and Welcome to Paris (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation : "Breaking news such as the terror attacks in Paris are a veritable jackpot for traditional media in their race for a larger audience. The endless stream of repetitive news, horrifying images and rhetoric create terror's outlook and converts it into a mass consumption product. Much like advertisement, which twists reality in...
30,00 €In Stock.PLEASE NOTE : the copies we are offering have one slightly bumped corner.Publisher's presentation: "This work by photographer Florian van Roekel is from a residence set up by Diaphane at the Jean Fernel Collège in Clermont-de-l'Oise.Present regularly during a school year in this establishment, the photographer takes a fragmentary look at these suspended...
39,00 €In StockBlousons Noirs (*signed print*)
Presentation for Yan Morvan's KissKissBankBank project: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Apaches of the early twentieth century, hoodlums of the 30s: they were the first bad boys. With the 50s comes the reign of the blousons noirs (black jackets) on the Parisian pavement and in the suburb. Rock 'n' Roll arrives in France at the same time as Eddie...
149,00 €In StockPresentation for Yan Morvan's KissKissBankBank project: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Apaches of the early twentieth century, hoodlums of the 30s: they were the first bad boys. With the 50s comes the reign of the blousons noirs (black jackets) on the Parisian pavement and in the suburb. Rock 'n' Roll arrives in France at the same time as Eddie...
49,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Orphée by Younès Klouche is a photobook inspired by the similarly titled film from 1950 by Jean Cocteau, itself a reinterpretation of the classic Greek myth of Orpheus. Cocteau’s film features simple but ingenious special effects and explores the symbolism of mirrors as a representation of death. In Klouche’s book, mirrors and...
30,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation : "Early Times is the first chapter of Vasantha Yogananthan’s long-term project A Myth of Two Souls, which offers a contemporary retelling of The Ramayana. A seven-chapter tale first recorded by the Sanskrit poet Valmiki around 300 BC, The Ramayana is one of the founding epics of Hindu mythology.Since 2013,...
Presentation of Céline Clanet's photobook: "Since 2005, I have been traveling regularly to Máze, a small Sámi village located at the highest point of the European map, far above the Arctic Circle, in Norwegian Lapland. There, I met quiet people, sometimes melancholic, captivating, who are very proud of their village and territory. They often have...
28,00 €In Stock.Currently out of stock. Publisher's presentation: away from the familiar pictures of Japan "I know nothing about Japan. Even though, like everyone else, I have seen the familiar images of some exotic distant land, subjected to the avalanche of photos that make their way to us—almost through us—, and which are entirely a product of our Western culture....
39,00 €Out of stock.Currently out of stock.Publisher's presentation: "Yusuf Sevincli renews the erratic figure of the walking photographer, wandering the cities and the sidewalks in search of singular faces and fates. Familiar with the urban areas, he multiplied encounters during his stay in the French city of Vichy in March 2015, pushing the doors of bars, restaurants,...
30,00 €Taches & Traces - Premiers essais...
Presentation by Luce Lebart, director of the collections at Société Française de Photographie and curator of the exhibition Taches et Traces : [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Made in 1840, a few months after the invention of photography being made official, Hippolyte Bayard's self-portrait as a drowned man (Le Noyé) is often considered « the first...
30,00 €Out of stockDeeper Shades 03 PARIS (*signed*)
.Copy sold.After NEW YORK and TOKYO, the first 2 volumes in his Deeper Shades series, Andreas H. Bitesnich presented Deeper Shades #03 PARIS released in 2013.Grainy images, in darker tones as indicated by the title of the series Deeper Shades, a personal journey, and a nice way to discover this city through its landmarks, and through the details perceived...
Gainsbourg Inside - Vu de l'intérieur
Presentation on the back cover : "During the seven last years of his life, Serge Gainsbourg lived in a house on Paris's Rue Verneuil with his butler, Fulbert Ribeaut, who would become a close friend. After Gainsbourg's death in 1991, Fulbert's nephew, Yannick Ribeaut, photographed his house extensively. Now, for the very first time, these unique...
35,00 €Out of stockWARNING: Please note there is a sourcing delay of 10 days for us to supply this very-large-format portfolio (12 kg / 25 lbs).Publisher's presentation : [translation by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Discover the unique work of French-Chinese photographer Zeng Nian in this portfolio of 60 numbered prints, signed by the artist. This amazing case contains, outside...
960,00 €In StockPresentation on the publisher's website: ""In Spleen and Ideal, beauty is pursued across the disintegrating boundaries between male and female. Transgressive sexual encounters with what at times seems to be one and the same person are captured on instant film and mixed with impressions of the urban architecture in which they are anchored. In this...
The King of Photography (*signed*)
.One copy available.Gathered portraits of the King of Thaïland with a camera in his hands or around his neck.Risograph printing. First and only printing.64 pages - Stapled softcover Self-published, 2011 (250 copies) *Signed* As new - Mint condition
260,00 €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.Currently out of stock - More copies soon. Publisher's presentation : "From Scandinavia to the northernmost islands of Nunavut (Canada), we are invited by Vincent Munier to discover a breathtakingly beautiful, fascinating wild world: polar bears and foxes, caribous, muskoxen, arctic hares, snowy owls and even a magical encounter, when a pack of nine...
65,00 €Out of stockRebuts, charognes, décombres (Folio I)
Presentation of the Folio collection by the publisher: Folio I is the first part of a new series of photobooks treating specifically about the work of a unique photographer. With this Folio series, we aim at providing a photographic work closer to the study, than just a random series. The selected works have been picked to catch a particular atmosphere,...
15,00 €In StockPremière courbe, Saint-Sever (*signed*)
Presentation by Ici & Là: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "And then it's there. He makes it out, getting closer slowly so that it appears without any constraints. This curve that must be climbed up, this furrow of a forgotten first time, the strength of the landscape outside that capsizes the doubt inside. Capsizes, submerges, pacifies..."NB :...
15,00 €Out of stockLes Collines, Chalosse (*signed*)
Presentation by Ici & Là: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Chalosse is a beautiful land, a quiet land, a teritory of soft hills and horizon lines. It borders and marks the end - in a colorful manner - of the Landes country, its vast areas of pine trees, its long beaches of white sand, the accurate lights of its winter mornings, the delicate...
15,00 €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 : "The sordid, artificial purgatory, the round of hungering, bruised flesh, the desperate and depraved promiscuity reigning over these empty nights, clusters of violent and violated intimacy multiplied over and over again… Bruised in body and soul, they live in the claustrophobic basements of derelict shopping centres. In the...
295,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "As an extension of the exhibition Anticorps Antoine d’Agata held at Le BAL (January-March 2013), the coordinators of Actes, une présence politique, in collaboration with the photographer, wanted to continue to assert the political dimension – too rarely taken into consideration – the photographic Antoine d’Agata work has, by...
45,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "Working within the parameters of his established technique, Thomas Demand created carefully formed paper and card sculptures, a parallel world which is photographed and then destroyed. The Dailies offers only traces – signs of consumption, or the spectres of things left behind. His creations are based on things he saw and...
36,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "春爛漫 Haru Ranman, in Japanese, means « Spring in full bloom ». But there are two sides to every story. What happens in Tokyo in Spring? Underground is still where the ant farm is, a giant hub where everybody transits. Above the ground, the melody is different – and in the coming night, screens and fantasies mix to build a...
39,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "The images in AiTHŌ were made in 2014 at Villa Don Arcangelo all’Olmo (territorio di Carruba di Riposto), on the slope of the Etna."Texts by Leopoldo Maria Panero & José Águedo Olivares.104 pages - Hardcover André Frère Editions, 2015 (300 copies) *Signed* New - Mit condition
85,00 €In StockLa Banlieue de Paris (1ère edition)
.Copy sold.We are offering a rare copy of one of the most sought-after and most important photobooks : "La banlieue de Paris", with texts by Blaise Cendrars and photographs by Robert Doisneau, in the scarce first edition with dustjacket (Seghers, 1949).This book is listed in "The Photobook: A History volume I" by Martin Parr & Gerry Badger.Four texts...
895,00 €Publisher's presentation : "This work of Antoine d’Agata was partially visible in the exhibition « S’il y a lieu je pars avec vous » (« If necessary, I'll go with you »), presented at Le BAL (Paris) from September 11th to October 26th, 2014. This one is published in INDEX in its entirety. « Vous les peuplerez de qui vous voudrez, ces aires de repos....
39,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation : "Midway between a book and a portfolio, this unbound large format work (30 x 40 cm), printed on a rare stock in a limited edition, signed & numbered (170 copies), is a selection of Fresson colors by Bernard Plossu. The foreword is by Sylvie Hugues."In the black box : - 12 photographs "Couleur Fresson" in double...
No Photos (*signed / imperfect*)
Presentation on Tiane Doan na Champassak's website : "All photographs were taken in the red-light district of Amsterdam. The title No Photos has different meanings. First, the forbidden act to photograph the sex workers in their environment. Secondly, the images are printed on very old photographic papers which are fading away even further in the book...
15,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "Fashioned as we are by Western values, we take pleasure in observing, ironically and delightedly, the simulacra of Korean happiness. But who are we to judge their happiness? The great strength of this album is that it sows doubt in our mind. These couples, these families, these men and women presented in the intimacy of their...
38,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "After presenting his vision of Montreal in Early Sunday morning / Journal de Montreal, we discover Julien Coquentin's vision of New York in this photobook.This time, unlike Montreal, it's a short one-week trip. A week to photograph New York is not enough. But it requires being on the lookout, trying to capture every moment that...
