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At the Edge of the World (*signed*)
.Sold out.Presentation on the publisher's website: "Alain Laboile resides with his family in a small village in the southwest of France. A sculptor by trade, he acquired his first camera as a tool to record his creations in metal only a few years ago. But his gaze soon turned to his family whose natural and uninhibited lifestyle quickly came to completely...
Volta (*2nd edition / signed*)
.One new signed copy. Presentation by lamaindonne: "Volta, in Portuguese, can mean all at once and among other things around, return, stroll, ride, but also change. The photographs by Gabrielle Duplantier seem to echo this word : roaming and erratic, crossed by intriguing figures, delicately anchored between reality and fiction. These wanderings always...
75,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "In our collective unconscious the nuclear age is synonymous with the explosion of two atom bombs. Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But since 1945 it has been documented that more than 2,000 nuclear bombs have been detonated on Earth. Since the end of the Second World War, countries with nuclear powers methodically bombed their own lands....
35,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation of the photobook: "As an assembly of archival images and new images, the author realizes with Gravity a photographic poem, a tribute to the first space missions, a narrative fiction inspired by real events. (...) However, Michel Mazzoni's photography is not motivated by nostalgia. Gravity primarily addresses our relationship with...
38,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Presentation on the artist's website : "« August, 1943. Night is falling on Calcutta, silencing its flocks of ravens, but wakening another kind of life – a feverish, hidden one : in the Maidan, that open space at the city’s heart, there are shadows waiting. » My uncle, Thaï Doan na Champassak, published Ancestral Voices by Collins – London in...
Presentation by Yellow Now: [translation / adaptation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " There are universes that make sense (or even simply take form) only in the inexpressible, the untranslatable; secrets shared only in silence. Marie Sordat travels (Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Italia, Georgia, United States…) but does not bring back any travel pictures, or...
22,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "ImageSingulières is a documentary photography festival created in Sète in 2009. Each year a photographer is invited to look at the city to gradually build his portrait, revealing the facets of contemporary photography.Big names have given birth to seven books constituting a remarkable collection. A lesson in photography that...
25,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "That it is not about «hurried» photography, not really about contemplation, but as Ezio D'Agostino says himself, «about a photographic process which derives from my archaeology training». This means confronting time and pacting with it. The archaeologist, such as the photographer, divides the territory so that he can better...
30,00 €In StockPresentation by the artist: "It is the train you take everyday without noticing what is around it.A series that questions the Human intervention on Nature. Va Vois Rails Heures is Nature after going through the hands of Man and in front of the phtographer's lens. This artwork is both an object and a photographic project."NB : The French title literally...
29,00 €In StockPresentation by Le bec en l'air: [traduction by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "The Marseille(s) collection offers each year a carte blanche to a Mediterranean photographer who gives his vision of the city. Year after year, the diversity of the ways of photographic expression draws the portrait of a multicultural city and brings it in a new light. The first...
15,00 €In Stockéléments 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 6"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...
15,00 €In Stock.Last copies - White and Blue covers only. Presentation by Editions du LIC: "In Sunless by Tiane Doan na Champassak, beauty is pursued across the disintegrating boundaries between male and female. The images in Sunless, taken in Thailand between 2012 and 2013, form the second part of a larger body of work-in-progress, born out of a persistent urge to...
75,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "A family album preserves only carefully selected photographs. Out of an entire life, it stores only handpicked moments, privileging special occasions, happy ones usually, and consigning the rest to oblivion: happy faces, relaxed moments, places of leisure rather than work. It tends to underline a group’s social links and...
75,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation RVB Books: "Tiane Doan na Champassak worked on anonymous photographs he found posted on the blogs and websites of the Indian subcontinent’s exhibitionists and swingers. He collected the images posted by men in which we see their wives or partners exposed but in which the men took great care to cover up with Photoshop any clues as...
99,00 €In StockExcerpt from the newspaper "Libération", Oct. 12th, 2012 : "Une image se trouve à l’origine de ce travail. Une photographie entrevue dans un magazine associatif qui montrait quatre corps allongés à même le sol dans une forêt du nord de la France. La légende indiquait qu’il s’agissait d’Afghans, probablement épuisés, qui se reposaient à l’abri des regards...
.Last copy. Presentation by the artist: "Angkor, 23 Juin 2014. Nuit… La methamphétamine apaise la peur. Je parcours les rues et photographie les filles qui arpentent les berges du Tonle Sap, prisonnières de l’obscurité, forcées d’accepter de bonne grâce leur rôle d’esclave, la nécessité de leur soumission et docilité envers les hommes. Le Chrab Srey,...
30,00 €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 stockGrand Circle Diego (*imperfect*)
.One copy found in a forsaken box (April 2021)!.Presentation by AKina Books: "Bay of Diego Suarez. strip of land in the far north of Madagascar.a terrible accident10 years later, Cyril Costilhes comes back to close the circle,the descent into his heart of darkness begins.There is danger lying there, Diegoit's like smoking on a sea of gasolineDon't fall in...
65,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "In 1930, duck farmer Martin Maurer from Flanders, Long Island, decided to construct a giant duck-shaped shop to sell the Peking ducks he raised to motorists passing by. In 1972, in the book Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott-Brown, and Steven Izenour, studying the architecture of that city, outlined 2 main...
32,00 €In StockZine N° 19 - The Family (*w/ signed print*)
.Sold out. Alain Laboile is not a trained photographer, he has been taking pictures of his chlidren for years, in the house or in the large garden with a pond, insects, and other animals. Beautiful portraits, very touching images, for which the self-made photographer has won several awards and prizes. With the help of the social networks, his images...
Je ne peux pas comprendre Eddy (*signed*)
Presentation by the artist Andrew G. Smith: "I still have no idea what was driving him. It's easy to flippantly say that he was a monster, or «The Cannibal», or to document the palmarès. But, given the manner of those vitories, it's a mystery."Je ne peux pas comprendre Eddy (I cannot comprehend Eddy) is a tribute to Belgian bicycle racer Eddy Merckx,...
22,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Patrick Messina est un amateur de la forme urbaine dans ce qu’elle contient de hasards et d’hypothèses. Il aime arpenter la ville et faire partager son étonnement, sa curiosité, son attachement pour ce monde de transformations incessantes où des femmes et des hommes poursuivent une multitude de destinées singulières. Le regard...
35,00 €In StockZine N° 17 - Reliefs (*w/ signed print*)
In this series Reliefs, Agne presents what could seem to be an obsession: leftovers in a plate after a meal. Described in this manner, the subject is surprising at best, but it is by thoroughly exploring the topic and in the repetition that the body of work gains depth and meaning, as a formal study on a very specific and rather peculiar subject.40 pages...
36,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "In the surroundings of the Bugarach peak, in the region of Aude, in France, micro communities live as if they were hermetic to time. Far from the cities, filled with beliefs, they have a special conception of freedom. Their marginality is nothing but the result of their search for a peaceful happiness."On the "Pech de Bugarach",...
24,00 €In Stockéléments 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 5"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...
15,00 €In StockThe time of dreaming the world awake...
.Last copy. Introduction to the book by Yvette Monahan: "Certain landscapes hold stories of what has been and what could be. Like an ancient face these places mirror their own odyssey; a silent biography. What is seen is temporal, what is unseen perpetual. Concealed are the myths, legends and histories, ready to be known if we put our mind in nature, not...
25,00 €In Stock.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 StockEn attendant le facteur (*signed*)
.One copy only, forgotten then re-discovered in a box!.En attendant le facteur (Waiting for the Postman), is Alain Laboile's first book, published in 2012. Alain Laboile is not a trained photographer, he has been taking pictures of his chlidren for years, in the house or in the large garden with a pond, insects, and other animals. Beautiful portraits,...
179,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock.Presentation by Jean-Marc Caimi: "Sex, food, nature, the city where I live, my son, relationships, friends, family, even fleeting encounters, these moments enrich me as a human being. They are archetypal, belonging to a common DNA, the essence of our very biology. They are at the root of my existence, hovering in the pictures of my...
35,00 €Out of stockIls pensent déjà que je suis folle
Publisher's presentation: "Kourtney Roy (...) is the example of the uninhibited and sincere artist who does not take herself seriously." A rising star in fashion and commercial photography, she was awarded the Carte Blanche PMU in 2013. Model and photographer at the same time: to play, to experiment, to have fun, these words seem to guide the personal...
25,00 €In StockPubisher's presentation: "Le terme de «grand ensemble» renvoie à la fois aux quartiers construits en France entre 1950 et 1970 et au livre lui-même, constitué de cartes postales, d'agrandissements des personnages qui y apparaissent et de photographies d'implosions d'immeubles. En fin d'ouvrage, un montage de courts textes, qui étaient inscrits au dos des...
29,00 €In StockAn excerpt from William Blake's poem My Spectre around me night and day ends this photobook by Gildas Lepetit-Castel, like an insight in this intimate story of love, of night, possibly of separation or loss... "My spectre around me night and day Like a wild beast guards my way; My Emanation far within Weeps incessantly for my sin."A flash-code...
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