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The Pillar - 2nd edition (*signed*)
PLEASE NOTE: We are offering here copies of the second printing of this book (September 2020). Presentation by Nobody Books: " « The landscape that surrounds my home in Sweden can be misleading. The bird activity it contains is diluted by the vastness of the flat open land and sky, which gives the impression that very little is going on. In January 2015,...
.Back in stock. Presentation by Skinnerboox: "Hereafter is based on the story of the photographer's grandparents. For over thirty years John and Mary Phillips worked in the Sudan, Libya, Oman, Jordan and Cyprus. They witnessed the progressive decline of the British Empire, in which they had lived since childhood and which shaped their view of the world....
.Sold out. Presentation by Jiazazhi: "10 Days in Kraków is presented in the form between a travelogue and a scrapbook. Although the book doesn’t have a content page, within the seemingly fragmented structure, three chapters unfold themselves – War, City, and Connection (from there to here / from I to you). The book consists of snapshots, diaries and...
Rivages (*signed / not signed*)
.PLEASE NOTE: Our last copies my have a couple spots very slightly rubbed on the cover, or a corner very slightly bumped (received as is from the distributor) - Inside Clean & Crisp. Presentation for the English version by Thames & Hudson: "The « edges » that Harry Gruyaert, a pre-eminent member of the Magnum photo agency, explores in this...
.A few signed copies back in stock!. Presentation by VOID : "Athens is an oxymoron-city. Its flamboyant mythological heritage coexists with its dark and dramatic political-economic situation. Its sun shines with a thousand lights but crushes its streets. It is a blinding light that reveals its violence and its twilight faces. And yet we feel a life...
Presentation by The Eriskay Connection: "Peter Dekens' earliest memory of the First World War dates back to 1979, aged 12. One of his cousins found an old, unexploded bombshell and tried to dismantle it. The explosive went off and he succumbed to his injuries later that same evening. Driving along the former front line in Ypres (Belgium) now it's...
How We See: Photobooks by Women
Presentation par 10x10 Photobooks: ".About How We See With historical records establishing 19th-century British photographer Anna Atkins’s Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (1843-1853) as the first photobook, it is not surprising that women have consistently contributed to the rich history of photobook making. 10×10 Photobooks has...
Phrase on the translucid dustjacket : "You taught me how to be a butterfly only so you could break my wings."Für Mich is a very personal project, about healing from sexual abuse during childhood. A long interview with the artist is available (in English) on the publisher's website. The publisher provides the translations of the English texts in the book...
.Back in stock. Presentation by Łukasz Rusznica: "When traveling to Japan, I knew one thing only — I wanted to take pictures based on Japanese mythology; I wanted to photograph the Yokai — the monsters of legend. Photography came as the result of working in new surroundings; it was the end process of meeting people and building relationships — this is...
I don't want to disappear completely
.Sold out.Presentation by September Books : "Summer 2015. I spend a few days in a village in Latvia. The forest is everywhere, the population rare, the plants are invasive and venomous. I meet a group of teenagers, ghostly presence in this rough landscape frozen in the past. I ask them to take pictures with me. We stay together for a few hours. Aïva, one...
Presentation of the project (2016) on Corinne Vionnet's website: "An image on a screen. Photographed. Put back on the screen. Photographed again. Again and again. To the point of total disappearance. To the point of obliteration, evanescence, evaporation. Following on from the Photo Opportunities and Away series, Corinne Vionnet is once more revisiting...
Presentation by the artist: "Alexanderis a story based on the relationship between politics, history and culture, centred around the construction of a national myth in the (Former Yugoslav) Republic of Macedonia – a state with no name, fixated on a dispute about origins so distant that they may have never existed at all."The artist made multiple long...
.One copy available.Complete title: Ewa & Piotr, si vis pacem para bellumPresentation by Les Éditions Noir sur Blanc: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "With Ewa & Piotr, Lorenzo Castore brings us the story of an unlikely, almost hideous encounter. It could have remained, like many others, a simple moment, but it evolved into a great...
.Sold out.Presentation by Stanley/Barker : "In an outpouring of grief after the death of his children from scarlet fever in 1833, German poet Friedrich Rückert wrote 428 poems on the deaths of children. Seventy years later the composer Gustav Mahler was so moved by these poems, he began work on a song cycle eventually scoring five of the poems. Although...
Presentation by Nuno Moreira : "She looks into me is a series of intimate images that hold a deep reverence for a time when the mystery of life and the mystery of death were closely related. Conceived in a manner close to theater this book is divided in 3 chapters that explore the idea of human representation and how looking at an image in an active way...
.Sold out.Presentation by Walther Koenig: "In contrast to the consciously sober – but far from clinical images of his earlier series, Schmidt uses atmosphere-laden details with high-contrast black-and-white images of cityscapes, details in nature, and portraits in Waffenruhe to create a subjective, leaden picture of a still-divided city. He no longer...
.Last copy!.Presentation by RRB Publishing : "For over twenty years, Krass Clement's book Drum, photographed in a single evening, has long been regarded as one of the most iconic photobooks ever made. RRB are pleased to be able to now publish Dublin. The images in Dublin retain some of the style of Drum, an almost autobiographical account of the three...
Presentation of the photobook by Stephen Gill: " In March 2014, my family and I moved from east London to rural south Sweden where my partner Lena is from. I understood that these new surroundings would inform my work in very different ways and that nature would play a key role. I was looking forward to making work that did not feel restricted and...
72 pages - Hardcover Analogues, 2017 Format 21 x 21 cm *Signed* New - Mint condition Presentationof the photobook by Analogues : "Brigitte Bauer’s images have no other artifice but intention. And a framing of which she alone holds the secret. Emotions, stories, the unspoken, revelations and sometimes an aspiration to an undefined otherworldliness seem to...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "August 1st, 2016: The Wear Helmet, Get Petrol, Be Safe campaign starts today. That doesn’t mean, of course, that you’ll be refused petrol if you aren’t wearing protective gear. Instead you’ll be handed a campaign leaflet by the pump-operator. In the Kochi-Ernakulam area there have been 17,000 two wheeler accidents in...
.Signed copies back in stock. Presentation of the photobook by Paul Gaffney: "Walking through the Luxembourgish Ardennes, Gaffney documented his wanderings using polaroids. Later, he re-explored certain routes after nightfall, to photograph under the light of the full moon. Bathed in its soft otherworldly glow, the forest’s narrow steep valleys evoke a...
Tales of Lipstick and Virtue (*signed print*)
Publisher's presentation of Anna Ehrenstein's photobook: "Authenticity has always been a central question in discussions concerning society. It is continuing to gain importance with the emergence of new phenomena such as fake news, alternative facts and instant online control possibilities. However, our definition of an authentic being or an authentic...
.Back in stock (2nd printing). Presentation by Peperoni: "The fourth and final edition of the photobook classic. Once again better, more dense, more beautiful, more oppressive than all predecessors With Tokyo Compression Michael Wolf struck a nerve. His portraits of people who are on their way in the Tokyo subway, constrained between glass, steel and...
.Sold out. Presentation on the artist's website: "At the end of a rutted road on the outskirts of Ternopil, surrounded by a wall as thick as the trees of the Petrykiv forest, lies a secluded estate. Seventy women, reportedly ill, none older than thirty-five, reside within its boundaries. When not occupied by daily chores, they play the roles of mother,...
Présentation de l'éditeur : [ Book in French only ] "For three years, Carlos Spottorno and Guillermo Abril have traveled the borders of Europe, and from the 25,000 photographs and 15 notebooks they reported, they composed a" comic strip "of photos.From Africa to the Arctic, the journalists tell a story: a meeting with the Africans of Gourougou, the...
Publisher's presentation: "Karlheinz Weinberger’s day job may have been relatively uneventful—working in a Siemen’s warehouse—but the photos he took in his spare time are anything but conformist. Weinberger’s passion, and the focus of this book, is the rebel youth of 1950s and ’60s Switzerland, who channeled American rock-’n’-roll culture and made it...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "We show the images that Anders Petersen highlighted and marked on the contact proof sheets, of the period, with signs, signals and colours. They have lost that original intention of prominance and of status, their Morse code, their meaning, but they have gained the gesture. The footprint. The pride of ingenuity. Their...
Publisher's presentation of Giona Mottura's photobook: " - DIANE a documentary photobook journey on the life of a transexual singer in Switzerland - « Diane is a singer dwelling in the small village of Boveresse close to Môtiers in Val de Travers, Switzerland. Involved in the cultural events of her city till 2009, she now spends most of her time to...
Publisher's presentation: "Shell shock silence and blinding whiteness, air sucked from the lungs. Masked clowns out of the dust cloud. City limits, a circle of men. Two dogs. The chain goes off. Nervous laughters, hard breathing. Tension as a background noise. The night-blind goes on. Cagdas Erdogan’s first book, Control, was shot entirely in Istanbul,...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Michael Wolf is a photographer. For more than 40 years. He looks back on an amazing career. As a photojournalist, as a freelance photographer and for nearly 20 years now as an artist. More than 25 books have been published only in the past 10 years, including worldwide successes as Architecture of Density, Tokyo...
Publisher's presentation: "In 1920, the Spitsbergen Treaty recognized the sovereignty of Norway over the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the following conditions: that it remain entirely demilitarized, exempt from taxation, environmentally intact, and open to business development from the citizens of all signatory countries. Russia, which ratified...
.Last copies.Presentation by the artist, Yusuf Sevincli: "Put (tr): Idol (eng) Idol: noun A representation of a god used as an object of worship. The Put series traces the faith of sculptures and monuments in public spaces. In addition to focusing on a single narrative, each photograph tells the story of the polarization and the struggle for power in...