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Outstanding photographers from all over the world: South America and Africa, Russia and the Balkans, the Arab world, China and the Far East ...
Same Player Shoots Again (*signed*)
Following a workshop on editing and producing a dummy where they met and had a good time together, Jean-Pierre Viguié (in France) worked on a corpus of images by Sean Davey (in Australia) that were made during nights out and in bars... Out of this came Same Player Shoots Again, a funny and a bit inebriated book, where the story of a pinball player mingles...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "This book documents a hitchhike along China’s Cross-Desert Highway, a road built in the mid 1990s to help the extraction of oil. It stretches for more than 500km from north to south across the Taklamakan, one of the world’s most inhospitable deserts. The journey records the road and its people - truck drivers, cotton...
How much can you carry ? (*signed*)
.Signed copies. (adapted from) Publisher's presentation: " The series How much can you carry ? was born out of the fascination of Floriane de Lassée for the lines of people carrying loads as large as they were diverse along the African roads. This series gradually extended to four continents, with about ten countries represented today (Rwanda , Ethiopia,...
.LAST SEALED COPY!. Mengxi 2 resonates with the Zine No. 8 My Dreamed Stream published by Editions Bessard as it explores the same personal themes and could be considered as coming from the same body of work. Wei Bi brings back childhood memories in confronting images from the village of Dalian where he lives, and the village of his family, where he grew...
.Sold out.144 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Prestel, 2014 New - Mint conditionPikin Slee is a village in Suriname, a former Dutch colony where Viviane Sassen found connections between her personal history and that of the inhabitants: the African continent and the Dutch language, that she was amazed to be able to share in the midst of the South-American...
.Sold out. The story of this book, first published by Scalo in 2002 and sold out the following year, reprinted / republished by Thames & Hudson in 2008 (as stated in the copies offered).A controversial book, because it includes nudity of teenagers and yound adults, but an impressive body of work and a splendid book about and the limits that are...
Je suis un piéton, rien de plus
Publisher's presentation: "Born in Charleville-Mézières, Éric Guglielmi suffered in his childhood the omnipresence of Rimbaud, his tyranny: Rimbaud street, the Rimbaud place, the Rimbaud museum, the Rimbaud school ... Then comes the adolescence, and the poignant reading of the poet. Eric Guglielmi followed in the footsteps of Rimbaud and visited...
Embera-Chamis – ¡Chao Nos Vemos!
In the "POV Female" series ("POV" for point of view) by the English publishing house oodee, the fourth city to be visited (after London, Tokyo and Johannesburg) is Bogota, Colombia. This series presents works by unpublished female photographers from each city, and each city is represented by 5 photographers (see "Suggestions" tab for the other Bogota...
Publisher's presentation: "The black-and-white images were photographed within the confines of a house in a Johannesburg suburb, the location of which remains a mystery. The inhabitants of the house, both people and animals, and most notably, the ever-present birds, are the cast who perform within a sculptural and decorated theatrical interior that Roger...
One of the classic photobooks in the series of small volumes of thematic photographs by Michael Wolf from the streets of Hong Kong. This series was a close collaboration between Michael Wolf and publisher Hannes Wanderer from Peperoni Books. Michael Wolf lived in Hong Kong and walked the streets of the city for over 20 years, turning his eyes and lens to...
In Pastoral / Moscow Suburbs, Alexander Gronsky explores the outer limits of the city of Moscow, in places where the bedroom communities border on the countryside and the forest.This is a great series; at the same time a document on urbanism, a portrait of a population, and a chronicle of the life in the far out low-income suburbia of our western...
Zine N° 14 - Nippon (*w/ signed print*)
In Nippon, number 14 in the Zine Collection by Editions Bessard, Emmanuel Angelicas creates a portrait of Japan in black and white, confronting the two main images that represent Japanese culture in the West : the female nude and the culture of the samurais. Through this still rather classique angle, the artist offers a beautiful series full and a great...
.Sold out.One of the recent titles from Josef Koudelka, master of Black & White, that was sold out just a few months after release...Publisher's presentation: "Like the great painters of the 19th century, Josef Koudelka chose quarries as his subject. At the invitation of the leading global mining group, he regularly visited quarries across the globe...
.Last copy.Presentation by the artist: "State of Mind is a photographic series, and ultimately a book, about the individual quality of mysterious strangers. The images were captured over a period of several years traveling in countries such as Japan, Portugal, Hungary, Malaysia, Spain, South-Korea, Romania, Russia, Taiwan - and what emerged is a visual...
Beautiful portraits of people from India's Rajasthan who discover the ocean for the first time.The Black & White, grainy, and highly contrasted style of Martin Bogren suits perfectly the atmosphere of these moments, the smiles, the bodies, the waves, the water.36 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Journal, 2008 New - Mint condition
Paraiso is the photographic diary kept by Antoine d'Agata kept between October 31 andNovember 12, 2012, during the International Festival of Photography in Valparaiso. The images are presented together with texts and email excerpts in which d'Agata writes what he does and sees, he describes his moments under the influence and the injections and his...
With the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States have been signing nearly 300,000 new recruits each year since 9/11, as they need to face an important turnover among the troops. In Volunteer, Paul Seawright draws the portrait of the young recruits of the US Army, but we have to "read between the lines": instead of photographing the young recruits,...
Some Windy Trees (*Limited Edition*)
.Sold out. Some Windy Trees is the second opus of Vincent Delbrouck's "Himalayan Project".This book is comprised of 10 portraits of trees. Trees that grew and developed against the wind and are leaning, bent and tilted by this physical constraint.This very homogeneous series invites us to give these trees - these characters - a closer look, to discover...
.Sold out.Some Windy Trees is the second opus of Vincent Delbrouck's "Himalayan Project".This book is comprised of 10 portraits of trees. Trees that grew and developed against the wind and are leaning, bent and tilted by this physical constraint.This very homogeneous series invites us to give these trees - these characters - a closer look, to discover...
Presentation by Mörel Books: " Långt från Stockholm (or Far from Stockholm) finds JH Engstrom on a journey into the surrounding world away from the big city.... Shifting between isolated small communities and the untamed wilderness of the Swedish landscape -Engstrom weaves the two worlds with portraits of 'dance bands', youths etc and juxtaposing them...
As Dust Alights (*Limited Edition*)
We are offering the Limited Edition of this sold out book.A signed & numbered copy of the book, together with a print are placed in a pouch made of a really beautiful fabric. We will add images soon, please feel free to contact us. As Dust Alights is the book of a photographer that takes the time to look at things, that uses his eyes in a very special...
Republic is a brilliant, blazing, colored and light-loaded series of portraits. The portraiture work is really original, full of surprises, sometimes erotic with a touch of subversiveness, especially if you consider that Ren Hang is Chinese...A really beautiful book, a high quality of production, that makes you want to know more about this provocative...
.Last copy - Sold out by the publisher!.Publisher's presentation : "ETAN & ME is Viviane Sassen's story of love and loss, of Eros and Thanatos. It’s a story about the exploration of the Self and the Other. Are we ever able to truly know someone, to truly know ourselves? These are the question which come to mind when looking at the latest book of...
Sworn Virgins is a series of portraits of women from Northern Albania who vowed to remain virgins their whole life, in order to be allowed - following ancient rules of their community - to assume the role of patriarch of this community, becoming in the process "men-women". The respect these women are shown within their communities is really clear in Pepa...
Two Rivers (*Limited Edition - w/ Print*)
.Sold out.We are offering the Limited Edition of Two Rivers : a signed copy of the book in a beautiful linen clamshell case, and a 8"x11" print in a matching case. As of today, we have 3 different prints, please contact us. Thank you. Carolyn Drake's Two Rivers is a wonderful and gorgeous book ! Stunning images, an original design and a beautifully...
Supertourist is a new interpretation by Max Pam of the large body of work accumulated within the last 10 years during his travels in all parts of the globe. The artist sort-of "traveled" within this large archive to conceive this book, a complete rethinking of his work. We do indeed recognise Max Pam's eye and feel, with lively, colourful, witty, funny...
.Sold out.As Dust Alights is the book of a photographer that takes the time to look at things, that uses his eyes in a very special way. Vincent Delbrouck offers a very calm and peaceful account of what his eyes saw on a trip into the Himalayas; they saw forms, colors, textures, contrasts, they saw the beautiful in the insignificant... The body and the...
.Sold out. Ouvrage de référence sur le photographe chilien Sergio Larrain (Magnum Photos), qui - bien que n'ayant été actif qu'entre 1949 et 1971 - restera comme l'un des grands maîtres de la photographie de rue et du noir et blanc. L'artiste a été honoré d'une rétrospective aux Rencontres d'Arles 2013 et une exposition différente présente son travail...
.Sold out. Carolyn Drake's Two Rivers is a wonderful and gorgeous book ! Stunning images, an original design and a beautifully crafted production (by SYB), carry us through a story and a journey that are really captivating... This books grabs you and won't let go ! It is really a success on all levels, that appeared in many lists of the best 2013...
.Sold out.Ramadan in Yemen was the first title published, in 2011, by Éditions Bessard. And, from the very beginning, the high quality standard is obvious, in production, choice of paper and other material, the fonts, the editing, the sequence, each element must meet the highest requirements, to come up with this really beautiful book, this beautiful...
.PLEASE NOTE: All texts in French only in this book. Photographe et vidéaste, Édith Roux nous présente dans Les dépossédés un travail sur la communauté Ouïghour, minorité ethnique turcophone et musulmane du Xinjiang, dans la partie nord-ouest de la Chine. De nombreux travaux liés à l'exploitation des ressources naturelles de cette région, associés à la...
.Sold out."Éclatant" ou - en référence au chef-d'oeuvre de Viviane Sassen - "Flamboyant" sont les mots qui viennent à l'esprit en découvrant Parasomnia. Le sens de la couleur, de la lumière est quelque chose de très aigü chez cette artiste travaillant beaucoup dans la mode. Cet ouvrage présente des images rapportées de plusieurs pays d'Afrique de l'Est,...