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Photojournalism
The work of photo-reporters, war reporters, daily photojournalists. Books dealing with current events or those of yesterday, whether conflicts, the life of Western societies or others, the important or insignificant events of our history or from History.
The work of photo-reporters, war reporters, daily photojournalists. Books dealing with current events or those of yesterday, whether conflicts, the life of Western societies or others, the important or insignificant events of our history or from History.
Photojournalism There are 162 books.
Presentation by Dewi Lewis: "One in five under 18 year olds in the USA is diagnosed as having a mental condition which translates itself into behavioral problems. Often this is treated with medication which can start from an extremely young age. Over a six-year period Baptiste Lignel followed the progress of nine American teenagers with an array of...
36,00 €Out of stockThe Walls Don't Speak (Les murs ne parlent...
.Back in stock.Kehrer's presentation: "The trilogy The Walls Don’t Speak (Les murs ne parlent pas) is the result of a three-year dialog between the photographer Jean-Robert Dantou, and an interdisciplinary Social Sciences team coordinated by the anthropologist, Florence Weber. The photographer set up his studio in various institutions (psychiatric nursing...
40,00 €Out of stockText from the slipcase cover : "This is the story of the tragic relationship between two bodies: a critical narration of the long and failed relationship between a society and a river. Although today it is a long and winding sarcophagus, in the past the city depended on the abundance of its stream. Centuries later, with Monterrey transformed into a...
54,00 €In Stock.In stock.Publisher's presentation: "Post-Script revisits Laura El-Tantawy’s journey through Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square five years from Egypt’s momentous revolution and one year after the release of her self-published monograph, In the Shadow of the Pyramids. The pocket-sized publication features previously unpublished images and written reflections...
20,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Presentation by the artist : "I am Iranian. I was born in 1980, the same year as the Islamic Revolution. I learned how to wear my scarf when I was seven years old. I still remember putting it on for the first time, getting ready for my first day at school. It was me, my mother and a mirror. Two years later my Religious teacher stopped me in the...
Publisher's presentation: "« In my experience, the two most significant characteristics of war are horror and absurdity, » says Christoph Bangert, the German photojournalist who has been documenting crises for international publications such as the New York Times for ten years. Following his examination, in his critically acclaimed book War Porn (Kehrer...
40,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "« In my experience, the two most significant characteristics of war are horror and absurdity, » says Christoph Bangert, the German photojournalist who has been documenting crises for international publications such as the New York Times for ten years. Following his examination, in his critically acclaimed book War Porn (Kehrer...
48,00 €In StockLes roues interdites (*signed*)
NB : The title Les roues interdites translates as The forbidden wheels.Text from the back cover: "Those who know Syria love it, they know that it is not a land for blood and fire. They know that it is a white land, beautiful with a fragile and dreamy and discreet people. A land of stars that children follow at night. A blue land where deserts confuse the...
40,00 €In StockSans Titre, M. Bertillon (*signed*)
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "By fixing the form of identity, Alphonse Bertillon modified our faces. From an eminently personal element, he made a tool of the State, an instrument of identification: a gridded, readable, occulted, talkative, divided, synthetic surface; a necessary, sufficient summary of the multiple realities of an individual. From...
.Last copies!.Presentation on the artist's website : "Discordia, a new book by Magnum photographer Moises Saman, represents a personal memory of the nearly four years he spent living and working as a photojournalist in the Middle East during the Arab Spring from 2011 to 2014. « These photographs were taken while I was working as a photojournalist in...
85,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "British photographer Edmund Clark and counterterrorism investigator Crofton Black have assembled photographs and documents that confront the nature of contemporary warfare and the invisible mechanisms of state control. From George W. Bush’s 2001 declaration of the “war on terror” until 2008, an unknown number of people...
Publisher's presentation: "In January 2011, Egypt’s youth launched a revolt, unseating Hosni Moubarak from power after 30 years. Five years later came disaster. An omnipotent military State is once again in power and the repression of political opponents is murderous. The photographs of Pauline Beugnies, the cartoons of Ammar Abo Bakr, and the words of...
30,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Presentation by Self Publish, Be Happy: "Fire in Cairo emerged from Egypt as an oblique and fragmentary document of revolutionary struggle. The book charts Connors’ uneasy engagement with the political turmoil that gripped the nation during its rapidly unfolding history. The complexity of the situation resisted comprehensive explanation, but...
Publisher's presentation : "On 9th July 1995, the Serbian army attacked Srebrenica's Muslim ghetto. Nearly 8,000 people were massacred in three days. Twenty years on, the city's history seems frozen in obscurity. A new generation, however, is travelling its ruins and learning as much as it can from its consequences. This series of photographs by Adrien...
19,00 €Out of stock.PLEASE NOTE : Our signed copies have a tiny imperfection - Mint unsigned & sealed copies also available - Please do get in touch.Publisher's presentation : "Silent Histories is a testimony to the tragedy of indiscriminate bombing by US forces during the War in the Pacific, which killed 330,000 Japanese and injured 430,000 more. The figures are...
62,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Presentation by Steidl: "Segregation Story features a broad selection of images – most of them published for the first time – from Gordon Parks’ powerful 1956 photographic series documenting the « Restraints: Open and Hidden » on an extended African American family persevering in the segregated South. Originally commissioned for Life magazine,...
Excerpt from an interview of the artist by the New York Times : "« It is a wonderful way of capturing that underside of insecurity that attends the Tiananmen issue and that, in a larger sense, haunts much of official China today » he said. The artist seems to be saying: « Here’s the reality that no one looks at squarely but that everyone knows is there....
59,00 €In StockSharkification (*limited ed. w/ print*)
.Sold out.Presentation on the website L'Oeil de la Photographie : "Sharkification is about the « favelas » and the Brazilian government's strategy to attempt to control them during the soccer World Cup by involving armed units. It created a militarisation of the communities, where suddenly everybody becomes a suspect. The shark metaphor aims to explain...
Algérie, clos comme on ferme un livre ?
Publisher's presentation : "Algeria, a finished story ? You can now travel in Algeria, and Bruno Boudjelal seizes on this new freedom to explore the country and its origins from east to west, in a gripping road movie that crosses paths with the ghost of Frantz Fanon as well as the young clandestine immigrants en route to Europe. A photographic narrative...
42,00 €Out of stockStudy on the Nature of a Variable Geometry
Presentation of the project by the question debated in a boolet inserted in the book : "What is democracy? At this time of globalization, how is it perceived by our modern societies and by the media? In a world where the image is more of a conveyor of ideology, we can question ourselves about the role and the meaning of documentary photography. What does...
36,00 €In Stock.Discounted. Publisher's presentation : "This book presents selections from Guy Tillim’s most influential works and series of the last decade, including “Mai Mai militia in training,” “Jo’burg,” “Avenue Patrice Lumumba,” and “Second Nature.” Anchored in photojournalism but working against the grain of spectacle, Tillim portrays the communities, social...
24,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "(in matters of) Karl is a research project about the ‘Höcker Album’. The ‘Höcker Album’ is the private photo-album of SS First Lieutenant Karl Höcker. The album gives a unique insight in the conditions and ways of leisure of the Nazis who were working at Auschwitz during WW2. Most of these photos were taken around the...
Blank Pages of an Iranian Photo Album
Publisher's presentation: "Renowned Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian mixes artistic creation and journalism, starting from the traditional Iranian family photo album to deftly chronicle middle class life by following Iranians from several generations with her camera. She does not shy away from the complexity, inaccessibility, and myriad...
59,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Presentation on the website L'Oeil de la Photographie : "Sharkification is about the « favelas » and the Brazilian government's strategy to attempt to control them during the soccer World Cup by involving armed units. It created a militarisation of the communities, where suddenly everybody becomes a suspect. The shark metaphor aims to explain...
Fukushima, Fragments (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation : "March 11th, 2011. Following the earthquake that rocks the Pacific Coast of Tohoku, 30-meter waves devastate Japan's inner lands. Carrying along his Geiger counter, Kosuke Okahara walked through these wounded areas. His images allow us to enter a world crowded with ghosts, and to grasp a reality that lost its colors."Bilingual...
50,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation (not available in English, the Edition is French / Dutch) : "Testament visuel impressionnant d’une ville en transition : dur pour Charleroi, doux pour ses habitants Ces dernières années, Stephan Vanfleteren a passé de longues journées à sillonner le pays noir. Le photographe entretient une relation d’amour-haine avec la...
Belgian Autumn - L'Automne Belge
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation : " - Fascinating book by Jan Rosseel on the « Gang of Nivelles » - A series of bloody attacks on Belgian supermarkets came to an end in the autumn of 1985. The attacks, perpetrated by a gang known in English as the « Gang of Nivelles » and in Dutch as the « Bende van Nijvel » left 28 people dead. The father of Jan...
Letzte Generation Ost (*w/ signed print*)
Presentation by the artist : "The narrative book Letzte Generation Ost deals with various lifes of a generation who were born in the final years of the GDR. Central place in the photographic exploration of the different biographies was the housing area in Hagenow in east Germany where the photographer and their protagonists were growing up together. Their...
75,00 €In StockThe Longest Way Round (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation : "A visual investigation of the author’s family history, The Longest Way Round is a construct of historical images woven together with new photographs. Uncovering a treasure trove of archive material not intended for the family album, Chris Dorley-Brown’s book presents a multi-layered alternative narrative for the course of...
39,00 €In StockZine N° 22 - A French Youth (*w/ signed...
Publisher's presentation : "A French youth by Hervé Lequeux is a story that takes the opposite view to stereotypes and prejudices regarding French working-class areas and people who are suffering. It’s a story about a certain misunderstanding of French history : most of French citizens have foreign roots and their personal stories are marked by migration....
36,00 €Out of stockPresentation on the artist's website: "Devotos, Toni Amengual's second self-published book, aims to portray the Spanish democratic system. Forty photographs divided in two blocks (left and right) are displayed opposed due to the leporello binding of the publication. Forty photographs that show the faces, the bodies and the emotions of those who around May...
45,00 €In StockWARNING : Reduced price because the remaining copies have one bumped corner.Retrospective monography covering James Barnor's career.Short biography of James Barnor on the publisher's website : "Born in 1929 in Accra, James Barnor is considered a pioneer of Ghanaian photography. James Barnor’s career bridges continents and photographic genres to create a...
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