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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.
Publisher's presentation: "Will Steacy spent five years photographing the newsroom and printing plant of The Philadelphia Inquirer. Through a depiction of The Inquirer's efforts to prevail despite shrinking advertising revenue, falling circulation, lay-offs, buy-outs, and bankruptcy, Steacy reveals the challenges and harsh realities that confront the...
20,00 €In StockBefore the War - Limited Edition
Limited Edition of 10 signed & numbered copies. We are offering copy #03/10. Presentation on Alejandro Cartagena's website: "In 2008 the war against the drug cartels erupted in Mexico. The state of Nuevo Leon in northeastern Mexico became an increasingly violent place. This book is a compilation of images and texts that obsessively revisit places...
325,00 €In StockBefore the War - 1st ed. (*signed*)
.Sold out.Presentation on the artist's website: "In 2008 the war against the drug cartels erupted in Mexico. The state of Nuevo Leon in northeastern Mexico became an increasingly violent place. This book is a compilation of images and texts that obsessively revisit places where the war was eventually fought and look for signs of an evil that lay...
Presentation on the artist's website : "On January 25, 2011, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets across the country demanding the fall of Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, who had ruled the country for nearly 30 years. This was only the beginning. More than four years on, الشعب (The People) chronicles how citizens in the Arab world’s largest...
28,00 €Out of stockImages of Conviction - The Construction of...
Publisher's presentation : "What can really be learned from an image? Since its origins, how has photography built itself up within a discourse of truth? The book and eponymous exhibition respond to these questions through eleven cases of images produced by experts, researchers and historians. Whether it be the famous shots of the Shroud of Turin, the...
45,00 €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 Stock.Sold out.Presentation on the artist's website: "The project Forget Your Past (2009-2012) traces the fate of the most important communist-era monuments in Bulgaria. The title of the series is borrowed from graffiti writing over the entrance of the Bulgarian Communist Party Memorial at Mount Buzludja that poignantly illustrates the fate of the...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation : "Salitre :1. Saline Substance, particularly abundant in soil and walls2. When sailing, the mixture of sweat and salt that sticks to the skin3. Lavapiés Street (Madrid) where twelve Senegalese immigrants lives in an overcrowded house4. Collective photography and publishing experience resulting in a box of 12 + 1 books...
Presentation by the artist : "As I walked through these villages where everything had been washed away, including houses and sea walls, there were traces to indicate where once had been a road. People had started to walk again on these traces, reforming a path on top of the original. It was as if the road had a life of its own.I have taken countless...
68,00 €Out of stockFrom the introduction by Martin Parr : "Consider these facts. In Italy the right to worship, without discrimination, is enshrined within the constitution. There are 1.35 million Muslims in Italy and yet, officially, only eight mosques in the whole country. One consequence is that the Muslim population have accumulated a huge number of makeshift and...
35,00 €Out of stock.Currently out of stock, more copies soon we hope. Publisher's presentation : "Chronicle features the photographs taken between 2010 and 2015 in Ukraine. Arranged in chronological sequence the chapters of the book equally are a reaction to changes in our lives as well as their documentation. Front-line Kharkiv, revolutionary Kiev, Donetsk and Lugansk...
49,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock.Presentation by the photographer : "This work stems from a self-financed reporting on prisons that started back in 2011, during which I visited no less than ten prisons. This follows a several-year-long study of the Belgian police force and its actions in the field. Prisons aims at opening our eyes on inmates; casting light on the failures...
39,50 €Out of stockPresentation by the artist : "The term WEALTH MANAGEMENT refers to a professional service, which is the combination of financial advice, fiscal strategy, and legal planning for one fee. With the help of tax havens and the complicity of supranational legal frameworks that allow their existence, the clients of private banks benefit from privileged...
22,00 €Out of stockPresentation in French from "Biblio Monde" website : "Un livre de photographies prises par Solange Brand et de témoignages recueillis par Kate Fletcher et Per-Olow Leijon sur la Révolution culturelle en Chine. En 1966, Solange Brand a 20 ans. À la suite d'un recrutement dans son lycée, elle part travailler à l'ambassade de France à Pékin. Pendant la...
45,00 €In StockIn the Shadow of the Pyramids (*signed*)
.Sold out. Presentation by the artist: "In the Shadow of the Pyramids by Laura El-Tantawy is a first person account exploring memory and identity. With images spanning 2005 to 2014, what began as a look in the mirror to understand the essence of Egyptian identity expanded into an exploration of the trials and tribulations of a turbulent nation. The result...
Pipeline - La traite humaine en Italie
A project about prostitution and sex slave traffic in Italy.Publisher's presentation: "Alors qu’en France le débat concernant l’abolition de la prostitution est relancé, l’Office des Nations unies contre la drogue et le crime a classé le Nigeria dans la liste des huit pays ayant le taux le plus élevé de traite des êtres humains dans le monde. Depuis de...
29,50 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Stephen Shore is a pioneering photographer and influential teacher. From Galilee to the Negev is an intimate portrait of a multi-faceted place, exploring the landscape of Israel and the West Bank; its complexities and its contradictions. Shore travelled the length and breadth of the region, questioning and revealing through his...
65,00 €In StockMaidan - Portraits from the Black Square
Publisher's presentation: "Maidan - Portraits from the Black Square by Anastasia Taylor-Lind is a series of portraits of anti-government protestors and mourners made in a makeshift photographic studio in Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), Kiev during February 2014. When Taylor-Lind arrived in central Kiev on February 1st, 2014, Independence...
49,00 €In StockH. said he loved us (*signed*)
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Following three years of travels and investigations in Germany, Tommaso Tanini’s H. Said He Loved Us draws on the story of the GDR and the German Ministry for State Security (STASI) to explore the feelings of oppression and dread caused by living in a state of constant suspicion and diffidence. Mingling documentary...
.ONE LAST COPY discovered in our shelves.Presentation by the artist on his website: "By a series of fortunate events, Mark Power was present at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. To mark the 25th anniversary, this new production (self-published under his new imprint, Globtik Books) is bound as a pastiche of a newspaper Power purchased in Berlin the...
120,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Kazuo Kitai had dropped out of university just six months after entering the Photography course in the Art Department of Nihon University in Tokyo. As he puts it himself: «I didn't listen to anything my teachers said». He had been living in Kobe, and even as a teenager used to visit the ateliers and exhibitions of the Gutai...
29,00 €Out of 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 StockAn Archeology of Fear and Desire
Publisher's presentation: "An Archeology of Fear and Desire is an attempt to recontextualise Israel as place and metaphor, exploring longing, belonging and exclusion. Frédéric Brenner follows up his opus Diaspora with a visual essay about Israel, a land of devouring myths in which constructs-- social and religious--perpetuate a tyranny of roles, which...
35,00 €Out of stockProject presentation by Christopher Héry: "22:19 illustrates the wide range of emotions - fear, boredom, camaraderie, relief - that two young men have experienced during an intense 8-minute period. This book has been designed to slowly reveal the location, the story, and its ending, to the viewer in a cinematographic manner. Time is the key element here...
68,00 €In StockWar Porn - 1st edition (*signed*)
The War Porn project started as a reflexion of the author Christoph Bangert on the self-censorship he imposed on some images he brought from the conflicts where he worked. The author asks whether these images should be shown, regardless of the fact that many of them are unbearable, so that everyone of us really realises the hard thruth of death, violence...
.Sold out. In January 2014, at the beginning of the events on the Maidan Square in Kiev, Sergiy Lebedynskyy and Vladyslav Krasnoshchok decided to go on the Square to document the barricades, the confrontation and clashes, and the daily life of the insurgents.They remained two days living in Maidan, living the risks of all insurgents, to bring back...
A Criminal Investigation (3rd edition)
.Sold out. This Watabe Yukichi photobook tells the story of a criminal investigation, in B & W images, in the japanese countryside of the 50's. The artist followed the investigators in their roaming of the area, the crime scene, the surrounding neighborhoods, and into their offices... The images he brought convey a deep feeling of doubt, a strange...
.Back in stock.The images in Coeur d'acier ("Heart of Steel") were made by Philippe Lopparelli (from the "Tendance Floue" collective) in Joeuf (eastern France) between 1990 and1992, when the blast furnaces and the structures of the steel industry - the pride and the source of wealth of the region since the 1880's - were being dismantled.These Black &...
14,00 €Afghanistan Inside Us (*w/ Print*)
.Last copy : were are ofering our display copy, in excellent condition, at a discount price of 22 € instead of 28 €.Maksymilian Rigamonti, a Polish reporter who has already receive several prices and awards, spent several months in Afghanistan, embedded in the Polish troops engaged in the coalition lead by the United States.During his several stays, he...
22,00 €Out of stockHoly Bible (2nd printing) (*signed*)
.One copy available.Holy Bible, by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin was one of the sensations of 2013, one of the most discussed books of that year, and selected in many "best of" lists.This book was for instance shortlisted for the "Book of the Year" award in the "Paris Photo / Aperture Foundation Awards".The books looks like a real Bible, and...
119,00 €Out of stockWith his book A Black Matter, Grégoire Éloy achieves a true tour de force, an exercise in style, by photographing black, what the astrophysicists call "black matter"...Commissioned by a French local scientific institution, the artist worked in several places around France dedicated to research in the field of astrophysics where he met with scientists,...
42,00 €In StockA Criminal Investigation (2nd edition)
.Sold out.We are offering copies of the third edition .This book tells the story of a criminal investigation, in B & W images, in the japanese countryside of the 50's. The artist followed the investigators in their roaming of the area, the crime scene, the surrounding neighborhoods, and into their offices... The images he brought convey a deep feeling...
