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Photobooks published by Akina Books
.Sold out. Presentation by Akina Books: " Immerse is the final chapter of the Teikai trilogy, started in May 2014 with the release of Linger, followed by Teikai (Wandering at Midnight) in September 2014. « With the blood of the wound, rushing like the river to the sea – oh life orgasm – the river is damned.The banks do not overflow and the lice chokes as...
ANGST (*trade edition / limited edition*)
.The copies have sold!. Presentation by Akina Books: " An optimistic street seller looks at the news and wishes the monsoon will end soon. On the street corner, a girl is dancing to the music of men’s smartphones, a rich man gets out of his fancy car after a crash and gets lynched by a mob, while a woman is disfigured by her alcoholic husband, in the...
Presentation by Akina Books : " « Kagerou : the heat haze, a lake in the desert, decay heat powered by the nuclear radiation, invisible, pervasive. It was 12 March 2011. The day after Fukushima nuclear disaster, I woke up in a shrouded Tokyo: the cityscape looked blurred and twisted. Nobody else seemed to notice: for 37 million people it was business as...
80,00 €Out of stockPublisher'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,...
42,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation of the photobook: "Never-ending bridges where concrete is always within touch, the noise symphonic in cacophony, the spectrum between male and female which blurs distinctions and renders them irrelevant, the transition between life and death, the search of intimacy in a place where everything can be found for sale, from humans to...
50,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Anaesthesia is a lament of several voices, a symphony of the evil in us, cinematically edited screenshots from videos, an engagement with the media, an open criticism to war and terrorism, a declaration of neutrality, an act of rebellion to the ego, where one stands alone prevented to feel anything else beyond his own...
44,00 €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 stockWandering at Midnight (Teikai)
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "TEIKAI (Wandering at midnight) is the second part of the TEIKAI trilogy in progress by Daisuke Yokota and AKINA.TEIKAI is a lonesome midnight drift through the outer edges of the city exploring the human obsession of reaching for the sky, circling around industrial areas and the construction sites' modern wasteland,...
.Sold out. Presentation by Akina Books: "Mysterious and austere, Italia O Italia metaphysical cities hide the enigma of a timeless place between sunburst dead-ends and shadowy arcades; the disquieting muses of Federico Clavarino shape an Italy of the mind, made of dark symbols in sunlit piazzas.A kind of stillness permeates every photograph of this book,...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "238.000 miles of space between the Earth and the Moon: an inestimable distance that maps can only suggest.Moon Trail is the personal quest of Alfonso Almendros, which call the reader to retrace his steps like an investigator on a cold case. Studies of lunar features, uncertain maps of imagined lofty mountains and...
.Sold out.Presentation by Akina: "Below the water’s surface, two bodies, one room: in a sort of Flatland of the mind, transfigured by Daisuke’s vision, bones and skins diminished their weights, hungering for their shapes. Daisuke chases the time, adorns visionary landscapes with dust and erotism, lingers on the steamed glass, still breathing."please note...
.Sold out. Balkan Pank, is the Punk, Rock and New Wave scene in Ljubljana, former Yugoslavia between1979 and1989, as seen in the eyes of a comic book artist wannabee who had just discovered a passion for photography, Jože Suhadolnik.In this book, a few guitars, but mostly the crowd of people who attend the shows, people dancing and yelling, or that sit...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Liquid Cities is an alternative take on the sold-out visceral and deranged Of Liquid Cities and Celestial Abattoirs by Frank Rodick.A frightening roller-coaster through the primal instincts hidden under the polished surface of modern metropolis, stray electricity to the reptile brain. Street corners, subways,...
.Sold out. The photographs in Verbrannte Erde ("scorched land" in German) were made around Marzabotto, a small town near Bologna where, in october 1944, several hundred people were massacred by the nazis. A really beautiful book, where the author only alludes to these events, evoking traces of the past that is impossible to forget.60 pages - Softcover...
28,00 €Out of stock.One copy available; found miraculously in a forsaken box (April 2021)!.New issue in the beautiful "Eclisse" series from Akina Books, still hand-made in the "Akina Factory" !We are introducing Pray for Rain (Eclisse #10) by Bulgarian artist / photographer Martin Atanasov.Presentation by Akina Books:"« We are crying for German; because of the drought...
28,00 €Out of stockThe Looking Game - 2nd Edition
.Sold out. From the publisher : "A serial killer and amateur photographer currently imprisoned in the Death Row: Rodney Alcala. An alias he adopted while on the run from the police: John Berger, as the famous British art critic. Starting from this coincidence, The Looking Game explores the once-secret archive of pictures taken by Alcala and sets up a...
.Sold out.Thomas Boivin, over the course of a 12-month period, committed to go everyday to the Buttes-Chaumont park, in Paris. Floating is the result of this process, of this creative discipline, of this encounter with this park, this place that has a very specific geography of his own, and with his visitors. Floating is a floating, a loss of references,...
.Sold out.Contraint d'effectuer une année - 365 jours - de conscription dans l'armée russe, Alexander Aksakov a pu documenter l'ennui de ses journées grâce à un petit appareil photo de type Smena-8M qui lui avait été initialement confisqué, mais qu'un officier amateur de photographie lui rendit au bout de 2 mois... Ce récit, constitué d'images...
