Mack is a british publishing company of photobooks "with artists, writers and curators".
They've recently published books like Deep Springs by Sam Contis, Ravens by Masahisa Fukase, or Belongs to Joe by Casper Sejersen. Photobooks that get regularly selected in Best of year lists and enjoy public success.
L'Ascenseur Vegetal is currently selling - or has sold - more than fifty different Mack books ... Pick your favorite !
Here is a few of the photographers published by Mack …
Bertien Van Manen, Paul Graham, Broomberg & Chanarin, Masahisa Fukase, Luigi Ghirri, Gerry Johansson, Ron Jude, Alec Soth, Vanessa Winship, Ciáran Óg Arnold, Frédéric Brenner, David Campany, J. Carrier, Sam Contis...
.Back in stock (2018 reprint). Presentation by Mack: "In 2011 Vanessa Winship was the recipient of the Henri Cartier Bresson Award which funds an artist to pursue a new photographic project. For over a year Winship travelled across the United States, from California to Virginia, New Mexico to Montana, in pursuit of the fabled ‘American dream’. she dances...
Presentation by MACK: " In 1978 Luigi Ghirri self-published his first book, an avant-garde manifesto for the medium of photography and a landmark in his own remarkable oeuvre. Kodachrome has long been out of print and on the 20th anniversary of Ghirri's death, MACK is proud to publish the second edition. « Ghirri fights to maintain our ability to see. His...
.Sold out. Presentation by Mack: "Anne-Marie Merryman collected postcards between 1937 and 1980, a collection inherited by her granddaughter, Anne Sophie Merryman. The book, Mrs. Merryman’s Collection, presents the postcards which together form the story of two intertwined lives - one life lived travelling the world through the postcard images, the other...
Dans ce livre hommage aux déportés, Michael Kenna a voulu nous faire rentrer dans les bâtiments des camps et nous montre les tours, les murs, les cheminées, les couloirs, des objets. C'est suite à un premier voyage à Natzweiler en 1986 lors d'un voyage en France que naquit ce besoin de documenter à sa façon les camps, dans un travail qu'il n'avait pas eu...
.Sold out. Ron Jude nous emmène dans la montagne de l'Idaho (nord-ouest des États-Unis), dans les traces d'un trappeur qui vérifie ses pièges. Les images simples de Ron Jude, qui nous montre la vie de cet homme, sa maison, les paysages, les arbres, la terre, la faune, transmettent une impression de paix et de solitude. Les images de Ron Jude sont...
.Sold out.From the publisher : "Street photography is perhaps the defining genre of photographic art. Seminal works by Walker Evans, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand display photography’s astonishing dance with life, and its unique role in forming our perceptions of the modern world. The Present is Paul Graham’s contribution to this...
.Sold out. From the publisher : "Gerry Johansson's sensitive and subtle photographs hint at human life through the occasional car or lone figure but for the most part they draw the reader’s eye to the simplistic architecture of a small American town. In singling out Pontiac, Johansson offers comment on more than the landscape, photographing a microcosm of...
Redheaded Peckerwood (*1st edition*)
.Only one copy.Publisher's presentation of Christian Patterson's photobook: “Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land”Luc Sante Redheaded Peckerwood is a work with a tragic underlying narrative – the story of 19...
Presentation by Mack: "Bertien van Manen’s blissful images of family holidays in den Eikenhorst (literally meaning Nest of Oak Trees) from the 1970s are the subject of her latest publication, Easter and Oak Trees. It was her son, one of the primary subjects in the series, who recently reminded van Manen of the archive. Lightness dominates these black and...
Paul Graham / Hasselblad Award 2012
From the presentation by MACK : "Paul Graham, winner of the 2012 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography, is a vital figure in contemporary photography, working for over thirty years and continually challenging different genres of photographic practice. His work has been widely embraced, with exhibitions at the Tate and the Museum of...
Presentation by Mack: "Rodeo Drive, 1984 is a series of 41 images of shoppers on Beverly Hills’ infamous shopping highway. The subjects appear caught unaware, glancing up as they walk, or daydreaming as they wait to be served in its commercial landscape of shops and restaurants. Anthony Hernandez poses as a dispassionate observer, recording the big hair,...
For every minute you are angry you lose...
.Sold out.From the Publisher : "In 2005 For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness was published to critical acclaim, selling out soon after it’s release. Germain’s warm and affectionate portrait of Charles Albert Lucian Snelling (Charlie) is now reprinted in a glowing new edition. 'I met Charles Albert Lucien Snelling on a...
Let's Sit Down Before We Go (*signed*)
.Copy sold. Publisher's presentation: "I have to like the people I photograph. I need to feel an attraction, a fascination." -- Bertien van Manen "Buried deep in Bertien van Manen's images is an intimacy between photographer and subject. The viewer trespasses on the private moments in the frame, catching a glare over breakfast, unheard words between...
People in Trouble Laughing Pushed to the...
.Sold out. Presentation by MACK: "People in trouble laughing pushed to the ground. Soldiers leaning, pointing, reaching. Woman sweeping. Balloons escaping. Coffin descending. Boys standing. Grieving. Chair balancing. Children smoking. Embracing. Creatures barking. Cars burning. Helicopters hovering. Faces. Human figures. Shapes. Birds. Structures left...
Publisher's presentation: “Someone was here, somebody did this. Stuff happens here.” "Casa de Campo is a photographic fable rooted firmly in the realities of Madrid’s largest public park. Casa de Campo sprawls, five times the size of Central Park, to the west of Madrid. Between 2008 and 2012 Antonio M. Xoubanova wandered the paths of this urban woodland...
Presentation by MACK: "Torbjørn Rødland's photography is direct but idiosyncratic, pushing at the boundaries of aesthetic and social norms. His fifth book, Vanilla Partner, continues in this vein, combining images of fetishized isolation in a layout that rejects the linear structure of thematic photography books. Rødland’s practice navigates through the...
.Currently out of stock.Presentation by Mack: " « Winters, like ice ages, are Janus faced, for after the freeze comes thaw and flood, as water is returned to life and movement. Freeze, thaw, flood: the great climatic cycles that created the topography of the northern hemisphere, and which continue to shape the idea of winter that lies deep in our cultural...