.We are offering only the English version of this book (also available in German from the same publisher). Presentation by Spector Books : "What happens when photographers and artists incorporate hobbies into their work as a means of challenging established practices and hierarchies? How do hobbyists represent their passions photographically, not least...
Presentation by Loose Joints: " Busy Living accompanies Spanish artist Coco Capitán's first major museum exhibition in Europe, a comprehensive survey of the artists' last six years of image-making, including an essay by curator Simon Baker and texts throughout in English and French. Despite Capitán's young age, Busy Living contains a kaleidoscope of...
.Sold out. Presentation by Morel Books: "CTY brings together a large selection of Antony Cairns' oeuvre from his various cities/projects in London, Las Vegas, Tokyo and Osaka, (including LDN3, LDN4, LPT and OSC), interspersed with 6 texts by Simon Baker (former senior curator of photography, TATE, London, and Director of Maison Européenne de la...
.Last copy!. Publisher presentation : "In this publication, Paul Seawright explores the theatre of war through the internal landscape of the US television news studio. Developing Virilio's theories about electronic warfare and weapons of mass communication, Seawright focuses here upon the illusory nature of these spaces where information is selectively...
Publisher's presentation: "40 years ago, Phillip Toledano’s sister died in an accident. He was six years old at the time. Although she was almost never spoken of again, Claudia was a constant but unknown presence in his life. After his parents died, he found boxes of her things, things he’d never seen before, neatly packed away, a museum of sorts, created...
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...
CLAP! Contemporary Latin American Photobooks
Full-length title : CLAP! 10x10 Contemporary Latin American Photobooks 2000-2016Presentation by 10x10 Photobooks: "A photobook anthology that documents CLAP!, a traveling reading room exhibition of 130 contemporary Latin American Photobooks from 2000 to 2016. Organized by 10×10 Photobooks, the project launched at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh...
Publisher's presentation: "Mike Mandel grew up in the San Fernando Valley, and as an kid in the 1950s could walk just about everywhere he needed to go: to school, or later down the street to the open field to collect rocks or catch lizards. All of his friends lived on his block, so he didn’t think too much about the time he spent in a car. But by the time...
Publisher's presentation: "In 1956, photographer Harry Callahan (1912-1999), then director of photography at the Institute of Design in Chicago, USA, received a grant from the Graham Foundation, and on the advice of Edward Steichen, He traveled to Aix-en-Provence from September 1957 to July 1958 where he designed a series of studies on urban views,...
.LAST COPY!. Presentation by TBW Books: " Between 1983 and 1987 along the California/Mexico border, Ken Light took his Hasselblad camera and flash and rode along with US Border Patrol agents in the middle of the night as they combed the Otay Mesa looking for “illegal aliens.” He was there when they were apprehended – captured by authorities as well as the...
Publisher's presentation : "The work Range examines the analog history of photography within the digital torrent that is its current technological manifestation. It is the latest iteration of Umbrico's larger project Moving Mountains, in which the artist rephotographs a selection of canonical masters' photographs of mountains —the oldest and seemingly...
.Last copy!. Presentation by APE / Art Paper Editions: " Mise en Pièces combines self-portraits of the artist with still lifes and images taken during cosmetic surgery. We are confronted with fragmentary remains—objects of a luminous metamorphosis, supercharged by effects of contrast and brilliance. The photographer cuts, grabs, lifts and assembles. The...
Presentation by GOST Books: " « In my nineties, my work looks different than I've ever seen it before… There's a time for photographs that say hello, and there's a time to listen. » -- Elliott ErwittOver 170 previously unseen images by photographer Elliott Erwitt will be published for the first time in Found, Not Lost. Spanning more than sixty...
.Sold out. Presentation by Ibasho Gallery: " Mukayu has been Cupido's spiritual guideline during his most recent travels to Japan, resulting in his latest publication. The concept of mukayu is beautifully explained in a quote by the famous Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi, who lived 2,300 years ago: « An empty room will be filled with light because of its...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "I roamed those streets, again. Some will mark the city, some will get drunk, some will find love. I will be with on their side for the night, again. 3 a.m, finally home."Riso printing.68 pages - Softcover Dienacht, 2017 (200 numbered copies) Format : 13 x 18.5 cm New - Mint condition (outside of possible...
I walk toward the sun which is always...
Presentation by Mack Books: " In Alan Huck's image-text book, I walk toward the sun which is always going down, an unnamed narrator wanders a city in the American Southwest, where their observations and encounters become catalysts for rumination on a wide range of subjects. Shifting between photographs of the city's peripheries and an interior monologue...
.Signed copies back in stock. Publisher's presentation: "Cruising, stalking, peeping at prostitutes, bitches... pimps, hustlers, alcohol.Animals is a brutal and wild immersion into sexual cesspools.A hunt.An oppressive and disturbing piece of hard-boiled photographic fiction.Borderline and unclassifiable."Animals appears to be something like a (sexual)...
.Last copy!. Publisher's presentation: "January 2016. Every night in the heart of Patpong, Bangkok's oldest red-light district, The Strip opens its doors. By an exceptional favour granted, Tiane Doan na Champassak seizes the most unsettling ballet."352 pages - Softcover Siam's Guy Books, 2017 (475 copies) Format : 20 x 30 cm *Signed* New - Mint condition
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 where the war was eventually fought and look for signs of an evil that lay underneath...
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...
Publisher's presentation of Lionel Bayol Thémines photobook: "The Ghost project started with a walk along the ocean coast begun at the tip of the Bay of Arcachon (Cap Féret, France) during the summer 2015. Along this walk, going away from crowded and cleaned daily beaches, wastes rejected by the sea seem more and more numerous in the form of strips,...
.Very last copy!. Presentation by akaaka : " Emi Anrakuji's Balloon Position, through a Cyclopean gaze, literally the artist's vision, impaired by suffering a brain tumour, attempts to reconstruct the shattered self that was suspended between conflicting internal and external chaos. Life near death, eternal rainfall, the artist gives herself to the...
Poet Island is a journey in history, the history of a sanatorium - today facilities in dereliction - established on the Nagashima island, in Southern Japan where, in particular, the pre-war poet Kaijin Akashi was quarantined. Atsushi Fujiwara's images create a poetic atmosphere in this abandoned place, where nature takes slowly over again...We recommend...
.Sold out. Presentation by André Frère Editions: "Captivated by the Scandinavian lands from a residence in Norway, Sébastien Van Malleghem has since advanced his travels from Denmark to Iceland, passing through Finland and Sweden. Nordic Noir is the visual recital of this contrasting trek. With breathtaking and timeless landscapes, scenes of life and...
Presentation by Nazraeli: "This publication presents Mark Steinmetz's photographs of adolescent and teenaged baseball players, on the field and in the dugout, focused on the game and lost in their own worlds. Made between 1986 and 1990, the photographs are classic Steinmetz: tenderness, humor, and humanism are all present here, as is Steinmetz’s exquisite...
Publisher's presentation: "In our collective unconscious the nuclear age is synonymous with the explosion of two atom bombs. Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But since 1945 it has been documented that more than 2,000 nuclear bombs have been detonated on Earth. Since the end of the Second World War, countries with nuclear powers methodically bombed their own lands....
.Sold out. Presentation by the publisher at Only Photography: "After the incredible success with Gerry Johansson's Tokyo in 2016 (the 500 edition was sold out in three months), I've been looking out for another project with the artist. For the new book America revised I've chosen 83 pictures from the big number of images, Gerry had taken in the span of...
Presentation by Mack Books: " « Throughout his career, Gregory Halpern has explored the elusive, inchoate notion of Americanness. It is both a difficult subject and a lofty prospect for any photographer and it remains an absolutely essential line of investigation, particularly in the context of the current political maelstrom. Traveling to the nation's...
.Back in stock. Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral: "This publication tells the story of young man, Daiki, whose life was entirely dedicated to his grandmother, Yukimi. Fascinated and deeply touched by this unique relationship, photographer Akihito Yoshida, cousin of Daiki and also grandchild of Yukimi, decides to narrate this story. He photographs...
Beyond Caring (*signed / not signed*)
.Signed and non-signed copies IN STOCK. Presentation by MACK: " Originally self-published in 1985, Paul Graham's renowned series Beyond Caring was made in the waiting rooms and corridors of the Social Security and Unemployment offices around the UK, documenting the long waits, queues and poor conditions of an overburdened system, to produce a powerful...
Russian Interiors (2nd edition)
Publisher's presentation: "An intimate portrait of Russian women in their private spaces. Andy Rocchelli started to travel to Russia in 2010; there he spent a considerable amount of time working as a freelance photographer. During this time he covered several stories in different places. The book Russian Interiors, however, sees the light as side job to...
.Signed copies back in stock. Presentation of the photobook by Paul Gaffney: "Walking through the Luxembourgish Ardennes, Gaffney documented his wanderings using polaroids. Later, he re-explored certain routes after nightfall, to photograph under the light of the full moon. Bathed in its soft otherworldly glow, the forest’s narrow steep valleys evoke a...