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Presentation by Stanley / Barker: " The photographs in Mark Steinmetz's expansive new book Rivers & Towns were made in the 1980s in working class towns and cities in Connecticut, USA. « The brooding factories and mills built alongside rivers had seen their heyday and were beginning to decline. I was moved by these places and wanted to describe the...
85,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Éclats d'Amérique - Chronique d'un voyage virtuel is a rarity on our website, as it is a novel, written and only available in French. The author Olivier Hodasava is known for his photography blog Dreamlands Virtual Tour that chronicles his journey on "Google Street View". The novel is written following his travel across the United States.The...
.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...
Presentation by Loose Joints: " Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya is one of the largest rhinoceros sanctuaries in the world and home to Najin & Fatu, a mother and daughter who are the last living Northern White Rhinos in existence. Davison visited Ol Pejeta to photograph Najin & Fatu with their tirelessly devoted caretaker Zacharia, for a New York...
85,00 €In StockPhrase on the translucid dustjacket : "You taught me how to be a butterfly only so you could break my wings."Für Mich is a very personal project, about healing from sexual abuse during childhood. A long interview with the artist is available (in English) on the publisher's website. The publisher provides the translations of the English texts in the book...
30,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "As a process …It was almost naturally simple accustoming myself to the idea of regarding thru a viewfinder every instant …even the non intimate as an erotic photograph… photography is defined by eroticism … -- KURAMA "An presentation of this book is available on the blog "who needs another photo blog".122 pages -...
35,00 €Out of stockPresentation by André Frère Editions: " The intimate portrait of a city on the brink of a change. Istanbul, as you never seen it before. With the book Güle Güle (« goodbye » in Turkish) we’ll take you on a surprising journey through the immense city of Istanbul, rapidly changing, bursting of energy and contrasts. Photographs are the result of our multiple...
36,00 €In StockMartin Parr Looking at Books (*signed*)
Martin Parr Looking at Books is at the same time a joke, a tributte to the Man, and the truth of the influence of Martin Parr on the world of the photobook today...The title says it all; this book is "simply" the compilation of 22 photographies of Martin Parr with a photobook in his hands : at a photobook fair, during a workshop, etc.A must-have book for...
20,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Editions Bessard: " From death masks in the Middle Ages through to paintings in the 19th century, and photography in the 21st century, portraits have been the constitution of both an intimate space and a space of appearance under social control. Portraits make the face, a part of the body, into object for individual and collective...
66,00 €Out of stockPresentation by the artist: "Alexander is a story based on the relationship between politics, history and culture, centred around the construction of a national myth in the (Former Yugoslav) Republic of Macedonia – a state with no name, fixated on a dispute about origins so distant that they may have never existed at all."The artist made multiple long...
46,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation : "A defining characteristic of Bruce Gilden’s photography is his creative attraction to what he calls «characters», and he has been tracking them down all through his career. Growing up in Brooklyn with what he describes as a «tough guy» of a father, Bruce Gilden developed a love of the streets, often calling them his...
RVB Books' presentation: "Over the course of his travels for the last ten years Tiane Doan na Champassak has been collecting Thai erotic magazines dating back to the 1960s and 1970s. With representations of nudity banned at the time, the magazines' censorship is applied with great creativity and care. For the creation of this project, Censored, the artist...
60,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "That it is not about «hurried» photography, not really about contemplation, but as Ezio D'Agostino says himself, «about a photographic process which derives from my archaeology training». This means confronting time and pacting with it. The archaeologist, such as the photographer, divides the territory so that he can better...
30,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Orphée by Younès Klouche is a photobook inspired by the similarly titled film from 1950 by Jean Cocteau, itself a reinterpretation of the classic Greek myth of Orpheus. Cocteau’s film features simple but ingenious special effects and explores the symbolism of mirrors as a representation of death. In Klouche’s book, mirrors and...
30,00 €In StockPresentation by Editions du LIC: "Played represents the first solo project by Yoshi Kametani following his recent successful collaborations with Daisuke Yokota and IPG Project. A conceptual work in the form of a hybrid book (part photobook, part novella) based on events that take place in the criminal underworld of New York City. The protagonist, bored...
35,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation of the photobook: "Nokturno is a concretization of the ambiguity of photography – photography that has renounced both a demand to be a truthful imitation of an objective external reality, as well as a demand for the projection of a creator’s inner experience on the object of representation. With this project, the photographer...
33,00 €Out of stockZine N° 20 - Menstrual (*signed print*)
Text from the front cover: " Menstrual project started in 2011, in which I took pictures by invading girl's private life with my own sight. And that project kept going till now. The reason why this project called Menstrual is because I took one girl every month at the beginning. The number of girl I shoot increaed in 2012 because of my open attitude....
72,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "ImageSingulières is a documentary photography festival created in Sète in 2009. Each year a photographer is invited to look at the city to gradually build his portrait, revealing the facets of contemporary photography.Big names have given birth to seven books constituting a remarkable collection. A lesson in photography that...
25,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock. Presentation by Łukasz Rusznica: "When traveling to Japan, I knew one thing only — I wanted to take pictures based on Japanese mythology; I wanted to photograph the Yokai — the monsters of legend. Photography came as the result of working in new surroundings; it was the end process of meeting people and building relationships — this is...
52,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Stanley / Barker: " Beginning in 1976, the American photographer GARY GREEN immersed himself in New York City's burgeoning downtown music scene. By day a photographer's assistant, he spent his nights at Max's Kansas City and CBGB documenting some of the decade's most iconic musicians and figures. Included in this collection are Lou Reed,...
30,00 €In StockZine N° 25 - No Time (*w/ signed print*)
Text from the front cover : "Aaron McElroy's photographs take us on a voyeuristic trip where we are exposed to the snapshots of undressed women often captured in the banality of the domestic environment (be it in the bathroom, on a vintage chair in the half dark living room or among crumpled sheets with flower pattern).McElroy is obviously intrigued by...
65,00 €Out of stockZine N° 26 - O Inferno Verde (*w/ signed...
.Sold out. Text from the front cover : "Rivers and streams fill up and spread themselves across the forest. The igapós appear and with them the most beautiful landscape that can be seen in a forest. Months later, the rains become scarce and the waters slowly return to their original river beds. As a result of this movement of retreat, on the left bank of...
Presentation by Ceiba: " « The structure of the dummy reveals an eclectic use of notebook style and a very thorough research. The dummy deals with the emotional cries of children raised in abusive homes. The jury was impressed by the way Miki Hasegawa approached this extremely difficult subject matter. A book not easy to digest but nonetheless very...
65,00 €In StockPresentation by Dewi Lewis : "The Udege people, in eastern Siberia, have lived in the boreal forest for hundreds of years. Due to their close contact with nature, their beliefs are full of references to supernatural forces that they believe should be respected. In 1997 a Russian poacher called Markov came across the trail of a enormous Amur tiger....
39,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock - Last copies!. Presentation by the artist : "It all started with one particular tree in the winter forest that caught my eye during one of my walks with my dog Shakeera. I kept returning there over an entire year and photographed the tree through every season. What especially fascinated me were the vines which elegantly wound themselves...
60,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Dewi Lewis : (publisher of the English edition) "Youngsters meet up on the village outskirts, racing their tractorcars, burning tyremarks into the warm summer asphalt. The smell of rubber, oil and souped-up engines fills the air when the engines speed. The cars form into a circle as the boys take turns in the middle. It is a game – showing...
28,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Primitive by Massimo Leardini presents an unorthodox study of the female form. The result of the latest collaboration between the photographer and his long-term muse, the Norwegian actress Viktoria Winge. Conventional landscape settings have been banished to be replaced only by a sense of place; sparse light penetrating deep...
75,00 €Out of stock.PLEASE NOTE: the texts in this book are in French only. Presentation by Filigranes : [translation by L'Ascenseur Végétal] " « In a sense, I like to be where I am not expected. It is not beacause I like poetic photography à la Boubat or à la Frank that I do not like, or am not able to appreciate other things. In fact, since the early seventies, I had...
25,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "In the early 2000s, Attilio Solzi photographed the two main groups of transgender sex workers in Italy (Brazilian in Milan and Italians in Catania). Dollhouse fondly shows these portraits of men who are midway between women and divas."120 pages - Hardcover Lieutenant Willsdorff, 2016 Format : 15.3 x 20.8 cm New - Mint condition
42,00 €In StockNouveau démenti de la mission spatiale...
Publisher's presentation: [ from RRB Publishing, co-publisher ] "Peter Mitchell’s groundbreaking show was first presented at the Impressions Gallery of Photography York in November 1979, and more recently at the Rencontres d'Arles festival in 2016. Now, only 38 years overdue, it will be published as a book for the first time. In the mid-seventies, the...
42,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "A long overdue corrected reprint of a title that has been out of print for many years. Memento Mori, Peter Mitchell’s first publication, was published in 1990 and documents the dramatic impact of the Quarry Hill redevelopment project in Leeds, England. « I photograph dying buildings and Quarry Hill was terminal by the time I...
35,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Chose Commune: " The book Painting reveals 16 unpublished colour photographs by Toshio Shibata, a Japanese photographer who is known for his rigorous and meticulous compositions. The representation of intimate yet spectacular landscapes — natural, and especially artificial — are at the core of Shibata's work. In keeping with the tradition...
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