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Presentation by Nazraeli: " Our newest monograph on the work of photographer Mark Steinmetz is a collection of photographs that capture the spirit of youth during trips spent away at a summer camp. « Two projects I focused on were little league baseball [The Players published by Nazraeli Press in 2015] and summer camps. Every year, from spring into...
68,00 €In Stock.Sold out. TEXTS IN FRENCH ONLY. Full title: "Mauvais Genre - Les travestis à travers un siècle de photographie amateur" Presentation by Editions Textuel: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " Mauvais Genre presents men and women wearing wardrobe attributes of the opposite sex. Taken in a photography studio at the end of the 19th Century, or behind the...
A Plastic Tool (*signed*) (*imperfect*)
Presentation by Meta/Books: "The book questions the value of the contemporary image, using strategies of détournement and deconstruction to form complex visual ensemble, based on [Maya Rochat's photographs]. Interweaving these images with the print technology, she creates multi-fold narratives. The book is printed making use of various print technologies...
75,00 €Out of stockFrom the backcover: "She is the muse and the lover, Milo. Sometimes feline, sometimes mysterious or melancholic." A hand with painted nails brushes a silk curtain, a leg in tension on a colourful striped staircase, a body leaning over the lines of the city, naked or adorned with a garter belt. Vulnerable but strong, in the middle of the forest, on a bed,...
33,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Yanagisawa's magnificent debut was Untitled Youth in 1958. After that, he recovered for two years from 1961 from an illness, but he actively focused works on camera magazines again. After returning, Yanagisawa's eye was directed to various places in Japan. From the time of debut, he consistently kept saying « I do not need words...
59,00 €Out of stockSkeletons in the Closet (*signed*)
All the images in Skeletons in the Closet were made in the basements and storage areas of the Museum of Natural History in Vienna (Austria). One evening, from the street outside, Klaus Pichler spots a stuffed antelope in an office from a lit-up window; that was a regular office room, with shelves, a computer, etc. It is this single occurrence of what the...
30,00 €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 StockExcerpt from a text by Federico Clavarino : " « (...) A garden is enclosed space. The garden, to be such, needs a frame. The garden is the point in which a place becomes a landscape. The garden, or the orchard, is the germ of the settlement, the village, the town, the city and the nation. The garden, we might be inclined to say, is not fully natural nor...
30,00 €Out of stock.This book is IN FRENCH. Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral: " New York 1978-1984, the first images of the North American photographer and member of the Magnum Photos agency, recently discovered in his archives after moving house and published in this book for the first time. Among the thousands of original images, most of which are new, even for...
45,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Presentation by D.A.P.: " « A visual conundrum of incalculable mystery. » -- Martin Parr, The Photobook: A History In 1977, photographers Larry Sultan (1946–2009) and Mike Mandel (born 1950) published a book that would radically transform both photography and the photobook canon—a book described by Martin Parr, in The Photobook: A History, as...
Martin 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 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...
55,00 €In 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.Back in stock.Presentation by Steidl: Saul Leiter’s early black and white photographs "The distinctive iconography of Saul Leiter's early black and white photographs stems from his profound response to the dynamic street life of New York City in the late 1940s and 50s. While this technique borrowed aspects of the photodocumentary, Leiter's imagery was...
65,00 €Out of stockStags, Hens and Bunnies (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation: "Blackpool has an unenviable reputation for its stag and hen parties. Every weekend marauding packs of brides and grooms, close friends and family, overflow its streets on a mission to consume dangerous, liver-crushing levels of alcohol. This, their rite of passage acted out on the last night of freedom, before the conventions...
40,00 €Out of stockChronicles Set V: #025 California Shopfronts - Steven Clarke #024 Khazarshar - Parnian Ferdossi #023 Found Surfaces - Eleni Bakagianni #022 Iran Murals - Oliver Hartung #021 Streets of Insomnia - Anne PaternotteThis set, published in a limited edition of 100 copies, is completely sold out. We just found these, and the other sets we listed at the...
24,00 €Out of stockHackney Photographs 1985-1987 (*signed*)
.One signed copy available!. Publisher's presentation: "Located in east London just north of The City, Hackney has a long history stretching back to Tudor times. During the 1980s when Berris Conolly took these photographs it was an area that had been in decline. This was a decade of turmoil in both national and local politics with issues of social justice...
75,00 €Out of stockTrying to Find the Ocean (*signed*)
Presentation from the author's website: "Trying to Find the Ocean depicts a rampage-like journey through the city of Baltimore. Michael Ast incorporates both an intense outward gaze on the urban environment and its inhabitants, and an inward gaze, employing images to function esoterically as emotive and cognitive intimations. The sequencing reads at once...
32,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: " After his debut work Sachin won the Taiyo Award in 1964, Nobuyoshi Araki's photos had been selected for publication in a magazine. Due to the printing methods of the time, they asked he send in the actual negatives, which were then never sent back to him. While in 1994, Araki's debut work was re-issued as Sachin - an outtake,...
28,00 €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 StockWhat They Saw: Historical Photobooks by...
.Back in stock. Presentation by 10x10 Photobooks: " What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843 – 1999, 10×10's most recent “book-on-photobooks” anthology in its ongoing examination of photobook history, explores photobooks created by women from photography's beginnings to the dawn of the 21st century. Presenting a diverse geographic and ethnic...
89,00 €In StockPrésentation de Chose Commune : " Mystery Street begins and ends with children. Children playing, beaming and daydreaming. Children becoming. In his first North-American series, French photographer Vasantha Yogananthan stands next to the youth and gazes at their level. With this project, Yogananthan makes a return to documentary photography, yet frees...
45,00 €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 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 StockPublisher's presentation: "Spanning almost three decades, Moonshine is a portrait of the American Appalachian folk, a mythologised region populated by ‘moonshiners’. Van Manen’s images are defined by a fierce intimacy with her subject, as the viewer teeters on the edge of the frame, perpetually trespassing on private moments: rollicking children...
80,00 €In Stock.Last copy!. Presentation by Steidl: "From 1977 to 1985, Goldberg photographed the wealthy and destitute of San Francisco, creating a visual document that has since become a landmark work. Through the combination of text and photographs, Rich and Poor's mass appeal was instantly recognizable. In 1984 the series was exhibited alongside Robert Adams and...
120,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Here Press: "The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand is notorious for extreme violence, and they have long been regarded as the nation's monsters. In layers of apparent contradictions, their icon is the British bulldog wearing a Nazi helmet, while their members are largely indigenous Maori. The Mongrel Mob's symbols arose as both a goading...
50,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Light Motiv: "On March 11th, 2011, a powerful tsunami hit the northeastern coast of Japan, destroying nearly everything on its way. The photographer Naoya Hatakeyama was personally affected as his hometown, Rikuzentaka, was wiped away, along with the markers of his memories. Kesengawa, published by Light Motiv in 2013, was a book about the...
35,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Presentation by Baron: "For the fifth edition of Baron, Harley Weir takes us on a visual essay exploring the female body through biological conditions such as reproduction and birth, and how these are mediated in a patriarchal, capitalist society. The title of the book, Function begs the question what do our bodies do. Each part holds several,...
A Period of juvenile Prosperity
.Back in stock. Certainly one of the most talked-about photobooks of 2013, that was shortlisted for the "Paris Photo / Aperture Award" for first photobook. We offer here a later printing of this great book, the first one having been sold out in a few weeks in May 2013. A Period of Juvenile Prosperity is a dazzling journey with a group of young renegades...
75,00 €In StockWith the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States have been signing nearly 300,000 new recruits each year since 9/11, as they need to face an important turnover among the troops. In Volunteer, Paul Seawright draws the portrait of the young recruits of the US Army, but we have to "read between the lines": instead of photographing the young recruits,...
30,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Stanley/Barker: " In the late 50's, New York's Washington Square was a place of rebellion, nicknamed junkie row and described by Simone de Beauvoir as « A cosmopolitan chorus of tourists, ‘intellectuals’, students and a dubious collection of beatniks, hippies and bohemians who gather while in the dimly lit night clubs and coffee houses,...
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