Presentation by André Frère éditions: "Eyes Wild Open, on a trembling photography, 70 years of photography, almost 30 prestigious photographers, 17 nationalities. Eyes Wild Open highlights the relationships that exist between several generations of photographers whose practice is as intuitive as it is abrupt or transgressive. Initiated after the second...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Michael Wolf is a photographer. For more than 40 years. He looks back on an amazing career. As a photojournalist, as a freelance photographer and for nearly 20 years now as an artist. More than 25 books have been published only in the past 10 years, including worldwide successes as Architecture of Density, Tokyo...
.Sold out. Presentation 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...
Presentation by the artist: "« Antarctica is a special place with particular stories and memories, the polar explorers called it white blonde. In this work I used found photographs from the Antarctic. I decided to freeze them to get such images, which could express a sense of awareness of time, death and the inevitable decay through this transformation....
Presentation by Editions Bessard: " (...) By conceiving a work on the sites of the Odyssey, equipped with a simple smartphone, Stefano De Luigi perpetuates the relationship with modern technologies. Yesterday it was the first films, today is the digital medium, new companion of travel, of which he explores the infinite potential. Accustomed to lengthy...
Publisher'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...
I Close My Eyes, Then I Drift Away
.Last copies. Presentation by Libraryman: " The idea for I Close My Eyes, Then I Drift Away by Katrien De Blauwer was founded as a commission for De Blauwer to anatomise archival works of French photographer François Halard into a new and rare narrative. With a seductive and dreamlike state, bordering femininity and masculinity, she lets the observer...
Presentation of Guillaume Bonnel's photobook by the publisher ARP2 : "Far from being merely retrospective or confined to the pilgrimage, the author's approach invites us to reflect on the action of man on nature by giving us to see a real landscape of the Anthropocene. The purpose of the term is to consider the human species as a full-fledged geological...
.Back in stock. Publisher's presentation of Chris Steele-Perkins' photobook: "1956, sixty years ago, was a watershed year for Teds. In September that year the Bill Haley film Rock Around The Clock arrived in the UK. With five records in the top twenty, Haley was a major star and the film screened at some three hundred cinemas across the country. It wasn’t...
Presentation 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...
Presentation 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,...
.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...
Presentation by B-Sides Box Set: "Loose Shingles displays alternate photos and outtakes from Templeton's many projects over the last few decades, including Teenage Smokers, Teenage Kissers, and other editorial and street shots. This « Box Set » also includes a new element, as Ed Templeton has hand drawn the backs of each photograph which provides more...
.Sold out. Presentation by La Fabrica : "Cristina de Middel presents her latest project, The Perfect Man. With Chaplin’s film Modern Times as a starting point for the book’s narrative structure, De Middel reflects on the peculiar understanding of masculinity in India, through the relationships between man, machine and work. In India, industrial revolution...
Two friends - art students - on holidays in Corsica; a sort of slow and sunny travelogue looking both inward to the friends' companionship, and outward to the surroundings. A first book, self-published and created 100% by Chloé and Alexane : photographs, editing and design. There are certainly some beginners' mistakes if your eyes are looking at many...
.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...
.Sold out.Presentation by Dashwood Books : "It was while living in Preston in 2010 that the city’s imposing Brutalist bus station, built by Ove Arup and Partners in 1969, first caught Jamie Hawkesworth’s eye : « I did a project with Adam Murray, an ex-tutor of mine, where we spent the weekend at the bus station and produced a little newspaper filled with...
From 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,...
.Sold out. Presentation by The Velvet Cell: " « My goal is to create work in which every photograph is independent. This idea never changes. It is not my aim to depict for the purposes of explanation, or to illustrate with my photographs.Infrastructure is the main subject of my photography. Often, infrastructure is treated as a burden on society, being...
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...
Presentation by RRB Photobooks: " RRB Photobooks are pleased to present the series of photographs By the Sea made by Czech photographer Markéta Luskačová taken in the late 1970s on the North East coast of Britain. The book was published in 2019 to coincide with an exhibition of the same name at the Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol. Czech-born Luskačová...
Presentation by Stanley / Barker: " In 1983- 84 Tod Papageorge spent a month each summer on the Acropolis in Athens, producing a body of work that seems lost in time, fusing the ancient with the modern.« I stayed at a nice hotel, the Zafolia, five minutes from the Acropolis, where every surface in my room was marble, and where I did laps in the pool...
.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...
Presentation by Mack: " In the follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut monograph Sleeping by the Mississippi, Alec Soth turned his eye to another iconic body of water, Niagara Falls. As with his photographs of the Mississippi, Soth's pictures of Niagara are less about natural wonder than human desire. « I went to Niagara for the same reason as the...
.Sold out. Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral: "From Lebanon in the 1960s to Marseille today, via Alexandria, Valence, the beaches of Palavas, Naples, and Rimini, Raymond Depardon offers us golden moments in the Mediterranean, comprising many previously unpublished photographs. On the occasion of the exhibition Un Moment Si Doux [Golden Moments]...
Presentation 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...
Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink
Presentation by Fall Line Press: "Classic documentary photography, at its best, is a transcendent path back to the people of another place and time. Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink is a royal road to that special time in 1972-1973 -- when the love generation in America was at its height. The U.S. was reeling from years of war and turbulent social change...
.Back in stock!. Presentation by Journal: " « In 2004, I made the book Trying to Dance, designed by Patric Leo and published by Journal. Since then, it has lived a life of its own, just as books should do. For me, Trying to Dance is more than a book – the photographs on which it was based constitute an image universe of its own. Photography then had a...
Presentation of the magazine by Preto: " Preto likes to present, meet and connect photographers in this unravelling photo magazine. It is showing a mixture based on the pictures (kindly made available by the photographers) into a new surprising story. In this sense Preto is not a portfolio. There is no theme or text inside, the images and their...
Publisher'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
.Sold out.Presentation by Bérangère Fromont : " A spring evening, I followed some teenagers, among them a couple in love, in a night walk around Arles. A long walk, a biting wind, kisses, a few joints. We stop in the middle of nowhere. No light, I discover the surroundings step by step. An industrial zone. Some car-wrecks, a frog concert, a few shivers....
Presentation by Mack: "These photographs were made on long walks through the streets of African capitals, including Johannesburg, Durban, Maputo, Beira, Harare, Nairobi, Kigali, Kampala, Addis Ababa, Luanda, Libreville, Accra, Dakar and Dar es Salaam, and the series takes its title from the « Museum of the Revolution » in Maputo, Mozambique, which is...