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Chronicles 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 stock.Back in stock. Presentation by Dewi Lewis: "Recognised as one of the UK's most important photographers of the last forty years, Brian Griffin grew up near Birmingham amongst the factories of the Black Country. His parents were factory workers and from birth Griffin seemed set to follow in their footsteps. And so, on leaving school at the age 16, he began...
42,00 €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 stockPresentation by Kehrer: "Representations of older transgender people are nearly absent from our culture and those that do exist are often one-dimensional. For over five years, photographer Jess T. Dugan and social worker Vanessa Fabbre traveled throughout the United States creating To Survive on this Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and...
58,00 €In StockA 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 StockPresentation 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...
35,00 €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 Stock.Sold out. Anatopées is a journey, a quest, a graphic and esthetic obsession.For many years, after observing graphic similarities in images of very different natures, Arnaud Lesage has been looking for a certain shape or form in his numerous trips. This book is the result of this extensive quest, presented in a simple yet superb "Leporello" design...
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 stockSworn Virgins is a series of portraits of women from Northern Albania who vowed to remain virgins their whole life, in order to be allowed - following ancient rules of their community - to assume the role of patriarch of this community, becoming in the process "men-women". The respect these women are shown within their communities is really clear in Pepa...
50,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Presentation by VOID : [minor adaptations by L'Ascenseur Végétal] " MEAT consists of 28 signatures printed in 6 different printing techniques: Offset, Silkscreen, Letterpress, Photocopy, Digital printing, Risograph, using 8 different paper stocks. Each copy of MEAT has been painfully hand-bound by the VOID team. Hand-binding 250 copies of...
89,00 €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 StockA Place Both Wonderful and Strange
Publisher's presentation: "A Place Both Wonderful and Strange is a photographic anthology published by Fuego Books that brings together the work of 12 international photographers in a narration inspired by Twin Peaks and the work of David Lynch. With the work of Anna Beeke, Carl Bigmore, Melissa Catanese, Cristina de Middel, Salvi Danés, Enrico Di Nardo +...
50,00 €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: "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 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 stockFrom the back cover: "Did Man Ray capture our era almost a century ago? Painter, photographer, sculptor and filmmaker from New York to Paris, Man Ray is a global artist. While his work is disseminated worldwide, Man Ray nonetheless reinvents photography. He manipulates, solarizes, and composes his shots. He challenges standards, prolifically creates, and...
40,00 €Out of stock.One signed copy available. Presentation by Lyre Press: "In the series Lotus, Max Pinckers and Quinten De Bruyn document the world of transsexuals in Thailand. The gender crisis that the so-called ladyboys face is transformed into a visual metaphor about the identity crisis that contemporary documentary photography currently encounters, when it dares to...
55,00 €In StockPresentation by Dienacht: "We are always in need of words, even the unspoken words of photography.These pictures were taken in different cities: Rubí, Barcelona, Tanger, Berlin, Madrid, Tokyo and Beijing. Within them, I show men and women I like and places that love me. With all of them, I rehearsal the dance steps to the void."A rather intriguing and...
25,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Libraryman: "What is left when everything is gone? In 2015, François Halard visited late Saul Leiter’s almost empty apartment in the East Village, two years after his passing in 2013. He took photographs of the decrepit walls, the empty closet, and of what Saul Leiter had left behind. Saul Leiter (1923–2013) was an American painter and...
48,00 €Out of stock.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 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...
180,00 €In StockPrésentation de l'éditeur : "Mauricio Amarante has been living in Europe for a long time now, he is a musician, he plays with his brother Caesar. They started in the street. We met in Bordeaux. In 2013 he returned to Buenos Aires for a few weeks. And then he prolonged his stay. For fear of return? He finds himself « alone » and borrows a small camera from...
15,00 €In StockPresentation by The Eyes Publishing: " Conversations Vol. 3 is a book of interviews with contemporary photographers, conducted by Rémi Coignet, photobook critic. Since 2014, when the first volume was published, the aim is to give a prominent place to photographers, so that they can make their voices heard in the field of publishing, often forgotten in...
20,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "A Dozen Failures is both a singular statement as a photobook and a commentary on a life spent making some of the classic photobooks of our time, among them The Pond, There and Gone, The Romance Industry, and Berlin in the Time of the Wall. Every photograph is in some way perfect (as a technical feat) and in another way a...
78,00 €Out of stockPresentation 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...
30,00 €In StockLes roues interdites (*signed*)
NB : The title Les roues interdites translates as The forbidden wheels.Text from the back cover: "Those who know Syria love it, they know that it is not a land for blood and fire. They know that it is a white land, beautiful with a fragile and dreamy and discreet people. A land of stars that children follow at night. A blue land where deserts confuse the...
40,00 €Out of stockMea Shearim - The Streets (*signed*)
Presentation Ofir Barak's website : [adapted excerpts] "Mea Shearim (lit. « hundred gates »; contextually « a hundred fold ») was established in 1874 as the fifth settlement outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. Mea Shearim remains today loyal to its old customs and preserves its isolation in the heart of Jerusalem while trying to stave off...
60,00 €Book available with different options"V" Zine Set (*signed & numbered*)
.Sold out. Presentation by Julia Borissova: " I am fond of the artist book form and have created about 14 books over the past 10 years. Most of the titles are sold out. Some time ago I decided to rethink some of my projects and realize them in a new, more concentrated form of zines. In almost half a year I managed to implement this idea and today I am...
Presentation by sun/sun : [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " Noces ou les confins sauvages (Nuptials or the wild far reaches) is a contemporary narration between the real and the magical. Page after page, the photographer Hélène David offers a journey across the Mediterranean seafront, as an continuation of the intimate and the familiar, but also as a...
50,00 €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 StockPresentation on the artist's website : "On January 25, 2011, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets across the country demanding the fall of Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, who had ruled the country for nearly 30 years. This was only the beginning. More than four years on, الشعب (The People) chronicles how citizens in the Arab world’s largest...
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