Algérie, clos comme on ferme un livre ?
Publisher's presentation : "Algeria, a finished story ? You can now travel in Algeria, and Bruno Boudjelal seizes on this new freedom to explore the country and its origins from east to west, in a gripping road movie that crosses paths with the ghost of Frantz Fanon as well as the young clandestine immigrants en route to Europe. A photographic narrative...
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...
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....
.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...
Red String - Limited Edition (*signed w/...
Presentation by CEIBA: "In Japan, legend has it that a man and a woman who have a predestined encounter have had each other’s little fingers tied together by an invisible red string since the time they were born. Unfortunately, the red string tying my parents together either came untied, broke, or perhaps it was never even tied to begin with. But if the...
.Very last copy!. Presentation by Hotshoe: "To celebrate the 10th anniversary of "Crude Metaphors", a prominent and celebrated section of HOTSHOE magazine since 2005, HOTSHOE is publishing a very special limited edition collectors box of five books featuring a selection of the most renowned photographers of today, including Roger Ballen, Todd Hido, Edgar...
.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...
Publisher's presentation: "The Arrangement is a group of images Ruth Van Beek made with a collection of books on flower arranging. She has been collecting books on this subject for years, mostly instructional books dating from the fifties to the seventies. They combine colorful still lifes of flower arrangements with the functional photography of a...
"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...
.Back in stock.Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral: "Facsimile of the 1968 original edition, a photo classic published for the first time in French, The Bikeriders takes us into the heart of the Chicago Outlaws Club. The journal-size title features original black-and-white photographs and transcribed interviews made from 1963 to 1967, when Danny Lyon...
Zine N° 17 - Reliefs (*w/ signed print*)
In this series Reliefs, Agne presents what could seem to be an obsession: leftovers in a plate after a meal. Described in this manner, the subject is surprising at best, but it is by thoroughly exploring the topic and in the repetition that the body of work gains depth and meaning, as a formal study on a very specific and rather peculiar subject.40 pages...
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...
Presentation by TIS Books: " In her first monograph with TIS books, the much-heralded photographer Barbara Bosworth has interwoven the visceral and ethereal to visually build a sense of the delicate and fragile nature of life, at a place where the edges of heaven and earth blur. These pictures, made with Bosworth’s customary 8x10 camera, speak to our...
Presentation by the artist: "Alexanderis 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...
The Mecca of Coney Island (*signed*)
Presentation on the publisher's website of Fabrizio Albertini's photobook: "In the opening scenes of the first «Rocky» (1976), Balboa is always holding a handball ball. For the aspiring boxer, a perfect archetype of the crude and penniless hero and destined to achieve the ‘American dream’, that is probably a simple exercise to train reflexes and a form of...
Fukushima, Fragments (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation : "March 11th, 2011. Following the earthquake that rocks the Pacific Coast of Tohoku, 30-meter waves devastate Japan's inner lands. Carrying along his Geiger counter, Kosuke Okahara walked through these wounded areas. His images allow us to enter a world crowded with ghosts, and to grasp a reality that lost its colors."Bilingual...
Publisher's presentation : "Valparaiso is a photographic esssay by Anders Petersen. The work was carried out in August 2014, during a Residency for the “Internacional Festival of Photography in Valparaiso”, FIFV. This was Anders Petersen’s first time visiting Latin America. Roaming the streets and hills of Valparaiso Petersen captures the every day life...
Publisher's presentation: "Will Steacy spent five years photographing the newsroom and printing plant of The Philadelphia Inquirer. Through a depiction of The Inquirer's efforts to prevail despite shrinking advertising revenue, falling circulation, lay-offs, buy-outs, and bankruptcy, Steacy reveals the challenges and harsh realities that confront the...
Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with...
Presentation by Steidl: " Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography surveys the expansive field of vernacular photography, the vast archive of utilitarian images created for bureaucratic structures, commercial usage and personal commemoration, as opposed to elite aesthetic purposes. As a crucial extension of its ongoing...
.Second printing (see below). Publisher's presentation : "a Handful of Dust is David Campany’s speculative history of the last century, and a visual journey through some of its unlikeliest imagery. Let’s suppose the modern era begins in October of 1922. A little French avant-garde journal publishes a photograph of a sheet of glass covered in dust. The...
.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...
Presentation 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...
Anders Petersen likes to travel, and he likes cities, which is obvious simply by looking at his bibliography.With Rome, in his trademark style of photography and narration, Petersen displays the city not through the old buildings and busy daily life, but though portraits of passerbys, market stalls, various animals, and apartment interiors, beds, bodies,...
No Photos (*signed / imperfect*)
Presentation on Tiane Doan na Champassak's website : "All photographs were taken in the red-light district of Amsterdam. The title No Photos has different meanings. First, the forbidden act to photograph the sex workers in their environment. Secondly, the images are printed on very old photographic papers which are fading away even further in the book...
Presentation on the artist's website : "Dr. Strand is the title of an exhibition and a book about the late doctor, feminist and activist Kitty Strand. The personal picture-memoir is told by her daughter, Nina Strand. Kitty and Nina were planning a journey across the U.S. that they never had time to take before Kitty passed away in 2001. In 2012 Nina took...
Publisher's presentation : "Athens Diary is the follow-up to 2014’s Cairo Diary and the 2nd in Peter Bialobrzeski’s City Diaries Series with The Velvet Cell. In Athens Diary Bialobrzeski travels to the scene of the biggest European crisis in decades to document the urban consequences of the emergency. His photos capture the dichotomy of everyday life in...
.ONE copy available!. Presentation by Origini Edizioni: " The skin does not lie: it's a person's age map; it's the paper where their choices, failures, passions, fears are written on. The body defines ourselves, it stratifies and heals passing of time under veils, blankets and hidings. As the trunk to the trees. As the paper to this book: it changes, it...
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...
Publisher's presentation: "In 1920, the Spitsbergen Treaty recognized the sovereignty of Norway over the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the following conditions: that it remain entirely demilitarized, exempt from taxation, environmentally intact, and open to business development from the citizens of all signatory countries. Russia, which ratified...
.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...
.Sold out. Presentation by Atelier EXB: " Originally from the French rural area of Saône et Loire, Raymond Depardon was born and raised in the Garet's familial farm that saw him become a photographer. He published a first eponymous book on the farm in 1994 which gained critical acclaim. In 2020, as a tribute to this important place for him, Depardon...
Presentation by MACK: " A project composed across several decades, Guido Guidi's Lunario takes the name of a traditional farmer's almanac to bring together several strands of work all relating to the moon. Distortion, experimentation and illusion inform Guidi’s earlier work of the late 1960s and early 1970s, further developed by the introduction of a...