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...
Publisher's presentation: "This book is a trip! I never thought that I would publish another book with pictures from India. Until Pierre Defaix showed up with his photos from Kolkata. So strong. Took 5 minutes and it was clear, that this must become a Peperoni Book. Now it's done and it's damn good. Let's don't talk about when and how Pierre did it, let`s...
Zine N° 22 - A French Youth (*w/ signed...
Publisher's presentation : "A French youth by Hervé Lequeux is a story that takes the opposite view to stereotypes and prejudices regarding French working-class areas and people who are suffering. It’s a story about a certain misunderstanding of French history : most of French citizens have foreign roots and their personal stories are marked by migration....
.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...
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...
Skeletons 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...
Transparencies: Small Camera Works...
Presentation by Mack: " Transparencies: Small Camera Works 1971-1979 offers an alternative account of one of the most fabled episodes in photographic history: the cross-country journeys that produced Stephen Shore’s luminous new vision of the American landscape, Uncommon Places. Along with his large-format camera, Shore also brought a 35mm Leica on his...
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...
.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...
.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...
Presentation of Pearl on Tiago Casanova's website : "Pearl is a book about Madeira Island, nicknamed as «The Pearl of the Atlantic», a highly touristic place known for its Nature and its unique Laurisilva Forests. But firstly I was intrigued by this phenomenon of natural transformation of a living being through the creation of a non-living hard object,...
Excerpt 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...
.Sold out. Presentation by ROMA Publications: "Radial Grammar was created by Batia Suter in 2018 on the occasion of her eponymous exhibition at Le Bal in Paris, from May 25 to August 26, 2018. The imagery in this book, which revolves around radial shapes and concepts, also forms the basis of a video work in the exhibition. Specific for the book is the use...
.LAST COPY!. Presentation by Kehrer: " Everyday Africa: 30 Photographers Re-Picturing a Continent combats the clichés that depict Africa as a place of only poverty, disease, and war. Featuring the finest images from the acclaimed social media project, the book showcases photos of ordinary life that find beauty in stories rarely seen, shifting perception...
Presentation 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...
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...
Presentation 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....
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...
Sworn 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...
Presentation by Zen Foto Gallery : "oh my little girl is a strong, sexual tale told through Chan's distinct black-and-white photography. Typical for Chan, it's all in the photos; his relationship with the « little girl » from Macao is not elaborated upon in or outside the book (apart from its classification as an « encounter »). Zen Foto's Mark Pearson...
What 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...
.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...
Hackney 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...
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...
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 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....
Gainsbourg Inside - Vu de l'intérieur
Presentation on the back cover : "During the seven last years of his life, Serge Gainsbourg lived in a house on Paris's Rue Verneuil with his butler, Fulbert Ribeaut, who would become a close friend. After Gainsbourg's death in 1991, Fulbert's nephew, Yannick Ribeaut, photographed his house extensively. Now, for the very first time, these unique...
Green Lungs of the City (*signed print*)
Presentation of the series by the Robert Morat Gallery : "Until the mid 1600s urban parks were private; the exclusive domain of wealthy families and royalty. By the mid 1800s urban parks were starting to be seen as a way to serve the public and later as a remedy to social ills caused by the Industrial Revolution and overcrowding in lower-income...
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...
English vesion of the exhibition catalogue from Moderna Museet (exhibition in Stockholm then Malmö). A beautiful book that shows famous images by the artist, but lesser known work as well, including a few color photographs (for the first time in a book).NB : The images available on this page were taken from the Moderna Museet website.108 pages -...
You Could At Least Pretend to Like Yellow...
.TWO copies signed by the artist!. Presentation by Libraryman: " Katrien De Blauwer does not care much for the colour yellow—therefore, the tone is the basis for her latest work. Yellow; a colour equally representing clarity and honor, as well as cowardice and deceit. Initially, while observing the new works, we couldn't resist to draw a loose parable to...
.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...