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.Sold out. Paraiso is the photographic diary kept by Antoine d'Agata kept between October 31 andNovember 12, 2012, during the International Festival of Photography in Valparaiso. The images are presented together with texts and email excerpts in which d'Agata writes what he does and sees, he describes his moments under the influence and the injections and...
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...
60,00 €Out of stockMy Brother Guillaume and Sonia
.Back in stock!. Artist's presentation: "I started taking pictures of my brother Guillaume and his partner Sonia in 2008; both living behind closed doors with the alcohol addiction. In this closed doors where I found my place and felt good, I photographed their relationship, the intimate moments, happy or unhappy, that I share with them. Unfortunately...
42,00 €Out of 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 StockEnglish 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 -...
30,00 €Out of stock.PLEASE NOTE : Our signed copies have a tiny imperfection - Mint unsigned & sealed copies also available - Please do get in touch.Publisher's presentation : "Silent Histories is a testimony to the tragedy of indiscriminate bombing by US forces during the War in the Pacific, which killed 330,000 Japanese and injured 430,000 more. The figures are...
62,00 €Out of stockRed 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...
195,00 €Out of stockAlgérie, 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...
42,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock. Presentation by Skinnerboox: "Hereafter is based on the story of the photographer's grandparents. For over thirty years John and Mary Phillips worked in the Sudan, Libya, Oman, Jordan and Cyprus. They witnessed the progressive decline of the British Empire, in which they had lived since childhood and which shaped their view of the world....
42,00 €Out of stockDangerous Landscapes (*w/ signed print*)
.Sold out. Liu Bolin, chameleon photographer Excerpts from the text by Fabien Ribéry : "Society thinks it’s on its own, but someone is there.I am not trashProduce, evacuate, replaceI am the name, you are the numberTen thousand things, including meMy calm, your violenceWhat doesn’t kill me makes me strongerWe are your inseperable shadowsHere come the...
Masculinities - Liberation Through...
Presentation by Prestel: " Examining increasingly fluid notions of masculinity over the past six decades, this book offers a culturally diverse collection of work from some of the world’s most celebrated photographers. This photographic exploration draws together the work of approximately fifty artists of different ethnicities, generations, and gender...
55,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock - Reduced price.Retrospective book on the work of the late Jouko Lehtola, who passed away in 2010. The artist was made famous by his uncompromising work on the Finnish youth; and other series are also present in this book. A very straightforward eye, and images that are sometimes gaudy, or even violent.160 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Kehrer...
25,00 €Out of stock.Last copy!. In the "POV Female" series ("POV" for point of view) by the English publishing house oodee, the fourth city to be visited (after London, Tokyo and Johannesburg) is Bogota, Colombia. This series presents works by unpublished female photographers from each city, and each city is represented by 5 photographers (see "Suggestions" tab for the...
25,00 €Out of stockChen Jiagang is an architect; after being involved in the creation of the Chinese cities of the XXIst century, he decided to part from the world of real estate in 2001, disgusted by corruption and the construction workers' labor conditions. Close to the art circles, founder of an art gallery, he turned to photography. His former profession remained at the...
75,00 €Out of stockGround is a reference to the floors of the concert halls and clubs where Yusuke Yamatani spent a lot of time as a teenager and many years after that. These floors are strange surfaces covered in footsteps, alcohol spills, dirt, sweat and many other things mixed... These abstract motifs are inserted in the narration among th portraits of people met during...
30,00 €Out of stock.Last copy!.Introduction to the project on the Kickstarter crowdfunding page : "In 2008 I returned to London having spent the last nine years living and working in Eastern Europe and Turkey and was surprised by the speed of change that had taken place. I wanted to document the city, its movements and migrations, its landscape and architecture, its...
60,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. After We English, Simon Roberts follows in the same tracks of visual documentation of England's (and Britain's) specific elements : what makes England, England, and Britain, Britain. For the Pierdom project, the artist photographed each of the 58 remaining piers of Britain, in a very still manner, like if it were a work of portraiture. Only the...
Publisher's presentation: "In the 70s and 80s, the Tabernas desert near Almeria in Southern Spain became the Hollywood of Westerns. It was here that legendary filmmaker Sergio Leone made movies like Once Upon a Time in the West, For a Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, making the desert of Tabernas, with its...
33,00 €In Stock''The no-title book'' (Bike Kill)
Presentation by Ceiba : "Julie’s photographs are divine because they are shot from her burning heart on fire by being there. She was in the thick of it. And with the bikers as one of them she shows us something real, not fabricated, about the human condition. What is. Not what is made up. [The book] is a reflection in full measure, of Julie’s personal...
Publisher's presentation: "Archipelago / Archipiélago is the first installment in Cristóbal Hara’s collection The trivial essays. The language of photography, especially that which aims to be documentary photography, is subject to a multitude of rules and conventions. Cristóbal Hara’s work is devoted to the search for ways to escape those conventions....
18,00 €Out of stockKenosis is a little zine, the first publication by Karin Crona.In this booklet, the artist tells us about her experience, her feelings before and after a surgery. A very personal and intimate work of self-portraiture. 16 pages - Softcover Sefl-published, 2013 New - Mint condition
10,00 €In StockZine N° 9 - Zimbabwe (*w/ signed print*)
In this 9th number in the Zine Collection, called Zimbabwe, Robin Hammond shows us the terrible life conditions in this country, more than 30 years after Robert Mugabe reached power.The introduction by Wilf Mbanga explains the hope that Mugabe initially raised in 1980, and the suffering he since has imposed on his people, and the failure and imposture he...
36,00 €Out of stockGrand Est, une mission photographique
.PLEASE NOTE: The texts in this book are IN FRENCH ONLY. Presentation by Poursuite: " Suite à la constitution de la région Grand Est composée de l'Alsace, de la Lorraine et de la Champagne-Ardenne il a été proposé à cinq photographes français d'explorer ce territoire librement pour en offrir leur vision; et ils proposent chacun une perspective unique sur...
30,00 €In StockPresentation by Hartmann Books: " The Autobahn [The Highway] is an asphalt carpet thirteen thousand kilometers in length that covers all of Germany, both interfering with the landscape and interconnecting the country. Jörg Brüggemann photographed it for five years, from 2014 to 2019. While mobility concepts are constantly changing and being discussed, the...
40,00 €In StockH+ / Transhumanism(s) (*signed*)
Presentation by Kehrer Verlag : "Transhumanism (abbreviated as H+) is an international intellectual movement that aims to transform the human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated technologies to enhance human intellect and physiology. Matthieu Gafsou’s H+ series explores transhumanism and all kinds of body modification or...
40,00 €In Stock.Back in stock - French and English versions.Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral: "At the end of the year 1975, Jane Evelyn Atwood, who had recently moved to Paris, produced her first photo report in black and white, with a simple, effective and sensitive style. By meeting a prostitute on Rue des Lombards, she discovered a world in which everything...
46,00 €Out of stockTitle in Japanese : 列車がきます Presentation by Antoine Leblond : "After several years photographing Japan, my initial admiration - a generic one - transformed into a specific interest for the rail roads. High-speed trains (shinkansen), express (tokkyu), semi-express (juntokkyu), local lines (futsu), private lines (shitetsu), metro lines, etc. The rail...
40,00 €Out of stock.Our last copies are offered with a reduced price (49 € instead of 55 €) as they have a very small bump to one corner. Boiko is the name of a people living in the Carpathian mountains (also spelled "Boyko"), in Ukraine and Poland, and belonging to la larger group of people called "Rusyns".Novelist Taras Prokhasko, cited on Jan Brykczynski's website,...
49,00 €Out of stock112 pages - Softcover CHACO, 2017 Format : 16.5 x 24 cm New - Mint conditionPresentation by the publisher CHACO : " End of the World - In 1520, a fleet of four vessels sailing from Spain reach the Isla Grande of Tierra del Fuego. Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, the island was successively occupied. The spread of diseases brought by white...
35,00 €Out of stock.The very last copy!.Ce livre, dont le titre complet est The Sochi Project - An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus, est un travail documentaire de plusieurs années sur l'évolution de Sochi et sa région après l'obtention de l'organisation des Jeux Olympiques d'hiver de 2014 : les aspects sociaux, environnementaux, politiques sont présentés en texte...
75,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Hide and seek / Al Escondite is the second installment in Cristóbal Hara’s collection The trivial essays. The language of photography, especially that which aims to be documentary photography, is subject to a multitude of rules and conventions. Cristóbal Hara’s work is devoted to the search for ways to escape those conventions....
18,00 €Out of stock.Last copy. A surprising and tragic yet beautiful images of an environmental disaster that took place in Hungary in 2010. A dam containing the toxic waste of an aluminum plant brike and the liquid spilled off into the surrounding countryside, flooding two villages, fields and forest. The images were taken a few months after the catastrophy.With a text by...
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