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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...
15,00 €Out of stockTôt un dimanche matin, journal de Montréal...
.Back in stock.Presentation by Julien Coquentin on the publisher's website:"For two years I photographed Montreal. I wanted to write a poetic of the city and remoteness, an American ride in short. I worked at night in the emergency room of a big hospital and lived in the cosmopolitan district of Mile-End. This America was mixed with my childhood dreams...
25,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Presentation by the artist on lamaindonne's website: "By the year 2050, it is estimated that Russia, the largest country in the world, will decrease its actual population by a third and would have a hundred million citizens. Le Désert russe is my personal photo report around the snowy Russia suggesting this inevitable demographic disaster. I...
.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...
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...
38,00 €Out of stock.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...
35,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Damiani: " Crossed Looks is the first artist monograph featuring the work of Swiss-Guinean artist Namsa Leuba. This publication accompanies the first solo exhibition of Namsa Leuba in the United States, at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, South Carolina on August 27 – December 11, 2021. Crossed Looks features Leuba's...
60,00 €In StockPeter Hujar: Animals and Nudes
.VERY LAST COPY! See note below. Original presentation by Twin Palms (2002): " When Peter Hujar (1934–1987) died at the age of fifty-three, his remarkable oeuvre fell into neglect. Sporadic exhibitions and catalogues failed to give Hujar his critical due or make the work widely accessible. Now, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of his...
99,00 €Out of stockThe 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...
25,00 €In StockAnders 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,...
35,00 €Out of stock.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...
Artist presentation: "Its main purpose is to reflect a vital anxiety, a metaphor of the personal journey searching for the sense of one-self life. Across the wilderness, this inner trip is marked out with the unexpected, the cruelty, the beauty, the organic as well as the artificial. There is a deep fight trying to understand the absurdity of the human...
19,00 €In StockNo Pain Whatsoever is a series made on a rather long period (1985 - 2009) during which Ken Grant took pictures of his contemporaries in his hometown of Liverpool. Lively Black & White portraits, often touching, of people leading a difficult life in neighbourhoods that look much like others often seen in the works of what is sometimes called the...
39,00 €Out of stockZine 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...
36,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "Collier Schorr’s latest book 8 Women presents work which spans from the mid-nineties to the present. Schorr’s earliest works utilised appropriated adverts from fashion magazines to address issues of authorship and desire; the works introduced a female gaze into the debate about female representation. Appropriation was Schorr’s...
54,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Editions du LIC: "The debut monograph from Osma Harvilhati presented in a limited edition cloth covered hardcover book. This First Edition is limited to just 460 numbered copies.Immediately distinguished by their vibrant palettes and inventive compositions, Osma Harvilahti’s photographs stem from a wilful resolve to aestheticise the world...
47,00 €Out of stockFukushima, 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...
50,00 €Out of stockPresentation 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,...
30,00 €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 €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...
28,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Ana Galan: "I have always thought that arriving to a certain age, we become invisible, towards ourselves and towards the rest of the people. The project Viv(r)e la vie! pays homage to those who decide not to become invisible, to those who continue to live “in the moment”. With curiosity, being the main character of their lives and...
30,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Landscape and Industry is both a set of photographs covering a range of landscapes and industries, and an exploration of how contemporary art can draw on the influences of early industrial “record picture” photography and 19th century “Naturalist” landscape painting. Photographed on large format in a matter of fact aesthetic,...
48,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Humboldt Books: " In 1976, Gabriele Basilico was in Rimini for a project on the Grand Hotel. It was here that he met a number of artists who were performing at the Lady Godiva, the next-door nightclub. Intrigued, he shot a few photographs and was struck by the willingness of the artists to pose for him. In the meantime, the sun was setting...
25,00 €In Stock.Temporarily out of stock.Natural cotton - One-side print "L'Ascenseur Végétal Librairie Photo" - Long handles (to carry on the shoulder).To carry your photobooks around, or anything else, to avoid using plastic bags, and to represent for L'Ascenseur Végétal !
5,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Presentation by Stanley/Barker : "In an outpouring of grief after the death of his children from scarlet fever in 1833, German poet Friedrich Rückert wrote 428 poems on the deaths of children. Seventy years later the composer Gustav Mahler was so moved by these poems, he began work on a song cycle eventually scoring five of the poems. Although...
Home Is Where the Dog Is (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation: "Four white walls that enclose a tropical garden set the limits for this carefully directed view that Van der Weijde offers us into his Home is where the Dog is..."We are also offering the numbered edition with a silkscreen (please see the "Suggestions" tab).160 pages - Softcover 4478ZINE, 2014 *Signed* New - Mint condition
32,00 €In Stock.Sold out.10 curators from the photography and photobook world each choose 10 Japanese books they feel important in the history of the medium, and comment on their choices... with a lot of illustrations. Edited by Matthew Carson, Michael Lang, Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich. Published by "10×10 Photobooks" in association with ICP (International...
Presentation by Overlapse : "The fragile foundations of Venice are slowly being eroded by rising tides, subsidence and pollution – undergoing a brutal transformation that threatens irreversible change to this widely beloved city. Illustrated with degraded images from films submerged in Adriatic seawater, this photo/text docufiction unravels a narrative...
32,00 €Out of stockThe time of dreaming the world awake...
.Last copy. Introduction to the book by Yvette Monahan: "Certain landscapes hold stories of what has been and what could be. Like an ancient face these places mirror their own odyssey; a silent biography. What is seen is temporal, what is unseen perpetual. Concealed are the myths, legends and histories, ready to be known if we put our mind in nature, not...
25,00 €Out of stockBlack Country Stories (*signed*)
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Over the last four years Martin Parr has been working on a commission for Multistory (Sandwell) photographing the Black Country (a region of the West Midlands in England). It was an area he knew little of, other than its reputation as a densely populated, post-industrial area; one in decline. Many of the industries...
.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 stockPublisher'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...
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