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Presentation by the artist Luce Lebart: "Mold is the archive's number one enemy. It is a « risk factor » and an « agent of deterioration » to be fought with. In this sense, their creative potential is unjustly neglected and yet since the dawn of time the transformative power of microorganisms has been used to produce wine, beer, bread and cheese. In a...
22,00 €Out of stockForeword by Wim van Sinderen, Senior Curator, The Hague Museum of Photography : "Chance and intuition play a major role in Kregenow’s quest to photograph colleagues he admires or respects, or about whom he is simply curious. His approach is spontaneous and journalistic: he buttonholes his subjects at museum or gallery openings, at photography fairs, or in...
25,00 €In StockNow I wanna be your dog ! (*signed*)
.Back in stock.Presentation by Média Immédiat: "In the beginning of the 90's Morten Andersen was student at the ICP (International Center of Photography) in New York together with his friend Antoine D'Agata. The photographer exhumed for this mini book the portraits he made of Antoine during their student years in the Big Apple. Unpublished to date, these...
15,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "Working within the parameters of his established technique, Thomas Demand created carefully formed paper and card sculptures, a parallel world which is photographed and then destroyed. The Dailies offers only traces – signs of consumption, or the spectres of things left behind. His creations are based on things he saw and...
36,00 €Out of stock.Currently out of stock. Presentation by the artist on the publisher's website: "I took these photographs around 1963 and 1964 at Nagisa Hotel in Zushi, Nagisa Hotel in Shinagawa, and Chigasaki Beach. The subject was my girlfriend, her initials Y.O. Back then I worked at a design firm in Ginza, Tokyo, and I photographed them in seven or eight sessions we...
38,00 €Out of stockPresentation by the artist on the publisher's website: "Nearly three years after I moved to the countryside beside the Sotobo rail line, I found while driving around the east and south parts of Chiba prefecture, that some of the sightseeing spots I used to visit as a tourist are now within the scope of my everyday life. When I am traveling, I wonder about...
36,00 €Out of stockPresentation by the artist Seiji Kurata on the publisher's website: "These photographs were taken during the years between 1998 and 2008 using six cameras made by four different manufacturers and films in four different formats. Zokei [created landscape], the title of this book, is derived from « paysagement » a notion presented by a French geographer in...
35,00 €In StockPresentation on the "Archive of Modern Conflict" website, sponsor of the project : "In 1911 an Arctic expedition set sail to rediscover the island of Jan Mayen, which lay off the eastern coast of Greenland. Not all went according to plan, however, and the end result was a series of staged images produced on the shores of Iceland. Using the original...
34,00 €In Stock.Discounted. Publisher's presentation : "This book presents selections from Guy Tillim’s most influential works and series of the last decade, including “Mai Mai militia in training,” “Jo’burg,” “Avenue Patrice Lumumba,” and “Second Nature.” Anchored in photojournalism but working against the grain of spectacle, Tillim portrays the communities, social...
24,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock.Presentation by T&M Projects: "FISH-MAN is a collection of photographs taken by Tatsuki over the course of a year starting from May 2014 of the people and their lifestyles who live in the Hachinohe city, Aomori prefecture. For a previous project, Tatsuki had been traveling and photographing the Tohoku area (Northern part of Japan),...
65,00 €Out of stockRebuts, charognes, décombres (Folio I)
Presentation of the Folio collection by the publisher: Folio I is the first part of a new series of photobooks treating specifically about the work of a unique photographer. With this Folio series, we aim at providing a photographic work closer to the study, than just a random series. The selected works have been picked to catch a particular atmosphere,...
15,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Presentation by Steidl: "Segregation Story features a broad selection of images – most of them published for the first time – from Gordon Parks’ powerful 1956 photographic series documenting the « Restraints: Open and Hidden » on an extended African American family persevering in the segregated South. Originally commissioned for Life magazine,...
Publisher's presentation : "This is what hatred did is the lapidary phrase that ends Amos Tutuola’s novel My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, published in 1954. Tutuola was obliged to leave Nigeria owing to the violent reactions the novel provoked. The phrase is also the starting point of the version photographer Cristina de Middel has made of the tenebrous...
62,00 €In Stock.Last copy. Presentation of the project by the artist : "Control is a visual investigation about the emancipatory potential of non-documentary image added to the sequencing, within a controlled system throughout its structure. It is also a critique of the role of photography in sustaining that system. Project carried out under the influence of texts by...
28,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "A symbol of schism and confluence, a transcontinental city, Istanbul has always been the inspiration for great stories. But this is not a story about Istanbul; it is a story from the female vantage point about how a group of men devote their lives to raising goldfinches and greenfinches: a mysterious bond full of...
38,00 €Out of stockFernell Franco, Cali clair-obscur
Excerpts from the press kit of the Fondation Cartier Exhibition: "From February 6 to June 5, 2016, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain will present for the first time in Europe a comprehensive retrospective of the work of Fernell Franco, a major yet still under recognized figure of Latin American photography. A photojournalist by profession,...
40,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "In this new body of work, Beyond Maps and Atlases, Bertien van Manen turns to Ireland. Van Manen says, « At first, working in Ireland I wasn’t sure what I was looking for. My husband had died. I dispensed with the people and reflected on the atmosphere. I was guided by a feeling and a search, a longing for some kind of meaning...
40,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "鼩鼱 (Qu Jing) means « shrew ». This book tells about growth. After moving to Beijing for five years, Lin Shu wanted to put his pictures taken during life and travel into a book. He tries to express through these personal images everyone’s experience of loss and gain, let go and possession, sorrow and joy, during their growth....
52,00 €Out of stockCai Dongdong's statement : "These works were sourced from my photos taken in these years. They were piled up like chicken ribs, so I operated on them, like a surgeon. I applied various methods according to different pictures: engraving, rubbing, curling, or making a photography installation with other objects. I tried all I can to save these pictures by...
59,00 €Out of stock.Two NEW copies available!. Presentation by Kehrer: "The photographer known by her artist name Sarah Moon (b. 1941) grew up in England and France. Having worked as a model in Paris for some years, she began taking photographs in 1968. Her first campaign shots for Cacharel were followed by countless commercial works for Dior, Chanel, Comme des Garcons and...
65,00 €Out of stockPresentation on Simone Donati's collective TerraProject's website: "From politics to religion, going from music, sport and television, between 2009 and 2015 Simone Donati crossed his country in search of myths and icons of the Italian contemporary imaginary. This project provides a glimpse into the Italian society with an ironic but also purely...
34,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "On 9th July 1995, the Serbian army attacked Srebrenica's Muslim ghetto. Nearly 8,000 people were massacred in three days. Twenty years on, the city's history seems frozen in obscurity. A new generation, however, is travelling its ruins and learning as much as it can from its consequences. This series of photographs by Adrien...
19,00 €Out of stockPresentation on the artist's website : "Deliberately operating in the contentious boundary between fashion and art photography, Donovan's work often challenges the notion of images à la sauvette. The photographer deliberately imposes his aesthetic intention on reality whilst drawing inspiration from a writers as diverse as Socrates, Ram Dass, Timothy...
75,00 €Out of stockDeeper Shades 04 VIENNA (*imperfect*)
Fourth volume in the Deeper Shades series by Andreas H. Bitesnich, this Deeper Shades #04 VIENNA is a portrait of the artist's hometown.Grainy images, in darker tones as indicated by the title of the series Deeper Shades, a very personal journey, and a nice way to discover this city through its landmarks, but most importnatly through the details of one of...
60,00 €In StockPresentation on Cedric Van Turtelboom's website: « Noroc is the result of Cedric Van Turtelboom’s winter adventures to Romania. With the simple rule of always sleeping at the home of a local, Cedric approaches with humor a freezing and twisted land, leaving us somewhere between documentary and an absurd fairytale. » -- Thomas Sauvin « Van Turtelboom keeps...
30,00 €In StockPrésentation sur le site de l'artiste : "The project consists of a systematic /methodical exploration of the city of Bari, in Southern Italy, my hometown, where I have been living for many years. The aim was to take a totally new look at a place (in this particular case, Bari) the city dweller has become so familiar with that he/she tends no longer to...
18,00 €Out of stockBeast by the Waterfall Guesthouse
.Sold out.Presentation by Witty Kiwi: "Beast Guesthouse is a non-linear short visual story that discusses the loss and rediscovery of estrangement and desire. I fantasized the world as a sleeping beast, who was gigantic, bizarre, and quiet. I was able to imagine it as my secret friend, regardless of its wishes. The silence of the beast was an umbrella,...
Publisher's presentation: "This is a voyage of initiation. It's a story of the gradual acceptance of another part of the self, of the twin in mutation; in one word, it is about the new, in its manifold meanings. The images were created on a singularly-focused journey that was undertaken to rediscover memories connected to the artist's father. Through...
19,00 €Out of stockAdapted from the presentation of the Ensemble seul series on the Laurence Esnol Gallery website : "As he is contemplating absence, time flying by and the fragility of being, Eric Antoine calls out for the most intimate emotions. On the opposite of a photgrapher who would always be in a quest for images from far away, he tries to convey the importance of...
65,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock.Publisher's presentation: [translation by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Separation between two seas, two countries, two continents, the strait is also a symbolic space acting as a link, invisible but powerful, between peoples and cultures. At a moment where Europe is reflecting on its borders, Sébastien Sindeu explores this in-between, from the...
30,00 €Out of stockDu monde vers le monde (escale à Valparaiso)
Publisher's presentation [translation by L'Ascenseur Végétal] : "This journey du monde vers le monde (from the world to the world) mixes together a fantasized Chile and a very concrete Chile, one of collar-less dogs, of sailors strapped of the horizon, of smiles strapped of illusions, of an elegant human beauty without the artifice of swagger. Sometimes,...
23,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "« In my experience, the two most significant characteristics of war are horror and absurdity, » says Christoph Bangert, the German photojournalist who has been documenting crises for international publications such as the New York Times for ten years. Following his examination, in his critically acclaimed book War Porn (Kehrer...
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