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Rebuts, 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,...
.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 StockLes roues interdites (*signed*)
NB : The title Les roues interdites translates as The forbidden wheels.Text from the back cover: "Those who know Syria love it, they know that it is not a land for blood and fire. They know that it is a white land, beautiful with a fragile and dreamy and discreet people. A land of stars that children follow at night. A blue land where deserts confuse the...
40,00 €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...
48,00 €In StockExcerpt from the text in postface : "« Photographer Andrew Miksys, a seasoned traveler, ventures into the spring of Belarus with the eye of a magician. He knows the local terrain well: the distant officialdom and intimate circles, public and private, open and secret, cynical and welcoming, recorded and discarded, winter and summer, the risky future and...
45,00 €In StockYou Could Even Die For Not Being A Real...
Texte of presentation on the artist's website : "There is a kind of photography that reveals the spirit of a place, hurls itself at its prey, the great feast expecting only to be rent asunder. Images are complicit in this, fully exposing anyone who persists in hunting down the mockery of the photograph. Within a rather kitsch Kurdish setting, sensuality...
50,00 €In StockPresentation by Dewi Lewis: "One in five under 18 year olds in the USA is diagnosed as having a mental condition which translates itself into behavioral problems. Often this is treated with medication which can start from an extremely young age. Over a six-year period Baptiste Lignel followed the progress of nine American teenagers with an array of...
36,00 €Out of stockPresentation for Yan Morvan's KissKissBankBank project: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Apaches of the early twentieth century, hoodlums of the 30s: they were the first bad boys. With the 50s comes the reign of the blousons noirs (black jackets) on the Parisian pavement and in the suburb. Rock 'n' Roll arrives in France at the same time as Eddie...
49,00 €In StockPrésentation de l'éditeur : "In addition to his personal photographic practice, A French artist of Asian origin, Tiane Doan na Champassak carries out a reflection about anonymous photography, collected via various sources such as Internet, family albums, or again periodicals. His work often translates into bookmaking and publishing and he has already...
35,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "My brother died in a car accident in 1999. His last girlfriend, Kaori, was Japanese. She kept on writing and sending photos for months after the accident. The search for Kaori led me to Fukushima and the tsunami area, working as a pretext to look for stories of loss and reconstruction across Japan. -- Vittorio...
38,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Between 1968 to 1978, Paddy Summerfield photographed Oxford students in the summer terms. No older than his subjects, he shared their uncertainties: « I was young and unsure and found a way to show this. I felt like an outsider, and lonely, that there was always something going on, parties and drinking, but elsewhere....
Chronicles Set II: #010 House Sitting - Eric Gunderson #009 Landleben (auf Sylt) - Michael Dietrich #008 Twisted Ribbons of Concrete - Michael Rymer #007 In Your Place - Michele Ravasio #006 Desert States - John DarwellThis set, published in a limited edition of 100 copies, is completely sold out. We just found these, and the other sets we...
24,00 €Out of stockChronicles Set III: #015 Invisible Machinery - Toru Ukai #014 Chernobyl Vol. 2 - John Darwell #013 Chernobyl Vol. 1 - John Darwell #012 Origin - Alireza Malekian #011 20,000 New Homes - Gage SolagurenThis set, published in a limited edition of 100 copies, is completely sold out. We just found these, and the other sets we listed at the same time,...
24,00 €Out of stockChronicles Set IV: #020 Walk the Line - Vincent Buller #019 The View East of the View West - Michael Rymer #018 Concrete Jungle - Dale Konstanz #017 Signs of Life - Peter Reed #016 Ebisu Canal - Jan PiotrowiczThis set is published in a limited edition of 100 copies. We just found these, and the other sets we listed at the same time (including...
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