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Presentation on Baptiste Lignel's website: Coney Island, a dying myth "Say the words « Coney Island » to just about any American and you will provoke a reaction, at the very least a spark of recognition. Whether from experience, retold stories of past generations or the personal, albeit generalized, identification and sense of ownership that legend...
38,00 €In StockA Field Guide to Snow and Ice (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation: "Includes 48 black and white and full color plates printed with UV inks on uncoated paper. Leporello binding with multiple panel widths and stiff front and back covers. Spine closure printed on synthetic paper with an essay by Mark Alice Durant. With the spine detached from the front cover, the book becomes an installation piece...
80,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "In 2015, Peter Bialobrzeski returned to his hometown, Wolfsburg, to document the changes the city has undergone since his leaving many years previous. « In the 80’s, I always felt that Wolfsburg was a socialist dream. It felt like everybody was participating. Now the picture has changed ». Wolfsburg Diary is the 3rd...
.Last copy - Sold out by the publisher. Publisher's presentation: Walter Pfeiffer's images are an anthem to youthfulness "Instinctive, spontaneous and unclassifiable, Walter Pfeiffer's images are an anthem to youthfulness, and not only that of the mind. This may explain why, in spite of a monopolizing international success, he accepted ECAL's invitation...
25,00 €Out of stock.Last copy. Publisher's presentation: "The photo book Suspension takes us inside a « Casa Famiglia », an institution where young immigrant boys are welcomed and nurtured. They arrive after long and harsh journeys, often taking years, fleeing from their conflicted and war-torn home countries. Violence tore up their families and roots, and having left all...
25,00 €Out of stockPresentation by André Frère: " What is it that lies behind the UFO phenomena? Is it just a commercially profitable story, a delusion with social consequences, a religious myth, or even a physical phenomenon? Through an investigative journey through the states of Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona, Sara Galbiati, Peter Helles Eriksen and Tobias Selnaes...
43,00 €Out of stock.Last copy. Presentation by the artist : "This book started with an artist residency in Mulhouse, in October 2015, as part of the Mulhouse Biennial of Photography 2016. It is now the intuitive and flooded river of my working process, with images from a variety of sources (and periods) : c-prints, collages, installations views, photocopies, pages from my...
50,00 €Out of stock.One copy available.Presentation by Meta/Books: " - Suzanne Gloria Lyall, missing since March 2 1998 in Albany (NY), at the age of 19 - Out of the Blue is a conceptual work with a tragic underlying narrative — the disappearance of the teenager. The project tends to question our relationship towards absence and loss and the need of physicality in the...
120,00 €In StockThe Incomplete Princess Book (*signed*)
Presentation of the project : " « I always had a problem with my name being so common. If you search my name on the web, the first thing you will find will be a belly dancer, following by all sorts of girls with cheesy smiles (or in explicit poses). At first I hated that. But if you have something that bothers you, you have to work with it, process it,...
29,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : [translation by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "After Bernard Plossu in 2015 (Couleur Fresson), the new collector by de l'air magazine presents new images by Antoine d'Agata, from his series Paradigmes, exhibited from Oct. 27th to Nov. 26th, 2016 at Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris. 200 copies were printed in Offset by Arts...
190,00 €Out of stockPresentation on the artist's website: " In the 80'-90's clubs, dancings, discotheques were booming thanks to house music. Ten thousands of teenagers enjoyed and lost themselves weekend after weekend. Seeking an escape from everyday annoyance with beats beats beats. The newspapers were interested in drugs, violence, annoyance for the neighbours. For them...
30,00 €Out of stockDrop of Light to Rushing Water
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Light escaping from my hands as I try to scoop itStormy red water will circulate around the sea and sky somedayAn eternal scene lies within a moment. In Keiko Nomura's work, women and water have been the motifs in her overarching theme of life’s infinite cycle beyond time and space."Published on the occasion of the...
15,00 €Out of stock.LAST COPY. Publisher's presentation: "Pabaiga by Olivier Pin-Fat presents a crucible of various darkroom processing and analog printing techniques. Working solely with analog materials, often outdated, Pin-Fat's work attempts to shift the image or aesthetic either during the film processing stage or in the darkroom with the photographic print itself....
39,00 €In Stock.Back in stock!.Presentation by NoRoutine: [adapted by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "The book reveals photographs taken in between 1985 – 1995 (last decade of the Communist regime in Lithuania) which where used as a visual material and inspiration for paintings. In the photographs, we find surreal Soviet-era surroundings. The constructive look of Algis...
60,00 €Out of stockthe only thing that matters (*signed w/...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "If I’ve ever felt used by you photographing me... I had never even thought about that. And frankly, I got slightly offended by your question. People asked – you said. I don’t understand – I said. For me that topic was beyond debate. Your work had nothing to do with a superior male view on a beautiful young girl. Not...
Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink
Publisher's presentation: "Classic documentary photography, at its best, is a transcendent path back to the people of another place and time. Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink is a royal road to that special time in 1972-1973 -- when the love generation in America was at its height. The U.S. was reeling from years of war and turbulent social change and...
60,00 €Out of stockLe goût des mandarines (*signed*)
Text included in the book: "Sometimes, memories are linked with five senses. And it is sometimes strange. For me, it would be a sound. Sometimes it is linked with a taste, sometimes with a scent.In Japan, people say about love, « taste like a lemon », so there might be a pathway in the human memory to be brought back to the facts by the five senses....
25,00 €Out of stockSweetheart Roller Skating Rink (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation: "Classic documentary photography, at its best, is a transcendent path back to the people of another place and time. Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink is a royal road to that special time in 1972-1973 -- when the love generation in America was at its height. The U.S. was reeling from years of war and turbulent social change and...
65,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Presentation on the artist's website: "There is a district called Hazaribagh in Dacca, the capital city of Bangladesh. It's a southwestern district of the capital known for densely concentrated oxhide processing factories since East Pakistan State era before the independence in 1971. 90% of domestic oxhide production comes from this district...
.Back in stock.Publisher's presentation : "Peter Granser's photographic series El Alto presents a selection of buildings by self-taught Bolivian architect Freddy Mamani Silvestre. Since 2005, Mamani and his firm have completed more than sixty projects in El Alto, Bolivia."Text in English by Winston Hampel.24 pages - Softcover w/ die-cut cover Edition...
22,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Published for the first time in its entirety, the series Sisyphe (Sisyphus) unfolds as 32 images. They are like fragments from a suddenly veiled scene; all that appears, caught beneath the surface, is a mysterious tangle of thighs, backs, necks, breasts and hair. Anonymous gestures without a story. A sensual knot of bodies,...
35,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: " « Security barrier » for the Israelis, « wall of apartheid » for the Palestinians or « separation barrier » for Human Rights Watch, beyond the political debate, Josef Koudelka shows the wall as a manmade scar that mars the natural landscape. Wall assembles panoramic landscape photographs in black and white, taken between 2008...
50,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock. Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral: "This first survey monograph spans Stéphane Couturier's entire career from his photographs of construction sites, factories and ex nihilo cities taken with a large-format camera to his transition to digital photography including the ongoing series Alger - cité Climat de France. Couturier is...
39,00 €In StockPresentation by Editions Xavier Barral: "Between 1981 and 2003, Mark Cohen takes several trips to Mexico. Fascinated by this country he calls ‘surrealist’, he wanders with his camera, without any anthropological nor social focus, in the streets of Mexico, Merida and Oaxaca. For a split-second, Mark Cohen comes very close to his subjects whom he captures...
45,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "98 mainly unpublished polaroids, 98 timeless images from one of the first fashion provocateurs whose singular way of seeing influenced contemporary photography, and continues to do so."Foreword by Oliviero Toscani.128 pages - Hardcover Editions Xavier Barral, 2009 Format : 17 x 25 cm New - Mint condition
30,00 €Out of stockJe n'ai plus peur du noir (*signed*)
Presentation by Filigranes: "Le 25 décembre 2014, je fais des photographies ce matin-là, en Corrèze.Le lendemain, nous apprenons, suite à une analyse de sang de routine, que Suzanne, notre fille de 7 ans, est atteinte d’une leucémie.Elle est rapatriée le 29 décembre à Paris, à l’hôpital Trousseau.À partir de ce moment-là, je photographie Suzanne à...
30,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Stéphane Duroy et Paulo Nozolino ont en commun exigence et défiance vis-à-vis de la capacité eu égard à la capacité du médium photographique à rendre compte de la complexité du monde. Une écriture dépouillée, le refus de la dimension spectaculaire, l’économie d’images sont des traits communs au travail réalisé dans le...
20,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Presentation by Stanley / Barker: "During the 1980s by the Siberian artist Nikolay Bakharev worked as a mechanic and communal services factory photographer in the USSR. To supplement his income he would solicit work as a black market portrait photographer on the public beaches of Eastern Russia. If the shoot went well, he would invite his...
.Back in stock.Presentation by Dewi Lewis publishing: "« Giacomo Brunelli has been looking hard at animals. His focus is not on the framed and caged exotica of zoos but on the ordinary animals that remain with us to some extent: horses, dogs, cats, chickens, pigeons. He shows us a fox, looking sharply at the camera and poised to flee, and there are...
30,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock. Publisher's presentation of Chris Steele-Perkins' photobook: "1956, sixty years ago, was a watershed year for Teds. In September that year the Bill Haley film Rock Around The Clock arrived in the UK. With five records in the top twenty, Haley was a major star and the film screened at some three hundred cinemas across the country. It wasn’t...
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Présentation de l'éditeur : [traduction L'Ascenseur Végétal] "After editing a selection of photographs from Cecilia’s countless family albums, the authors turned the material into a find-the-pair game. Heavily cropped portraits of the young girl together with animals, toys, ice creams, costumes, laughter and tears give a delicate and sincere glimpse...
22,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "In April 2016, when Pino Musi embarked upon a photographic series in Côtes-d’Armor, that geographical area was a terra incognita for him. At the invitation of the GwinZegal Art Centre in Guingamp, which was involved in the promotion of photography in that predominantly rural area, the Paris-based Italian photographer would, for...
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