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Shinjuku Lost Child (*signed*)
Presentation by Zen Foto Gallery: "Somewhere the crow flies carrying a coin in its beak could even be an essential place of comfort to someone. Shinjuku Lost Child are photographs taken by Tokyo-based Korean photographer Seung-woo Yang during the years 1998 to 2006, depicting the vivid character and vibrant energy of the people and the district of...
49,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Presentation by MACK: " « Contis’s photographs capture the strange beauty of macro and microcosmic views in the high desert. The indistinguishableness of earth and body and the sensual echoes of human and animal give her works an Ovidian sense of imminent metamorphoses. » –- Lawrence Rinder The images in Sam Contis's Deep Springs...
Publisher's presentation: "In 2011 Jörgen Axelvall moved to Tokyo after living in NYC for 15 years. The work in Go To Become is Axelvall’s expression of his feelings as a newcomer to Japan. It is in every aspect biographical. The oxymoronic combination of feeling excluded and lonely on the crowded streets of Tokyo led Axelvall to seek out desolate and...
52,00 €Out of stock.One imperfect copy available. Presentation by Lecturis: "The photos in I loved my wife were taken on the site of 16 Austrian psychiatric institutions. Tens of thousands of children were murdered in these institutions during the Second World War. Killed because they were considered to be incurably ill. The costs of keeping them alive were too high for...
39,00 €In StockPresentation by Thames & Hudson, publisher of the English edition : "Bernard Plossu has been called “the most American of French photographers” by his friend and colleague Lewis Baltz. Although he is best known for his work in black and white, often capturing a bohemian world of free-spirited adventure, Plossu has also shot in color throughout his...
50,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "The photographer found the photos in this series in antique markets. They were taken in China in the 1970s and 80s. He used collages and drawing to destroy or carry forward the stories in the photos, with his imagination or restoration about the social news in recent years. Maybe the original photos recorded real things which...
55,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Présentation de l'éditeur : "Blitz Club Blitz Kids is a series of images taken in 1980 by the photographer Homer Sykes in the famous London club the Blitz Club.« In the 1970s Britain was still in the midst of economic depression, a three day working week, unemployment was rising sharply, there were frequent strikes and severe inflation. Steve...
.Back in stock!. Presentation by Journal: " « In 2004, I made the book Trying to Dance, designed by Patric Leo and published by Journal. Since then, it has lived a life of its own, just as books should do. For me, Trying to Dance is more than a book – the photographs on which it was based constitute an image universe of its own. Photography then had a...
55,00 €In StockAu Plan K - Joy Divison & Post-Punk
Publisher's presentation: "New York had CBGB, Paris had Les Bains Douches, Amsterdam had the Paradiso, Manchester had its Hacienda… From 1979 to 1986 the Belgian capitol Brussels had Plan K, a wondrous “counter-cultural centre” housed in a former sugar refinery. The list of headline attractions at Plan K reads like a who’s who of post-punk. Joy Division,...
98,00 €Out of stockHalogénure No. 02 - Spring 2017
The texts (articles & interviews) in this magazine about photography are in French only. Presentation of this second issue of Halogénure: "Pour ce nouveau numéro, nous avons choisi de déjouer les attentes et de vous proposer des thématiques axées sur le reportage, la rencontre et l’onirisme. Ce second opus est donc composé d’un cahier documentaire qui...
25,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Mike Mandel grew up in the San Fernando Valley, and as an kid in the 1950s could walk just about everywhere he needed to go: to school, or later down the street to the open field to collect rocks or catch lizards. All of his friends lived on his block, so he didn’t think too much about the time he spent in a car. But by the time...
43,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Afterword is composed of photos used in the afterword ’Sasuke’s Diary’ from Sasuke, My Dear Cat, published by Seinen Shokan in 1978. In the small pocket-sized printing manuscript were instructions and numbering written by Fukase himself. Sasuke the First went missing quite early on, but some time afterwards, someone...
Beyond Here Is Nothing (*signed*)
.Two copies back in stock : #323 and #325.Presentation by the artist: " « Enclosed between four walls, the sound of silence never seemed louder. It’s claustrophobic. I wait for the phone to ring, check for emails obsessively, eat everything out of the fridge. The hunger remains. I feel like if I dig my hand deep into my soul, I will find nothing. The...
199,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Mr. & Dr. is a photobook aimed for children and youngsters that explores the notion of the unknown through images and text. This photobook is an appropriation of a classic horror story, The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson that challenges the overriding illustrative relation between text and...
27,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "Masako Tomiya is a photographer originally from the region of Aomori, north Japan. She has lived in Tokyo for years, and one day, she received news that her sister and sister-in-law, who live near her hometown, were both pregnant. This news inspired Tomiya’s series Kito, a reflection on identity, family, transmission and the...
45,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation of the photobook: "Never-ending bridges where concrete is always within touch, the noise symphonic in cacophony, the spectrum between male and female which blurs distinctions and renders them irrelevant, the transition between life and death, the search of intimacy in a place where everything can be found for sale, from humans to...
50,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "Nicolas Wormull was born in 1977 in Santiago, Chile. He grew up in Sweden where he studied photography. Nicolas Wormull photography as he lives, he speaks to us of the present of instantaneity, and of all these little things that happen daily, right there under our eyes, under his own. He offers us raw and fragile images in...
25,00 €In Stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "We show the images that Anders Petersen highlighted and marked on the contact proof sheets, of the period, with signs, signals and colours. They have lost that original intention of prominance and of status, their Morse code, their meaning, but they have gained the gesture. The footprint. The pride of ingenuity. Their...
Publisher's presentation of the photobook: "Nokturno is a concretization of the ambiguity of photography – photography that has renounced both a demand to be a truthful imitation of an objective external reality, as well as a demand for the projection of a creator’s inner experience on the object of representation. With this project, the photographer...
33,00 €In StockAzimut Z (Trade Edition / Limited Edition)
Presentation by Tendance Floue : "This second photography book in a series of six follows the road of five photographers invloved in the project AZIMUT – Marion Poussier, Denis Bourges with Guillaume Friocourt, Pascal Aimar, Alain Willaume and Patrick Tourneboeuf – walking in realy from Saint-Léger-sous-Beuvray to Guéret [center of France]."300 numbered...
24,00 €In StockTales of Lipstick and Virtue (*signed print*)
Publisher's presentation of Anna Ehrenstein's photobook: "Authenticity has always been a central question in discussions concerning society. It is continuing to gain importance with the emergence of new phenomena such as fake news, alternative facts and instant online control possibilities. However, our definition of an authentic being or an authentic...
69,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Sandrine Lopez meets MoshéExcerpt from Moshé, text by Christophe Van Rossom, Feb. 2012 : "This is not a set of photographs. Let's go further: this is something much more than a particular project. Never does Moshé show anything, tell anything or claim anything. It is an experience, an asceticism, a form of groping in the night worlds. Moshé...
68,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Libraryman: "What is left when everything is gone? In 2015, François Halard visited late Saul Leiter’s almost empty apartment in the East Village, two years after his passing in 2013. He took photographs of the decrepit walls, the empty closet, and of what Saul Leiter had left behind. Saul Leiter (1923–2013) was an American painter and...
48,00 €In 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...
112 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 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 stockFrom the back cover: "Nobuyoshi Araki's Tokyo gathers twenty-eight exquisite diptychs by the artist from the 1970s. As one of Araki's first independent book projects, Tokyo is the prelude to his searing and ongoing exploration of life and the urban space of his hometown. More than forty years after the first edition, Tokyo is being republished - as a...
36,00 €Out of stockPresentation 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 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...
Presentation by Zen Foto Gallery : "Yokushiroku is the first photobook publication by Kouhei Hirose, whose work has been exhibited by notable Tokyo photo galleries for several years. Hirose’s style of photography - or rather of making prints - immediately stands out: through experimentation with chemicals during the printing process, Hirose adds an...
60,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Zen Foto Gallery : "oh my little girl is a strong, sexual tale told through Chan's distinct black-and-white photography. Typical for Chan, it's all in the photos; his relationship with the « little girl » from Macao is not elaborated upon in or outside the book (apart from its classification as an « encounter »). Zen Foto's Mark Pearson...
49,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Zen Foto : "Tokyo Rumando's new body of work S incorporates theatrical elements, which transform her self-portraits from a story into a play, performed at ther own stage theatre, leading the viewer into another time and space..« S is Story She=S S=Sexualviolet S is es S is Sandglass Sayonara S » -- Tokyo...
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