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.Sold out. Presentation by Claudine Doury on the Agence VU' website: " C'est l'histoire d'une lente disparition, dans les sables et dans le temps, la fin d'un monde, un voyage dans l'Asie centrale post-soviétique et le Xinjiang chinois. J'avais lu Djamilia du poète kirghiz Tchinghiz Aitmatov, et je rêvais aux kolkhozes perdus dans la steppe et à ses...
56 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Nazraeli Press, 2012 New - Mint condition
75,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Mack: "Rodeo Drive, 1984 is a series of 41 images of shoppers on Beverly Hills’ infamous shopping highway. The subjects appear caught unaware, glancing up as they walk, or daydreaming as they wait to be served in its commercial landscape of shops and restaurants. Anthony Hernandez poses as a dispassionate observer, recording the big hair,...
40,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock.From the artist's website: "Metsästä invites the viewer to meet with a suggested world vacillating between a common and extraordinary context related to Finnish culture and its connection to forest and nature. It is a work partly autobiographic, fictional and documentary, a story both chilling and amazing, where men are hunting missing...
40,00 €In StockPlease note : the book offered is a French-only version (the book was also printed in the English version Divided Soul which we are not currently offering...)Presentation of Divided Soul on the Magnum website: " David Alan Harvey's Divided Soul is a collection of more than 100 color photographs and personal texts representing his 30-year journey...
25,00 €Out of stockA l'heure où les frontières européennes sont en train d'être abolies, et particulièrement celle - ténue à de nombreux égards - entre la Belgique et la France, Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt s'intéresse à la relation (de similitude ou d'opposition) qui existe entre ces deux pays de part et d'autre de la "ligne". Un regard qui s'attache en particulier aux gens, au...
32,00 €Out of stockFrom the publisher : "A comparison and photographic panorama of “tables of power” The financial crisis of 2009 shook the global economy to its very foundations. Yet has anything changed at the centers of power since? Do executive suites look different than they used to? And what do they actually look like? A decade ago, Jacqueline Hassink captured images...
55,00 €In StockUn livre sur le culte de la célébrité, où les vraies personnes interagissent avec les "stars" qu'elles adulent dans un rêve solarisé... Ce livre a été sélectionné parmi les 20 finalistes du meilleur premier livre photo à Paris Photo 2012 ("First Photobook Award", The Paris Photo - Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards). 72 pages - Relié sans jaquette...
30,00 €In StockDans ce livre hommage aux déportés, Michael Kenna a voulu nous faire rentrer dans les bâtiments des camps et nous montre les tours, les murs, les cheminées, les couloirs, des objets. C'est suite à un premier voyage à Natzweiler en 1986 lors d'un voyage en France que naquit ce besoin de documenter à sa façon les camps, dans un travail qu'il n'avait pas eu...
42,00 €Out of stockThe Hasselblad Award 2002 - Jeff Wall
Presentation by Steidl: "For over 20 years, Jeff Wall has been developing an outstanding body of work, using photography in an innovative way which has contributed significantly to placing the medium of photography firmly on the map of contemporary art. In his carefully staged and composed images, sometimes digitally altered, placed in back-lit boxes...
79,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. From the publisher : " « Stendhal’s famous definition of the novel - a mirror carried along a road - could well apply to The Last City. But Pablo Ortiz Monasterio's is a selective mirror, precise and implacable, which retains only that which is worth preserving. » -- José Emilio Pacheco Mexico City presents a post-apocalyptic...
This photobook is a second edition (with the addition of 30 images) of a quickly sold out book published by White Press in 2010. THis second edition was published jointly by and through Aperture and Koenig Books, London in 2012. PLEASE NOTE: We are offering here the Koenig Books, London version. Presentation of the Aperture edition: "Doug Rickard's A New...
95,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Presentation by Mack: "Anne-Marie Merryman collected postcards between 1937 and 1980, a collection inherited by her granddaughter, Anne Sophie Merryman. The book, Mrs. Merryman’s Collection, presents the postcards which together form the story of two intertwined lives - one life lived travelling the world through the postcard images, the other...
Michael Jang found this series of portraits nearly 30 years after making the pictures. During a casting for a local American channel that offered 5 people the chance to present the weather, he was asked to make a portrait of each candidate after his test in front of the camera.A very simple, almost innocent series, which simply reminds us of the 80s and...
39,00 €In StockMeat America by Dominic Episcopo could easily pass for a "gimmick", on the very "carnal" relation between the United States, the Americans, their culture and the good steack. Meat America is a funny and inventive book, sometimes provocative; a humorous book, and a lot more too! Through images of steak or beef ribs chosen and cut to represent American...
42,00 €Out of stockFrom the publisher: " Accompagnant dix ans du travail de Machiel Botman, Rainchild a connu plusieurs formes, différentes maquettes. Cette histoire se retrouve dans l'ouvrage aujourd'hui achevé. S'y conjuguent des images et des textes de différente nature - évocations poétiques, portraits, notes personnelles - qui concernent la mémoire intime, et la...
48,00 €In Stock.Only one copy.Tiane Doan na Champassak (Looters, King of Photography, Tantra, Father of Pop Dance) presents in Credo images of Haiti and India made between 2004 and 2007 around rituals related to cults and beliefs.Faithful to the process of reproduction "Risograph" for his small productions such as Credo (200 ex.), The artist here takes advantage of a...
129,00 €Out of stockFrom the back cover (extraits d'un texte de Didier Mouchel) : La Seine fut très tôt perçue comme "la grande rue dont Rouen et Le Havre sont les faubourgs". Pour les peintres et écrivains du XIXème siècle, elle représentait le fleuve "national" par excellence, celui qui, dans la conscience collective, nourrie de l'élan républicain et de la recherche de...
39,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock (2018 reprint). Presentation by Mack: "In 2011 Vanessa Winship was the recipient of the Henri Cartier Bresson Award which funds an artist to pursue a new photographic project. For over a year Winship travelled across the United States, from California to Virginia, New Mexico to Montana, in pursuit of the fabled ‘American dream’. she dances...
45,00 €Out of stockBad Liver and a Broken Heart (1st ed.)
Publisher' presentation: "The origin of this work of self-fiction can be found in one of São Trindade’s sketchbooks, this one entirely devoted to the subject of loss or decadence. With references to the aesthetics of crime scenes and nightlife photographed by Weegee in New York in the 1930 and 1940’s, the device is simple: in a "real décor," São...
18,00 €Out of stockPresentation by GHOST: " « The dogma of those who govern in Lisbon nowadays is that there is no alternative to the system of collective penury signed with the Troika. The Portuguese National Budget for 2013 is a historical watershed. It puts an end to an age by tearing up a contract with a society which, after the Carnation Revolution, dreamed of being...
15,00 €In StockLes images de Lee Friedlander prises dans l'industrie et sur les lieux de travail, réalisées souvent sur commande. Cet ouvrage reprend entre autres certaines images des séries présentées dans les livres "Factory Valleys - Ohio and Pennsylvania (Callaway, 1982) dans l'industrie lourde de l'acier et Cray at Chippewa Falls (livre de commande - Cray Research...
24,00 €Out of stock.PLEASE NOTE: All texts in French only in this book. Photographe et vidéaste, Édith Roux nous présente dans Les dépossédés un travail sur la communauté Ouïghour, minorité ethnique turcophone et musulmane du Xinjiang, dans la partie nord-ouest de la Chine. De nombreux travaux liés à l'exploitation des ressources naturelles de cette région, associés à la...
40,00 €Out of stockAutodafé by Coralie Fournier Moris is a very refined photobook, with a simple and elegant layout.Short texts in the introduction tell us about meetings, bodies and death ... Then come the photographs, organized as in acts. The atmosphere of the work is both light and evanescent thanks to prolonged and controlled fuzziness, but also dramat-(urg)-ic because...
6,00 €Out of stockPrésentation de l'éditeur : "Le livre a la forme d'un début d'enquête : attentive aux détails et sensible à l'atmosphère où le sens demeure suspendu. En revenant au Maroc, pays de son adolescence, Christophe Bourguedieu évoque un sentiment mêlé : la jouissance d'images retrouvées croise le sentiment d'une intimité éteinte. Le narrateur du texte, de retour...
22,00 €In StockPresentation by the publisher: " From the outside, everything seems undecidable in Finland, as if the in-between was its peculiarity: in-between two continents, two eras, two atmospheres. Pour aller vite, statisme et vivacité. Les liens contraints avec l'ex-URSS et le fantasme d'une Amérique de voitures et de surf music expliquent en partie cette...
25,00 €In Stock.Back in stock.Presentation by Dewi Lewis of Martin Bogren's photobook: "Youngsters meet up on the village outskirts, racing their tractorcars, burning tyremarks into the warm summer asphalt. The smell of rubber, oil and souped-up engines fills the air when the engines speed. The cars form into a circle as the boys take turns in the middle. It is a game –...
Mars - Une exploration photographique
Mars - Une exploration photographique is the French edition of the book This is Mars released simultaneously by Aperture (not offered by L'Ascenseur Végétal). The French publishing house is actually that of the man behind this project : Xavier Barral. This book is IN FRENCH ONLY. The book is an incredible B & W journey on the surface of planet Mars....
79,00 €In Stock.Last copy!.WARNING: Our last copy has one very slightly bumped cornerStakeout Diary is a re-interpretation of Watabe Yukichi's work already presented by Éditions Xavier Barral and D.A.P in a book form as A Criminal Investigation (cf. "Suggestions" tab).This new book, which offers a slightly different selection of images, in a totally re-worked sequence,...
45,00 €Out of stockTransition, paysages d'une société
From the Publisher: Transition presents the collaborative photography project of twelve South African and French photographers on South African land and the role that photography continues to play in the representation and re-imagining of land.The Social Landscape project cites the work of six South African photographers: Pieter Hugo, Santu Mofokeng,...
39,00 €Out of stockThe End of La Belle Epoque (*signed*)
The photographs included in this book The End of La Belle Epoque are from another time, that of the USSR, of Communism, before the fall of the wall. Misha Pedan's work presented here was made between 1986 and 1989, at a time when the Communist regims seemed to have already loosened their grip; his images show clothes, behaviours, and a street life that...
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