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.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...
95,00 €Out of stockBelonging, as the Bengladeshi photographer Munem Wasif belongs to his hometown of Dhaka, where he roamed the streets fo the city for 10 years to make this beautiful portrait, at the heart of the city.A great series of Black & White images, with dense blacks and a grainy feel, that takes us in the alleys of the city in the nicest of fashions, as a...
36,00 €Out of stock_08.08 Operating Theatre (*signed*)
_08: 08 Operating Theater contains 7 images; 7 operating rooms photographed with a view camera, in one take, exactly 5 minutes after the end of an operation ...The author exploited the English term for an "operating theater", a terminology inherited from the first universities of medical education where the surgeons operated in amphitheatres.And it is...
60,00 €Out of stockSergey Novikov and his "buddy / hero" Vasya made a really strange trip (or journey) out of their stay in Belgium : trying to taste a maximum of beers at each stage !Truth is, Belgium is a really small country, but its reputation as a country of brewers has traveled around the world, and these two Russian friends took the time to really appreciate the...
30,00 €In StockSheets is a retrospective of Rinko Kawauchi's work over the last 10 to 15 years, presented as excerpts of her contact sheets. From an artist recognized for several famous and acclaimed books : Utatane, Cui-Cui, Ametsuchi, etc.This new presentation is a re-interpretation of the artist's work from that period. Beautiful book with numerous foldouts.152 pages...
39,00 €Out of stockFrom the publisher : "Gasoline presents 35 archive press images of gas stations taken between 1944 and 1995. They have been collected by writer David Campany, purchased from the photography archives of several American newspapers which have been discarding their analogue print collections and moving to the now ubiquitous .jpeg or .tif formats. Gasoline...
30,00 €Out of stockA funny collection of images of misspelled road markings & signs. PLEASE NOTE : Our last copy shows imperfection to the thin plastic lamination at the top of the front cover (coming off a tiny bit)50 pages - Soctcover RVB Books, 2013 New - Mint condition
25,00 €Out of stockHester is a series of reconstructed portraits offering a re-interpretation of the body that is sometimes disturbing, and always surprising.48 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Mörel Books, 2013 New - Mint condition
59,00 €Out of stock.Sols out.Almost is a peaceful book, that takes us in a labyrinth of personal memories where expectation, melancholy, oblivion, and disappearance join us or lead us in every nook; a labyrinth in which the reader has to make their own path, and see or imagine their own fiction.48 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Bemojake, 2013 New - Mint condition
As if it should have been a quarry
As if it should have been a quarry is literally an immersion in Iceland's land. During an artist residency in this country, Sabine Mirlesse centered her project on a village that had been buried - swallowed - in lava and ash back in 1973, in a small island off the south mainland coast. The artist got interested in the intimate relationship between the...
32,00 €In StockStormbelt is a book about the decline, sometimes the dereliction, of this wide portion of American land called the "Sun Belt", which - until the end of the 90s - was a symbol of the American economic might. Recession and natural disasters (drought, hurricanes, forest fires) have hit hard on this area, from the East to the West coast. Robert Leslie looks...
38,00 €Out of stockFront cover text:"I took these photographs before the turn of the century while travelling acroxx Europe and the United States.My eye was good-hearted.The time that has passed since then is, at least, something we all have in common.At the time I was astonished. I still am. JH Engström."A road-trip it is, made of color and Black & White images;...
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