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Belonging, 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 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 –...
30,00 €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 stock.In stock. Publisher's presentation : "Afghan Box Camera documents a living form of photography in danger of disappearing forever. Known as the kamra-e-faoree ("instant camera"), Afghanistan is one of the last places on earth where it has continued to be used by photographers as a way of making a living. Hand-made out of wood, it is a camera and darkroom...
36,00 €In 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;...
39,50 €Out of stockStanley Greene started taking pictures of the punk and rock scenes in 1975, at a time when he had roommates who played in some of the bands... It was San Francisco, these musicians were often artists as well, and after some time, when they needed images of their performances to be included in magazine articles, they naturally turned to their roommate. In...
54,00 €In StockGaza Photo Album is a quite difficult book, as it displays - in a very simple way - house interiors that have been bombed in 2009 within the Gaza Strip.The book is a testimony of the reality of the life conditions within this community. As a caption for each image: the name of the head of the household, the number of people occupying the house, the...
32,00 €Out of stock.One copy available; found miraculously in a forsaken box (April 2021)!.New issue in the beautiful "Eclisse" series from Akina Books, still hand-made in the "Akina Factory" !We are introducing Pray for Rain (Eclisse #10) by Bulgarian artist / photographer Martin Atanasov.Presentation by Akina Books:"« We are crying for German; because of the drought...
28,00 €Out of stock.Last copy!.Facsimile reprint by Xavier Barral of the 1937 "reference" book that is listed in many books about the history of photography and the history of the photobook.Publisher's presentation: "All the elemental forces of nature have been working here for millennia to shape and form a landscape whose scale, majesty and solitude are similar to the...
40,00 €Out of stock.Last copy.Presentation by the artist: "State of Mind is a photographic series, and ultimately a book, about the individual quality of mysterious strangers. The images were captured over a period of several years traveling in countries such as Japan, Portugal, Hungary, Malaysia, Spain, South-Korea, Romania, Russia, Taiwan - and what emerged is a visual...
28,00 €Out of stockHoly Bible (2nd printing) (*signed*)
.One copy available.Holy Bible, by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin was one of the sensations of 2013, one of the most discussed books of that year, and selected in many "best of" lists.This book was for instance shortlisted for the "Book of the Year" award in the "Paris Photo / Aperture Foundation Awards".The books looks like a real Bible, and...
119,00 €Out of stock.Last copy!.Presentation by the artist:"I was in Japan for the first time. In the night, confined to unfamiliar rooms, I would look at myself, with only the alien sound and images from local TV as a companion, I was lost and felt a need to look at the simple things around me, objects, in an attempt to map a familiar reality, trying to hold on to the idea...
15,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "South of Market is a photographic portrait of a San Francisco neighbourhood in the throes of urban renewal. In 1978, Janet Delaney moved to San Francisco's South of Market district because the location was central and the rent was cheap. On the weekends she photographed with her large format camera at the nearby...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Thirty years ago in 1983, Italian photographer Guido Guidi created a short photographic series, taken inside a room in Preganziol, Italy. The sixteen images which make up Preganziol, 1983 were taken within the confines of four bare walls. The only light is emitted through two windows which sit crossways from one...
Publisher's presentation: "Ping Pong Conversations is a long, friendly conversation between Alec Soth, one of the most prominent artist of this time, and the Italian curator and critic Francesco Zanot. Analyzing his most famous photographs as well as others that have been published or are virtually unknown, Soth reflects upon his career as a...
24,00 €Out of stockbe Berlin is a walk in the city of Berlin using pinhole photography (in Black & White and in colour). We are taken more specifically to the less interesting and somewhat derelict neighborhoods, where old factory buildings with broken windows are walled-up and covered in tags. The city is seen from an unusual and original standpoint in this very...
16,00 €In StockBeautiful little book of intimate "diaristic" portraits. 64 pages - Softcover dienacht Publishing, 2013 (2nd edition 2014) New - Mint condition
24,00 €Out of stockGo There by Gen Sakuma, the second book published by Roshin Books (after Watabe Yukichi's Stakeout Diary), is a superb series of Black & White in and around Tokyo. This work was started in 2006.Lavishly printed, with a bright red cover, this is really a beautiful production!We are offering here the standard edition of this book, but please note that...
39,00 €In StockIntroduction to the project Another Family by Irina Popova on the "Indiegogo" platform: "This story started in 2008 when i got an assignment to make a project about feelings.I was wandering through the streets of St. Petersburg at night and there I met Lilya, a punk girl, who was completely drunk. She was pushing a baby carriage with her little daughter...
39,00 €Out of stock.Currently unavailable. Publisher's presentation : "La S.A.P.E, ou Société des Ambianceurs et Personnes Elégantes, est un phénomène vestimentaire et culturel s’inspirant du dandysme, apparu au Congo à l’époque de sa colonisation par les Français. Les Sapeurs congolais entretiennent aujourd’hui ce mythe de la sophistication parisienne en se parant de leurs...
35,00 €Out of stock.Only one copy.Publisher's presentation: "A portrait of an area and the inherent social interactions between youth, crime and the law, Our Kids Are Going to Hell describes Hackney and east London, but also provides a commentary on a wider narrative familiar to all urban nocturnal clashes.Robin Maddock spent three years accompanying local police going...
40,00 €Out of stockNIhonjin is a beautiful series of portraits, realised mainly in Tokyo and Kyoto, of the inhabitants in their daily life and activities, in the streets, in the shops, in the public transportations... A rather classical photography, yet animated and full of colors, and that connects (more than it opposes) what is often represented - with a foreign and...
29,00 €In StockPublisher's description: "Jane Hilton first encountered Madam Kitty’s Cathouse in 1998. In 2000 she was commissioned by the BBC to make ten documentary films in this brothel and one other close by, both situated in Nevada, U.S.A. These films took three years to make. In 2012 Jane decided to return with her plate camera.Although prostitution is one of the...
35,00 €In StockIn Coal not Dole Michael Kerstgens documents the sad and famous miners' strike of 1984 and 1985 in South Wales and Yorkshire. Michael Kerstgens, then still a student, is interested in the daily and family life, and the social life during this extremely tough period of time. He takes us in the miners' homes, to the union's club, to the meetings, and on the...
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