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.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 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 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 stockFor the Sake of Future Days (*signed*)
For the Sake of Future Days is a photobook by Katsuhiro Saiki that doesn't really fit in any category, it is actually even a bit bewildering.In an unusual presentation, here is how I mentioned the book in an email the day I received it : "I feel like I need to talk about it or read something about it to help me get the feel of the book, interpret it... I...
20,00 €In 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...
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