Stanley 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...
Gaza 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...
For 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...
.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...
.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...
.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...
Holy 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...
.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...
.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...
be 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...
Beautiful little book of intimate "diaristic" portraits. 64 pages - Softcover dienacht Publishing, 2013 (2nd edition 2014) New - Mint condition
Go 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...
Introduction 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...
.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...
Marseille, Fragments d'une ville
With Marseille, Fragments d'une ville, Sylvain Maestraggi tells the story of his hometown, the story of its people, its buildings and public spaces, and also of the local habits and the peculiarities. A beautiful story and a beautiful journey.150 pages approx. - Softcover L'Astrée Rugueuse, 2013 New - Mint condition
.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...
NIhonjin 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...
Publisher'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...
One of the classic photobooks in the series of small volumes of thematic photographs by Michael Wolf from the streets of Hong Kong. This series was a close collaboration between Michael Wolf and publisher Hannes Wanderer from Peperoni Books. Michael Wolf lived in Hong Kong and walked the streets of the city for over 20 years, turning his eyes and lens to...
In 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...
Condamné à marcher seul is a wandering in the city, in the night, through photographs (Clément Paradis) and text (Romain Gavidia), an introspection and an encounter with the other, a reflection on "why me?" and "why the others?"...The text in French inter-mingled with the images is translated in English at the end of the book.We are also offering a...
Publisher's presentation: "This pocket sized (15 x 10 cm), limited edition book, by collector Barbara Levine and graphic designer, Martin Venezky is a meditation on the camera and its complicated hold on our lives. Found and staged photos, ephemera, and all sorts of unexpected relationships are brought together and set in motion by design. The result is...
Je suis un piéton, rien de plus
Publisher's presentation: "Born in Charleville-Mézières, Éric Guglielmi suffered in his childhood the omnipresence of Rimbaud, his tyranny: Rimbaud street, the Rimbaud place, the Rimbaud museum, the Rimbaud school ... Then comes the adolescence, and the poignant reading of the poet. Eric Guglielmi followed in the footsteps of Rimbaud and visited...
Karma is quite a surprise, with pictures of cars done with a strong flash light, car parts, portraits (with a flash light as well) of drivers and passengers that sometimes try to hide and sometimes act naturally when the photographer remains unnoticed. In this photobook, Óscar Monzón shows us in a very direct manner the importance of the car in our lives,...
.Back in stock. Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral: "This book contains 90 photographs that aim to present the backbone of photographer Patrick Faigenbaum’s black and white works, since his beginnings in 1973 until today. Most of the photographs are previously unpublished works, following a rhythm here that makes them, as a whole, resemble a musical...
CESURA FANZINE #00 is a collective publication containing a selection of the best 2013 imagesmade by the following photographers:Anna Adamo, Luis Aniceto, Arianna Arcara, Luca Baioni, Federico Carpani, Chiara Fossati, Giacomo Liverani, Gabriele Micalizzi, Valentina Neri, Andy Rocchelli, Alessandro Sala, Luca Santese, Gabriele Stabile, Melchior Tersen,...
.Back in stock.Spasibo is a journey in today's Chechnya, in the rubble of the wars of independance from the Russian Federation, in a republic under the rule of Ramzan Kadyrov. David Monteleone takes us in all parts of the republic, to cities and to the countryside and mountains, and we meet all kinds of people: police force, maimed soldiers, lost youth,...
.In stock.Publisher's presentation: "The photographs presented are part of a project that began in 2003. They constitute the prologue to a project of photographic reconnaissance performed by Jean Gaumy, who travelled to the Arctic Circle to lands contaminated by Chernobyl, while also frequently returning to the high plains of the Occitan Piedmont...
.PLEASE NOTE: we are offering the GERMAN edition by Kehrer. Publisher's presentation: "Shomei Tomatsu, one of Japan's foremost twentieth-century photographers, created one of the defining portraits of postwar Japan. Beginning with his meditation on the devastation caused by the atomic bombs in 11:02 Nagasaki, Tomatsu continued to focus on the tensions...
Zine N° 16 - Dead Light (*w/ signed print*)
40 pages - Softcover Editions Bessard, 2014 *w/ Signed Print* New - Mint condition