I'm still looking for my own Jane...
I'm Still Looking for My Own Jane Gallagher by Juan Hernandez is probably the story of a wanderer, one who chases something, without really know how or when it will present itself; a story of hopes and endeavors, but also of disappointments and intended (serendipitous) mistakes... This little photobook in B & W, thats mixes in a really intriguing...
Publisher's presentation: "Transmontanus, the Latin term meaning “beyond the mountains”, is an allusion to the wind coming from the Pyrenees that characterises the Catalan region of the Empordà, not only defining its identity but also bringing change and erosion. Transmontanus is both a journal and a journey back to a landscape we knew as children. The...
Présentation de l'artiste : "«s o r a n e» (Empty Sound) Born and vanishes, Each day is born to vanish One empty moment, sifted out, Takes me far beyond my consciousness, Enticing me to a distant somewhere. The fleeting scenery And the days Travel past me without conversation. Clinging just for a hint of a moment,I strain to see As I reach out my hand,...
.Back in stock!. Project presentation from the artist's website: "I started working on my Paradise essay in 2006, when I moved back to Stockholm after living in different European cities. Though born and raised in Milan, as a half-Swede I have always felt connected to this city. The approach of my photography is direct, intuitive and fast. I'm trying to...
Full title : Amsterdam - Old Photographs 1941-1970 / Amsterdam! Oude foto's - 1947-1970This is the third time this book is published, after the initial publication in 1979 and a first re-release in 1988.B & W photographs of Amsterdam by one of the great masters of Dutch photography, one of the masters of photography from the second half of the XXth...
Publisher's presentation: "Kazuo Kitai had dropped out of university just six months after entering the Photography course in the Art Department of Nihon University in Tokyo. As he puts it himself: «I didn't listen to anything my teachers said». He had been living in Kobe, and even as a teenager used to visit the ateliers and exhibitions of the Gutai...
.WARNING: Our last copies have small bumps to one or 2 corners and possibly one or 2 wrinkles to the cover. Presentation on Kate Nolan's website: "Neither is an exploration into the dreams and fears of young women in Kaliningrad - a tiny and isolated Russian region on the Baltic Sea - through both image and text. The women I met and be-friended...
OBEN (German word for "above") is a journey in the city, but in a little known part of the city : the wide spaces, the ducts, the antennas, the railings of which the roofs are composed... a journey full of obstacles, of surprises and of large deep breaths...Editing with Paul Gaffney, hand-bound with Nico Baumgarten.44 pages - Softcover Self-published,...
Exit Ghost is a dark and powerful book that - with explicitly naming the location of shooting - displays in a somber manner the real estate development in Dubai, at the fringes of the city, and the life of the inhabitants and workers.Black & White (tritone) images that suggest more than they show, where blurring (out of focus) and grain of the image...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Mother and Father, is a moving journal of the final years of a sixty-year marriage. For ten years, from 1997 to 2007 Paddy Summerfield photographed his parents, reflecting on the bond between them, which even the effects of Alzheimers could not break. They become symbols in a drama of balance and tension, which is...
Tauromaquia by Julián Barón is an open edition, but the singed and numbered copies offered here are from a print run of 200 copies made during a "one day printing show" as part of an exhibition at P2P during PhotoEspaña 2014. This edition is almost sold out by the artist. Two other editions of 200 copies have been made : one for the exhibition "Lonja del...
.ONE NEW copy available!.For Japan Sea, Shunji Dodo traveled the coast of the Japan Sea (delimited by China, the two Koreas, Russia and Japan) with an 8"x10" camera. Through this geographical and certainly historical point of entry, he is looking for a point of entry into the Japanese culture, by immersing the viewer in the daily life he witnessed,...
Presentation by the artist: "When I was learning How to ride my bike My uncle told me: «to learn, you will have to fall many times» I started falling on purpose.Almost Fiction, a book made on the road, passing through different countries with a bicycle and a 35 mm camera."60 pages - Softcover Self-published, 2014 (150 copies) *Signed* New - Mint condition
Publisher's presentation: "In 1930, duck farmer Martin Maurer from Flanders, Long Island, decided to construct a giant duck-shaped shop to sell the Peking ducks he raised to motorists passing by. In 1972, in the book Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott-Brown, and Steven Izenour, studying the architecture of that city, outlined 2 main...
.Last copy.Presentation by Super Labo: "How often have you been in your car going somewhere when you suddenly see outside your window some brief, often insignificant event, which nonetheless grabs your attention, and you turn to whoever is in the car with you and say, ‘… quick! Look at that!’ And then it’s too late, you’ve already passed it and it becomes...
Publisher's presentation: "We made these photographs between October and April 2013/2014 in Sweden, in Sunne, in the middle of nowhere and far away from everything. It was winter and every Saturday night Pizzeria Sunne transformed from a fast food restaurant into a karaoke bar. This was the only place to go if you wanted to meet other people during the...
.Sold out. Presentation by Silas Finch: "These photographs depict various places in the American West, and were taken over a one hundred-year period, from the 1870s through the 1970s. The photographers represented range from the completely unknown to some of America’s most distinguished practitioners of the medium. All of the images were sourced from...
Ppresentation by Editions du LIC / Skinnerboox: "Big Sky Hunting, the debut volume by Italian photographer Alberto Sinigaglia, presents a voyage to the edge of representational space. 'Hunting' used not in the sense of the killing of animals by man, but as an expression of man’s dominance over this space: An expression of man’s atavistic obsession with...
Berlusconians / No Berlusconians
.Sold out.Presentation by the artist: "Silvio Berlusconi is a very special character in Italian politics. Who votes him, loves him as he is. And those who would never vote for him? Two different worlds, placed face to face in a collection of portraits. Berlusconians / No Berlusconians is a self-published and handmade book that shows two very italian...
Publisher's presentation RVB Books: "Tiane Doan na Champassak worked on anonymous photographs he found posted on the blogs and websites of the Indian subcontinent’s exhibitionists and swingers. He collected the images posted by men in which we see their wives or partners exposed but in which the men took great care to cover up with Photoshop any clues as...
Publisher's presentation: "A family album preserves only carefully selected photographs. Out of an entire life, it stores only handpicked moments, privileging special occasions, happy ones usually, and consigning the rest to oblivion: happy faces, relaxed moments, places of leisure rather than work. It tends to underline a group’s social links and...
J'ai perdu ma tête translates to I lost my mind.Excerpt from the text inserted in the book: "Because two years when you have your mind, it is so long! But when you don't have your mind, I didn't see two years of my life going by. I didn't speak. So I can't remember, I don't remember anything at all. I'm only getting my mind back now. I didn't see two...
Publisher's presentation: "A Story of Bears explores personal stories about teddy bears and other stuffed animal toys that become lifelong companions and hold a special place in the lives of their owners. Sylvie Huet rediscovered her own childhood teddy at the age of 49 in a fleamarket. Until then he had lived only as a memory and in family photographs....
.Currently out of stock.A really beautiful book, dark and mysterious, that takes us to the places and landscapes, to the waters where the Japanese pilots of the "Kaiten" suicide torpedos were training at the end of the Pacific War. Pilots who were ready to give their lives by guiding these "human" torpedos right into the enemy warships.... Hitoshi Uemoto...
.Sold out. Presentation by the artist : "Les Petites Morts wonders about the «risks» related to the behaviors in our modern society. Using found images selected for their clear kitschy look, and picturing older people, this series offers a reflection on the way we are judged, and made to feel guilty, about our consumerist-society habits, when the real...
Publisher's presentation: "With over 200 images of t-shirt ‘messages’, T: A Typology of T-shirts looks at those individuals who stand out in a crowd through their choice of the message on their back. These photographs are not just about the T-shirt. With their combination of pictures and words these messages reveal much about the identity of the wearer....
Publisher's presentation: "You Won’t Be With Me Tomorrow is a sequel to the narrative Harvey Benge developed in his 2013 book, Some Things You Should Have Told Me. Both deal with the pain of relationship, the seeming inevitability of separation and the mistrust that is its consequence. Women drift, lost and hostile, throughout the pages – they’re masked...
.Currently out of stock. Presentation by Juan Aballe: "Produced between 2011 and 2013 in Iberian Peninsula, this book deals with my relationship with the rural environment and the emotions brought about by the possibility of taking the big step of leaving the city and living closer to nature. Country Fictions also reflects on the photographic language...
Anticyclone (*signed w/ Print*)
Presentation on the artist's website: "During 5 years, between 2009 and 2013, Sandra Rocha went back to Terceira Island, place where she lived until she turned 20, to visit and photograph her family. Anticyclone, edited by André Principe and José Pedro Cortes, both photographers and editors from Pierre Von Kleist, it’s a study about the island and also...
.One copy available - Sold out by the publisher.Publisher's presentation: "Jens Liebchen's book System is a delight with a false bottom. The pictures show a magical winter wonderland, a deserted, pristine snowy landscape with beautifully sprouted trees, that emerge, individually or in groups, filigree, snow-covered and delicate green on the branches from...
Publisher's presentation: "Dodo is the catalogue of an exhibition of the same name by artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin. The exhibition originated with the discovery of unreleased material from the motion picture Catch-22 (1970) in the storerooms of Paramount Picture. Filmed on a coastline in Mexico, which more closely resembled the Sicily of...
Publisher's presentation: "Gomorrah Girl tells two stories in one, the problems of growing up in a crime-ridden area and the murder of Annalisa Durante, a young woman caught in the crossfire of a Mafia shootout. The stories are brought together through innovative, book within a book, design. Bound together are Spada’s photographs documenting adolescence...