Songbook (1st ed. / 2nd printing)
.In stock.Presentation by Mack: "Known for his haunting portraits of solitary Americans in Sleeping by the Mississippi and Broken Manual, Alec Soth has recently turned his lens toward community life in the country. To aid in his search, Soth assumed the increasingly obsolescent role of community newspaper reporter. From 2012-2014, Soth traveled state by...
Presentation by Le bec en l'air: "Denis Dailleux, who lives in Cairo, never stops unveiling the Egyptian people since falling in love with them fifteen years ago. Mères et fils (or Mothers and Sons) is certainly his most personal and most unsettling series. With modesty and tact, he photographs the intimacy of families where the son's love for his mother...
Publisher's presentation: "Meshes, curtains of twigs, thickets and foliage, doors and screens, hair: the frontal views always find an obstacle in their path which constrains our vision from penetrating any deeper and completing the perspective geometry. Sometimes we have to give up. This frustration is in reality an incitement to pursue the journey, to...
Zine N° 24 - Girls (*w/ signed print*)
Beautiful portraits of women.A limited edition of 300 copies with a signed picture by the artist on gelatin silver print on Kodak paper.40 pages - Softcover Editions Bessard, 2015 *w/ Signed Print* New - Mint condition
.Sold out.Publisher presentation: "Snowpark consists of a selection of photographs from a series Philippe Fragnière undertook as his diploma work at ECAL (University of art and design in Lausanne, Switzerland) in 2012 and pursued after graduating. Constructed as ski terrains for freestyle competitions, snowparks form monumental snow architectures erected...
Publisher presentation : "Akito Tsuda’s images originate from an instinctive drive where imprecisions, such as shadows or out-of-focus shots, are an important part of the narration. Akito participates in the life of the streets to document it in each of its daily actions and gestures.In Breath in, breath out Akito Tsuda photographs stray cats in Osaka and...
Publisher's presentation : "Over two sweltering, bug-swarming weeks in July, the LBM Dispatch crew (superbly assisted by Stephen Milner and Brett Schenning) covered 2,400 miles in Georgia, exploring the State’s diverse landscapes, histories, and narratives that were alternately harrowing and inspiring. From the Civil War to the last beleaguered Gullah...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Capturing Cairo between the overthrow of Morsi and Mubarak, Bialobrzeski’s images portray daily life in the Egyptian capital at a time of major urban, social and political upheaval and renewal. As silent and tranquil as they are anxious and tense, the images demonstrate Bialobrzeski’s ability to find beauty in chaos....
Displacement Island (*signed*)
Presentation by the artist : "Displacement Island is an experimental narrative set on the island of Lampedusa, off the coast of Sicily. Famed for the beauty of its beaches, this paradisiacal island is routinely confronted by its crucial geopolitical role. European vacationers seeking a summer refuge here are confronted by migrants fleeing from their...
Publisher's presentation: "For several years Monica Ursina Jäger has been drawing built and natural landscapes inspired by Modernist-style architecture. Her precise works, using media including ink and pigment transfers, combine hope and downfall: on one hand designers' aspirations, and fantasies, for the future; on the other the dystopia of failure. In...
.Back in stock.Presentation by Kehrer: "Inshallah («God willing» in Arabic) explores the Soviet and American occupations of Afghanistan, and draws on my childhood fantasies that romanticize the military and intertwine with my past and present personal conflicts. As a Ukrainian, who was born and raised in the FSU and residing in the US, this is the second...
.One copy.Publisher's presentation : "Book with a sequence of 49 recent photographs by Geert Goiris, of which the larger part was taken in Norway and North America in 2014 and 2015. This series was compiled in analogy with a large slide projection integrated in the exhibition Geert Goiris - Flashbulb Memories, Ash Grey Prophesies at Foam, Amsterdam, from...
Catalogue for the second edition of the "EPEA - European Photo Exhibition Award" with the subject "The New Social".Presentation by EPEA : "The European Photo Exhibition Award – epea for short – aims to create a free space where socially relevant topics concerning Europe are developed and discussed by talented photographers who live and work in Europe and...
Zine N° 23 - Dear Slut (*w/ signed print*)
Publisher's presentation : "Is it okay to call you that? I know it is alright in their eyes. You have no identity other than being a 'woman'. You are at their disposal with your love, with your body. You are a result of their expectations and ideas. And they call you with whatever name they choose. But I know what you have been through. I know what you...
Presentation by Kehrer Verlag: "During the day, the Senegalese beaches are pretty desolate. Maybe the occasional tourist, some fisherman or children playing. But in the late afternoon, it slowly changes. Young guys have quit their day jobs and head to the beach. They are there to train »Lutte«, the local wrestling sport. « Lutte Sénégalaise » or Laamb as...
Publisher's presentation : "On a mission to photograph the invisible, with Deleted Scene photographer Yury Toroptsov takes us to Eastern Siberia in a unique story of pursuit along intermingling lines that form a complex labyrinth. His introspective journey in search of a father gone too soon crosses that of Akira Kurosawa who, in 1974, came to visit and...
Zine N° 21 - The Selfeet (*w/ signed print*)
Publisher's presentation : "#TheSelfeet is a series of self-portraits about the ridiculous practice of narcissism on the Internet. Social network feeds and our lives have been invaded by selfies. This topic has been mentioned more than 92 million time on Twitter in 2014. A narcissistic, self-centred, symbol of the «look at me, like me» trend. Artists,...
Publisher's presentation: "Paris is a city deeply divided between the immensly wealthy city itself and its often turbulent suburbs. Such a division has its origins in the 1860’s when Baron Haussmann embarked on his grand redesign and redevelopment of Paris that was to forever change the fabric of the city. While Paris has since grown into a modern city,...
Publoisher's presentation : "La Photographie_Maison Blanche est un festival dédié à la photographie contemporaine créé à Marseille en 2010. Il décerne chaque année un Prix qui fait désormais l’objet d’une monographie. Lauréate 2014, Léa Habourdin, jeune photographe remarquée dans le paysage artistique, mêle pour ce livre deux séries d’images : The book of...
Full title : Dystopia - Main basse sur l’agriculture ("Dystopia - The Hijacking of Agriculture")Publisher's presentation : "In the aftermath of the Second World War, governments drove farmers to embrace a headlong rush to modernization. A half-century later, utopia has become a dystopia: 60% of farmers have disappeared, soil erosion is getting worse,...
Portfolio section:Salvi Danes; Thomas Hauser; Magdalena Świtek; Pietro Paolini; Tito Mouraz; Calogero Cammalleri; Sebastian Reiser; Luigi Grassi.Book review:Juan Diego Valera- Diente de chucho.Tommaso Tanini- H. said he loved us | reviewed by Valentina AbenavoliInterview by Francesca Orsi:Teresa Giannico; Pamela PiscicelliDossier section (erotic):Nina...
I went to the worst of bars hoping to get...
Publisher's presentation: "I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed. but all I could do was to get drunk again is a diary of sorts, following invisible men, down piss alleyways and into empty bars. The photographer accompanies the seekers of oblivion, their lopsided faces caught between ecstasy and apathy, their mouths chasing the numbness of...
Publisher's presentation of the photobook: "As an assembly of archival images and new images, the author realizes with Gravity a photographic poem, a tribute to the first space missions, a narrative fiction inspired by real events. (...) However, Michel Mazzoni's photography is not motivated by nostalgia. Gravity primarily addresses our relationship with...
Publisher's presentation: "The Gardener is the winning project of the inaugural Syngenta Photography Award. Photographed by Jan Brykczynski, it is an extension of his previous projects in which he travelled to the outer corners of Europe to explore the lives of people in rural areas. This new work looks at how city dwellers try to connect with nature. The...
Menq Enq Mer Sarere "Deluxe Box"
Publisher's presentation : "Menq Enq Mer Sarere (We Are Our Mountains) is a collection of works that chant an ode to memory. These works have purposely been produced in commemoration of the Armenian Genocide (1915 - 2015). "Menq Enq Mer Sarere borrows its name from an Armenian film directed by Henrik Malian in 1969. Collages, photographs, poems...
Publisher's presentation : "Menq Enq Mer Sarere (We Are Our Mountains) is a collection of works that chant an ode to memory. These works have purposely been produced in commemoration of the Armenian Genocide (1915 - 2015). "Menq Enq Mer Sarere borrows its name from an Armenian film directed by Henrik Malian in 1969. Collages, photographs, poems...
Publisher's presentation : "Hester Lisa Scheurwater's persona is an exploration into the existing ideas on femininity. Her new book "All I Ever Wanted consists of various leaflets like the different rooms in a house, each reflecting its own atmosphere of Hester Scheurwater's inner world, her fears and desires. She is using the depiction of women in...
Publisher's presentation : Belgium through the eye of a belgian photojournalist "Belgium, a cramped country born in 1830, is now at a turning point. A tipping point or a critical threshold? Having now moved past separatist ideologies and industrial restructuring plans, what does this society said to be used to compromise look like? A far cry from the...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation : "The book Shikishima is a series of photographs taken during 1969-72 on the artist Tamiko Nishimura’s journeys around the Tohoku, Hokuriku, Kanto, Kansai, and Chugoku regions of Japan. To accompany the exhibition shikishima in Zen Foto Gallery in early 2014, Zen published a reprint of the 1973 edition of Shikishima,...
Presentation by Fuego Books: "In 1953 The United States and Spain signed an agreement of mutual defense and economic aid and they decided to build an Aero-naval Base in the municipality of Rota in Cádiz. Of the 8,000 acres that constitute the town, about 2,400 belong to the Base, and so the constant presence of a fence is drawn into the landscape of this...
Publisher's presentation : "Since the banking crisis of 2008 the world of international finance has increasingly come under the spotlight. The consequent squeeze on public finances has led to global firms such as Starbucks, Google and Amazon coming under fire for the techniques that they use to avoid paying tax. There seems to be a growing culture of...
.Last copy. Publisher's presentation: "Tokyo nights are full of toys. Dolls, costumes, threads and needles, masks, fancy dress and many more. Naturally, it isn’t kids’ stuff, but toys for the grown-ups. Paweł Jaszczuk watched them play. This needs some determination, of course. For about three years, from 2007 to 2010, he routinely grabbed his bike after...