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...
.Last copy. Publisher's presentation : "pomodori a grappolo is a set of three interconnected books by photographer and bookmaker John Gossage. Each book gathers images made in Northern Italy and Sardinia between 2009 and 2011, and each includes a short text by Marlene Klein. The written pieces — two stories and one epilogue — have been created in response...
Publisher's presentation: "In 1917, as the United States were entering World War I, the English photographer, Arthur Mole (1889-1983) created a new type of iconography, which proved useful to the promotion of American nationalism. With the help of his colleague, John D. Thomas, he created sprawling photographic compositions of American society’s symbols...
Publisher's presentation : "In 2010, female fighters Anna Konda and Red Devil founded the «Female Fight Club Berlin». This private and unique Club appeared as revival of female wrestling – tradition that dates back to Berlin of the Golden Twenties, when it was fairly popular. Nowadays, competitions take place in a rented room located in Berlin – Marzahn....
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "This book is about a special mood, springing from a certain time in life, the period between being a child and an adult. It’s a time of longing for independence. A time full of dreams, expectations, and a feeling that life is great, a feeling that one’s entire life can change on an evening. Or even by a glance. It is...
.Currently out of stock. Publisher's presentation: "In Lago, Ron Jude returns to the California desert of his early childhood as if a detective in search of clues to his own identity. In a book of 54 photographs made between 2011 and 2014, he attempts to reconcile the vagaries of memory (and the uncertainty of looking) with our need to make narrative...
Publisher's presentation: "The Whiteness of the Whale brings together Paul Graham’s three bodies of American photographs: American Night, a shimmer of possibility and The Present, made from 1998 to 2011. These 3 remarkable photographic series reflect upon the social fabric of contemporary America, whilst trying to find something closer to the experience...
Publisher's presentation : "After presenting his vision of Montreal in Early Sunday morning / Journal de Montreal, we discover Julien Coquentin's vision of New York in this photobook.This time, unlike Montreal, it's a short one-week trip. A week to photograph New York is not enough. But it requires being on the lookout, trying to capture every moment that...
Publisher's presentation : "The book brings together a set of works, selected by the artist and devised from the outset in small formats. Through a chronological sequence from the early 1970's until today, we observe the sharpness and precision of Jeff Wall's approach all the better here, with all of his passion for art history and broad knowledge of...
Mühit - 2nd edition (*signed*)
.Second edition, 2015.The background for Mühit is Ilkin Huseynov's own personal life. His dad had to leave Azerbaïjan and the family soon after his birth to look for a job, as the USSR was collapsing. The book follows the traces of the author's memories of the trips to see his father abroad, it is his way to revisit these memories by going to the...
україна La frontière (*signed*)
Presentation by the artist on the publisher's website : "Summer 2013. I leave for Ukraine with Florence. No real destination. We're improvising. Kiev. Night train to Crimea. We meet Vlad and Anna at Simferopol. Together, we spend time near the Black Sea. We walk a lot. We sleep outside. It's very hot. We move often. Just the two of us, we go farther into...
Publisher's presentation: "In May 1942, Sobibor became fully operational and began mass gassing operations. Himmelstrasse (Heaven Street) was a cynical Nazi joke used to describe the final journey to the gas chambers. Brian Griffin has documented the railway tracks in Poland that transported approximately three million prisoners from around Europe to the...
Facsimile reproduction of a notebook of minimalist painter Brice Marden. The work includes photographs, collages (newspaper clippings, show tickets, etc.), drawings and scribbles, notes and texts; all that is a window into the artist's mind, his interests, his influences, his reflections...This notebook covers the "open" period starting in February 1968,...
Pierre de Fenoÿl, une géographie imaginaire
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "From his first journeys to India and Egypt to the observation of the French southwest landscape, as part of the DATAR project, the book offers an exploration into Pierre de Fenoÿl’s work through about 150 photographs. Haunted by the question of time and memory in photography, de Fenoÿl tirelessly photographed...
.One copy available.Publisher's presentation : "Something is going to happen. We can feel it. A car pulling up. An argument overheard. The shattering of glass. Or maybe it already happened: a crumpled bed, a lamp left on, a door slammed shut. In his celebrated shots of American suburbia, photographer Todd Hido excels in capturing a sense of the disturbed...
.Back in stock. Publisher's presentation : «I feel at ease here, in this city.I’m in the middle of the jungle. A harsh concrete forestwith brick caves where miserable and cowardly beings hide with their most valued belongings. » -- J. M. Fonollosa, Ciudad del hombre: New York "Any metropolis is a formidable fabric, a tentacular mess, a deafening...
Publisher's presentation: "La La Land is the first book by photographer Chus Antón, but more than a photobook it is a travel book. Not a travel guide, although it is that too, but a travel book in the Petrarca’s Mont Ventoux tradition. Travelling to live things, travelling to tell things, and above all travelling to see things. I want to climb that...
.Sold out.Presentation by Session Press: "Session Press is pleased to announce NEW LOVE, the first official US monograph by Ren Hang, one of China’s most distinguished emerging photographers. NEW LOVE presents Hang’s most recent photographs, taken in February of this year during his first visit to New York City. It was published on the occasion of Hang’s...
Publisher's presentation : "By putting together the two extremes of childhood Pony Congo brings to the surface the shameful coexistence of two stereotypical realities. With a series of diptychs the viewer is confronted with the extreme depiction of strongly opposed routines. On one hand the stress of the wealthy for gaining recognition and social status...
How to be... A Photographer in Four...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation : "In early 2012, an old analog photobooth was installed in Brussels, in a cultural center located near the home of Thomas Vanden Driessche, documentary photographer and member of the group « Out Of Focus ». Following in the footsteps of artists like Topor, he decided to use this medium and its constraints to tell...
Raymond Depardon (par) Christian Caujolle
Publisher's presentation : "Après Anders Petersen, Christian Caujolle, nous fait découvrir dans cet ouvrage l’univers du grand photographe de l’agence Magnum: Raymond Depardon. En confiance, Raymond Depardon parle. Beaucoup, longuement, sans hésitation mais avec un débordement de digressions. Les repères temporels sont parfaitement en place, l’histoire...
Publisher's presentation : "Frida Kahlo, ses photos (Frida Kahlo, her pictures) brings together a selection of original images from the personal collection of Frida Kahlo. The collection was found a few years ago in her bathroom and was never presented before. Walking through Frida Kahlo, ses photos, the reader gets immersed in the intimacy of the...
Kristall ohne Liebe (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation : "Kristall ohne Liebe (literally translated « Crystal without Love ») is a visual journey into a mystic parallel world. Seen through self-built lenses, prisms and crystals, the photo series captures a psychedelic universe full of contrasts: colourful images, black and white photography, life, death, beauty and ugliness collide....
Adventures in the Nearby Far Away (*signed*)
.Last copy.Presentation by the artist: "26 miles across the Pacific Ocean from the tangled mess of humanity that is Los Angeles and Orange County sits an island paradise called Santa Catalina where time has stood still and visitors can experience what California was like before the Europeans sailed in. Adventures in the Nearby Far Away is a photographic...