Publisher's presentation : "Laurent Chardon's Dédale includes various series of photographs taken during the years 2003 to 2013 and documents a Paris and its surroundings in transformation. If as indicated by the legend, Daedalus is the inventor of architecture and sculpture, the new Paris area that draws us here makes no longer any distinction between...
The Longest Way Round (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation : "A visual investigation of the author’s family history, The Longest Way Round is a construct of historical images woven together with new photographs. Uncovering a treasure trove of archive material not intended for the family album, Chris Dorley-Brown’s book presents a multi-layered alternative narrative for the course of...
Publisher's presentation: "« When it is all over, a few of the wrecked buildings might well be left as permanent ruins… To posterity they will as effectually represent the dissolution of our pre-war civilisation as Fountains Abbey does the dissolution of the monasteries. » From the preface to The Architecture of Destruction, by John Piper...
One Year for USA - 2016 Calendar
Every year since 2012, Lozen Up publishes a calendar to support children through dedicated organizations. This 2016 calendar presents 54 photographs from 54 artists (Alec Soth, John Gossage, Todd Hido, Terri Weifenbach, Christian Patterson,etc.)After 4 year supporting Japanese organizations, the 2016 calendar is supporting the American organization "Big...
Publisher's presentation : "It looks as if the body extends its functionality and physicality beyond the subject. As if the only way to feel the world is by applying the humane affects to every visible structure. So that every liquid is seen as if it comes from body, every crack - as if it is a scar…Here Nausea as an idea of corporal experience which...
Publisher's presentation : "The images in AiTHŌ were made in 2014 at Villa Don Arcangelo all’Olmo (territorio di Carruba di Riposto), on the slope of the Etna."Texts by Leopoldo Maria Panero & José Águedo Olivares.104 pages - Hardcover André Frère Editions, 2015 (300 copies) *Signed* New - Mit condition
Publisher's presentation : "春爛漫 Haru Ranman, in Japanese, means « Spring in full bloom ». But there are two sides to every story. What happens in Tokyo in Spring? Underground is still where the ant farm is, a giant hub where everybody transits. Above the ground, the melody is different – and in the coming night, screens and fantasies mix to build a...
Va-t'en me perdre où tu voudras
Publisher's presentation : "Va-t’en me perdre où tu voudras (« Go on and lose me wherever you’d like ») is a journey of exploration into the loss of my father. His death a few years earlier was the result of an accident while roaming the south of Ireland by motorcycle with friends. Retracing his route filled me with both joy and sadness, inside and...
Presentation on the artist's website : "All over the world, we see the spontaneous rise of so-called « arrival communities ». Here, migrants find all they need to take their first steps in the new world they arrived in: networks of compatriots, (relatively) cheap housing & (mostly) informal labour. The book Halfway Home is a visual research on the...
Publisher's presentation : "Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Miserachs Barcelona celebrates one of the finest of all urban photobooks: Barcelona Blanc i Negre (1964), the masterpiece of a photographer named Xavier Miserachs, who was only twenty-five years old when he made it. It is a...
Publisher's presentation : "As an extension of the exhibition Anticorps Antoine d’Agata held at Le BAL (January-March 2013), the coordinators of Actes, une présence politique, in collaboration with the photographer, wanted to continue to assert the political dimension – too rarely taken into consideration – the photographic Antoine d’Agata work has, by...
Presentation on Jacek Fota's website : "The Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw – less and less a symbol of Stalinist domination, more and more an icon of the city. It evokes strong emotions all the while remaining largely unexplored, and as such a tad alien. At the time of planning, in 1952, the monumental structure was intended to transform the...
Publisher's presentation: "The thing is, we are controlled by a compulsion to get rid of dust. DUST, we believe, does not agree with us, because it conceals everything we create. DUST is the devil’s trap, revealed only once it has caught its prey. Haven’t we been forever treading all evil into the dust? Was the snake not cursed to grovel in the dust?...
Publisher's presentation : "The sordid, artificial purgatory, the round of hungering, bruised flesh, the desperate and depraved promiscuity reigning over these empty nights, clusters of violent and violated intimacy multiplied over and over again… Bruised in body and soul, they live in the claustrophobic basements of derelict shopping centres. In the...
Presentation by Andrea Graziosi on the publisher's website: "For the last five years I’ve been photographing the Sainte-Victoire mountains and its surroundings. I tried to explore the possibilities of the photographic technique to capture or seize the unpresentable; working on a pattern that precisely has been repeatedly addressed in the history of art....
Pueblos sin retrato (*signed*)
Presentation on François Mouriès' website: "The vast and arid deserts of the southern province of Spanish Navarre, selected by Terry Gillian for his disastrous « Don Quixote », seem to have rubbed off on a handful of villages that border it. The landmarks there are distorted. No noticeable features mark the silent streets where shuttered houses are...
Presentation by Keizo Kitajima on the publisher's website: "IMAGE SHOP CAMP, an independent gallery, opened in 1976, at multi-tenant building located at 2 chome street in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district. Six graduates of « WORK SHOP Daido Moriyama class » including me were participating. This is where I showed my photos of Tokyo from January to December 1979,...
The Mark of Time (*signed print*)
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation of Eric Rondepierre's photobook: "Cinema was born in 1895. In 2015, the original device has disappeared – such is the world, a technique vanishes and another emerges: “There is no doubt that death is the youth of the world.” I initiated my cinematic research at a transitional moment, in 1990, and presented it in 1992. In...
.Sold out. Presentation by Radius Books: "In this powerful book of photographs, Aaron Huey portrays both the broken social landscape and the ceremonial warrior culture of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. This body of work goes far beyond the obvious poverty and into the world of the tribe’s visions and dreams. It is a witness to both the dark and the...
Blank Pages of an Iranian Photo Album
Publisher's presentation: "Renowned Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian mixes artistic creation and journalism, starting from the traditional Iranian family photo album to deftly chronicle middle class life by following Iranians from several generations with her camera. She does not shy away from the complexity, inaccessibility, and myriad...
.Sold out. Presentation adapted from the publisher's website : "Jaunt, Lotte Reimann's series about steel, glass, plastic, oil, and dirt – together embodied in the automobile – is based on a collection of nude (self-) portraits of an elderly amateur photographers couple found on a picture sharing site. With this material as a starting point, she added...
Presentation by Benoit de Villeneuve: "The book is playing with only one photo of the singer Chan Marshall (Cat Power), then it has been processed, shot again and again, creating some abstract faces, dim lights, fantomatic presence... It is a work about obsession, loops, repetitions and degradations of the image with time. The book is not stapled, you can...
Artist statement : "Cabanagem is the first chapter in a long-term project of André Penteado called Trails, Traces and Remains, which aims to investigate events of the Brazilin history and their long-term impact on the national psyche by photographing the places where these facts have happened. Trails, Traces and Remains is not a documentary project but...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Particle Mist draws together works from three of Bill Henson’s earliest photographic series: Untitled 1974, Untitled 1975 with additional previously unseen photographs from an unfinished work begun in 1976. Together they form a portrait of an artist as a young man. The series shows Henson’s recognised and celebrated...
Publisher's presentation : "Athens Diary is the follow-up to 2014’s Cairo Diary and the 2nd in Peter Bialobrzeski’s City Diaries Series with The Velvet Cell. In Athens Diary Bialobrzeski travels to the scene of the biggest European crisis in decades to document the urban consequences of the emergency. His photos capture the dichotomy of everyday life in...
Première courbe, Saint-Sever (*signed*)
Presentation by Ici & Là: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "And then it's there. He makes it out, getting closer slowly so that it appears without any constraints. This curve that must be climbed up, this furrow of a forgotten first time, the strength of the landscape outside that capsizes the doubt inside. Capsizes, submerges, pacifies..."NB :...
Study on the Nature of a Variable Geometry
Presentation of the project by the question debated in a boolet inserted in the book : "What is democracy? At this time of globalization, how is it perceived by our modern societies and by the media? In a world where the image is more of a conveyor of ideology, we can question ourselves about the role and the meaning of documentary photography. What does...
256 pages - Hardcover Akaaka, 2015 *Signed* New - Mint conditionPresentation by Ikueo Suzuki: "Returning from Osaka just after the new year, I was once again drawn into the whirlpool of energy in Tokyo. As I prepared for a trip in August, plans to publish this photobook were finalized an my goal became clearer than ever. The joy of meetings, the sorrow...
.Last copy. Presentation by J&L Books: "Mike Mandel is best known for his project The Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards, as well as his collaborations with the late Larry Sultan. Mandel employs conceptual structures and social commentary underneath a playful presentation. For The Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards, Mandel travelled across the US in...
Presentation on the artist's website : "The identity of Nordic women is in a state of constant flux, but I don’t see the role of being a mother changing at the same speed or in the same direction. This creates a conflict and an ambivalence for many women. This essay is a photographic voyage through my own life, as I am trying to understand what happens to...
Publisher's presentation : "An economic and cultural revolution has shaken the photobook world in the last five years: self-publishing. An army of photographers operating as publishers have had an instrumental role in today’s photobook renaissance. This book offers a do-it-yourself manual and a survey of key examples of self-published success stories, as...
Presentation by Joan Fontcuberta, guest editor of this MOULD #2 issue : "Images are so powerful that they can even provoke casus belli, as recent events like Muhammad’s caricatures and the Charlie Hebdo tragedy witness. The history of thought is also the history of images. That is why philosophers deal with the urging need to decode what an image is....