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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...
25,00 €Out of stockPremière 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 :...
15,00 €Out of stockStudy 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...
36,00 €In Stock256 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...
44,00 €Out of stock.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...
129,00 €Out of stockPresentation 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...
36,00 €In StockPublisher'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...
33,00 €In StockPresentation 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....
24,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "Matthieu Gafsou spent more than a year immersed in the lives of drug addicts. His photographs reveal the night, the moral abandon, and an altered reality. The portraits are noble, picturesque, far from the clichés the subject attracts; they reside alongside still lifes, allegorical landscapes, and abstractions. Together, they...
39,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "This is what hatred did is the lapidary phrase that ends Amos Tutuola’s novel My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, published in 1954. Tutuola was obliged to leave Nigeria owing to the violent reactions the novel provoked. The phrase is also the starting point of the version photographer Cristina de Middel has made of the tenebrous...
62,00 €In Stock.Back in stock.Presentation by Kehrer: "Matt Henry's artistic and academic practices focus on the politics of America during the 1960s and 1970s. The works take the form of fictional narrative scenes staged across set-builds and dressed locations in the UK and USA, where Henry employs his own prop and costume styling, storyboarding, and set design. The...
40,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "Tangenziale is the inner city highway in Milan. Thousands of people travel on this road every day. Looking ahead. The end in view. Tempo, tempo. Many times Alex Pardi went to the Tangenziale and photographed. On the street, under bridges, in the terrain vague around it. A piece of Tangenziale is in every picture. But actually...
40,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "A symbol of schism and confluence, a transcontinental city, Istanbul has always been the inspiration for great stories. But this is not a story about Istanbul; it is a story from the female vantage point about how a group of men devote their lives to raising goldfinches and greenfinches: a mysterious bond full of...
38,00 €Out of stock.One unsigned copy available.Text from the back of the "Diorama" reproduction inserted in the book : "Since 2003, photographer Sohei Nishino has made nearly twenty diorama maps of various cities around the world. The artist spends months at a time to walk the streets of each city and photograph upwards of 10,000 exposures using 35mm film. After printing...
95,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "Maude Schuyler Clay started her color portrait series Mississippi History in 1975 when she came upon her first Rolleiflex 2¼ camera. At the time, she was living and working in New York and paid frequent visits to her native Mississippi Delta whose landscape and people continued to inspire her. Over the next twenty-five years,...
65,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "This book documents the effects of the powerful earthquake that struck the northeastern coast of Japan in March of 2011, followed by the tsunami that overwhelmed the town of Otsuchi in the prefecture of Iwate. This fishing com-munity of 15,000 inhabitants was one of those most damaged by the succes-sive waves, which reached...
47,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "The open American West is nearly gone. The New West is a photographic essay about what came to fill it—freeways, tract homes, low-rise business buildings and signs. In five sequences of pictures taken along the front wall of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, Robert Adams has documented a representative sampling of the whole...
35,00 €Out of stockPresentation on Laura del Rey's website : "There is no order. You know there is none. And it’s dense. Blue thickness laughing at your blind faith in the frame (or in the manipulation?). The landscape is not the ecological back cover of your city, it’s just a different sort of war. Another technology. The engine you do not understand, the one that makes...
29,00 €In StockWARNING: Please note there is a sourcing delay of 10 days for us to supply this very-large-format portfolio (12 kg / 25 lbs).Publisher's presentation : [translation by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Discover the unique work of French-Chinese photographer Zeng Nian in this portfolio of 60 numbered prints, signed by the artist. This amazing case contains, outside...
960,00 €In StockTell mum everything is ok - No. 6
Sixth issue of the Tell mum everything is ok magazine, published in November 2015.Full list of contributors to this issue : Adler & Edmark, Juan Aballe, Delaney Allen, Kent Andreasen, Jo Ann Walters, Jeremy Ayer, Viktoria Binschtok, Dan Boardman, Anaïs Boileau, Anne,Claire Broc’h, Hugo Denis,Queinec, Cédric Dubus, Petros Efstathiadis, Alishia Farnan,...
21,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation of Belong to Joe: "Belongs to Joe is a photographic essay, compiled as set of notes on Lars von Trier’s film script for Nymphomaniac. The script’s elemental material draws from varied sources: Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, Fibonacci numbers, Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler, and Bach’s principles of composition –...
60,00 €Out of stockRévélations - Iconographie de La Salpêtrière
Publisher's presentation : "The Iconographie de La Salpêtrière is one of the first photographic archives in the field of clinical psychiatry. Under the direction of Jean-Martin Charcot, and financed by the French government, this archive constituted an effort to catalogue the unclassifiable through new photographic-documentary techniques. The realm of the...
56,00 €Out of stockTaches & Traces - Premiers essais...
Presentation by Luce Lebart, director of the collections at Société Française de Photographie and curator of the exhibition Taches et Traces : [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Made in 1840, a few months after the invention of photography being made official, Hippolyte Bayard's self-portrait as a drowned man (Le Noyé) is often considered « the first...
30,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation : "ATHENS LOVE presents Hang’s works taken in Greece (Athens and Attica) in April 2015 during his participation in the Occupy Atopos artist residency and exhibition curated by Vassilis Zidianakis. ATHENS LOVE is published on the occasion of the exhibition « ATHENS LOVE » at Klein Sun Gallery in New York from March 24 to...
.Currently out of stock.Publisher's presentation: "Yusuf Sevincli renews the erratic figure of the walking photographer, wandering the cities and the sidewalks in search of singular faces and fates. Familiar with the urban areas, he multiplied encounters during his stay in the French city of Vichy in March 2015, pushing the doors of bars, restaurants,...
30,00 €Publisher's presentation : " Kazuma Ogaeri is a Moso photographer. He shoots illusion. In his work there is something of humanity and beauty of Akira Yoshimura's writings, something of the refined and frozen aesthetic of Kiyoshi Kurusawa in Shokuzai and Sogo Ishii in Le Labyrinthe des Rêves, something of Mirages d'été 「枇杷の樹の下で」 by Kazu Yusuki, something...
Au Roi du bois (chapitre II) (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation: "In the rustling of leaves and the touching of barks, searching for the « Roi du bois » (« King of the woods »), an antique and litterary figure, these « minuscule landscapes » or « meticulous landscapes », as if dried out, try to make an inventory, like in an herbarium, of these small places, these places already seen, already...
30,00 €In Stock.Last copy!. Publisher's presentation: "In a world rapidly turning towards the digital in every aspect, Takashi Arai is one of the world’s few remaining artists who choose to express their artistic vision with the daguerreotype silver plate photographic process. Due to the confines of a technique that does not allow image duplication or photographic...
95,00 €Out of stockPrésentation sur le site de l'artiste : "The project consists of a systematic /methodical exploration of the city of Bari, in Southern Italy, my hometown, where I have been living for many years. The aim was to take a totally new look at a place (in this particular case, Bari) the city dweller has become so familiar with that he/she tends no longer to...
18,00 €In Stock.Currently out of stock. Publisher's presentation: away from the familiar pictures of Japan "I know nothing about Japan. Even though, like everyone else, I have seen the familiar images of some exotic distant land, subjected to the avalanche of photos that make their way to us—almost through us—, and which are entirely a product of our Western culture....
39,00 €Out of stockNoray (*signed - French version*)
.Sold out.Text on the back cover : "NORAY (o. i.) masc. mar. 1 Borne, bollard ou toute autre chose employée pour fixer les amarres des bateaux. 2 Le plus petit port possible. 3 Mot préféré de Juan Valbuena. 4 Livre de voyages à travers L'Ample Frontière, un territoire qui correspond, approximativement, à la mer Méditerranée." "NORAY (oi) masc. Mar. 1...
Publisher's presentation : "Hibi literally comprises a series of street photographs by renowned Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase. Each of the black and white images painstakingly attend to the road’s surface – the worn road-markings, the fading lines and arrows eroded by the city’s innumerable inhabitants, a web of fissures in the asphalt. In 1992,...
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