Publisher'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...
.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...
Publisher'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...
.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...
Publisher'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,...
Publisher'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...
Publisher'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...
Presentation 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...
WARNING: 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...
Tell 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,...
.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 –...
Révélations - 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...
Taches & 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...
.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,...
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...
Publisher's presentation : "The Irish landscape was littered with electoral campaign advertising during the recent European, local and national by-elections. Vote No. 1 documents this and examines the culture of election advertising in Ireland. The series focuses on the accidental, and often gruesome, disfigurements the electoral candidates' faces suffer...
.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...
.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....
Noray (*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,...
Third book by Todd Hido, in which the artist gets out of the suburbia and ventures in the countryside. Images made through the windows of a car, with a strong main color tone in each image that could - pushing the idea to the limit - allow to address most of the pictures as monochromes...Signed copy in perfect condition; the slightest imperfection to the...
Publisher's presentation : "Hidden away in a box labelled Last Year’s Photographs, 38 pictures Nobuyoshi Araki took between 1975 and 1976 spent a quiet life, to surface as a time capsule of the Japanese photographer’s early work.The photos - mostly snapshots of people in streets and trains, in stark black and white - capture private moments in Tokyo’s...
.Sold out. Presentation by Zen Foto Gallery: "MOYI 1983-89 is a photobook accompanying the exhibitions « Eighties Part1: Fathers and Old Landscapes » (April 7-22, 2015) and « Eighties Part2: MOYI 1987-1989 » by Chinese photographer Mo Yi at Zen Foto Gallery. The book features photographs by Mo Yi from the 1980s, including his earliest works Old Landscapes...
Publisher's presentation: "« In my experience, the two most significant characteristics of war are horror and absurdity, » says Christoph Bangert, the German photojournalist who has been documenting crises for international publications such as the New York Times for ten years. Following his examination, in his critically acclaimed book War Porn (Kehrer...
.In stock.Publisher's presentation: "Post-Script revisits Laura El-Tantawy’s journey through Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square five years from Egypt’s momentous revolution and one year after the release of her self-published monograph, In the Shadow of the Pyramids. The pocket-sized publication features previously unpublished images and written reflections...
Presentation on the publisher's website: "« We have long heard that New York and Paris were the most photographed cities in the world. This is undoubtedly true, it was, anyway. We quickly deduced that they were the most photogenic. It is not certain. Now the city, every town, from the largest to the smallest, are both a concern and a revelator of...
Text from the slipcase cover : "This is the story of the tragic relationship between two bodies: a critical narration of the long and failed relationship between a society and a river. Although today it is a long and winding sarcophagus, in the past the city depended on the abundance of its stream. Centuries later, with Monterrey transformed into a...
Publisher's presentation: "Take this Book and cause it to be read to you. For ye shall find therein all kind of wonderful things according to the description of this traveller, as he saw with his own eyes. Some things indeed there be therein which he beheld not; but these he heard from men of credit and veracity. And we shall set down things seen as seen,...
Publisher's presentation : "The issue #0 of our artist magazine featuring the work of 8 artists we love."First issue of a new "magazine" presented as a Leporello. On one side, 8 photographs by 8 different artists : Michele Tagliaferri, Lieko Shiga, Bernardita Morello, Gregory Halpern, Marten Lange, Miren Pastor, Ricardo Cases and Go Itami. On the back, a...
Presentation by the artist : "The photobook s1xte6n represents the photographic journey imagined by Paul Musescu throughout his 16 years of existence. The experiences are essentialized then captured in black and white images full of emotions and subtle symbols revealing themselves to the viewer at every step into this journey. Beyond the narrative line,...