The critical conditions of my awareness...
Publisher's presentation: "The critical conditions of my awareness will sometimes trigger the shutter. The first condition that arose my interests towards photography is Chinese reality. So far until now, it is still the most convincing condition of my photographs. Usually I’ve always been carrying the overwhelming sensitivity towards those indecent...
Publisher's presentation: "Indago is a work which comes from contemplating the natural environment and its different guises. In these photographs the author rediscovers forms and endows them with new meanings reflecting states of mind as well as inner feelings. These images in black and white conjure the night, and speak to the viewer of man and nature,...
Hello and Welcome to Paris (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation : "Breaking news such as the terror attacks in Paris are a veritable jackpot for traditional media in their race for a larger audience. The endless stream of repetitive news, horrifying images and rhetoric create terror's outlook and converts it into a mass consumption product. Much like advertisement, which twists reality in...
Publisher's presentation: "This book brings together rare photographs taken in the 1890s through the 1950, throughout the world. This corpus of photographs from the Jean-Marie Donat Collection gives the concept of landscape a greater breadth, and, with it, a more penetrating mystery. The collector, bt an act of tilting, switches the original print from a...
.Sold out. Presentation by the artist : "Over there, there are so many horses that they don’t even have a name.This area of the Faristan, wild, unknown and so fantasied,is a mix between beauty and wildness landlocked between mountains.It’s a quest for the sublime, the distance, but also the imagery andbeliefs that are related with it. It’s like making an...
Publisher's presentation: "The burrow is subjected to fantasy because we usually only know its shape or its threshold ; we have to imagine the rest. Symbolically, this also applies to the Maginot Line : everyone has already heard about it but not many people can describe it. Its name echoes like a receptacle for fantasies. The shapes of its bunkers match...
éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation...
Full title : "éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation contemporaine d'un village français de deux mille huit cent trente neuf habitants - volume 7"The artist photographed the small city where he lives, Noyers-sur-Cher, and publishes in a series of 10 booklets this documentary work about a place that could be considered a fair example of the average...
éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation...
Full title : "éléments d'une typologie de l'urbanisation contemporaine d'un village français de deux mille huit cent trente neuf habitants - volume 8"The artist photographed the small city where he lives, Noyers-sur-Cher, and publishes in a series of 10 booklets this documentary work about a place that could be considered a fair example of the average...
.Last copy.Publisher's presentation: "Touched by the flame, images retrieved from strangers’ archives change their structure. The nature and urban scenes they originally depicted mutate into abstract glimmers of parallel worlds. Creative rather than destructive, the flame expands the borders of perception and interpretation of these images, opening up...
Presentation on the artist's website: "Since leaving University in 2010, Alma has been working on self-portraits, being her own willing and available model. More recently she has started taking portraits of other people and is interested in making work that has a disquieting or disconcerting resonance. Alma has always made things with her hands and now...
Publisher's presentation : "À travers cette fresque photographique, Hervé Lassïnce constitue le journal impudique d’une communauté formée autour de lui, saisie dans des moments domestiques et intimes, à l’endroit où les personnalités s’expriment sans filtre, ni préjugé social. Contrariant les stéréotypes, notamment ceux liés à la virilité, le projet...
Publisher's presentation : "Penelope Umbrico cropped the screens from hundreds of images of computers and TVs she found for sale on websites such as eBay, Craigslist and Alibaba between 2008 and 2016. Out of Order : Bad Display gives a second lease on life to these worn, obsolete and sold for parts objects. The book reproduces these ephemeral images of...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation "This book is about people being part of the punk culture and marginal society types in Russia."40 pages - Softcover Dienacht Publishing, 2016 (120 copies) Format 21 x 29.7 cm New - Mint condition
Carpoolers - 2nd edition (*signed*)
Carpoolers is a beautiful series of portraits or - as Marc McCann called them in his NY Times Lens blog piece - "still-lifes" of Mexican workers commuting in the back of trucks. Shooting his images from above, Alejandro Cartagena gets the full content of the truck without its environment (except for the road and the roof and hood of the trucks),...
Publisher's presentation: "In Las Vegas, everything seems possible, indifference above all. « Insert Coins is a blues » in the words of the author. Its pace is melancholic and dark, intertwined with a poem that makes the unacceptable watchable, injecting humanity where the die is definitely cast. Christian Lutz shows a committed approach, he comments on a...
DOM (Document Object Model - 2nd ed.)...
Presentation of the project by the artist: "In my project DOM I refer to the concept of home.«Dom» means a house, home, a building or a household in the Russian language. As a model for creation of the maquette of houses, I chose the kind of mass housing, so-called «Khruschyovka». They were built in Russia in the era of Khrushchev. After Stalin's Empire...
Publisher's presentation: "Two scanners, face to face, scanning each other."Co-published with Rrose. Only 100 numbered copies.96 pages - Softcover RVB Books / Rrose, 2015 (100 copies) Format : 19.3 x 27 cm New - Mint condition
Looking for the Masters in Ricardo’s...
Publisher's presentation: "Looking for the Masters in Ricardo’s Golden Shoes is a collaboration between a photographer intrigued by the evolution of photography and her friend Ricardo, who became both her muse and her model. Begun in July 2013 at the Rencontres d’Arles Photography Festival as a joyful celebration of the photographers exhibited that year,...
.Back in stock.Presentation by Kehrer Verlag: "Christophe Gin spent five months exploring the landscapes of Guiana (in French Guyane), from border regions to the most remote Amerindian villages, where soldiers mingle with gold prospectors and exploited immigrant workers, and where local population is forced to integrate republican concepts. His...
Publisher's presentation: "Mountains and Waters is a photographic study of China in diptychs, shot on the outskirts of Shanghai, Chongqing and Shenzhen in China. The works focus on contemporary Chinese matters such as construction, infrastructure and development, while simultaneously alluding to traditional Chinese painting styles."120 pages - Hardcover...
Everything you do is a Balloon
Publisher's presentation: "« The buzz of fatigue drones louder in your head. It fills your body, making it taut with tension. You sit in the dark for a couple of hours, draining the mundane memories of the week. You drink a beer. Your skin seeks release. Overtired, overstressed, overworked, undersexed: you burst like a balloon. The weekend has begun. » S....
Text from the next-to-last page : "This is not Helsinki, but Hellsinki. Discipline, order, accuracy. These three characters define the Finnish society pretty well. But, because this book has no vocation to be documentary, these features are replaced here by coldness, darkness and loneliness. My aim with the book is to give a portrait, from a subjective...
Book published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery, New York in the spring 2014.182 pages - Softcover Karma, 2015 Format : 21 x 28 cm New - Mint condition
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "For over thirty years, Patrick Zachmann has traveled across China, a country he discovered in 1982 while reporting on the Chinese film industry. From Hong Kong triads in the 1980’s to the mutation of the city of Beijing through Tiananmen Square protests, this book brings together around 350 B&W and colour...
Publisher's presentation: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Reviens va-t’en (in English « come back go away ») is an intimate book made of 46 images of the same cat. Under an innocent approach, the book deals with the themes of death and passing. Through photography and layout, the souvenir of this now-dead cat is frozen in time and also slowly...
Presentation on the artist's website: "The body as landscape... image play mix. Curvilinear combinations between body and light; the duality that mislead us imagining the mistake that in reality doesn't exist."28 pages - Softcover Self-published, 2014 (50 copies) Format : 21 x 29 cm New - Mint condition
.Only one copy available.Text from the second page : "Imagine that you are a photographer, an artist... Imagine that you go through a year that completely changes your way of looking at life itself. Imagine that you go to the South for a period of time, reading Henry Miller and taking pictures... The result is this book."This book is sold out everywhere,...
Text from the inside of the cover : "In the early 1970s, farmers, workers, and students united under the slogan « We will not surrender our land! ». This protest, known as the Narita or Sanrizuka Struggle, led to a series of fierce, bloody battles. A woman in peasant clothing covered all over with mud, in heavy rain, had tied herself to a thick post with...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Far too often African American men live and identify with an idea of “blackness” that is imposed upon them, rather than created by them. Their sense of self worth and identity has primarily been defined by external forces. What happens when an African American man self interprets his own identity based upon ideology,...
Text from the first page: "Now let us, by flight of imagination, suppose that Rome is not a human habitation but a psychical entity with a similar long and copious past -- an entity, that is to say, in which nothing that has once come into existence will have passed away and all the earlier phases of development continue to exist alongside the latest...
.PLEASE NOTE: We are carrying only the French edition of this book (English edition by Dewi Lewis not avilable through us at the moment). Presentation by André Frère: [Text in book in French only] "Photographs of Piotr Zbierski are emotional, though dictated objective which I would call a philosophical reference to his, but also our own image durability,...
It’s beautiful when it flies (*signed*)
Presentation on the artist's website : "If you close your eyes, Do you fall? Or do you fly? As a child I dreamt of flying. Sometimes I actually felt the wind against my cheeks. Sadly, somehow aging goes hand in hand with the inability to believe in something so close to carelessness. It’s beautiful when it flies is my attempt to refind this childlike...