(Altre) Avventure di Pinocchio
Presentation on the website of the photographer Lorenzo Tricoli (excerpt) : "An original tale of Italy’s XXth Century. Italy’s XXth Century is narrated through extracts of Carlo Collodi’s novel, matched to a selection of Italian images coming from the web. An artist photobook, surreal and conceptual. An angry and ironic piece of art. « The real...
Only The Sky Remains Untouched (*signed*)
.Last copy.Presentation on the artist's website: "Soldiers who suffer from Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are emotionally wounded and carry these wounds with them all their lives. The past 2 years I’ve been working on my new project Only The Sky Remains Untouched: portraits of 15 war veterans who suffer from PTSD. All photos were taken at ‘De...
.Signed copies back in stock.Publisher's presentation: "The Unfinished Me photobook is the first of a series of self-performance works exploring the fragmentation of the Inner Self - “searching for the true me” by the photographer Adelaide Carneiro. The genesis of this work was to dwell between the persona and the characters created for the performances....
Publisher's presentation: "In Terra Nostra, Sicilian born photographer Mimi Mollica explores the effects of the Mafia on his homeland. He document the scars inflicted by Cosa nostra on both the physical and social landscape of the island as a result of a system strongly rooted in both fear and corruption. Mollica began shooting Terra Nostra in 2009. For...
.Signed copies back in stock.Publisher's presentation: "In Harrodsburg, Dougie Wallace looks at the excessive wealth and consumerism that can be found around the Knightsbridge area close to the world famous department store, Harrods. From the mid-1970s onwards, Gulf millionaires began coming to the area. They were later joined by the Oligarchs and the...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation : "In The Face Of Silence is a powerful and moving portrait of the hard lives of French family farmers living and working in the Forez region, on the eastern side of the Massif Central. Born and brought up in the area, photographer Christophe Agou travelled to the less-known parts of the region, where he felt inspired...
Publisher's presentation: "Jérôme Sevrette, musicien de formation et photographe indépendant, pratique la photographie depuis plus de 20 ans. Adolescent rêveur, il parcourt alors la campagne sarthoise où il a grandi en quête de nouveaux territoires. Forêts, vieilles bâtisses et manoirs en ruines, marais… ces « bouts du monde » nourrissent son imaginaire...
Publisher's presentation: "...The indistinct scenes that appear before us are coming from a trail of memories, and family's tales, intertwined with the photographer's own wondering.It is an exploration into the dreams and fears. The book connects place and memory, disconnected from the passage of time. It is not about the past or the future, or about the...
Publisher's presentation of the photobook: "Since February 2015 and for about a year, Iacopo Pasqui started hanging out with and taking pictures of a bunch of teenagers who were born in 1999. Motivated by curiosity towards contemporary social dynamics and by the need to photograph others, he finds in this bunch of young friends a suitable dimension for...
Publisher's presentation: "It is a cyclical journey. I talk about my family and the one that biologically is not, but that I consider as such. I explore the roles we play in our emotional relationships, as well as the shelter and support we find in them. I reflect on memory, the similarity in our patterns of behavior and what we reflect on the other. Also...
Publisher's presentation: "In the 60s, inside Bangkok's Chinatown, a printer makes a printing test for a book about palmistry..."68 pages - Softcover Siam's Guy Books, 2016 (200 copies) Format : 14 x 19 cm *Signed* New - Mint condition
42 pages - Softcover Super Labo, 2016 Format : 21.6 x 28 cm New - Mint condition
Publisher's presentation: "The project for this book has a programmatic quality, like a prefiguration of future works. Perhaps it also works like a mirror—like an optical machine in any case—that brings together distant things, various times, experiences, places, and forms (drawings, photos, writing, etc.), and that’s exactly what Michel Couturier set out...
American Motel Signs 1980~2008
Publisher's presentation: "Shot over 28 years, American Motel Signs is a unique insight into one of the most fascinating aspects of contemporary American culture. These motel signs, from the Sleepy Hollow Motel [Utah, 2007] to the Teddy Bear Motel [North Carolina, 1983] represent the many faces of everyday America that has become so ubiquitous in...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "In 2014, Peter Bialobrzeski arrived in Taipei to print his book Cairo Diary. Almost immediately, he set out to document the urban landscape of what was once considered the de facto capital of China, and what it has become today. Peter Bialobrzeski is a world-renowned photographer and the recipient of several awards...
.Very limited number of signed copies available.Presentation on the artist's website: "Marie Mons spent three months in winter in a small village in the fjords of eastern Iceland where she became Aurore Colbert. Speaking of winter and its polar nights, the rhythm it induces through a great shamanic ritual, she embodies her character, always leaving the...
HS - images d'une histoire souterraine
Publisher's presentation: "HS est un journal de 18 photographies qui font écho au récit d’Amaury da Cunha, Histoire souterraine, publié simultanément aux éditions du Rouergue. Cette publication, constitue une chambre d’écho, comme une annexe photographique, en marge du texte. Dans ce récit autobiographique, il est question de la mort d’un frère à...
.Back in stock.Publisher's presentation: "People behind the windows of public buses — at the end of a working day in the centre of Paris, they wait for the bus to bring them back to the banlieue. They seem introspective, engrossed in thought, their gaze directed towards an inner landscape. The camera’s view of the subjects it portrays is frequently...
.Very last copy!.Presentation by Editorial RM: "Photobooks have become increasingly popular in recent years and occupy a central place in contemporary photography. Nowadays, more photobooks are produced, bought and sold, swapped and collected than ever before. Independent publishing and the self-publishing of books and fanzines have become a phenomenon...
Disco Night Sept 11 (*signed*)
.Only 2 signed copies available.276 pages (19 gatefolds) - Linen hardcover Red Hook Editions, 2014Format : 22.5 x 27.4 cm*Signed*New - Small imperfection (see below)Presentation on the Magnum Agency website: "Disco Night Sept. 11 is a chronicle of America's wars from 2006-2013 by Peter van Agtmael. The photographs shift back and forth from the wars...
Presentation of the series on the artist's website: "In the project Natten I wanted and needed to change totally my way of taking pictures. I felt a pressing need to turn the camera onto myself and started for the first time to make self-portraits. I needed to tame my new surroundings in the Värmland region of Sweden. A place, in the middle of nowhere...
Publisher's presentation: "The Promise is the second chapter of Vasantha Yogananthan’s long-term project A Myth of Two Souls, which offers a contemporary retelling of The Ramayana. A seven-chapter tale first recorded by the Sanskrit poet Valmiki around 300 BC, The Ramayana is one of the founding epics of Hindu mythology. Since 2013, Yogananthan has been...
Publisher's presentation: "Shell shock silence and blinding whiteness, air sucked from the lungs. Masked clowns out of the dust cloud. City limits, a circle of men. Two dogs. The chain goes off. Nervous laughters, hard breathing. Tension as a background noise. The night-blind goes on. Cagdas Erdogan’s first book, Control, was shot entirely in Istanbul,...
Publisher's presentation: [ text in French only - see below ] "Les Editions du Centre Pompidou publient un entretien exceptionnel de Walker Evans, traduit pour la première fois en français à l'occasion de l'exposition au Centre Pompidou du 26 avril 2017 au 14 août 2017.Walker Evans (1903-1975) est sans aucun doute l'un des photographes américains les...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: [ Please note : content in French only ] "La photographie contemporaine iranienne depuis la révolution de 1979; un panorama exceptionnel de la photographie contemporaine iranienne. Cet ouvrage rassemble les œuvres de 66 photographes et interroge la réalité iranienne par un jeu de confrontations entre images...
Presentation of the series on the photographer's website: "The mountain range of Caucasus is a borderland where Europe meets Asia and Christianity meets Islam; a myriad of nationalities, languages and cultures live side by side. Well-known in the Soviet time as the land of wine and pomegranates, clean mountain air and sunny beaches, the Caucasian...
Présentation de l'éditeur : [ Book in French only ] "For three years, Carlos Spottorno and Guillermo Abril have traveled the borders of Europe, and from the 25,000 photographs and 15 notebooks they reported, they composed a" comic strip "of photos.From Africa to the Arctic, the journalists tell a story: a meeting with the Africans of Gourougou, the...
ZONA - An Investigation Report (*signed*)
Presentation by the artist: "After the housing crisis caused by the economic and political power, the housing authority decided to open an investigation to assess its consequences. Given that previous reports were ambiguous, fieldwork was needed. Thus an investigator was sent to ZONA with the specific aim of preparing a visual report on the urban...
Nouveau démenti de la mission spatiale...
Publisher's presentation: [ from RRB Publishing, co-publisher ] "Peter Mitchell’s groundbreaking show was first presented at the Impressions Gallery of Photography York in November 1979, and more recently at the Rencontres d'Arles festival in 2016. Now, only 38 years overdue, it will be published as a book for the first time. In the mid-seventies, the...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "August 1st, 2016: The Wear Helmet, Get Petrol, Be Safe campaign starts today. That doesn’t mean, of course, that you’ll be refused petrol if you aren’t wearing protective gear. Instead you’ll be handed a campaign leaflet by the pump-operator. In the Kochi-Ernakulam area there have been 17,000 two wheeler accidents in...
Publihser's presentation: "Japan’s southernmost prefecture, Okinawa, hosts a concentration of US military bases unlike anywhere outside the continental United States. More than half the 50,000 US troops stationed in Japan are based here. On the main island of Okinawa nearly 20% of the land is occupied by these bases. This large US military footprint, and...
All Quiet on the Home Front (*limited...
Presentation by the artist: "When Isabel was a baby I had a dream. In the dream it was Christmas. We lived above a pub in a single room crammed with old pub furniture. In one corner was a Christmas tree. It had real candles, all of which were balanced precariously on the tree’s branches. It also had electric lights which were plugged into the socket using...