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Published in November 2020, Volta no Vento is a collaboration between French photographer Gilles Roudière and French musician Toàn. This book is almost sold out by the publisher (notification of "last copies" on their website)! We are offering IIKKI's books since 2018 and we are now also offering the music in physical format (vinyl or CD); please make...
45,00 €In StockHow to Destroy Everything (*signed*)
Presentation by studiofaganel: [Google translation from Italian] " In How to Destroy Everything, Marzocchi includes a group of photographs found after he accidentally formatted his phone. The project starts from this well-defined and limited archive, which refers to the last 3 years of his life. In these found images, people, moments, places, situations...
25,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Overlapse: " Antone Dolezal and Lara Shipley return to their home region of the Ozarks in the American Midwest, where locals persist in their search for a legendary floating orb of light that can only be seen from the Devil's Promenade. It's a lushly wooded road in an area where wanderers flock to seek possible redemption, or just to...
45,00 €In StockPresentation by Fondation Antoine de Galbert: " The monographs in this collection titled Un certain désordre are published by the Antoine de Galbert Foundation. Each book, published in a numbered edition of 300, features numerous reproductions of artworks alongside a text written by the artist him or herself. The first edition of this collection is...
32,00 €Out of stockStudio Photo Nationale (*signed / signed...
Presentation by Sébastien Girard: " After Samuel Fosso's studio and home were attacked by looters in 2014 in the war-torn Central African Republic, the photo-journalists Jérôme Delay and Marcus Bleasdale, with the help of Peter Bouckaert (from the Human Rights Watch organization), rescued Samuel Fosso's negatives from destruction and sent them back to...
120,00 €Book available with different options.Sold out. Presentation by The Eriskay Connection: " Mathias de Lattre developed an interest in natural psychedelics, in particular hallucinogenic mushrooms. Since ten years he had the intuition that they might constitute an alternative to the psychiatric treatment of his mother. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder twenty years ago, and the drugs...
Presentation by Trespasser: " Languor is an ode to New York City's Central Park. With the pandemic at hand and the history of Seneca Village in mind [Note: Central Park was created on land known as Seneca Village, on the outskirts of the city as it was then, where a predominantly African-American community was thriving and owned property], Smallwood...
56,00 €Out of stockLa montagne qui marche (*signed*)
Presentation of the book project by the author: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " La montagne qui marche, a photobook about erosion and our relationship to the coastline. I peeled the dune like you peel an onion. Layer after layer, stratum after stratum. For almost two and a half years, in Soulac-sur-Mer, I followed the gusts of wind and the winter...
39,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Stanley / Barker: " « The week before Trula died, she began spending entire days reclined in her field. Her body would be so still we'd come up closer to be sure she hadn't left us. A slight movement of her head chasing a loose swallow, or a finger grazing a plucked blade of grass was enough. Tuesday night she had come into the kitchen...
85,00 €Out of stockThe hill that wasn't (*signed*)
The hill that wasn't is a series of beautiful and peaceful images of the weeds on a small hill, a pile of dirt, in front of which Stefan Vanthuyne had been passing for a long time when he decided to stop and take pictures, only to realise - a few days later - that it had been removed and flattened...Stefan Vanthuyne makes a connection between this...
22,00 €Out of stockPresentation par Stanley/Barker: "Dream Away by Michael E. Northrup is a love story about life, vision, and love itself. The 66 images in the book present a developing portrait of both an artist and his subject. It's about Northrup's obsession with « the photograph », his vision, and the significant, funny, and unique images he's able to make from life...
48,00 €Out of stockPresentation by the(M) éditions : [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "In 1988, for the first time, Pierre de Vallombreuse sets foot on the lands of this Valley, in the south of the Palawan island in the Philippines, home of Tau’Batu, or people of the boulders. Fascinated by this pacifist autochthonous community of hunters-gatherers, Pierre de...
85,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Fw: Books: " This is the third publication in which Awoiska probes deeply into the essence of the remote unspoiled natural worlds where her images are created. The book is published alongside the music composition The Living Mountain written by Thomas Larcher as composer-in-residence at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (2019-2020). The...
36,00 €In StockPresentation by Akina Books : " « Kagerou : the heat haze, a lake in the desert, decay heat powered by the nuclear radiation, invisible, pervasive. It was 12 March 2011. The day after Fukushima nuclear disaster, I woke up in a shrouded Tokyo: the cityscape looked blurred and twisted. Nobody else seemed to notice: for 37 million people it was business as...
80,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Eamonn Doyle: " One features images from a recently made collection of unique, bespoke-process, large format, gelatin silver contact prints. " This publication, the first one of a new series, is a very large format 50 x 70 cm, presented and shipped folded (35 x 50 cm) that includes 24 images, printed double blakc on a Munken Print Cream 18...
65,00 €In Stock.One NEW copy available. Excerpts from the text by Caroline Bénichou: " It is the moment when you feel your heart and your throat swell or your stomach tightens, it depends. And, for just one moment, you are no longer anything else than this bite in your heart. Like a winter paleness... It is the moment when your eyelids half open. A path takes shape. A...
120,00 €Out of stock.Currently out of stock.The book presents images made by Antoine d'Agata in Georgia between 2009 and 2016; it was published "in the frame of the first Artisit in Residency program of Tbilisi Photo Festival". The "book" consists of 7 series of 7 images each, presented on a Leporello (concertina-fold, with the captions of the images at the back of one page...
52,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Loose Joints: " The first full presentation of Bourouissa's important series revisits and contextualises the artist's theatrical images of marginalised lives in Paris' outskirts. In this breakthrough series of photographs, Deutsche Börse award-winner Mohamed Bourouissa chose to appropriate the codes of history painting by staging scenes...
75,00 €Out of stockPresentation of the Seasons Series by Libraryman : "Seasons Series is a quarterly book series in which a unified curated category of artists cumulate under one and the same provision, however with changing perceptions from each artist’s particulate frame of reference. Each edition distinguishes itself through the selection of alternating artists and its...
.Back in stock. Publisher's presentation : "Old age, disease, death and facing dead bodies are somehow placed on the edge of the contemporary society, which rather uses various channels to emphasise the imperative of health, youth and strength. Bertok approaches death from the perspective of life: he is intrigued by its mythology reflecting through...
40,00 €In Stock.Last two copies!. Presentation by Case Publishing : "Takuma Nakahira's series Overflow was originally presented as an installation during the 1974 exhibition « Fifteen Photographers Today » (National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo). The work consisted of 42 color photographs that were arranged on a wall 6 meters wide and 1.8 meters high. The photobook...
49,00 €Out of stockSomersault (*signed / not signed*)
Présentation de Mack Books : " « We live our lives in widening circles, rarely appreciating their nature and how they bring us back. In a year, my daughter will be leaving home and is no stranger to a similar wanderlust I once knew. As a father, I always felt it was important to instill a profound sense of place, to identify with a certain place as home,...
40,00 €In StockPresentation by IIKKI Books: " « At first brutal and declining, the substance of Gaël Bonnefon's photography is just like a gaze that fears being one day extinguished and that is always looking to be born again. In photography as in love, recoil and desire, tension and easement, repetition, wandering and rest, flight and pursuit. Here photography allows...
Publisher's presentation: "Burkina Faso photographer Sory Sanlé (b. 1943) began his career in 1960, the year his country (then called République de Haute-Volta) gained independence from France. Sanlé opened his Volta Photo portrait studio in 1965 and, working with his Rolleiflex twin lens medium format camera, Volta Photo was soon recognised as the finest...
30,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Understory: " In his preface, filmmaker Peter Ward describes acquiring the archive of Bernard Taylor, an enigmatic former resident of his suburban New York village. Ward selected and edited this group of Taylor's papers: intimate worksheets that combine a series of photographs, maps, and postcards with illusive short texts that were...
65,00 €In StockSouthbound is a book that is book documentary and funny, even sarcastic, and introduces us to a Norwegian tradition during the very long "polar winters" : the migration of the populations from the great north to the south, to a place referred to as "Syden"... A migration of a few days, a few weeks, or the whole summer, to the south of the country, or to...
42,00 €Out of stockEdit Beijing (*w/ signed print*)
* * * Last copies available * * * Edit Beijing, with a print signed by the photographer This book is the result of Guy Tillim's residency in Beijing and presents a series of street photography portraits in colors. The book includes several gatefolds and is inserted in a soft cardboard illustrated slipcase. A signed C-Print (format : 16 x 25 cm) is...
85,00 €Out of stock.Last copy. Presentation by Mack Books: " Showcaller is the first book exploring the work of emerging artist Talia Chetrit. It brings together a broad range of her work made between 1994 and 2018 and is linked to a retrospective museum exhibition at the Kölnischer Kunstverein in early 2018. The title Showcaller is a theatrical term which references the...
120,00 €Out of stockDivagation - Sur les pas de Bashō (*signed*)
.One copy available.Presentation on the Académie des Beaux-Arts website (where the series was on display in the Fall 2016) : "Divagation, sur les pas de Bashô est un parcours poétique inspiré par les voyages entrepris par Matsuo Bashô au XVIIe siècle à travers le Japon féodal. Klavdij Sluban a transcrit photographiquement le voyage initiatique de Bashō,...
90,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Stanley / Barker: " Mimi Plumb used to live on the edges of the city where the rents were cheap. Nearby, on the summit of the hill, were folded layers of radiolarian chert, the fossilized remains of microscopic creatures called radiolaria. A large crevice in the hillside was a reminder of the ever-present threat of an earthquake. Warm...
95,00 €In Stock4-book set of different page numbers - Softcovers - Bound together by a paper band TIS Books, 2015 (300 copies) Format : 16.5 x 17.8 cm New - Mint conditionFirst publication by TIS Books, in 2015, it gathers together 4 series by 4 photoographers as detailed below.Presentation by TIS Books : "The inaugural TIS offering comes from four photographers who...
45,00 €Out of stockSelf-portraits 1987-2017 (*signed*)
Presentation by Super Labo : "The book Self-Portraits 1987-2017 by Antoine d’Agata reveals a journey of the man-photographer from the origins of his practice to the present day, and presents to us the monumental iconography of a body of work that has been developing slowly from a visual diary begun in Mexico in the 80s to the moving image and the...
![Klavdij Sluban - Divagation, sur les pas de Bashō [the(M) éditions, 2017]](https://ascenseurvegetal.com/10851-home_default/divagation-sur-les-pas-de-basho-signed.jpg "Klavdij Sluban - Divagation, sur les pas de Bashō [the(M) éditions, 2017]")
