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...
Edit 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...
Presentation 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...
.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...
.Sold out.Presentation by Chose Commune: "Astres noirs is the debut book for both Katrin Koenning and Sarker Protick, artists who live thousands of miles apart and whose peculiar photographic wanderings create a hauntingly beautiful dialogue. This book presents photographs taken on mobile phone cameras, devices used to capture their everyday in an...
Divagation - 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,...
.Back in stock.Presentation by Only Photography: "This book shows – aside from very few images already published in our large scale book At home from 2011 many more exceptional images e.g. of American luxury cars of the 1960s/1970s. The great documentary photographers were essentially invisible. Your gaze went directly to the subject before the camera,...
4-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...
Presentation by Chose Commune : " Afterlife is the sixth chapter of Vasantha Yogananthan's long-term project A Myth of Two Souls inspired by the epic tale The Ramayana. Drawing inspiration from the imagery associated with this myth and its pervasiveness in everyday Indian life, Vasantha Yogananthan has retraced the legendary route from north to south...
.Back in stock.Full title : On Abortion and the repercussions of lack of accessPresentation by Dewi Lewis : "Under ‘natural’ circumstances, the average woman would get pregnant about 15 times in her life, resulting in ten births. Seven of those babies would survive childhood. For centuries, people have searched for ways to delay or terminate pregnancy....
Stéphane Lavoué photographs a lost kingdom in Vermont, USA. Presentation by Editions 77 : [translated & adapted from French by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "I arrived there randomly one evening, following the sinuous curves of the North Ridge Road, a muddy and beaten-up ridge track, that connects the farms of West-Burke and Sutton to one another. I never had...
Presentation by Atelier EXB: " The publication Side Walk takes the reader into an unprecedented journey through Frank Horvat's emblematic series he produced in New York between 1982 and 1986 combining iconic photographs and unpublished images found in his archives with the complicity of the photographer and his daughter. A personal series he developed...
.Back in stock. Presentation by Roma Publications : "New series of photographs by Geert Goiris, addressing the topic of our contemporary oil culture. Commissioned by Rubis Mécénat cultural fund, Goiris was given permission to the Rubis Terminal sites in Rouen and other sites in Europe. He tackles the subject from the outside, limiting himself to that...
.Back in stock.Presentation by Session Press: "One of the most influential photographers of our time, Nobuyoshi Araki is known for his diaristic style through the publication of over 500 books throughout his career. It is, however, less known that Araki had explored experimental film projects since the mid 80s. In 1986 at Cinema Rise in Tokyo, Araki...
Self-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...
PLEASE NOTE: We are offering only the "Atelier EXB" version of this book (French / English version) Presentation by Atelier EXB: " For over ten years, Basque photographer Jon Cazenave has undertaken a long-term project questioning his identity, entitled Galerna (storm in Basque). Devoting himself to his close surroundings: the sea, the mountains, the...
Presentation by André Frère Editions: " Contexts often indicate our meanings so clearly that we do not even have to say what we mean in order to be understood. With The Tourist Kourtney Roy once again distinguishes herself as the virtuoso of context creation. Holidays should be relaxing, but when you are the tourist looking for a husband, the holiday...
Presentation by Chose Commune: " A blue sky. A shimmering river. The birth of a new life. These are the first three photographs from Rinko Kawauchi's book As it is. This new body of work returns to Kawauchi's earlier photographic focus on her personal universe through family, memory and time. This book presents a succession of mundane moments and gestures...
.Back in stock. Presentation by Editorial RM: " Ángel Albarrán and Anna Cabrera are two of the finest photographers on the contemporary scene. Together, they have produced a body of sensitive, poetical work that revolves around the themes of memory and experience. The images of Albarrán Cabrera contained in Remembering the Future speak to us of memory...
56 Days in Arles (*1st printing*)
.Back in stock (1st printing). Presentation by Libraryman: " This book consists of polaroids taken during François Halard's 56 days of confinement in his greatly unimitative hôtel particulier in Arles, France. Foreword written by art dealer and curator Oscar Humphries. "We are offering copies of the first printing of this photobook, quickly sold out by...
Presentation by Jiazazhi: "Until Death Do Us Part focuses on the unexpected role cigarettes play in Chinese weddings. As a token of appreciation, it is customary for the bride to light a cigarette for each and every man invited. The bride and the groom are then invited to play some cigarette-smoking games of an unprecedented ingenuousness. This...
.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...
.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...
Presentation 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...
.In stock.Series of portraits taken in a strip club in Tbilisi in 2009 and 2013. Text Blood Moon by Antoine d'Agata in English and Georgian only, opening on a excerpt from Homer's Odyssey (book XII, 45), about the sirens : "...and about them is a great heap of bones of mouldering men, and round the bones the skin is shriveling."approx. 80 pages -...
.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...
Presentation 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...
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...
Presentation 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...
Presentation by Le bec en l'air: [traduction by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "The Marseille(s) collection offers each year a carte blanche to a Mediterranean photographer who gives his vision of the city. Year after year, the diversity of the ways of photographic expression draws the portrait of a multicultural city and brings it in a new light. The first...
Presentation 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...
It Don't Mean a Thing (*2nd edition*)
Presentation by The Gould Collection: " Volume Two of The Gould Collection presents fifty-eight photographs by Saul Leiter with the story It Don't Mean a Thing by Paul Auster. Black-and-white and color photographs by Leiter from 1947 through the 1970s—with many images never before published—are paired with Auster's tale of interlinked life events and...