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Santa Barbara shame on US (*signed*)
Presentation by Skinnerboox: "After Santa Barbara Return Jobs Back to US, the second chapter by Alejandro Cartagena on the US is a more tragically constructed visual landscape. The current state of things in « America » has created a greater divide and contrast socially and especially politically. As such, the book carefully suggests and addresses these...
50,00 €Out of stock56 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...
65,00 €Out of stock.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....
40,00 €Out of stock.Third printing available. Presentation by Poursuite : " Atlas of Forms is a large book of images collected by Éric Tabuchi that documents every kind of shape found in architecture of all types. Within its 256 pages, are nearly 1500 photographs patiently collected from the Internet and classified according to the rudimentary criteria of geometry (circle,...
38,00 €Out of stockHypermarché - Novembre (*signed*)
.Sold out. Presentation by The Gould Collection: "Hypermarché – Novembre, the third volume in The Gould Collection, partners Japanese photographer Motoyuki Daifu with French writer Michel Houellebecq to critically explore themes of love, pain, family and daily life.Through a probing and often humorous lens, Tokyo-based Motoyuki Daifu’s photographs explore...
Early Sunday Morning (*signed print*)
PLEASE NOTE: THIS BOOK IS "ACTIVATED" ONLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF TECHNICAL TESTS!THE BOOK IS NOT AVAILABLE, PLEASE DO NOT PROCEED TO PURCHASE IT (YOUR ORDER WOULD BE CANCELLED) Presentation by RRB Photobooks: " The book is made up of over 90 largely unpublished images, each one selected from a cache of five hundred negatives which have sat unseen for over...
69,00 €Out of stock.Signed copies now available.Publisher's presentation: [translated & adapted from the French text by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Denis Dailleux is famous for the unique and passionate portraitof Egypt he has been building for more than fifteen years. In a search for new creative spaces, he also visits Ghana regularly since 2009. The fishermen of the port...
42,00 €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 of the photobook by Donald Weber : "June 6, 1944: D-Day The epic of war, told by a grain of sand... My grandfather liked to tell stories about life and death, and the sea. When I was twelve, he told me the best sea-story I ever heard, a fantastic tale about WWII. It was the first time I heard the word « commando. » War Sand explores this...
80,00 €Out of stock.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...
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...
36,00 €Out of stockPresentation 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...
15,00 €In 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 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 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 Stock.Sold out. Presentation by Libraryman: "Page after page they undress. Their legs laying down gracefully on a bed, resting for eternity—so it seems. Others are standing up, can you feel the warmth coming out of their skin? It seems they are dancing together from scene to scene. Inviting you to join them. Their naked bodies find refuge between the paint...
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...
45,00 €Out of stockPresentation by Dienacht: " « As I was going through my pictures, I came across a folder full of randomly selected photographs from various projects or sources that maybe discontinued, or cannot be categorized. It was all over the place piled up like dirty laundry. There are personal stuff, pictures of christian devotees practicing their penitence...
42,00 €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 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 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 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 StockStéphane 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...
35,00 €Out of stockPresentation by the artist: " Red Ink was commissioned by The New Yorker for the article The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea by Evan Osnos, September 18 issue, 2017 and supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.« In the resulting photographs, his lighting is complimentary yet forensic, scrutinizing the sheen of the propagandistic settings...
32,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. A really large book, Found Photos in Detroit is nevertheless (of course) mostly remarkable for the really intense images it contains. The authors Arianna Arcara and Luca Santese collected images and other documents found in the streets of Detroit in 2009 and 2010. This book, with an overall gloomy or even depressive feel, displays a selection...
Presentation 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 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 stock.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...
.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 stock.Sold out. 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...
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...
42,00 €In Stock.Back in stock.Publisher's presentation: "From 2005 to 2009 Antoine d’Agata had spent most of his time in Cracolandia, the crack neighborhoods of São Paulo and Salvador. Doubtless the roughest areas of Brazil. With 169 images and more than 140 unseen photographs, Cidade de Pedra is the most comprehensive document about this period. It reveals the...
65,00 €Out of stock
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