.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 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...
.Two signed copies available (poster included). Presentation by T&M Projects: "Lin Zhipeng a.k.a. No.223 has been energetically presenting the spirits and activities of young people through his photographs in conservative Chinese culture. He continues to portray a young generation who enjoys love and life, swaying between sexuality, with joy,...
ANGST (*trade edition / limited edition*)
.The copies have sold!. Presentation by Akina Books: " An optimistic street seller looks at the news and wishes the monsoon will end soon. On the street corner, a girl is dancing to the music of men’s smartphones, a rich man gets out of his fancy car after a crash and gets lynched by a mob, while a woman is disfigured by her alcoholic husband, in the...
Presentation 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...
.Back in stock. Presentation by Mack: "In a series of black and white images of the German landscape made between 1987 and 1997, Michael Schmidt has forged a new pictorial language to deconstruct the world he observes. Concerned with light and form, Schmidt’s images contain a wealth of silver tones, a spectrum of rich greys which evolve from light to dark...
Presentation 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...
Somersault (*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,...
Presentation 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...
.One copy available.Presentation by HeHe: "This exhibition catalogue focuses on one theme from his vast oeuvre, his wife Yoko. As Araki himself has said, « It’s thanks to Yoko that I became a photographer. » From their meeting in 1968 until her death in 1990, Yoko was his most important subject. She has continued to be a major influence on his photography...
The 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...
Southbound 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...
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...
.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...
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...
Presentation 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...
.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 VOID: "After 7 issues and 28 artists published, Hunger comes to an end with its epilogue: a solo publication by Michael Ackerman. « Time, in its great disarray, is a specialty of Michael Ackerman. His work respects and destroys it. » -- Jem CohenHunger – Epilogue is the first Ackerman's publication since his acclaimed book Half Life...
.Back in stock. Presentation by Editorial RM: "Stump is a radical close-up treatment of the spectacle of American politics in an era marked by unprecedented political partisanship, most notably during the recent presidential campaign. As one of today's most influential political photographers, Anderson has enjoyed rare behind-the-scenes access to the...
.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...
Publisher's presentation: "PAK! is an onomatopoeia which imitates the sound of impact. « Inside these pages are the portraits of people I encounter everyday. What fascinates me about them is their collective rebellion against inhibitions and acceptable behavior in what is largely a conservative Catholic society. Some of them are friends, some I had an...
Presentation by the artist : "The term WEALTH MANAGEMENT refers to a professional service, which is the combination of financial advice, fiscal strategy, and legal planning for one fee. With the help of tax havens and the complicity of supranational legal frameworks that allow their existence, the clients of private banks benefit from privileged...
Presentation by Artphilein Editions: " « Ce ne sont pas les ressemblances, mais les différences, qui se ressemblent. » -- Claude Lévi-Strauss, Le Totémisme aujourd’hui, 1962« Photography and drawing, architecture and sound, diagram and world: all of these differences serve to hold the images suspended on the threshold of uncertainty between true...
Presentation by Edition Lammerhuber : "Ai Weiwei pronounced the young artist Luo Yang a « rising star of Chinese photography ». In GIRLS she takes an intimate look at an undermined, yet extremely cool, generation of young Chinese women, who defy stereotypes and expectations - and are mesmerizing."168 pages - Linen hardcover Edition Lammerhuber, 2017...
Time from Different Sources (*signed*)
.Sold out. Titre complet : "Time from Different Sources : Images from Ciman Village"Publisher's presentation: "In this body of works Cheng uses polyphonic narrative to present the reality of a Naxi village in Southwest China during urbanization. This book, as response of the “comprehensive” series, is visualized polyphony. It’s no exaggeration to say that...
What She Said (*signed & tote bag / signed*)
Presentation by Mack Books: " « All I look forward to is the weekends, and sometimes they suck just as bad as the week does. God it's so god damn boring!! When I wake up in the morning I feel like I'm 99 years old!! I'm so tired and lazy and unhappy. I'm only 15 years old, what's wrong with me, why am I so UNhappy? This world is so fucked! People are so...
Casa das Sete Senhoras (*signed*)
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "In the Beira-Alta region of Portugal, where Tito Mouraz was born and brought up, there is a house that is said to be haunted by the ghosts of seven women, all maiden sisters. One of them was a witch. On nights of the full moon, the women, in their white gowns, would fly from their balcony over to the leafy branches of...
Street Portraits (*signed / not signed*)
Presentation by Mack: " From 1988 to 1991 Dawoud Bey made a series of portraits of African Americans in the streets of various American cities. Using a large format tripod mounted camera and a unique positive/negative Polaroid film that created both an instant print and a reusable negative, he asked a cross section of the populations of these communities...
Zine N° 14 - Nippon (*w/ signed print*)
In Nippon, number 14 in the Zine Collection by Editions Bessard, Emmanuel Angelicas creates a portrait of Japan in black and white, confronting the two main images that represent Japanese culture in the West : the female nude and the culture of the samurais. Through this still rather classique angle, the artist offers a beautiful series full and a great...