.LAST COPY!. NB: The title of this book is sometimes spelled "Irmatar" in Roman letters. Presentation by Mandarake: " It's been six years since Dildo (2013) and Bible (2014), both published by Session Press in New York. With no advertising or publicity, Momo Okabe's works have become highly acclaimed and have won various national and international...
Des Oiseaux - Plossu (*signed*)
.Last signed copy!. Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral:" Half traveler and half migratory photographer, as he likes to introduce himself, Bernard Plossu strides along the world since many years. He captures through his lens furtive moments, where birds are flying in huge swarms or caught alone, standing proudly in the middle of a puddle, or gliding...
Presentation by Loose Joints: " Devastation in the Amazon rainforest and the climate change it triggers tend to unfold in ways that are too vast to comprehend, too minute to perceive, and too normalised to see. In an attempt to render the scale and urgency of the Amazon’s extensive, impending collapse, Richard Mosse’s most ambitious work to date employs a...
Presentation by Dienacht: " A chamber of curiosities. Kammer is a one third human, one third abstract and another third brutish story. Kammer raises no questions, it offers answers, it’s just that the answers are parallel to one’s mind. Warning: the wire is sharp and might hurt the black paper. It might also hurt your delicate skin and others'. « Some...
.LAST copy of the two we stumbled upon recently in our stock: NEW, shrinkwrapped and in mint condition!. The images in this book are quite wild ! Russian youths: teenagers and misfits Igor Samolet takes us in the life of a group of young Russians, whose days and nights revolve around alcohol, acting nonsense and sex, adrift in some apparently derelict...
.Last copy!. Presentation by Libraryman: " Tadaima by Annemarieke van Drimmelen is an intimate portrait in respect to the heartache and its beauty of a journey homeward. At age ten Annemarieke acquired a camera for the first time, her mothers, merely after her passing. By picking up the camera she was adept to perceive her mother slightly better by...
.Sold out. Presentation by Stanley / Barker: " We are delighted to announce the release of Bill Henson's Sic Transit - a sumptuous 164 page hard cover book, with uncoated dust jacket, housed in a slipcase. « Bill Henson's Sic Transit presents the panorama of a world shadowed by the images and memories of the past. Two boys wrestle like an act of love, an...
Presentation of Yusuf Sevinçli on IIKKI's website: "« Yusuf Sevinçli does not linger. He walks, he explores, he observes, he shoots and he leaves again. He collects almost obsessively scraps of reality which are always different, but they can finally find an analogy and eventually become a series of images. It ‘s a picaresque concept of photography,...
Looters - 2nd edition (*signed*)
Following the 2011 first edition, this second edition of Looters has been slightly modified, in a slightly larger format (but still in the Risograph process), features images gathered on the Internet, coming from CCTV for most of them; enlarged, pixelated portraits of looters during the 2011 London riots.This book (the first edition) is listed in "The...
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...
Une histoire mondiale des femmes photographes
.Available..PLEASE NOTE: Texts in this book are IN FRENCH ONLY, and we are offering copies of the 2021 reprint of the book which quickly sold out before Christmas 2020. Presentation by Editions Textuel : [translation by L'Ascenseur Végétal] " A fabulous collective sum, a manifesto, a book of reference. This book includes over 450 images and...
Text included in the book: " « 'Be careful', my father had written to me, 'it's supposed to be unsafe out there', words interspersed with photographs from the cargo ship that he was working on as he made his way up the Mississippi river to the port right outside New Orleans. The immigration rules did not allow him to step on American soil and he had no...
.A few UNsigned copies available, from the first edition.Publisher's presentation : "Bottom of the Lake is a 256-page facsimile of the artist's family's telephone book for his hometown of Fond du Lac ("Bottom of the Lake"), printed in 1973, soon after his birth. The book includes found markings and reproductions of inserted materials, along with...
Please Notify the Sun (*signed*)
Presentation by Nobody Books: " « It was in 2017 that I began to have an inkling that a single fish might contain a universe of infinite proportions and how amazing a journey within its body could be. So I started to research everything I would need to embark on such an expedition. By January 2020 I had built a work top, obtained a microscope, a...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Michal Iwanowski's photobook Clear of People documents a 2,200km solitary journey that echoes his grandfather's daring escape from soviet captivity in 1945. This visual journey comes from the photographer's personal archive as the project re‑enacts the map drawn by and inherited from his uncle. It begins in Russia,...
Presentation based on the IIKKI Books website: [adaptation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " Through a Vulnerable Occur is a dialogue between artists Sophie Gabrielle and Seabuckthorn. Sophie Gabrielle is a young Australian photographer. Through her fine art practice, she has channelled her interest in mythology, spiritualism and psychology. Her poetic works...
Beautiful portraits of people from India's Rajasthan who discover the ocean for the first time.The Black & White, grainy, and highly contrasted style of Martin Bogren suits perfectly the atmosphere of these moments, the smiles, the bodies, the waves, the water.36 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Journal, 2008 New - Mint condition
Presentation by Jiazazhi: " In 2017, when we made photobook White Night for Feng Li for the first time, he brought plenty of photographs to our studio. We were immediately shocked by his color photos. As a result, the black-and-white photos were put aside at that time. But he told us that the black-and-white was the starting point of White Night. From...
.Sold out. Dark Cities is a self-published project in a thin-cardboard folder containing 3 books that are 3 perceptions of Singapore, Tokyo and Seoul through the « lens » of a specific and unusual location: a carpark (01 - Carpark), a run-down tower (02 - Capsule), an old city quarter (03 - Euljiro). The original training as architect of the artist Shyue...
.Sold out. Presentation by Mörel Books: " « 80 per cent of artists are dealing with mother issues. » In this personal interview the internationally praised German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann muses on the magnetic power of women, and shares how he has used art as both escape and therapy.« Make a job out of it and all is lost. » Feldmann does not consider...
.Signed copies back in stock.Presentation by Ilka Kramer: "This series shows children in their approach to nature according to their imagination and their fascination for fairy tales. Behind the house, far away from the life of adults, the garden, the fields and the forest become an immense land to explore. The murky spot under the fig tree, the tree...
.Back in stock.Presentation by Stanley / Barker: "From 1978 to 1999 British photographer Tom Wood spent his Saturday mornings at Great Homer Street Market, a retail market, just far enough outside the centre of Liverpool in the North of England, for it to have it’s own unique, more relaxed identity. Complete with his Leica and out of date film, Wood made...
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...
Publisher's presentation: "A behind-the-scenes exploration of the art of contemporary photography, richly illustrated with rarely seen works-in-progress from forty-three of today's most original practitioners. This book celebrates the new creative processes of the modern photographic era, in which blogs and Instagram streams function alongside analogue...
Presentation by Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain : " During the 1990s and 2000s, Raymond Depardon crisscrossed agricultural France with his 6 x 9 view camera. From this exploration of the rural world, he made black-and-white photographs that tell the story of the land, the people, manual labour, the isolation and fragility of small farms, but...
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...
.Last copy. Presentation by Editions Bessard : "The iconic bowler hat, the long black braids, the adjusted corset and the brightly colored puffed skirt: their outfit is well known all around the world. The mythical cholitas are a strong symbol of Bolivia. Discriminated against for a long time, they are now very much a driving force in Bolivia. In...
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...
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...
.One copy available (2nd printing, 2018). Presentation by Dewi Lewis: "The Fens, a region of reclaimed marshland in eastern England, is one of the richest arable areas in the UK. Paul Hart has been photographing this landscape of agribusiness over the last six years. In FARMED he explores this wide-open environment, a linear landscape of straight lines...
.Last copy. Presentation by GOST Books: " The photographs in Terre à l'Amende by Mark Power were made on Guernsey and show a side of the island far removed from traditional picturesque representations of blue skies and beaches. Territorially and politically, the Channel Islands—of which Guernsey is the second largest—are complicated and this is reflected...
Presentation by Siam's Guy Books: " Women's bodies buried under fingerprints, brushstrokes encapsulating a breast or encircling a silhouette, enigmatic images appear on the screen. A dreamlike gallery of trails and traces reveals a sort of tension between the tangible and the intangible. Reenacting the pure tactile pleasure of scrolling, fondling and...