Photography and photographs Books
Overlapse A Parallel Road
Book SynopsisThis multi-layered work explores the Black experience of driving in America over the past 85 years. By picturing how it has too often been marked by fear, violence and death, A Parallel Road challenges representations of the American ideal of the road trip that have long dominated our view through artistic and literary media. Referencing the historical Negro Motorist Green Book, and layering archival and new images, it examines the question of how long the road will continue to be a site of violence and oppression for Black people in American society.
£19.00
MACK Lacuna Park: Essays and Other Adventures in
Book SynopsisLacuna Park is a collection of written and visual essays that intertwine personal accounts, historical and contemporary criticism, fictional narrative, and philosophical inquiry to ask: what is existentially at stake in the making and viewing of photographs?
£15.16
Editions Flammarion Obsession: Marlene Dietrich: The Pierre Passebon
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£19.12
Actes Sud Unretouched Women: Eve Arnold, Abigail Heyman,
Book SynopsisIn the mid-1970s in the United States as feminism gained huge momentum, three American photographers Eve Arnold, Abigail Heyman and Susan Meiselas published books of a new kind. Combining testimonies and images, they offer very original documentaries of women at work, their daily routines and their private lives. The trio brought their own style and experimented with the book format while showing women in a new light through photography. Their work sidestepped clichés to create alternative representations.This catalogue reveals their unusual approach to their works. The first, Growing Up Female by Abigail Heyman, published in 1974, is a kind of feminist personal diary. The photographer casts a lucid eye at her own life and questions the imprisonment of women in stereotype roles. The second, The Unretouched Woman, published by Eve Arnold in 1976, shows unknown women and celebrities in unexpected moments of their daily lives. The photos were deliberately not retouched or staged and, through them, the photographer offers a heteroclite and nuanced vision of women far from the glamour of glossy magazines. The third, Carnival Strippers, published in the same year by Susan Meiselas, is the fruit of three years of investigation into fairground striptease sideshows in the north-east of the United States. Through the performers’ long testimonies, the book gives a voice to its silent subjects, depicting their work, their dreams and their ambitions.The images provide an original perspective of female bodies, revealing their invisible make-up artistry and the staging involved behind their public appearances. In doing so it reveals a surprising, previously unseen glimpse into their sometimes prosaic, sometimes harsh private lives. It also reveals the social conventions and norms defining the status of women in society, within couples or within the domestic space to reveal working women, striving for independence and freedom.
£27.20
Jonglez Abandoned France
Book SynopsisFollowing the success of Sylvaine Margaine's first book, Forbidden Places, Abandoned France continues his journey in search of forbidden and often overlooked places. He draws attention to the dramatic fate of the country's heritage, the preservation of which has become a matter for serious reflection. An unrestricted visual journey inside the forgotten heritage of France; Captivating, explorative photography exposes the forgotten places and buildings shedding light on a long-abandoned world; 22 abandoned places chosen from 15 years of exploration take you to the four corners of France to tell the story of a forgotten heritage through thought-provoking images and text; Places included are the Gandrange steelworks, the decommissioned Uckange blast furnaces in Lorraine, a marine graveyard in Brittany, a forgotten chateau on the outskirts of Paris, a derelict sanatorium in the Alps, a military fort in the Pyrenees. For readers who love old things, old places, forgotten places, once elegant places of once thriving businesses. The photographs and text bring these forgotten places back to life.
£23.99
Editions Xavier Barral Charlie Chaplin: The Keystone Album: The Invention of the Tramp
£100.00
Editions Skira Paris Heritage in Focus Bilingual edition
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£24.00
Editions Skira Paris Environmental Photography Award 2025 Bilingual
Book SynopsisFounded in 2006 by HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco, the Foundation is a global non-profit organisation committed to progressing planetary health for current and future generations by co-creating initiatives and supporting hundreds of projects across our precious planet.
£24.00
Poursuite editions Only the fires say
Book SynopsisOnly the fires say offers a methodical sequence of images a visual and perceptive narrative. The assonances and dissonances between the impressions (hot and cold, empty and full, slow and fast . ) are orchestrated by subtle transitions, thanks to which each image is read in the light of the trace left in memory by the previous. The idea of ??combustion is prologue from the first image. It thus introduces a leitmotiv that will soon deploy throughout the book, the fire announcing the end of a season. Through a methodical sequencing, Only the fires say forms a visual and perceptual story. The assonant and dissonant impressions are subtle transitions, each image being read in the light of its predecessor. The idea of ??combustion is suggested in the work''s very first image. It therefore introduces a leitmotiv that runs throughout the book, the fires announcing the end of a season.
£999.99
Poursuite editions Twins
Book SynopsisJulie Hascoët was the guest in residence in 2017 at the Carré d''Art in Chartres de Bretagne. Taking advantage of an annual programming with cartography as the main axis, and enrolling in a proposed residence in the local area, the project proposed by Julie Hascoët has extended these two themes by adding a nomadic dimension. Driven by the desire to move the boundaries of the city of Chartres of Brittany to give it a new form, it has extended its research area to four of the municipalities that are twinned: Hassmersheim in Germany, Lwowek in Poland, Calarasi in Romania and Saint-Anthème in the Puy-de-Dôme. From season to season, from one vagrancy to another, the photographer has reactivated the twinning principle from a new, visual angle this time.
£999.99
Poursuite editions Objets Autonomes
Book SynopsisAutonomous Objects is a set of photographs made at ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes. The objects, sculptures and installations produced in-situ share the space with the dwellers and signal their territory. Produced and used to live autonomously on the ground and reply to police and military forces'' repeated assaults, they act as testimonies of singular hand-crafted know-how: creativity and protest intertwined. Like some scout movement, the photographic set focuses on various concrete ways to retake hold of material and territorial living, and by revealing the plasticity of that mode of expression, it aims at mapping out the area.
£999.99
Poursuite editions Concrete Mirages
Book SynopsisIn Concrete Mirages, Tom de Peyret freezes a seemingly abandoned setting, from the flashiest towers to empty dams, only a scattering of onlookers walk in the stifling heat. These towers emerge like golden totems from a landscape of which there is almost nothing left, as if we've been propelled into a dystopian world following some kind of catastrophe. Yet these elements recount a true and shared history, that of the energy spent in an absurd and vain quest, the quasi-impossible construction of a city in the middle of the desert. It is the very story of the birth of Las Vegas and its urban unrest. The photographer's minimalist work runs counter to the almost hysterical profusion that emanates from the cit The photographer's minimalist work runs counter to the almost hysterical profusion that emanates from the city. Between vertical madness and horizontal vertigo, Tom de Peyret paints a unique and stellar portrait of Sin City.
£23.75
Poursuite editions Bilateral
Book SynopsisFor several years, Samuel Gratacap has been visiting territories that bear the traces of a precarious, temporary occupation, of a passage and of a contemporary history: that of the paths of exile on the Mediterranean rim. Bilateral echoes the presence real or suggested of exiles on the French-Italian border, and the question of their passage through this transalpine sector. It is also a work on the landscape, on both sides of the border, the one that separates and unites us in turn. Samuel Gratacap tried to put his eyes on it and to listen to the people he met, in an effort to criticize the media images and the traditional representations that are proposed.
£28.50
Poursuite editions Shivers
Book SynopsisShivers is a series of landscape fragments, of objects, captured in a ghostly zone. During his drifts through various tourist sites, various nature reserves around the Mediterranean Sea, Sébastien Arrighi is sensitive above all to the margins of these stereotyped spaces. Traces, shocks, sounds. An energy charged the landscape, with a dull intensity, like a shiver going through the body in the dark.
£999.99
Poursuite editions ARN Vol. 4
Book SynopsisWith this fourth edition of the Atlas des Régions Naturelles, Eric Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier continue their long-term project launched in 2017: the comprehensive documentation of the 450 natural regions or pays' (lands) composing the French territory. This exceptional photographic adventure is slated to unfold over several years, with one publication every six months. Traversing these small geographical and cultural entities, some fallen into oblivion following the administrative division of the country, the duo collects visual elements that embody the essence of a region. They comingle man-made particularities traditional architecture, toponyms, local tastes, historical traces and natural features, such as relief, landscapes, colours, vegetation, etc. With 384 pages and more than 500 images, theAtlas des Régions Naturelles Vol. 4 rassembles twelve portraits of natural regions, punctuated by four themes. Like the previous editions, the volume is accompanied by a map serving as an index at the back of the book. Fourth volume's chapiters:Argonne, Bresse bourguignonne, Champagne berrichonne, Écussons, Crau, Flandre maritime, Grand Ried, Garage, Minervois, Perthois, Plateau de Saint-André, Silos, Saintonge romane, Vallespir, Velay, Tours Eiffel.
£33.25
Poursuite editions ARN Vol.5
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£33.25
Poursuite editions 1 New York Times Plaza NY 11356
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£33.25
Poursuite editions Titanic Orchestra
Book SynopsisTitanic Orchestra is an instinctive reaction to the wave of violence that struck Paris in 2015. Like so many metaphors, these organic images recount the collapse of a world, and the struggle to emerge from the state of stupefaction that followed. The city that we see has retained the appearance that it is known for, and yet everything has changed. Because after the impact, chaos reigns, a veil has fallen, the centre of gravity has shifted, and an unsettling quality seems to have taken over. Seeking an anchorage in the absence of an answer, the photographer decentres his lens successively towards the sky, towards the earth, towards a fleeting object or an obstructed horizon. The physical presence of the artist is palpable here: he is the seismograph that records the pulsations of this hallucinatory universe. Everywhere he looks, menace hovers: the engulfment, the collapse, of absent, inert bodies. His spasmodic vision stumbles against walls or screens, debris lies at his feet, voices are disincarnated in loudspeakers, and if he looks up, it is the blind eye of a camera that he meets. The irrevocable has occurred but the life force, that survives. And it is in the reunion with desiring, powerful bodies in resistance, that the reparation can begin.
£999.99
Bierke Publishing Hiding in Plain Sight
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£999.99
Nouveau Palais A History of the East End
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£28.50
Rien Ne Va Plus (RNVP) Paris Augure II
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£28.50
Rien Ne Va Plus (RNVP) Paris Blob
£19.00
CENTRAL BOOKS Waska Tatay
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£28.80
Kohlhammer W. Halloween Underground
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£31.20
BÃhlau Verlag Wien fotoform
Book SynopsisDie Gruppe fotoform verÃnderte die ModalitÃten des Ausstellens nach 1945.
£60.74
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Bauernleben: Vom Alten Leben Auf Dem Land
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£26.60
Theologischer Verlag Ag Unfassbar verschwenderisch
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£999.99
tredition Das Unsichtbare sichtbar machen
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£22.49
Deutscher Kunstverlag Fotopoesie
£44.10
De Gruyter Fotografien: Erkennen – Bewahren – Ausstellen
Book SynopsisFotografien sind kulturhistorische oder zeitgeschichtliche Dokumente mit einem schier unerschöpflichen Themenspektrum und damit für Forschung und Vermittlung zentrale Informationsquellen. Doch auch als Form des Kunstschaffens wird die Fotografie zum Gegenstand von Sammlungen und vielbeachteten Ausstellungen. Der Band stellt die Stufen der technischen Entwicklung der Fotografie bis zur Gegenwart vor. Die Lichtbild-Techniken von den Anfängen in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts werden in ihren Herstellungsverfahren beschrieben, die jeweiligen konservatorischen Problemstellungen skizziert und Maßnahmen vorgeschlagen. Nicht zuletzt widmet sich ein Beitrag den Aspekten der Langzeitarchivierung digitaler Bildaufnahmen. Die Publikation bietet übersichtlich und reich bebildert praktische Hilfen zur Identifikation und gibt Hinweise auf spezielle Risiken bei der Handhabung. Ausführliche Informationen zur Archivierung, Präsentation und zu konservatorischen Maßnahmen erleichtern den Umgang mit diesen empfindlichen Materialien. Der beliebte Band liegt nun als durchgesehene, aktualisierte Auflage vor!
£18.05
Benteli Verlag Emotions
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£29.75
Benteli Verlag Alps Upsidedown: Mountain Panoramas Symmetrically
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£31.96
Benteli Verlag Stille Magie der Alpen The Alps Compelling
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£39.96
Benteli Verlag I am Inuit: Portraits of Places and People of the
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£31.96
Benteli Verlag Moths of Costa Rica's Rainforest
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£36.00
Benteli Verlag Days Gone By: Roadside Photographs of the
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£31.96
Outlook Verlag Bildband Barcelona
£74.93
Outlook Verlag Bildband Dresden
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£74.93
Brill Fink Bilder Trotz Allem
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£44.91
Brill I Fink Ich war Arbeiterfotograf ohne es zu wissen.
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£76.80
Hatje Cantz Taryn Simon: Field Guide to Birds of the West
Book SynopsisIn 1936, an American ornithologist named James Bond published the definitive taxonomy Birds of the West Indies. Ian Fleming, an active bird-watcher living in Jamaica, appropriated the name for his novel’s lead character. He found it “flat and colourless,” a fitting choice for a character intended to be “anonymous. . . a blunt instrument in the hands of the government.” In Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies, Taryn Simon (*1975) casts herself as James Bond (1900–1989) the ornithologist, and identifies, photographs, and classifies all the birds that appear within the twenty-four films of the James Bond franchise. The appearance of many of the birds was unplanned and virtually undetected, operating as background noise for whatever set they happened to fly into. Simon’s ornithological discoveries occupy a liminal space—confined within the fiction of the James Bond universe and yet wholly separate from it. This taxonomy of 331 birds is a precise consideration of a new nature found in an alternate reality.
£999.99
Hatje Cantz Female Photographers Org: The Body Issue
Book SynopsisA visual dialogue about bodies and how they are perceived in media has been undertaken by the Female Photographers Org collective. As the group’s first publication, The Body Issue addresses the depiction of bodies and the perception of them; at the same time, it also launches a series of photo books. Founded in 2018, Female Photographers Org will regularly publish photography books devoted to issues, while also organising companion exhibitions under its own direction. The goal is to increase the visibility of female photographers, since women are still underrepresented in the art world. Female Photographers Org is aiming to change this situation and calls upon women to reinforce their positions collectively. The Body Issue also invites guest artists to publish their work in the collective’s books, so that they can literally experience solidarity among women.
£22.40
Hatje Cantz Inez & Vinoodh: I See You in Everything
Book SynopsisThe photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin have been inseparable from the fashion and art scene since the 1990s. Very early on they made use of digital processing and distortion. Sometimes a delicate retouch was enough, and sometimes they took it to the apex of gross contortion. Through their strongly expressive manipulations, the couple developed a pictorial vocabulary of their own, and they continued to develop it in their themes. Their work is extravagant and gaudy. At the same time, however, they deal with cryptic questions about superficiality, gender, and identity. This book of photos presents a kind of retrospective “director’s cut,” as it were. On the occasion of their exhibition at The Ravestijn Gallery, the artists have selected their favorites from a rich collection. Despite the variety of themes, each photograph bears the inimitable signature of its creators. Presented in a magazine-like style, this publication celebrates the authentic diversity of this outstanding couple of artists.
£19.54
Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH femxphotographers.org
Book Synopsisfemxphotographers.org is an international collective of womxn and non-binary photographers. Through exhibitions and books, they challenge dominant narratives in photography and advocate for solidarity, visibility, and feminist discourse.
£27.20
Hirmer Verlag Stefan Hunstein: In the Ice
Book SynopsisThe artist Stefan Hunstein brought magical photographs of untouched landscapes back from his journey to the Arctic in 2012. In their majesty and beauty, their immensity and their deadly cold they echo the visions of ice in painting and literature, especially during the Romantic era. The publication shows a selection of these breathtaking photographs which are being presented in public for the first time – also in a series of exhibitions. Here Hunstein, famous for his critical exami nation of contemporary history through the artistic processing of existing pictures, has taken up the camera himself and has created “Dream Pictures” which retain a hint of unreality in their outlines, shadows and reflections, in their theatrical blue lumi nosity and the bizarre, constantly changing structures. In these photos – printed on glass using a special technique – the artist links the fragile and the monstrous, the beauty of nature and “the horrors of the ice and of darkness” (Christoph Ransmayr)
£32.30
Hirmer Verlag Marcel Chassot: Architecture and Photography:
Book SynopsisAssembling buildings designed by modern star architects from Tadao And - o to Peter Zumthor, this photography book is a total - work - of - art: its felicitous interplay of brilliant architectural photography, exquisite book design, and texts approaching the subje ct from the angle of the history of thought places Marcel Chassot’s imagery within European cultural history. Once it plunges into Chassot’s architectural photography, the eye feasts on a wealth of scenes from the repertoire of outstanding international c ontemporary architecture. Each of the photographs aptly captures a prototypical subject. Colouring, the arrangement of lines, lighting, as well as the photographic means are employed with such precision that viewers feel as if they are in a visual laboratory where photography interprets architecture in its particular language. In his essay the author Wolfgang Meisenheimer looks into the fundamental principles of Chassot’s photographic world view and distinguishes between three layers of thought in which the work is rooted: the Euclidian orders, echoes of the modern philosophy of the lived body, and the legacy of Cubism from the beginnings of modern painting.
£51.20
Hirmer Verlag Do or Die: Auf Leben und Tod · The Human
Book SynopsisThe glamour and misery of mankind are at the heart of this book, but it also addresses the tradition and the renewal of the human image. Significant photographers of the 20th and 21st centuries engage in a sometimes surprising dialogue with Masters of European painting from the late Middle Ages to the 19th century.
£23.80
Hirmer Verlag Fiction & Fabrication: Photography of
Book SynopsisHow do digital photography and Photoshop influence the representation of architecture? Fiction & Fabrication assembles fascinating contemporary photographic works from all over the world. From fictional constructions to real buildings which sometimes seem more fantastic than fiction, the works show an impressive portrait of contemporary architecture and the urban landscape that surrounds us. An exciting change is currently taking place in architecture photography: apparently neutral, realistic illustrations are giving way to the creation of an individual reality. New techniques permit unusual angles and perspectives, and digital processing allows for the manipulation of reality. Fine artists have long discovered the formal language of architecture as a subject. By means of a wide range of contemporary artworks this volume shows the visual bandwidth which architecture photography demonstrates in our post-digital age. With works by: Doug Aitken, Thomas Demand, Filip Dujardin, Roland Fischer, Andreas Gursky, Edgar Martins, Erwin Olaf, Hans Op de Beeck, Bas Princen, Thomas Ruff, Philipp Schaerer, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jeff Wall and many more.
£31.96
