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A thematic selection of artists’ books curated by guest curators: Jérôme Prochiantz, Martin Parr, Erik Kessels, Christine Barthe, Clément Chéroux, Aline Pujo, Jonas Cuénin, Valérie Belin, and Patrick Remy.
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William Klein’s influence on the Italian photography scene is also undeniable, thanks to Mario Carrieri’s publication of this superb book on Milan in 1959. *
* Printed with exquisite embossing and cited by Martin Parr in his *Photobook* as one of the most representative postwar Italian photography books, *Milan, Italy* now fetches astronomical prices.
Lerici Editore, 1959
166 pages
For a long time, the photography book remained in the shadow of photography itself, relegated to a purely documentary and illustrative role. But thanks to recent work by historians such as Gerry Badger, Horacio Fernandez, and Hans-Michael Koetzle, by specialized booksellers like Denis Ozanne and Harper Levine, and with the support of major collectors such as Manfred Heiting, Martin Parr, and Alain Sinibaldi, exhibitions and bibliographies have emerged to disseminate the history of this medium and educate the public on the subject. A market has emerged, price ranges have been established, and today, the photography book has gained its independence and become an essential component of photography under the now well-established Anglo-Saxon term “PHOTOBOOK.”
After sparking unprecedented enthusiasm some twenty years ago, the market has now stabilized, but there are still many publishing houses—including a multitude of small independent publishers—and publications remain plentiful. Following the development of this market and the growing interest from the public, collectors, and institutions, the need for compilation became apparent, leading to comprehensive collections such as those by Parr & Badger, or collections dedicated to specific fields: geographic regions (Latin America, Japan, the Netherlands...), photographers (Nobuyoshi Araki, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Richard Prince), and themes (Nude, Business, Photojournalism).
Published to coincide with the “Books on Photobooks” selection at the L'INAPERCU photography bookstore, this volume—which lists 87 titles—is a compilation of books about photography books published around the world. For each title, it provides a cover image, a double-page spread, and a bibliographic note. More than just a reference work, this book is a tribute to the phenomenon that photography books have become and a recognition of the important role played by the printed image—the book that one opens and leafs through—in the digital age.
Published by L’INAPERÇU, Les Yeux Ouverts, Innocences, 2025
19 × 15 cm
In *Rome*, with his characteristic style of photography and storytelling, Petersen presents the city not through its old buildings and bustling daily life, but through portraits of passersby, market stalls, various animals, apartment interiors, beds, bodies, and skin… The images in this book are from three trips the artist took to Rome in 1984, 2005, and 2012.
Signed, numbered edition 139/150 with print
Published by Koenig Books - Punctum, 2014
120 pages
20.5 × 29.5 cm
ISBN 9788895410210
Thomas Sauvin’s *Until Death Do Us Part* explores the surprising role that cigarettes play in Chinese weddings. As a token of appreciation, it is customary for the bride to light a cigarette for each male guest. The bride and groom are then invited to participate in cigarette-smoking games of unprecedented ingenuity. This publication pays homage to a tradition where love and death go hand in hand. These photos come from the Beijing Silvermine (北京银矿) project, an archive of half a million negatives recovered over the years from a recycling plant on the outskirts of Beijing.
5.30 x 8.30 x 2.10 cm / 108 pages
Published by Beijing Silvermine
7th edition, April 2025
Regarding *Exiles*, Cornell Capa wrote: “Koudelka’s unsentimental, austere, melancholic, and intensely human images reflect his own spirit—the very essence of an exile who feels at home wherever his wandering body finds refuge in the night. ” Koudelka’s work once again serves as a powerful document of the spiritual and physical condition of exile. The sense of intimate mystery that permeates these photographs—most of which were taken during Koudelka’s many years of wandering across Europe since he left his native Czechoslovakia in 1968—bears witness to his passion and his reserve, to his relentless drive to see. Solitary, moving, deeply felt, and strangely unsettling, the images in *Exiles* evoke alienation, disconnection, and love. *Exiles*, edited and sequenced by Koudelka and Robert Delpire, evokes some of the most captivating and unsettling themes of the 20th century, while resonating just as powerfully in today’s context of massive migration and transience.
“Being in exile simply means having left your country and not being able to return. Every exile is a different and personal experience. For my part, I wanted to see the world and photograph it. I’ve been traveling for forty-five years. I’ve never stayed in one place for more than three months. When I had nothing left to photograph, it was time to leave,”
- Josef Koudelka in an interview published in *Le Monde* in 2015.
Published by the National Center for Photography, 1988
65 pages,
26 x 28 cm
ISBN: 2-86754-044-5
When it was first published in 1971, Larry Clark’s groundbreaking book *Tulsa* immediately sparked controversy across the country. Its explicit depictions of sex, violence, and drug abuse within Oklahoma’s youth culture were hailed by critics for debunking the myth that the American heartland had remained untouched by the social upheavals that shook the United States in the 1960s. The raw and haunting images taken in 1963, 1968, and 1971 document a youth culture gradually overwhelmed by self-destruction—and are as moving and unsettling today as they were when first published. Originally published as a limited paperback edition, then reissued in 1983 as a limited hardcover edition at the author’s request, this book sells for over a thousand dollars at rare book dealers. Now available in hardcover and paperback from Grove Press, this seminal work of photographic art and social history is once again accessible to the general public.
Published by Grove Press, 2000
64 pages
23 x 31 cm
The Book of 101 Books is published by Andrew Roth and features over 500 color plates accompanied by essays by eight renowned authors: Vince Aletti, Richard Benson, May Castleberry, Jeffrey Fraenkel, Daid Moriyama, Shelley Rice, David Levi Strauss, and Neville Wakefield.
In her insightful 15,000-word essay titled “When Objects Dream,” art historian Shelley Rice traces the history of 20th-century photography through the book. Richard Benson, dean of the School of the Arts at Yale University and an internationally renowned expert on photographic printing, traces the evolution of the art of printing from photogravure to new digital technologies in his 5,000-word essay titled “Photography in Print.” May Castleberry, an independent curator and editor for the Library Council of the Museum of Modern Art, describes the production process behind the reprint of Steichen’s classic children’s book, *The First Picture Book*, and discusses the challenge of presenting photography books within a museum exhibition in her essay “The Presence of The Past.” Jeffrey Fraenkel, art dealer and book publisher, offers a personal account of the many pitfalls of book publishing in his essay “A Choice of Titles.” Contemporary Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama recounts in his essay “Reflections” the creation of his avant-garde publication Bye, Bye Photography, Dear (1972). Neville Wakefield, art critic, theorist, and curator of contemporary art, analyzes Richard Prince’s radical picture book *Adult Comedy Action Drama* (1995) in “Stand Up Comedy and the Horizontal Sublime.” Vince Aletti, arts editor at the Village Voice, and David Levi Strauss, art critic and professor, each write an insightful essay of 300 to 500 words to accompany the 101 books.
Published by PPP Editions, 2001
308 pages
25 x 30.5 cm
ISBN: 978-0967077444