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PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKSHOP
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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*Principio Erat* (Artist's Edition B) by Australian photographer Bill Henson is a deluxe photobook published by Editions Bessard in Paris (2019).
Measures approximately 36.5 x 27 cm, with illustrated matte-finished boards and housed in a distinctive red cloth clamshell box.
Features Henson's signature atmospheric photography of young people at twilight against the backdrop of Parisian architecture.
Prints Included: Limited to a small run (45 copies plus artist's proofs), it includes a small original signed Bill Henson C-print (of a reclining girl) mounted to the back endpaper, plus an additional larger-format original signed photograph placed inside the red clamshell box.
ISBN : 9791091406741
First published in 1996 to great acclaim, Richard Billingham’s *Ray’s a Laugh* is one of the most important photography books of the early 20th century, as well as a seminal work of the Young British Artists generation. Composed of intimate and raw images of Billingham’s often chaotic childhood home, marked by alcoholism and poverty, the book was produced in the 1990s with publishers Michael Collins and Julian Germain. This new edition restores, for the first time, Billingham’s original vision for his deeply personal work. It includes numerous previously unpublished images and a distinct approach to sequencing, influenced by Billingham’s training as a painter: it is a “director’s cut” that reintroduces a vital and constantly stimulating work into a new era. The publication of this new edition is accompanied by *Ray’s a Laugh: A Reader*, edited by Liz Jobey, which traces the book’s fascinating history, from Billingham’s “discovery” at the University of Sunderland to this revised edition.
MACK Books, 2024
320 pages
24 × 31.5 cm
ISBN : 9781915743329
“DOLCI” by Francesco Balzano, an artistic, poetic, and silent journey through the heart of the plaster cast collection at the Palace of Versailles.
Sogno Studio, 2026
96 pages
27×33 cm
ISBN : 9791098049101
A visual history of the Lausanne Book Guild, a true pioneer in the publication of photography books for the general public.
184 pages
30 × 25 cm
ISBN: 9782954064000
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
The “17 18 19” series is based on a bag of film negatives recovered from a recycling plant on the outskirts of Beijing in 2010. The bag contained an archive of more than 15,000 scratched black-and-white negatives, taken at one of the city’s detention centers between 1991 and 1993. A true investigative journey into the police’s use of these photographers and their aesthetic, the book thus examines their practice and their understanding of photography, composition, and artistic direction. Who are these people? What are the stories behind each image? Why 17 18 19? These are the questions the reader must answer. It is as if the book were evidence in and of itself, placing the reader in the role of the investigator.
During the artist’s stay at Convento Residency (Portugal)—in September 2019—the book was edited, designed, and prepared for printing. This was done in early October 2019 at the MAS in Istanbul. It is printed with silver metallic ink on black paper. And this was not a random aesthetic decision. The black pages allow the photographs to be printed in negative form. And the silver metallic ink links “17 18 19” to its origins: the Silvermine project. Silver and negatives, once discarded in China, are now recycled in the form of a book.
Published by Void Editions, 2019
Numbered (34/50) and signed cardboard box containing 3 prints and a unique original 35 mm negative from the Silvermine collection in Beijing (series 17/18/19).
15.5 cm x 20.5 cm, in good condition
ISBN 9786188434141
Edition of 250 copies, each with a signed C Print
Bessard Publishing, 2019
24 pages
19 × 26.7 cm
ISBN : 9791091406369
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.
Slight creases on the upper edges of the dust jacket.
Published by PPP Editions, 2001
308 pages
25 x 30.5 cm
ISBN: 978-0967077444