This special feature takes readers on a journey to the heart of Italy through a selection of photo books. Far from tourist clichés, these books offer a variety of perspectives on a country shaped by its history, landscapes, traditions, and contemporary contradictions.

A photo book offers a unique way to engage with images: you flip through the pages, linger on certain images, and flip back. Each volume becomes a visual narrative, a personal journey through Italy as told by photographers with diverse perspectives.

This collection is an invitation to embark on a journey—not a geographical one, but an emotional one—that brings together a selection of books by Italian and international photographers dedicated to this country. Each volume offers a unique perspective: landscapes, scenes of daily life, fragments of history, or contemporary perspectives.

Marc Verrecchia has been a bookseller on the banks of the Seine in Paris for 30 years. A specialist in fine art and photography books, he has been collecting books on Italy for all these years, and he is offering a small selection of them at L'INAPERÇU.

For many years, the photography book remained in the shadow of photography itself, but today it has established its own identity and become an indispensable part of the field under its now-established English name: the photobook.

Faced with the diversity and number of publications, from the invention of photography to the recent craze for the Photobook, the need for a compendium has arisen, giving rise to compilations with a universal vocation, such as the Parr & Badger trilogy, or to collections devoted to specific fields: geographical areas, photographers, themes...

It is with great pleasure that L’INAPERÇU, for whom the photobook is at the very heart of its identity, presents a selection of some fifty of these compilations—these “Books on Photobooks”—which are often rare and highly sought after by collectors.

To mark this special feature on L’INAPERÇU, Innocences and Les Yeux Ouverts are co-publishing *The Book of Books on Photobooks*, a compilation of books about photography books published around the world, featuring over a hundred titles.

For many years, the photography book remained in the shadow of photography itself, but today it has established its own identity and become an indispensable part of the field under its now-established English name: the photobook.

Faced with the diversity and number of publications, from the invention of photography to the recent craze for the Photobook, the need for a compendium has arisen, giving rise to compilations with a universal vocation, such as the Parr & Badger trilogy, or to collections devoted to specific fields: geographical areas, photographers, themes...

It is with great pleasure that L’INAPERÇU, for whom the photobook is at the very heart of its identity, presents a selection of some fifty of these compilations—these “Books on Photobooks”—which are often rare and highly sought after by collectors.

To mark this special feature on L’INAPERÇU, Innocences and Les Yeux Ouverts are co-publishing *The Book of Books on Photobooks*, a compilation of books about photography books published around the world, featuring over a hundred titles.

This book is more than just a collection of recipes.

It is the story of a passion, of love at first sight with the octopus.

In this book, delve into ancient legends and literature to understand why the octopus has, in the past, so terrified and fascinated sailors, adventurers, and fishermen around the world; and discover how this cephalopod is prepared around the world: from Japanese-style octopus cooked in sake and tea to Bahia-style octopus moqueca, as well as octopus in wine, meatballs...

Followed by a special OCTOPUS dinner - Three octopus appetizers - One octopus starter - One octopus main course - One dessert - Petit fours

L’INAPERÇU Restaurant L’INAPERÇU Online Reservations

Photography exhibition by Letizia Le Fur, winner of the Paris je t’aime x Photo Days Grand Prize, titled “Le Beau Jeu”.

L’INAPERÇU pleased to invite you to the opening of the “BEST OF BRITISH” exhibition, a selection curated by Martin Parr, the legendary photographer and guest curator at the bookstore

L’INAPERÇU pleased to invite you to the opening of the “TOO FUNNY FOR WORDS” exhibition, a selection curated by Erik Kessels, the bookstore’s guest curator.

The l’Inaperçu bookstore l’Inaperçu delighted to welcome you on Monday for a new collaboration. The event featured the photo-memory game “ICONO PHONE” by Erik Kessels, initiated by Nadia Banian and Eric Chesnais and published by Pymaryd.

A look back at the event held on Monday, February 19, at L’INAPERÇU.

We were delighted to welcome you to Christine Barthe's opening evening with her selection of photobooks "SUR/AMERICA".

L’INAPERÇU bookstore L’INAPERÇU pleased to host the launch of Aalam’s artist’s book, “PRIVAATT.” Aalam’s photographic series “PRIVAATT” is currently on view at the Musée de Grenoble in the exhibition “Une Histoire d’images,” courtesy of a donation by Antoine de Galbert. The exhibition runs from December 16, 2023, to March 3, 2024.

Book signing for "Fashion Eye Vienna," published by Louis Vuitton, at L'Inaperçu (65 Rue Beaubourg, Paris) with artist Stefanie Moshammer in attendance on Saturday, November 11, 2023, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

L’INAPERÇU pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition “TOPP! The One Person Photobook,” a selection curated by Clément Chéroux, the bookstore’s guest curator.

Book signing for "Hunting in Time," published by Sternthal Books, at L'Inaperçu (65 Rue Beaubourg, Paris), with photographer Ronit Porat and author Ines Weizman in attendance, on Thursday, November 2, 2023, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

A look back at the evening of Monday, September 25:

L’INAPERÇU pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition “Auteurs de Vues: A Photographic Stroll Through the Marais,” a selection of photobooks curated by Aline Pujo, the bookstore’s guest curator. On this occasion, more than 70 photobooks were presented, in collaboration with over twenty art galleries in the Marais.

Free admission

L’INAPERÇU pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition curated by Valérie Belin, the bookstore’s guest artist, on Monday, March 27.

To mark the inaugural launch of the bookshop, artists, collectors, publishers, political figures and players in the art world gathered on Monday, January 9, 2023, for the inauguration of the first photobook curation by Patrick Remy, photography critic, independent publisher and artistic director.

On the occasion of Paris Photo 2022, L’INAPERÇU the German magazine dedicated to contemporary photography, *Der Greif*, for the launch of its special issue, “The Collectivity Issue.”