CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)

 
Denise Bertschi - State Fiction - The Gaze of the Swiss Neutral Mission in the Korean Demilitarized Zone
2021
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
currently out of stock
The artist Denise Bertschi highlights the little-known Swiss presence between the two Koreas in the aftermath of the war in 1953, and questions the supposed neutrality of the country.
50JPG - Osmoscosmos
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
currently out of stock
Exhibition catalogue of the sixth Triennal 50JPG – 50 Days for Photography in Geneva, exploring the relationships between eros and cosmos.
Jacques Berthet - Rumeur sur la ville
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Photo documentary set in a deserted Geneva during the G8 counter-summit in 2003. The series stages the abandonment of the urban space and its transformation through the deployment of defense barricades.
Angela Marzullo - L\'origine
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Artist's book stemming from a performance by the Swiss feminist artist, featuring newspaper cut-outs evoking the female sex (limited edition).
Caio Reisewitz - Altamira
2020
English edition
This photographic publication documents the ecological and human devastation caused by the construction of the Belo Monte dam in the Amazon.
François Vermot - Palais des Nations
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
This monograph is a photographic record of the interiors of the Palais des Nations in Geneva, before its renovation. The work of François Vermot is the last visual testimony of this labyrinthine building with authoritarian architecture. Built in the 1930s, the Palace was the headquarters of the League of Nations, and then became the European center of the United Nations.
Dorothée Elisa Baumann - Pleasure Arousal Dominance
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Monograph documenting a project undertook by the Swiss artist from 2009 to 2016, in which she examines the practice and tools of a center for fundamental research in the field of cognitive neuroscience. With texts by Joerg Bader, Pascal Rousseau, and Anne Immelé.
Caméra(Auto)Contrôle (+ 2 books)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Exhibition Guide from the Triennal 50JPG 2016 – 50 Days for Photography in Geneva, accompanied by the two artist's books published on the occasion of the exhibitions, Giacomo Bianchetti – Bilderberg 2015 et Sébastien Reuzé – Indian Springs (bundle).
Giacomo Bianchetti - Bilderberg 2015 - 63ème conférence Bilderberg – 11-14 juin 2015
2016
French edition
A series of photographs taken in the margins of the 63rd Bilderberg conference, which brings together some of the most influential political and economic leaders of the Western world.
Sébastien Reuzé - Indian Springs
2016
no text
This artist's book gives a photographic account of the Creech Air Force Base—a Drone Base set in Indian Springs, Nevada, which carries out military actions in the Middle East. Picture alteration plunges the viewer into an eerie, dreamlike narrative recalling the universe of J. G. Ballard.
Patrick Weidmann - Magazine de Charme
2015
no text
By creasing photographs from the golden age of porn magazine, Patrick Weidmann dismantles their deep-rooted conservative values and reconstructs an underlying aesthetics, an underside of desire.
Ursula Mumenthaler - Journal
2015
French edition
Artist's book.
Koka Ramishvili - Déplacement
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
An overview of Koka Ramishvili's work from 1988 to 2015, between photography, painting and video.
Peter Piller - Materialien (F) - Nachkriegsordnung
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
The press photographs reproduced in this publication show the bombing of Bagdad. They were taken from German newspapers soon after the beginning of the second iraqi-american war in March of 2003. Following their removal they were placed and stuck in the centre of a piece of paper, aiming to be as precise as possible (artist's book).
Micronaut is against the grain too
2014
French edition
A critical approach to practices of photographic representation and information.
Emmanuelle Bayart - Commémoration
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
First photography book by Emmanuelle Bayart, dedicated to memorial issues in the town of Sarcelles, in a “ville nouvelle” sociocultural context.
Sébastien Leseigneur - Station Dors Ph
2012
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
A cross navigation between genres and techniques of photography (artist's book).
Florent Meng - Préambule, Alinéa H
2011
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Artist's book (limited edition of 350 hand numbered and signed copies).
Bruno Serralongue - La Otra
2007
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
15 images from a serie of photographs realized in Mexico during the Marcos' campaign in 2006, with two essays : a reflexion on contemporary photography.
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