Photography

Photographer Julie Glassberg documents the misunderstood alternative culture based around brightly-coloured and neon-lit decorated trucks in Japan.

The artist's photographic view of the folk tradition that celebrates Swiss tobacco culture by introducing young children in Appenzell to smoking.

A collection of portraits by Pieter Henket that focuses on a new generation of young Mexicans who are redefining contemporary expressions of gender, identity, tradition, and spirituality.

A photographic investigation into geometric sublime in nature.

A portrait gallery of creators on the margins of art brut gardens, houses and environments, of which Francis David has compiled a monumental photographic inventory over a period of fifteen years.

This first monograph on Italian artist Emilio Prini (1943–2016), a key figure of Arte Povera, explores his radical approach to art across five decades of work through texts, archival research, and artist interventions.

A wide-ranging series of portraits of women from Lebanon, visually telling their story and their relationship with the country, 50 years after the beginning of the civil war.

The feline archives of the master of commercial animal photography.

The American photographer appropriates the objects that populate the Italian painter's work.

For her long awaited second monograph, Liz Johnson Artur follows the legendary London club scene PDA and the community that created it.

The autobiography, translated into French for the first time, of Ré Soupault (1901-1996), trained at the Bauhaus, photographer, filmmaker, stylist, writer and traveler, translator of Dada and Surrealism, major protagonist of European artistic, literary and intellectual life, and companion of the avant-garde throughout the 20th century.

A photographic reflection on place and borders (artist's book).

How does photography depict our environment? How does it contribute to its destruction? This book explores this paradox through the analysis of the work of fifteen contemporary artists.

The catalog of a curatorial project devoted to Wolfgang Tillmans' books and magazines: an inventory as an invitation to literally take a different look at Wolfgang Tillmans' work, in print.

Lina Pallotta's much anticipated Tongue on Flames captures the underground poetic energy that pulsed through New York from the early 1990s to the early 2000s, featuring Pallotta's photographs and texts by key figures from that scene.

Interview with one of the great figures of art photography today, in which Sophie Ristelhueber reflects on her own carrer and practice.

The social, political, and anthropological implications of image production by machines, which permeate all spheres of existence and reconfigure the visible.

A groundbreaking study on the relationship between Wassily Kandinsky, pioneer of abstract art, and the photographic image.

Renowned Japanese photographer Takashi Homma observes his daily life through the poses of his cat.

The portfolio of the unique retrospective conceived by the Jeu de Paume reveals the singular vision of photographer Madeleine de Sinéty (1934-2011).

A contemplative series of images by Spanish photographer Jorge Perez Ortiz exploring the relationship between the human body, water, and resilience.

The Cahiers du Collège International de Photographie (CIP) put into practice a form of thinking rooted in photographic experience—on the margins of both academic and professional worlds. This first issue seeks to weave together all parts of the photographic ecosystem in a living reflection on the crisis of sensibility that runs through our societies.

The luxurious annual publication in large format Magma aims to return to the artistic, intellectual, and graphic standards of the avant-garde "revues d'art " from the previous century. The 3rd issue brings together 25 artists, writers, filmmakers, and composers from around the world, and showcases around 100 previously unpublished artworks and texts.

Violence and visual culture (a critical examination of pressing aspects and implications of the visual representation of violence, and of the intricate relationship between visual culture and the social and economic conditions that influence and are influenced by it).

This pioneering group study accompanies the reader on a modern Grand Tour amid Italy's contemporary ruins.

This volume explores the life and work of Antonio Beato (c. 1835–1905), aiming to address the gaps in existing scholarship on this remarkable photographer. It highlights his distinctive body of work, his role in nineteenth-century photography, and the significance of his images in documenting the Middle East.

In The Office, stylist Camille Bidault-Waddington uses her iPhone to document the labor of fashion photography, capturing the process behind the finished image.

Focused on the questions of image-making and image display, Craft is an artist's book by made up of a substantial body of images that, directly or indirectly, engage with the notion of fabrication—manufactured objects, compositional experiments, architectural forms and more.

Artist's book.

The portraits taken by the French photographer between 1990 and 2010 capture the essence of hip-hop and the street culture of African-American and Hispanic New York.

A photographic report by the famous Italian architect and designer on his youthful trip to Moscow during the political “thaw.”

This intimate documentary delves into the Seattle music scene from the late 1990s into the 2000s, capturing a transformative era through photography and personal stories as the world shifted from celluloid to digital, grunge to indie.

Retrospective monograph.

"Native ball" is a collection of four bodies of works set in Kerala. A compendium on various phenomena, it brings together moments from alternative histories of a culture and region, some of which are based on commonalities that may be odd but significant.

A photographic project by Luc Boegly on architect Luigi Snozzi's exemplary urban development project in the rural municipality of Monte Carasso in Ticino.

Artist photographer Giasco Bertoli walks through New York, looking for iconic locations of American cinema.

The stock theatrical character Pierrot is an enduring figure in French visual art, where he emerges at the intersection of theatricality and the marketplace. This book offers an account of Pierrot's recurrence in painting, prints, photography and film, tracing this distinctive type from the art of Watteau to the cinema of Occupied France.

The encounter between sculptor Giulia Cenci and photographer Jacopo Benassi.

Modernist architecture and the urban transformation of Maputo, Mozambique, between history and modernity.

Invited by Marie de Brugerolle, ten artists, from both sides of the Atlantic (Ericka Beckman, Julien Bismuth, Sharon Lockhart, Tony Oursler, Anna Wittenberg...), look at the work of John Baldessari, one of the leading figures of West Coast conceptual art.

A personal and artistic journey through the world of filmmaking, captured by veteran set decorator and photographer Lauri Gaffin.

The loving images by the eminent American set photographer.

The American photographer's images of post-war Paris.

A critical reflection on memory and images through a collection of rare photography books produced as part of liberation movements in the former Portuguese colonies in Africa between the 1960s and 1980s, reflecting on the importance of visual culture in anti-colonial struggles and the early years of independence, between activism and formal experimentation closely linked to armed struggles.

A reflection on two essential formats in photographic production: the book and the exhibition space (featuring Christian Aschman, Julien Carreyn, Bertrand Cavalier, Wade Guyton, Pierre Hourquet, Aurélien Mole, Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber, Batia Suter, Rebecca Topakian, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Ruth Van Beek).

The architecture of disaster: Eyal and Ines Weizman trace the history of the before-and-after image from 19th-century photography to contemporary satellite images.