Portrait

Far from modernity: the first overview of the French photographer famed for his portraits of marginal cultures, in acclaimed photobooks such as Surfers and Yes Rasta.

Father and son collaborate on a photographic panorama of humanity.

Everyday life on the Haight: previously unseen portraits from the hippie epicenter by the acclaimed documentarian.

A new series of intimate scenes composed in the tradition of great seventeenth century Dutch painting by the American photographer.

Covering the past thirty years of William Scott's practice, this monograph offers the largest comprehensive selection of paintings, drawings, masks and architectural models, as well as an unique insight on his creative and transformative approach.

By photographing his sister Julia's adolescence over a decade, Antoine Seiter bears witness to the language that a face can develop by constantly raising the question of portraiture. Julia's story is interrupted by that of young Achilles, the hero of Marc Faysse's novel. Parallel to the photographic work in the theme of the passage to adulthood, the story is a homosexual love story that brings emancipation.

A monumental study of the life and times of the late Armenian-Egyptian photographer Van Leo (1921-2002), one of the most singular twentieth-century studio photographers in the Arab world.

A gallery of portraits of a hundred artists and music activists taken in Philippe Levy's Parisian apartment, turned into a studio, each guest choosing (and reviewing) a record from the photographer's vast personal record library for the shoot.

Variations on the face: downtown legend Kenny Scharf's permutational exploration of character.

Lush monograph dedicated to the series "Orlando" inspired by Virginia Woolf's novel: more than 200 portraits in which the Swiss painter explores gender roles and identity as well a her own identity as an artist, and the temporality of art history.

A previously unseen trove of Kenyan studio portraits, expressing a photographer's vision and a city's lively identity.

A series of blue ballpoint pen drawings capturing capitalist executives and far-right leaders as grotesque monsters in suits.

First monograph, with a wide selection of of Claire Tabouret's works (paintings, drawings, and sculptures), two essays and a set of literary quotes chosen by the artist (new expanded edition).

The first book on the New York painter's eclectic iconography of jazz musicians, boxers, Black American icons and friends.

A series of recent paintings by French artist Marion Bataillard.

The architect's photographic view of his native Rome.

An ongoing series of figurative oil-on-canvas paintings by Swiss-born London-based artist Mathis Gasser, decontextualizing in the same gesture characters of the popular culture and figures of the history of the art.

Liu Xiaodong's series of paintings from the Texas-Mexico border.

A photographic project about the history and repercussions of the life of German botanist and gardener Georg August Zenker.

The photographs of Christophe Brunnquell, a French multidisciplinary artist, photographer, designer and artistic director, capture models whose faces he has covered with paint, creating a strange, fantastic universe, both morbid and comic.

Gabriele Basilico's previoulsy unpublished photographs in the strip-tease theaters and nightclubs of Milan in the 1970s reveal a new dimension of his oeuvre.

The female nude by Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille (signed serigraph printed at 120 copies).

The male nude by Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille (signed serigraph printed at 120 copies).

The volume New England brings together a series of portraits by Liu Xiaodong of homonymous subjects. The project represents the artist's search to portray a generation of young Chinese professionals who have moved to London to try and follow their dreams.

A photo book by Jacopo Benassi that brings together images in which the artist portrays and documents his own intimacy over a 25-year period, from the day he announced his homosexuality: a human journey comprising meetings that have left an indelible sign on his personal story as an artist. 

This book is a moving tribute to Jörg Binz's work, a selection from a great many paintings, especially portraits, and from his secret sketchbooks. It contains startling, bizarre, sublime works interspersed with literary and biographical texts that engage in an ongoing conversation with the paintings.

The early work of the doyen of Italian photography paint a striking portrait of Italy in the 1950s.

Agricultural landscapes and portraits of the Swiss Alps: a fascinating visual study of the relationship between humans, animals and topography in the context of a rapidly changing agriculture and dairy industry.

Female identity through the images of five Italian women photographers, 1965-1985: a reflection on identity and its representation in recent history.

This luxurious monograph presents a wide selection of works by Izumi Kato, Japanese painter and sculptor known for his mysterious representations of human figures with primitive aesthetics, alongside exhibition views. It is accompanied by four original critical texts and a poem by the artist.

The first major monograph dedicated to Michael Schmidt (1945-2014), a central figure in contemporary German photography.

First monograph by Charlie Engman, the rising star of fashion photography: a vast series of pictures (500 images) of his mother, made over the course of more than a decade. With texts by Rachel Cusk and Miranda July.

A book of photographs and texts showing young people in their precarious work uniforms, drawing up a sensitive social chronicle of the precariousness of work among this generation.

First monograph.

Jeremiah Dine's illuminated vision of New York street life.

The large-format book celebrating the collaboration between Toilet Paper and Martin Parr.

The new book from French photographer Estelle Hanania gathers over ten years of collaboration and archives revolving around the artistic universe of Gisèle Vienne.

A collection of photographs of children who grew up to become famous in a variety of fields, from literature to arts, sports, politics, and even crime. A photographic “Guess Who” of the 20th century in the making.

L'Incroyable is a monographic magazine dedicated to an artist's teenage years and his cultural background. This third issue proposes an immersion into the young years of artist Nicole Eisenman in New York in the 1980s.

Zurich-based photographers Peter Gaechter and Bettina Clahsen document hairstyles from Switzerland's upscale salons, tracing hairstyle trends from the 1970s to the 1990s. The book collects their photographs along with texts by Bettina Clahsen and Swiss art historian and journalist Joerg Scheller.

A face to face between the great works of Gustave Courbet and new paintings by contemporary artist Yan Pei-Ming, specially created for the bicentenary of the birth of Courbet.

The Japanese master's new large-format artist's book: a graphic hallucination on 40 pages of Bichrocolor collage drawings.

New monograph: a retrospective of Yan Pei-Ming's paintings and watercolors from 2006 to 2019, structured around the figure of disappearance and violence, and around the confrontation with the works of the masters of the past as well as with modern iconography, with essays by Franck Gautherot, David Liot, Xavier Douroux and Fabian Stech.

A series of portraits of performance artist, avowed transsexual anarchist with no place to call home, macho woman, fashion model for Marianne Alvoni, target for the Swiss tabloid: Eve-Claudine Lorétan, alias Coco.

A book of portraits with a difference, culled from a 2002–2018 photo archive of porn actors who resemble or actually even portray celebrities and public figures. Polish artist Piotr Uklański draws on a stock of hard and soft copies of “dirty” glossy men's magazines like Hustler and Loaded—as well as a plethora of meme culture material dumped on websites and blogs.

Artist's book, based on Peter Voigt and Arno Fischer's project developed for the Marx-Engels-Forum in Berlin.

This luxurious comprehensive catalogue, lavishly illustrated, brings together works from throughout the artist's career, from early collages and Polaroids, to the images of flowers, nudes, sexuality and portraits that made him one of the most notable photographers of the last century. It includes texts by art historian Jonathan K. Nelson and by Susan Sontag