Photographs of artists (musicians, visual artists, filmmaker... from Martin Rev to Tom Jarmusch through Rita Ackermann) in lower Manhattan neighborhood: an artistic project as well as a historical document.
First monograph on the French artist's enigmatic “glam” oeuvre: a rock opera / curio cabinet juxtaposing his works with 45 historic and contemporary artists and naturalia.
The publication presents new works by painter Christoph Ruckhäberle, assembling linocuts and offset pages held together by a Japanese binding. Beautifully produced, this artist's book is published in a limited print run.
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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First monograph devoted to the work of French artist/photographer: an uncanny typological inventory of social representations of mankind (and especially women), questioning the status of contemporary photograph, between documentary, constructed fiction and visual art.
This comprehensive catalogue traces the many stages of Antje Majewski's work, including paintings, photographs, videos, film, installation, and dance theatre.
Gathering more than 100 portraits of women by Walter Pfeiffer, most of them being published for the first time, this books shows a new facette to Walter Pfeiffer's rich oeuvre.
This publication presents a selection of self-portraits collected on the Internet. This contemporary inventory of self-representation outlines two common features: valorization and performativity.
Philosopher and essayist Michel Onfray analyzes the nature of Bettina Rheims' photos, and develops the thesis of a work which, more than scandalous or sulphurous, introduces new models of representation of our society.
A collection of artist's writings about literature, semantics, dreams, poetry, photography... (limited edition accompanied by a hand-enhanced photograph).
Baselitz returns on his own history and on his conception of the painting, on self-portraits, inversed paintings, his reference artists, German painting...
