Pierre Borhan

An album of 300 classic and contemporary photographs devoted to the sea. This handsome volume highlights the ocean as a source of auspicious inspiration, of commercial potential, and as the hub of conquering expeditions. Uniting 300 historical, documentary, and art photographs, from archival to very recent works, The Sea celebrates the ocean from a number of striking perspectives, including lonely lighthouses, bustling port towns, early explorations of Antarctica and the Arctic Circle, and abstract compositions of waves, water, and light by some of the world’s best-known photographers. With high-quality reproductions and an attractive slipcase, this new compact edition offers a lasting tribute to nature’s most powerful force.

A Celebration in Photographs

The Sea (COMPACT)

André Kertész

The first major retrospective of the celebrated photographer offers a complete overview of his life and career, from his early work in Hungary to his later use of "distortions," with essays by Laszlo Beke, Dominique Baque, and Jane Livingston. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

His Life and Work

Eugène Atget

Sylvie Aubenas

Luce Lebart

Jean-Claude Lemagny

Hotel de ville (Paris, France)

The works of the great French photographer Eugene Atget (1856-1927) are already internationally known through many books. His role as a highly influential pioneer of photography is less well appreciated. This beautiful new book explores Atget's legacy through his own photographs and those of his successors, names who are themselves legends in the history of the art: Berenice Abbott, Hila and Bernd Becher, Bill Brandt, Robert Doisneau, Walker Evans, Michael Kenna, Lee Friedlander, Clarence John Laughlin, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Rene-Jacques, Bruno Requillard, August Sander. Through a selection of insightful essays and a stunning portfolio of more than 160 photos, Atget's work is juxtaposed with those of later photographers to produce a unique and ground-breaking analysis of a critical strand of photographic history. During his lifetime Atget's work held a fascination for contemporary Surrealist artists such as Man Ray; later Walker Evans drew on Atget's unflinching views of the Paris backstreets to create his own image of urban life, Cubism too found inspiration in the tightly framed spaces of Atget's Parisian streets. Publishing for the first time numerous photographs by Atget - including the newly discovered photos of trees in the park at Saint-Cloud - this book also presents texts by experts in the history of photography.

Atget, the Pioneer

Ferdinando Scianna

Qu'il fasse des photographies à Abu Dhabi, en Californie, ou en Egypte, tout comme en Emilie italienne, les images qu'il en rapporte sont toutes éclairées par une même lumière physique et par un sentiment constant. Le photographe semble les emporter partout avec lui, au même titre que sa valise de matériel photographique, et il n'a d'intérêt qu'à travers eux à regarder le monde. Il s'agit davantage, je crois, d'une attitude esthétique de peintre que de photographe. Ou plus exactement de photographe post-documentaire ou néo-pictorialiste, qui vit et conçoit son travail comme un geste expressif d'artiste pour qui le sujet est surtout l'occasion d'une variation immense et sans fin de son regard sur le monde.

Images du septième jour, 1974-2009

Michael Kenna

Clément Chéroux

The Nazi Camps Fifty Years After

Impossible to Forget

Mario Testino

Patrick Kinmonth

Mario Testino, Sir

Keiichi Tahara

In-between

Pilar Parcerisas

Chantal Grande

Pierre Borhan

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