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Photo Poche
Series · 48
books · 1971-2014

Books in series

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#1

Nadar

1983

Les portraits que Nadar a laissés du Tout-Paris des arts vers 1850 sont étonnants de présence, d'émotion, de psychologie et d'une grande modernité.
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#2

Henri Cartier-Bresson

1971

Henri Cartier-Bresson reveals—as only a few great artists have done—the variety and richness of human experience in the twentieth century. This second volume of Aperture's Masters of Photography series confirms the genius of the photographer who—with the new, smaller, hand-held cameras and faster films—defined the idea of “the decisive moment” in photography. Cartier-Bresson's imagery is intimate but utterly respectful of his subjects. In his travels throughout the world, he has captured glimpses of individual lives in scores of countries. Taken together, Cartier-Bresson's works constitute a personal history of epic scope. This volume presents 42 of the artist's photographs, each recognized as a masterpiece of the medium. In addition, Cartier-Bresson offers a brief statement about what drives his work.
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#3

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

1990

The classic Photofile series brings together the best work of the world's greatest photographers in an attractive format and at a reasonable price. Handsome and collectible, the books are produced to the highest standards. Each volume contains reproductions printed in superb duotone and/or color, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography.
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#4

American Photographers of the Depression

Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and the FSA Photographers

1983

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#5

Robert Doisneau

1983

Poète des banlieues maussades et des petits riens anonymes, Robert Doisneau est ce Parisien malicieux qui joue de la photographie comme son ami Prévert jouait des mots. Ce regard qu'il porte sur le quotidien avec une bienveillance amusée, cette disposition d'esprit qui le rend "amoureux de ce qu'il voit" font de Doisneau l'archiviste des instants furtifs et des vérités passagères. "Il est des jours, dit-il, où l'on ressent le simple fait de voir comme un véritable bonheur."
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#6

Caméra Work n°6

1991

Includes 61 black and white images
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#7

W. EUGENE SMITH

1983

Gathers photographs of musicians, workers, mental patients, soldiers, and animals, and scenes from Pittsburgh, Spain, Wales, Haiti, and Japan
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#8

Nicéphore Niépce

lettres et documents

1983

A l'occasion du 150e anniversaire de la mort de Niépce. Cet ouvrage est publǐ ... avec le concours du Minisẗre de la Culture.
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#10

Robert Frank n°10

1993

Photographe phare, c'est à 35 ans que Frank publie Les Américains en 1958. Ce livre offre une vision de son oeuvre, de ses débuts zurichois aux Polaroïds canadiens.
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#12

Duane Michals

1983

The classic Photofile series brings together the best work of the world's greatest photographers in an attractive format and at a reasonable price. Handsome and collectible, the books are produced to the highest standards. Each volume contains reproductions printed in superb duotone, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography. Born in 1932 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, Duane Michals has become best known for his compelling narrative sequences, including "The Voyage of the Spirit After Death," "Paradise Regained," and "The Fallen Angel." His work reflects a haunting obsession with life and death, fantasy and reality - thematic opposites expressed through his use of double exposures, superimposed images, props, mirrors, and the ambiguous notations that often appear on the margins of the photographs. 147 duotone photographs
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#13

Etienne-Jules Marey

1997

Physiologiste célèbre de la fin du XIXe siècle, inventeur de la chronophotographie, Marey créa avec une rigueur toute scientifique une oeuvre de grande qualité plastique.
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#14

Bruce Davidson n°14

1984

Bruce Davidson ne court pas le monde. Il va au plus près. Il va au plus vrai. Et si le désespoir, la misère sont si présents, c'est qu'il vit ce qu'il photographie.
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#15

Josef Koudelka

2007

Handsome and collectible, the books are produced to the highest standards. Each volume contains full-page reproductions printed in superb duotone, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography. Now back in print, the series was awarded the first annual prize for distinguished photographic books by the International Center of Photography. Born in Czechoslovakia in 1938, Koudelka left the country in 1968 and was awarded asylum in England. He had already produced two first-class reportages, one on the Prague Spring and its aftermath and the other on gypsy communities in Romania. This book confirms and illustrates Koudelka's powerful gift for exposing conditions in the European social, political, and physical landscape.
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#17

André Kertész

1993

Handsome and collectible, the books are produced to the highest standards. Each volume contains reproductions printed in superb duotone, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography. André Kertész is one of the figures who shaped modern photography. From the First World War onwards, his independent spirit led him to practice an art based on spontaneity and sincerity, seeking out the chance moments that "capture the true nature of things." Tender, nostalgic, modest, he forged a new path for photography, a kind of poetic realism that was neither forced nor showy. "I never document," he said. "I give my own interpretation."
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#18

L'Opéra de Paris

2000

La photographie “documentaire”, ancienne ou contemporaine, a su restituer l’audace et le faste de l’Opéra ainsi que l’impression d’abondance qui jaillit de l’architecture.
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#20

William Klein

Photo Poche n° 20

2008

Un photographe qui agit à contre-courant des règles établies, c’est William Klein. Peintre, cinéaste, graphiste, photographe de mode, il dérange les habitudes, par son penchant boulimique à communiquer dans le face-à-face et à enregistrer le désordre naturel. Loin des définitions toutes faites, il se joue du bougé et des personnages tronqués. Pour “tout fourrer dans une seule image”, à cet “instant de transe” où le chaos se transmet sans pudeur, Klein est l’homme du “pourquoi pas ?”
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#21

Weegee

1986

A small book of Weegee photos, all black and white. Clean, unmarked, and tightly bound.
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#22

Autochromes (Photo poche)

1997

1907: les Frères Lumière ajoutent la couleur à la palette photographique, et c'est tout un monde quotidien qui prend les teintes de l'impressionnisme finissant.
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#23

Alexandre Rodtchenko

1987

Peintre, graphiste, photographe. Alexandre Rodchenko (1891-1957) a été un artiste tous azimuts, participant dans les années vingt à toutes formes d'expression, du théâtre au cinéma, de la publicité au design. Mue par une curiosité toujours renouvelée, habitée par une ferveur idéale peu commune, sa création se lie étroitement à l'histoire de la Russie. Artiste moderne s'il en est, il participe au mouvement constructiviste qui se veut proche des réalités sociales, économiques, intellectuelles et politiques.
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#24

Le Nu

1986

Book by Centre national de la photographie (France)
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#25

Werner Bischof

1983

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#26

Helmut Newton

1987

From his early work for Vogue to his portraits of the rich and famous, Helmut Newton conveyed a unique vision of a wealthy and glamorous world that often shocks but never ceases to fascinate. Helmut Newton (1920-2004) was born in Berlin. He lived and worked all over the world and was one of the most internationally famous and controversial photographers of his time. His shots of haute couture and the beau monde are instantly recognizable, having appeared in virtually every major magazine in Europe and the United States. About the series : The classic Photofile series brings together the best work of the world's greatest photographers in an attractive format and at a reasonable price. Handsome and collectible, the books are produced to the highest standards. Each volume contains some sixty full-page reproductions printed in superb duotone, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography. Now back in print, the series was awarded the first annual prize for distinguished photographic books by the International Center of Photography. 64 duotone illustrations
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#27

Du Bon Usage de La Photographie

1997

Choix de textes sur l'usage de la photographie, ce livre retrace les changements d'opinion qui, depuis 150 ans, font l'histoire du médium.
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#28

Brassaï

2010

C’est l’évidence même : Brassaï est l’un des photographes les plus célèbres de son temps. Ses images d’un Paris nocturne et secret figurent dans toutes les anthologies.
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#29

Lee Friedlander

1988

Figure de la génération issue de Walker Evans et de Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander impose sa quête de liberté. Autorportraits et paysages témoignent de sa capacité d'innovation.
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#32

Edouard Boubat

Photo Poche n° 32

2008

Les images de Boubat ont la mélancolie des voyages au long cours. Elles disent comment sont les choses de la vie : un sourire d’enfant, une chevelure de femme...
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#33

Man Ray

1988

Lié au surréalisme, Man Ray s'est joué de la technique photographique comme du sens caché des images. Il participera à la mutation des valeurs esthétiques.
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#34

La Photographie Britannique

1999

Dès 1839, la Grande-Bretagne partage avec la France le privilège de l'invention de la photographie qui étend très vite ses domaines.
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#36

Robert Capa - 2eme Ed

1974

Photojournaliste par excellence, fondateur de Magnum en 1947, Capa est présent sur tous les fronts : Espagne, Chine, Israël et l'Indochine où il fut tué.
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#37

Marc Riboud

2004

De la Chine aux Etats-Unis, Riboud n’a rien du reporter classique. Etranger à la recherche de l’événement, il attend que la vérité monte “à la surface des choses”.
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#39

Étranges Étrangers

1999

Au XIXème siècle, la photographie a exacerbé le goût pour l'ailleurs. De ses voyages, "l'aventurier" rapporte des images qui témoignent de l'autre et de sa différence.
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#44

Josef Sudek

1997

Sédentaire, sa vie durant, Sudek photographia sa ville, Prague, son jardin depuis sa fenêtre et des objets prétextes à des jeux de lumière et de matière.
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#49

Joel-Peter Witkin

1991

Handsome and collectible, the books each contain reproductions in duotone and/or color, plus a critical introduction and a bibliography. With his focus on the "disagreeable beauty" of the anomalous and the transgressive, Joel-Peter Witkin's images are edgy and disturbing. Influenced by artists from Giotto to the Surrealists, by daguerreotypes and the work of Bellocq, his portraits and complex tableaux incorporating corpses, hermaphrodites, masks, and mutilation provoke and challenge the viewer.
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#50

Lewis W. Hine

1997

C’est en associant art et engagement, en privilégiant sentiments et expression, que Lewis Hine donna toute sa valeur au documentaire social du début du siècle.
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#51

Louis Faurer (Photo Poche)

1997

Photographe de mode le jour, de rue la nuit, adepte de la photographie d’expression, Faurer fait un portrait sans complaisance de l’Amérique des années 40 et 50.
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#52

Agustín V. Casasola

2004

Casasola a fait connaître au monde l'histoire moderne du Mexique et de ses révolutions.
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#53

Don McCullin

2006

Etre photographe de guerre pour McCullin, c'est être au plus près, c'est risquer sa vie pour montrer la mort des autres, à Chypre, au Viêt-Nam, au Salvador...
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#56

Edward Steichen in High Fashion

The Conde Nast Years 1923-1937

2007

The most extensive collection of Steichen's legendary Vogue and Vanity Fair work ever brought to the public. Edward Steichen was already a famous painter and photographer in America and abroad when, in early 1923, he was offered the most prestigious position in photography's commercial domain: that of chief photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair .Over the next fifteen years, Steichen would produce a body of work of unequaled brilliance, dramatizing and glamorizing contemporary culture and its achievers in politics, literature, film, sport, dance, theater, opera, and the world of high fashion. Here are iconic images of Gloria Swanson, Gary Cooper, Greta Garbo, and Charlie Chaplin as well as numerous other celebrities drawn from an archive of more than two thousand original prints. Until now, no more than a handful have been exhibited or published in book form. The photographs of the 1920s and 1930s represent the high point in Steichen's career and are among the most striking creations of twentieth-century photography. 242 illustrations
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#57

Felice Beato

Et L'Ecole de Yokohama

2000

Installé dès 1863 à Yokohama au Japon, Felice Beato réalise des photographies coloriées selon les techiques de l'estampe, témoins d'une société restée féodale.
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#58

L'Orientalisme

2001

Harems, odalisques, scènes de genre, vues de monuments, les photographes du XIXe siècle nous livrent un Orient imaginaire créé à partir des archétypes picturaux.
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#61

Berenice Abbott

1997

An introduction to and overview of famed photographer Berenice Abbott's work. The classic Photofile series brings together the best work of the world’s greatest photographers in an attractive format and at a reasonable price. Handsome and collectible, each book contains a selection of the photographer’s most important and representative images in beautiful duotone and/or color, plus an introduction and a bibliography. 60 duotone photographs
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#62

Alain Fleischer n°62

1995

Cinéaste, photographe ? "Mon projet de départ, dit-il, était d'avoir différentes identités plus ou moins secrètes sans que j'aie besoin de reconnaissance par rapport à elles. Savoir que je pouvais faire de la photo, ou du cinéma, que je pouvais écrire, c'est une façon d'échapper à la spécialisation. Si l'on parvient à être reconnu comme photographe par les photographes ou cinéaste par les cinéastes ; cela permet de pousser loin le jeu. En fait mon rapport avec ces pratiques est un rapport à l'identité, à l'illusion de l'identité."
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#86

Araki

Photo Poche n° 86

2000

Il y a des adjectifs que Ton hésite à utiliser Exceptionnel, inclassable sont de ceux-là. Il faut pourtant admettre qu'ils conviennent à Nobuyoshi Araki. Ce cinéaste de formation a fait de l'acte photographique la substance même de son existence. Prolifique jusqu'à l'exaspération, il a constitué en une trentaine d'années une sorte "d'autobiophotographie" qui révèle, sans retenue ni pudeur, l'essentiel de son quotidien. Fasciné par les femmes, par la ville, notamment par Tokyo dont il dresse un frénétique état des lieux, il est le chef de file d'une école nouvelle, et plus encore, le modèle adulé d'une jeune génération qui cherche avec lui, au-delà d'une esthétique, une vérité de tous les instants.
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#87

Ralph Eugène Meatyard

2000

Opticien, il n’a jamais quitté la ville du Kentucky : sa femme, ses trois enfants, sa maison, son jardin, autant d’éléments récurrents d’une imagerie paradoxalement insolite.
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#95

Martín Chambi

2002

Paysages andins, rites indiens ou chrétiens, évènements mondains ou populaires, portraits de studio… les photographies de Martín Chambi constituent pour l’observateur contemporain une captivante source de documents à caractère anthropologique, sociologique et historique sur le Pérou des années 20 et 30. Cependant, l’intérêt de son travail ne se résume pas à la simple curiosité pittoresque. Ses images décrivent avant tout le parcours sensible d’un photographe qui, du bout du monde et loin de l’effervescence artistique de l’Occident, sut constituer une œuvre singulière qui le place à l’égal des plus grands photographes du XXe siècle.
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#98

Anders Petersen

2004

A new title in the accessible and affordable Photofile series Born in Stockholm in 1944, Petersen studied photography under Christer Strömholm at his famous Fotoskalen from 1966 to 1968. He is perhaps best known for his book of reportage, Café Lehmitz, which was first published in 1978 and is now recognized as one of the classics of post-war European photography. In it, he captured a time and place now long gone ―a bar on Hamburg’s Reeperbahn teeming with prostitutes, dropouts, and the fringe elements that went to make up a warm-hearted family of non-conformists with whom he identified. In 1970, he co-founded SAFTRA, the Stockholm group of photographers, and has since gone on taking photographs in his own unique fashion, following the rhythms of his own life. 64 duotone photographs
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#113

Saul Leiter

2008

Handsome and collectible, the books are produced to the highest standards. Each volume contains reproductions printed in superb duotone, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography. Saul Leiter (1923-2013) was one of those photographers who sought neither fame nor commercial success, despite their talent for imagemaking. Born in Pittsburgh, he spent the 1940s and 1950s in New York, in an intensely creative environment where ideas from Europe and America came together and intermingled. There he encountered Rothko and the Abstract Expressionists, and discovered street photography and the work of Cartier-Bresson. His mastery of color is displayed in unconventional cityscapes in which reflections, transparency, complex framing and mirroring effects are married to a very personal printing style, creating a unique urban view.
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#149

Henri Huet

2014

Henri Huet (1927-1971) est l’homme d’une seule guerre, celle du Viêtnam, qu’il photographiera sans relâche pour l’agence américaine Associated Press et au cours de laquelle il perdra la vie. En avril 1967, il se voit décerner la prestigieuse Robert Capa Gold Medal qui récompense son exceptionnel travail de photoreporter de guerre. De son illustre collègue, Henri Huet semble, à bien des égards, le parfait frère d’armes et de convictions : courageux, généreux, baroudeur, totalement dévoué à son métier et à sa rage de témoigner dans les circonstances les plus périlleuses. De 1963 à 1971, tout au long d’une guerre implacable et cruelle qui mobilisa durablement l’opinion internationale et les médias, les reportages emblématiques et la personnalité d’Henri Huet exerceront une sorte de magistère sur les centaines de photoreporters qui opéreront au Viêtnam. “Les photos d’Henri ont changé la façon dont l’Amérique voyait la guerre. Elles eurent plus d’impact que les millions de mots qui emplissaient les journaux”, a écrit son ami, le célèbre reporter Horst Faas. Qui note également la puissante et secrète compassion envers les populations civiles et les jeunes recrues plongées dans l’horreur des combats, qui animait le photographe dans sa passion de l’information et du témoignage.

Authors

Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld
Author · 4 books

Karl Otto Lagerfeld was a German creative director, artist, photographer and caricaturist who lived in Paris. He was known as the creative director of the French luxury fashion house Chanel (from 1983 until his death), as well as creative director of the Italian fur and leather goods fashion house Fendi and his own eponymous fashion label. Over the decades, he collaborated on a variety of fashion and art-related projects. Source: wikipedia

Berenice Abbott
Berenice Abbott
Author · 4 books

People know American photographer Berenice Abbott especially for her series of black-and-white portraits of city of New York. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenic...

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Author · 20 books
Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" or "real life reportage" style that has influenced generations of photographers that followed.
Don McCullin
Don McCullin
Author · 11 books
Don McCullin grew up in north London and was evacuated in 1940 to Somerset. He failed the eleven-plus examination and went to Tollington Park Secondary Modern School. He won a trade art scholarship to the Hammersmith School of Arts and Crafts and Buildings. His father, who was an invalid, died, aged forty and McCullin was forced to find work to earn money for the family. He became a pantry boy on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway dining cars, travelling between London and Manchester. In 1950 he went to work in a cartoon animation studio in Mayfair before the Observer newspaper bought one of his gangland pictures and set him on the road as a photojournalist. He moved to the Sunday Times, where he worked for eighteen years. His photographs of almost every major conflict in his adult lifetime until the Falklands war provide some of the most potent images of the twentieth century. His pictures are in major museum collections all over the world. He is the holder of many honours and awards, including the C.B.E. His home is in a Somerset village.
Andre Kertesz
Andre Kertesz
Author · 8 books
André Kertész (French: [kɛʁtɛs]; 2 July 1894 – 28 September 1985), born Kertész Andor, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition. Kertész never felt that he had gained the worldwide recognition he deserved. Today he is considered one of the seminal figures of photojournalism.[
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