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Alain Keller : Leica Classic - The French photojournalist has been a tireless eye witness reporting for decades from crisis regions around the planet Cédric… read more »

Rare Books

Call us to order!

I recently decided to share the pleasure of viewing and appreciating some of the rare books in my collection. Due to a lack of space,… read more »

YOANIS MENGE | HAKAPIK

Special edition signed by the photographer

HAKAPIK [akapik] noun – From the Norwegian hakepigg, a club with a hook (hake, hook; pigg, point). A tool used in seal hunting.   “From… read more »

Lars Netopil. Museum Leica (Vol I - II)

1000 books available, lots of historical informations with many and beautiful illustrating pictures.   The new Factory Museum at Leitz Park - including items from… read more »

SAM ABELL LIBRARY: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF PLACES

Signed by the Artist

Sam Abell (born 1945) is one of America’s most influential documentary photographers, celebrated in particular for his in-depth color photo-essays for National Geographic magazine. He has also… read more »

Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb : Violet Isle

Signed by the Artists

VIOLET ISLE: A Duet of Photographs from Cuba (Radius Books, November 2009) Photographs by Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb; Essay by Pico Iyer This… read more »

CALLAHAN, SISKIND, SOMMER: AT THE CROSSROADS OF AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY

At the Crossroads of American Photography examines the aesthetic interrelationship of three photographers who helped define the course of American photography: Frederick Sommer, Harry Callahan and… read more »

Larry Fink on Composition and Improvisation

The Photography Workshop Series

“This sense of engagement with photography, giving it a heart and a soul and a connection to pleasure and passion, also comes across in Larry Fink… read more »

MARY ELLEN MARK : ON THE PORTRAIT AND THE MOMENT

In this book, Mary Ellen Mark—well-known for her pictures' emotional power, be they of people or animals—offers her insight on observing the world and capturing dramatic… read more »

Todd Hido on Landscapes, Interiors, and The Nude

The Photography Workshop Series

In this book, Todd Hido explores the genres of landscape, interior, and nude photography, with an emphasis on creating images from a personal perspective and… read more »

Paul Fusco - RFK

Paul Fusco: RFK, published during the fortieth anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, is the long-awaited follow-up to Fusco's acclaimed RFK Funeral Train. This new publication… read more »

Alex Webb: La Calle: Photographs from Mexico

La Calle brings together more than thirty years of photography from the streets of Mexico by Alex Webb, spanning 1975 to 2007. Whether in black… read more »

Alex Webb : The Suffering of Light

Gathering some of Alex Webbs most iconic images, many of which were taken in the far corners of the earth, "The Suffering of Light" brings… read more »

Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best Hardcover

A collection of photographs spanning the career of Elliot Erwitt gathering together many of his most remarkable images alongside many that have never before been published

In the 1990s Elliot Erwitt was increasingly showing the images that put him squarely in the firmament of the revered period of fine art photography in… read more »

Josef Koudelka: Gypsies

One of the seminal photoessays of the 20th Century, Magnum photographer Josef Koudelka’s Gypsies offers an unparalleled insight into the everyday lives of Europe’s Roma communities. Carrying only… read more »

Josef Koudelka: Exiles

About Exiles, Cornell Capa once wrote, "Koudelka's unsentimental, stark, brooding, intensely human imagery reflects his own spirit, the very essence of an exile who is… read more »

Lartigue: Life in Color

Martine d'Astier and Martine Ravache

Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894–1986) was the best-known “amateur” in the history of photography, famously discovered by the art world and given an exhibi­tion at MoMA… read more »

Araki: Love and Death, Araki, Nobuyoshi

Japan's most famous photographer, and one of photography's most prolific bookmakers, Nobuyoshi Araki is notorious for his erotic photographs of women in bondage. Japanese bondage,… read more »

Nobuyoshi Araki, Hi-Nikki (Non-Diary Diary)

On the occasion of its thirtieth anniversary in 2014, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain asked the prolific Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki to take a… read more »

Walker Evans American Photographs

More than any other artist, Walker Evans invented the images of essential America that we have long since accepted as fact, and his work has… read more »

Sally Mann - Immediate Family

First published in 1992, Immediate Family has been lauded by critics as one of the great photography books of our time, and among the most… read more »

Sally Mann - a thousand crossings

For more than 40 years, Sally Mann (b. 1951) has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore the overarching themes of existence: memory,… read more »

George Zimbel - Momento

A book that spans over sixty years of photography. A camera’s eye focused on exploring the human condition, daily life, working men and women, the… read more »

William Eggleston's guide

William Eggleston's Guide was the first one-man show of color photographs ever presented at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum's first publication… read more »

Eyes Wide Open! 100 Years of Leica Photography - Hans-Michael Koetzle

A Magnum Opus bursting with an amazing compilation of historical facts, technical and design discoveries, as well as personal and introspective thoughts from the world's… read more »

Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places: The Complete Works

Originally published in 1982, Stephen Shore’s legendary Uncommon Places has influenced more than a generation of photographers. Shore was among the first artists to take… read more »

Arbus friedlander winogrand, NEW DOCUMENTS 1967

In the past decade a new generation of photographers has directed the documentary approach toward more personal ends. Their aim has been not to reform… read more »

Trent Parke, Minutes to Midnight

In 2003, Trent Parke began a road trip around his native Australia, a monumental journey that was to last two years and cover a distance… read more »

Martin Parr: The last Resort

A new edition of a modern classic of photography. Martin Parr is Europe's premier contemporary photographer, and The Last Resort is the book that is considered to… read more »

Robert Frank, The Americans

Introduction by Jack Kerouac

First published in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank’s The Americans changed the course of twentieth-century photography. In eighty-three photographs, Frank looked… read more »

Paris - Brassaï

Flammarion Edition, 2007

« I was on a quest for the poetry of the fog that transforms things, the poetry of the night that transforms the city, the poetry… read more »

JAMES NACHTWEY : INFERNO

Brutal, Honest, Momentous and Compassionate. The Seminal work of the foremost documentary photographers of our time.   Original 1999 first edition. This book comes from… read more »

Facing Change: Documenting America - Leah Bendavid-Val

Published in cooperation with the Library of Congress, this astounding collection of images by award-winning photographers tells the story of today's America--and provides an enduring… read more »

Thierry Cerpolet - La vie en bleu

Travaillant exclusivement en couleurs et étant constamment à la recherche des oppositions entre le beau et le banal,Thierry Cerpolet crée des contrastes inattendus. Entre autres… read more »

Jean-François Nadeau - Montrealers

More than 100 years of images that reveal the changing face of a city and its inhabitants.    This commemorative book shows Montrealers, from the… read more »

Mari Hill Harpur: Sea Winter Salmon

Chronicles of the St.John River

"In 2015, I unearthed and revived our family's fishing camp history located in North Eastern Quebec. The book describes and is illustrated with historical vignettes… read more »

Jean Lauzon - Sortie 2015

Jean Lauzon is one of those rare photographers who stand out due to his sens of framing as well as his pictorial eye. His knowledge… read more »

Jean Lauzon - Aller-Retour

Jean Lauzon is one of those rare photographers who stand out due to his sens of framing as well as his pictorial eye. His knowledge… read more »

François Nadeau China

Photographic narrative in the middle Kingdom

" François Nadeau made three trips to China from 2013 to 2015. Preparation, outings on two wheels, capturing the decisive moment with his dragon eye.… read more »

Wanderings by Daniel Miller

A longtime customer and friend of the boutique. I have yet to see Daniel without his camera. His new book looks at people going about… read more »

Stolen Moments (and how I stole them) by Larry Frank

Stolen Moments: A mini photo course by Canada's photographic authority, Larry Frank!   Many of you know Larry as the dean of the prestigious Nikon… read more »

Bhoutan, Lotus and Dragon - A Photographic Essay by Martine Michaud

A comprehensive and in-depth portraits of the tiny country and its people.   The bilingual text, written with the help of two other contributors is… read more »

James L. Lager - Leica, An Illustrated History Volume 1 - Cameras

James Lager is the authority about everything Leica from technical details or historical facts. No one can better explains every aspects and details of leica… read more »

James L. Lager - Leica, An Illustrated History Volume II - Lenses

James Lager is the authority about everything Leica from technical details or historical facts. No one can better explains every aspects and details of leica… read more »

Lewis Kostiner - Choosing Fatherhood

Families come in all sizes, shapes, and traditions, each a unique variation of a universal human theme. Whether one comes from a heterosexual, single-sex, or… read more »

M MAGAZINE NO.5

This issue featuring:   Essay: 10 Years of Digital M José Colón: Viva la Virgen! Claudine Doury: Summertime in Crimea Fred Mortagne: Modern Lines  … read more »

Leica S Magazine volume 6 : THE ENRIQUE BADULESCU ISSUE

S MAGAZINE 6 THE ENRIQUE BADULESCU ISSUE Fashion photography at the highest level: in the latest issue of the S Magazine, internationally acclaimed beauty and… read more »

S MAGAZINE / ISSUE 7

Bruce Gilden

Bruce Gilden is considered one of the most polarising American photographers. His mercilessly tough and confrontational style of street photography is as famous as it… read more »

S MAGAZINE / ISSUE 8

The story of a girl gang in search of happiness in the Wild West. With 200 pages, the eighth issue of the S Magazine presents… read more »

S MAGAZINE / ISSUE 9

The first S Magazine Lookbook is a compendium of 20 high-end portfolios reflecting the remarkable versatility of S photography. Acclaimed artists and emerging talents unleash… read more »