Some full-page and double-page comics are so beautiful that you’d like to be able to detach them and hang them on the wall. An unattainable wish, on pain of destroying the book… Except at Lontano! This new collection from Actes Sud offers poster-books with detachable pages for even greater enjoyment. Ten albums a year are…

His motto: “Anything goes. No rules, no bans, no limits.” At 91, the Franco-American photographer born on April 19, 1928 is a jack-of-all-trades. Painter, visual artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and photographer, his output over the 20th century has been rich and varied. From his photographic diary of New York City to his co-creation of the…

First a textile illustrator, then an illustrator in the world of publishing and the press, she is also developing more personal work, in one-off drawings, and attempts to give a poetic dimension to everyday situations. Various inspirations accompany her, sustainably or furtively, from Paul Klee, Marie Laurencin, Toulouse Lautrec as much as Brecht Evens, Jean-jacques…

A man of the snows if ever there was one, Christophe Jacrot has made his own the inclement weather that has heckled the four corners of our planet. Born in 1960, the photographer gained a foothold in the world of images by directing several short films, including Lifting and Soutien de Famille, both of which…

Preface by Frédéric Mitterand Writings by Colette, Anaïs Nin, Edith Wharton, Nicole de Pontcharra, Nedjma. Since 1921, Morocco has been a privileged territory for photographers. Their widely differing approaches have given a new vision of a Morocco that is dreamt, fantasized or plagued by social realities and identity. With this book, Maroc, un temps suspendu,…

Clémence Monnet is an illustrator and textile designer. A DNSEP graduate from the Institut d’Arts Visuels d’Orléans, she first worked in children’s fashion, before expanding her drawing practice, exhibiting her work in Paris, and gradually entering the publishing and press worlds. Working in mixed media, she draws her inspiration from everyday life, trying to give…

Bruce Gilden (1946) is a photographer born in Brooklyn, New York. Over the years, he has carried out extensive photographic projects in New York, Haiti, France, Ireland, India, Russia, Japan, England and America. Gilden has published 18 monographs, including Facing New York (1992), Bleus (1994), Haiti (1996, European Publishers Award for Photography); After the Off…

Born in 1976, Gilles Roudière is a self-taught photographer who has lived in Berlin since 2005. His first series on Albania was the subject of several exhibitions at the Circulation(s) festival in Paris, the Promenades Photographiques in Vendôme or the Imagerie photographic center in Lannion. More recently, he has continued his photographic exploration in Israel,…

This book underlines the hypergraphic dimension of Gruyaert’s work, as the airport is a concentrate of his visual vocabulary: intensity of color, geometry of form, transparency, play of light and reflection. “I’ve always been fascinated by places where people wait. I like to observe their movements, their postures, their glances, the groups they form, the…

Gil Rigoulet began his career in the press in 1975, and in the early 1980s became the first regular photographer for the newspaper Le monde, with which he collaborated for over 20 years. For three decades, he collaborated with numerous national and international press magazines, including Géo, Grands Reportages, Elle, Sunday Times, La Républica, La…

Perpendicular Dreams, Volume II is the second volume in a series of art books featuring collages by Julien Pacaud, illustrated with texts by Jean-Christophe Sanchez. Julien Pacaud has been an illustrator and digital collage artist since 2002. Working on commission for a wide range of clients in the press, music and advertising sectors, he also…

Joséphine Michel is a photographic artist based in Brussels.   Her approach explores the relationship between photography and sound, through improvisation, texture and reverberation.   His book The Heat Equation will be released mid-October by UK label Touch. It will be accompanied by an album by Finnish composer and sound artist Mika Vainio. The images…

“In the early ’70s, I was in Rome during a cold, rainy winter; I had a wide-angle lens! I couldn’t take any decent photos, apart from a couple of shots of Pompei, silent and empty in the wonderful rain… Later, in 1979, I finally understood the discreet power of the 50mm. At the time, I…

Julie Flamingo is a traveler at heart, the daughter of visual artists, who is regularly asked for her good addresses. The City Guide By Julie Flamingo collection was born of the desire to share with her readers a look at captivating big cities: Nantes to start with, then Bordeaux, Paris, Copenhagen… A desire to shake…

A real revelation at the Rencontres de la photo d’Arles 2019, The anonymous Project was born of the desire of a duo of photography enthusiasts to give a second life to kodachrome slides received or mottled in England and across the Atlantic. In 2017, Emmanuelle Halkin, a graduate of the Ecole du Louvre and in…