Alienation is often found at the heart of Italian photographer Cristiano Volk’s work, wherein the human experience is always central. Described by Volk as “a single, neon-hued hallucination”, ‘Laissez-Faire’ is a meticulously curated meditation in which he uses his camera to capture the signs and symbols of capitalism and commodity culture. Individuals no longer experience reality directly, but instead live their entire lives behind screens. He collapses the usual parameters that shape our wor

This book tells about Kyoto: modernity and chaos against tradition, which characterise the city in the collective imagination. We tell this story in black and white, by constrasts. Includes a real painted calligraphy by shodoka Antonio Cecchi.

One of the most important monographs on the English painter Francis Bacon. With this book, Deleuze elaborates an original instrument capable of capturing the multiple aspects of Francis Bacon's work, focusing on a whole new conception of the sensitive status of seeing. The result is a constellation of themes and perspectives that definitely surpasses the results commonly offered by art criticism. In reality, not only Bacon's painting, but all art - from that of ancient Egypt to B

The most famous photographer of old Paris, Eugène Atget (1857-1927) tirelessly traveled the capital with his bellows chamber loaded with glass plates from 1897, and this for thirty years, capturing the topography of a city that exchanges. The result of two years of research, carried out jointly by Anne de Mondenard and Agnès Sire, brings together a selection of 146 photographs from the 9,164 prints that make up the Atget collection of the Carnavalet Museum. Con

Taken in the space of her personal garden in Washington D.C., Terri Weifenbach's photographs reveal the secret world of a nature populated by birds that nest in urban gardens. Oscillating between the fantastic and the real, his images seem to be taken on the sly where the birds run at full speed, dance or land, freeze and hold meetings. The seasons follow one another, the colors of the garden vary. Lights and saturated