Catalog 2015 Arts and Nature – Foreign Rights

arts & New titles

October 2014 – September 2015

NATURE

Foreign Rights

ACTES SUD Éditeurs associés

Contents

Actes Sud nature

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arts

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performing arts 14 equestrian arts

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photography

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society

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graphic novel

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Rouergue gastronomy

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photography

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Son of an actress and a technician at the Comédie française, Jacques Perrin was an actor long before becoming a producer and director. A great lover of nature, his first film, Winged Migration, fulfilled a childhood dream for him: to fly with the birds. After the success of Microcosmos as a producer, Jacques Perrin developed a name for himself as a daring director. His last movie, Oceans, reached out to millions of viewers in France and around the world about the threat facing the world’s oceans.

© Galatée Films, photo Ludovic Sigaud

The biologist, ornithologist, and science journalist, Stéphane Durand has accompanied Jacques Perrin’s cinematographic adventures since 1997 as a scientific consultant and assistant director. He has also written his own documentaries (“Sur les terres du panda”, “La nuit africaine” – the first animal documentary filmed by night in natural light) and published a series of books, including works relating to the films he has directed.

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THE SEASONS from the movie by jacques perrin and jacques cluzaud textS by STÉPHANE DURAND Galatée Films and Actes Sud

29 x 31.7 cm 280 pages 415 color illustrations Hardback October 2015 Retail price: 36 euros

The Seasons is the latest film by Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud.

It continues in the series of Jacques Perrin’s previous naturalist films, such as Microcosmos, Winged Migration and more recently Oceans, which attracted 3 million cinema-goers in France and 12 million abroad.

The film is a poetical chronicle of Europe’s wilderness since 15,000 years ago, filmed solely from the perspective of wild animals. When the last ice age came to an end, the climate became milder and the cycle of the seasons began again, enabling the continent to fill with vast forests. Nature took over once more. The only new feature on the landscape was man, who arrived in Europe in the heart of the Ice Age and began to disturb the balance of the natural environment. Mankind became a geological force in its own right as, over thousands of years, it set about redesigning the landscape. The often harmonious, sometimes turbulent relationship of man with nature has resulted in the extinction of certain species but has helped others develop, while creating new ecosystems.

The Seasons is the fantastic tale of the wild animals that have traversed centuries and millenniums of European history.

Co-directed by Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud, the movie has been filmed in France, Germany, Poland, Norway, Holland, Romania, and Switzerland and will be released in December 2015.

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© Jérémy Mathieu

© Christophe Cheysson

© Ludovic Sigaud

© Éric Travers

© Christophe Cheysson

© Aurélien Gallier

© Aurélien Gallier

© Marc Rebuttini

© Stéphane Durand

© Ludovic Sigaud

© Marc Rebuttini

© Jérémy Mathieu

Images Stewart Gardner Museum (© Photography David Mathews)

Having graduated from the École nationale supérieure de Cergy-Pontoise in 1988, Jean‑Michel Othoniel made a name for himself in 1992 by exhibiting sculptures in sulphur. He then started working with glass and it gradually became his favourite material. His work is exhibited in the world’s most famous museums. With Actes Sud he has already published: Épiphanie (2014), Un cœur abstrait (2009), Othoniel Crystal palace (2003).

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Notes sur le sens caché des fleurs dans la peinture The Secret language of flowers

Notes on the hidden meanings of flowers in art Jean-Michel Othoniel

13 x 21 cm 192 pages 160 color illustrations Hardback Separate French & English versions Coedition Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum/ Actes Sud March 2015 Retail price: 32 euros

In this work, Jean-Michel Othoniel reveals his passion for flowers by revealing their secret language and symbolism in paintings from the past.

During his residency at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston) in 2012, Jean-Michel Othoniel discovered the archives relating to the magnificent garden that Isabella Stewart Gardner, the first woman in the United States to graduate in horticulture, cultivated around her residence.

Othoniel carefully examined the museum, and photographed the flowers in the tapestries, ironwork, lacework, architecture, furnishings and paintings, in such masterpieces as Van Dyck’s Portrait of a Woman and its innocent rose, Piermatteo d’Amelia’s Annuncation and its majestic lily and Bartolomé Bermejo’s Saint Engracia and its mystical palm.

The artist also worked on plant forms to create sculptures and paintings.

The peony, an omnipresent feature of the museum’s collection, inspired a monumental sculpture and four paintings which will be exhibited at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 2015.

This precious book, presented as an A-Z, meanders through the museum picking up on the details – of paintings, drawings and texts. For the first time, Othoniel reveal the direct relationship between his new sculptures and paintings with the hidden symbolism of flowers

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© Sophie Calle

TOUT All sophie calle

Over the past thirty years, Sophie Calle has invited strangers to sleep in her bed, followed a man through the streets of Paris to Venice, hired a detective to spy on herself before providing a report of her day, taken a job as a chambermaid in a hotel to photograph guests’ personal belongings, asked blind people to tell her about the final image they remember, and chased down the ghosts of works stolen from museums and much more besides. In doing so, she has orchestrated small moments of life, establishing a game, then settings its rules, for herself and for others, while blurring the boundary between art and life. Although the lived experiences she stage-manages are methodically selected, she is not afraid of unveiling her failed love affairs and the exquisite pain of absence and its concomitant melancholy.

Her first-person accounts are often associated with all kinds of possible supports (books, photos, videos, films, performances). This set of fifty postcards brings together Sophie Calle’s best known works.

Sophie Calle is the author, narrator and character of her stories and photographic scenes. Her reputation in France and the United States has grown since the 1990s due to the publication of a number of works. She has since gone on to become one of the most important artists of the late 20th century. With Actes Sud she has published Doubles-Jeux (1998), Les Dormeurs (2000), Douleur exquise (2003), M’as-tu vue (2003), En finir (2004), Prenez soin de vous (2007), Où et quand? Lourdes (2009), Aveugles (2011) and Souvenirs de BerlinEst, Voir la mer and Des histoires vraies (2013).

10.5 x 15 cm – 55 pages Set of 50 postcards Separate French & English versions September 2015 Retail price: 15 euros 5

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© Jean Clottes

Jean Clottes is the honorary head curator of French heritage sites and a world recognized specialist in prehistoric art. He has led studies of the Chauvet cave and written a number of articles and books.

With Errance Publishing his publications and ­co‑publications include: Les Cavernes de Niaux (2010), Les Aurignaciens (edited by Marcel Otte, 2010), and Des Images pour les dieux (with Meenakshi Dubey-Pathak, 2013).

La grotte du pont d’arc dite grotte chauvet Sanctuaire préhistorique

The Pont d’Arc Cave, known as the Chauvet Cave A Prehistoric sanctuary jean clottes

Early 1995, the discovery of the Pont d’Arc cave, known as the Chauvet cave, hit the headlines worldwide. The age, quality and profusion of drawings found in the cave as well as the variety of species depicted makes it one of the masterpieces of prehistoric art. The cave is also the best conserved and most abundant heritage work surviving from the Aurignacian period which dates back some 36,000 years. Its state of conservation is indeed remarkable and the thousands of pictures so far discovered make it the first large scale work of its kind.

To coincide with the granting of Unesco’s World Heritage status and the opening of a replica cave of the site in May 2015, Jean Clottes tells us the adventure of this major discovery through his brilliant and extensively illustrated text.

19.6 x 25.5 cm 96 pages Extensive color illustrations Hardback June 2015 Retail price: 25 euros 6

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© Jean Clottes

© Jean Clottes

© Stéphane Compoint

La caverne du pont d’arc The Pont d’Arc Cavern texts by david huguet photographs by stéphane compoint

Every century has its own monuments. The latest addition to this century’s collection is a replica of the Pont d’Arc cave, known as the “Chauvet cave”, which was occupied by upper Paleolithic men 36,000 years ago and discovered by a team of speleologists in 1994.

Located in the south of the Ardèche region, the Pont d’Arc Cavern is a replica of the eponymous cave which received Unesco World Heritage site status in June 2014. This work retraces the main stages of the design and production of an unusual and highly ambitious cultural project launched in 2007, for which extensive scientific research was carried out.

The replica of the cave, which opened to the public in May 2015, effectively forms a new museum enabling visitors to encounter the Paleolithic world in a more immersive way.

22 x 28 cm 270 pages 300 duotone illustrations Hardback June 2015 Retail price: 39 euros 8

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© musée du quai Branly, photos Thierry Ollivier, Michel Urtado

l’inca et le conquistador The Inca and the Conquistador Collective work Edited by Paz Núñez-Regueiro

The story of two men with the same ambition. Through the portraits of the Inca Atahualpa and the conquistador, Francisco Pizarro, this exhibition catalogue retraces the key moments of the conquest of the Inca Empire and examines the encounter of the two worlds on the cusp of their destinies.

In the 1520s, the Spanish Empire of Charles V, an empire hungry for gold and conquest, extended its exploration of the Pacific Ocean and the Southern American coast that it had begun one decade earlier. At the very same moment, the largest Inca Empire ever known, Tawantinsuyu, the “Empire of the four quarters”, began its expansion under Huayna Capac.

When Huayna died, the dynastic crisis brought Atahualpa to power, just as Francisco Pizarro and his conquistadors were embarking on Peruvian land.

The work is based on accounts of the Conquest, remarkably illustrated with engravings, paintings, and period maps, enabling us to grasp the key events of the adventure that began in the 1520s and ended in 1541 with the death of Pizarro, killed by his own men.

19.6 x 25.5 cm 200 pages 120 color illustrations Hardback Coedition musée du quai Branly/Actes Sud July 2015 Retail price: 37 euros 10

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LES COSTUMES ZAPOTÈQUES Zapotec costumes Claude Stresser-Péan and Irmgard Weitlaner Johnson

This work presents the extraordinary collection of traditional costumes from the Zapotec culture, located in the state of Oaxaca in South-East Mexico. It follows in the wake of Claude Stresser-Péan’s donation of a significant collection of costumes that complement another collection donated by herself and her husband, Guy Stresser-Péan, to the Musée de l’Homme, which has since joined the musée du quai Branly. This anthropological and ethnological study intends to show how the Spanish settlers influenced traditional costume production techniques.

The catalogue offers readers a global yet detailed vision of the collection and its contents: 16 complete costumes and 170 artifacts that bear witness to technical skills that are threatened with extinction.

16 x 24 cm 96 pages 50 color illustrations Softback Coedition musée du quai Branly/Actes Sud September 2015 Retail price: 25 euros 11

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© Fondation Gandur pour l’art, Genève/André Longchamp

The work accompanies an exhibition at the MuCEM (Marseille) until 16 November 2015.

migrations divines Divine Migrations Collective work

Through this collection of exceptional archeological works and artifacts loaned by Geneva’s Museum of Art and History and the Gandur Art Foundation, the MuCEM has been able to bring a fresh perspective to the major ancient polytheistic religions and their dynamics.

This new exhibition and accompanying catalogue examines the dialogue between the Egyptian, Greek and Roman pantheons in terms of their practices and representations, and looks at the answers they provided for everyday living and broader issues, such as mortality. The influence of ancient gods was spread through trade and military conquest. Material and intellectual exchange between civilizations brought changes to theological forms, fully illustrating the permeability and general tolerance between ancient religions.

17 x 24 cm 144 pages 130 color illustrations Softback Coedition MuCEM/Actes Sud June 2015 Retail price: 30 euros 12

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la peinture facétieuse

Du rire sacré de Corrège aux fables burlesques de Tintoret Facetious Painting

From the holy laughter of Correggio to the burlesque fables of Tintoretto francesca alberti

Born in 1982, Francesca Alberti completed her doctorate in Laughter, Comedy and Ridicule in Italian Renaissance painting: From the holy laughter of Correggio to the burlesque fables of Tintoretto under the direction of Philippe Morel at the Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne.

The history of art has long considered the comic elements of Italian Renaissance painting as a minor trivial detail. This book is the first dedicated to the subject and demonstrates that comedy was never far away. It offers a reflection on comedy in 16th century art with a solid theoretical framework, enabling readers to grasp the comic aspects of works by revealing their underlying issues and ambitions.

Francesca Alberti deploys an interdisciplinary approach creating a dialogue between art history and anthropology, the history of religions, literature and medicine as well as philosophy. The broad original scope of the work offers a radically fresh perspective on Italian Renaissance art.

14 x 22.5 cm 496 pages 120 black and white illustrations and 17 color illustrations Softback September 2015 Retail price: 34 euros 13

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© Succession Iannis Xenakis/dr

IANNIS XeNAKIS Un père bouleversant Iannis Xenakis A moving father mâkhi Xenakis

15 x 20.5 cm 232 pages Softback March 2015 Retail price: 29 euros

In his youth, Iannis Xenakis was an accomplished athlete and the head of the Lord Byron resistance group in 1944. He graduated in engineering at the École polytechnique in 1946. Fascinated by the sounds he heard during the war and highly sensitive to music, he dreamt of composing.

In 1947, at the age of twenty-six, he left the war behind him and traveled to Paris where he worked as an architect with Corbusier. This employment did not prevent him from joining the École normale de musique in Paris in 1949. In 1951 he became aware of the importance of mathematics and architecture in musical composition through Olivier Messiaen.

In 1953, Iannis Xenakis started performing his first concerts to inaugurate avant-garde architecture. His music was driven by his social ambitions and a desire to escape the horrors of the Greek concentration camps.

It is characterized by the mathematical organization of rhythm, the use of instruments and popular musical forms, psychological soundscapes, rigorous precision, sparse application of rhythm and sound, primitive elements, and a struggle against diversity, modern complexity and scholasticism.

Through philosophy, the sciences and psychology he came to the conclusion that music could combat time and death. He was at the origin of the creation of the Philips Pavilion and other cutting edge technological infrastructures, designed to host musical events. His music is qualified as anti-conventional and he defines it as a “primitive savagery beyond fashions and style”. Instead he draws his inspiration from natural beauty and total power.

For Mâkhi Xenakis, her father is the modern Antigone, a figure who has the courage to disobey laws all by himself to foster creation.

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© François Delaroziere

Born in 1963 in Marseille, François Delaroziere is the artistic director of the La Machine troupe. Up until 2005, he also created a number of machines for shows by the street theater company, Royal de Luxe.

After graduating from Marseille’s school of fine arts, he helped develop a number of street theater and urban development projects. Actes Sud has also published many of his other artistic adventures, such as Royal de Luxe 1993-2001 (2001), Le Grand Répertoire, Machines de spectacle (2003), Carnets de croquis et réalisations (2010) and La Machine spectacle (2013).

L’ESPRIT DU CHEVAL-DRAGON The Spirit of the Dragon-Horse François Delaroziere

This work presents the latest adventure, this time in China, of François Delaroziere and his company La Machine. The show, entitled The Spirit of the Dragon-Horse, draws its inspiration from ancient Chinese traditions and combines it with La Machine’s latest technical innovations.

François Delaroziere tells the tale of the Dragon-Horse, a tale that started as a sketch, an outline, and then a whole construction project involving various stages. The piece was tested in France before it was flown to Beijing where the show was held in the Olympic site. The book also recounts the reaction from Chinese spectators. The story of the project is illustrated in 120 color photos.

21 x 21 cm 152 pages 120 color illustrations Softback Bilingual French and English edition Coedition Actes Sud/Compagnie La Machine July 2015 Retail price: 29 euros 15

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Born in 1957 in Marseille, Daniel Larrieu started dancing in Sainte-Beaume with Wes Howard then at the Four Solaire with Anne-Marie Reynaud and Odile Azagury.

In July 1980 he performed his first solo number at the Aix International Dance Festival. Two years later, he founded the Astrakan choreographical research company. Between 1990 and 1992, he became an associate creator at the Centre d’Art et de Culture de Marne-la-Vallée, La ferme du Buisson. In December 1993, he was appointed artistic director of the Centre Choréographique National in Tours and in December 1994, he was awarded the National Dance Award from the French Culture Ministry.

Irène Filiberti is a critic, artistic adviser and playwright for L’Apostrophe, a national theater based in Cergy-Pontoise outside Paris. She was a member of the academic council of the Dictionnaire de la danse (Larousse, 1999-2008). She has also published Catherine Diverrès. Mémoires passantes (L’Œil d’or/CND co-publication, 2010).

© Frank Boulanger

DANIEL LARRIEU Mémento 1982-2012 Daniel Larrieu Memento 1982-2012 daniel larrieu

This book is devoted to the career and work of Daniel Larrieu and reveals the work of a major choreographer and an essential figure in the history of contemporary dance in the last 30 years. From the 1980s, the French dancer and choreographer was one of the initiators of what is known as “new French dance”. Today he continues his quest, while his life’s work comprises over one hundred creations, exploring a number of original artistic paths.

Early on in his career, Daniel Larrieu was eager to decompartmentalize his work and never boxed himself into one school or movement. Through his own texts, the choreographer shares his creative thoughts and experiences and takes us behind the scenes of creation to discover his various inspirations, motivations and goals as well as describing the evolutions within his work.

His long interview with Irène Filiberti allows us to move in this creative universe.

19.6 x 25.5 cm 304 pages 200 color illustrations Softback Coedition Astrakan/Actes Sud November 2014 Retail price: 40 euros 16

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© Carolyn Carlson

Born in 1943 in Oakland, California, Carolyn Carlson first devoted herself to ballet and joined the San Francisco School of Ballet.

She also studied ballet at Utah University where she met Alwin Nikolais, whom she has always called her “master”. The artist then went onto work with Anne Béranger’s company, the Paris Opera ballet company, La Fenice theater, the national Opera, the City Theater Dance Company (Helsinki) and the Ballet Cullberg (Stockholm). In 1999, Carolyn Carlson founded the Atelier de Paris at La Cartoucherie. Since 2005, she has been the artistic director at the Centre chorégraphique national Roubaix-NordPas-de-Calais. With Actes Sud, she has already published a photographic work, Paris Venise Paris (2010), Traces d’encre (2012) as well as Le Soi et le Rien (2002) and Brins d’herbe (2011).

CAROLYN CARLSON De l’intime à l’universel Carolyn Carlson

From the personal to the universal Thierry Delcourt

This work is a biographical and thematic essay by Thierry Delcourt about the internationally renowned choreographer, dancer, calligrapher, poet and teacher Carolyn Carlson, who has now been continuously gracing the world with her art for fifty years.

This first essay recounts a chronological biography, underlying the key themes to have emerged from her productions, the most important and possibly the most unusual of which is the notion of visual poetry. The themes in question are not only creative issues but also look at her life, her inspirations, and her favorite artists, painters, poets and philosophers.

11.5 x 21.7 cm 416 pages 14 color illustrations 24 black and white illustrations Softback September 2015 Retail price: 25 euros 17

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© Laurencine Lot

Pascale Bordet graduated from Paris’s school of fine arts before taking up sketching and creating theatrical costumes. Her career began twenty years ago at the Théâtre du Trèfle and the workshops of the Opera Garnier before moving into costume design for theater, television and the stage.

Born in November 1925, Michel Bouquet joined Paris’s Dramatic Arts Academy in 1943. His cinema career took off in the 1960s: he began to work with France’s great directors such as Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut.

HABILLER L’ACTEUR Dressing the Acto pascale bordet with michel bouquet

Before the textile is printed and cut, everything has already been designed, thought through and planned out depending on the character in question.

Over the years, Pascale Bordet has preciously kept hold of all her sketches, revealing the secrets of the costumes to come, costumes that leave a lasting impression on the spectator. She has already designed costumes for Michel Bouquet for a number of roles and in this work, both designer and actor reveal the secrets of the close relationship that is forged between actor, character and costume.

15 x 20.5 cm – 88 pages 30 color illustrations Softback October 2014 Retail price: 18 euros 18

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© Marine Oussedik

Born in 1967, Marine Oussedik lives and works in the Paris region. Her subtle artistry reflects her ability as a horse-woman. Her paintings, drawings and sculptures express her passion with a delicate voluptuousness, as well as her predilection for Arabian and Iberian horses.

LES CHEVAUX DE MARINE OUSSEDIK Marine Oussedik’s horses jean-noël Jeanneney

Marine Oussedik is one of the most famous contemporary artists to have drawn on horses as her main source of inspiration. Whether using pen and ink, gouache or bronze, her works take on a life of their own, showing her close personal relationship with the equestrian world. For Marine Oussedik is indeed also passionate about horse riding. The daughter of a renowned Algerian lawyer and a northern French mother, in the last twenty-five years she has built up an international reputation. Her works have been exhibited at the Musée vivant du Cheval de Chantilly and in prestigious galleries.

They have also been used to illustrate art publications and more technical equestrian manuals.

To celebrate her silver anniversary as an artist, Actes Sud asked an unlikely admirer of the artist’s work, the historian Jean-Noël Jeanneney, and the visual artist and photographer, Zsuzsanna Wagenhoffer to comment and analyze Marine Oussedik’s work.

22.5 x 22.5 cm 48 pages 30 color illustrations Hardback September 2015 Retail price: 19 euros 19

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A history of photography in pocket books

Size: 12.5 x 19 cm 144 pages Cover: paper board 250g with flaps 115 mm, gloss laminating Binding: paperback, sewn, coated-double, scaring joints, glued Inside paper: 135g paper coated Cover paper: glossy Photographs: approximately 65 printing: duotone or five-color binding/cover: paperback format – illustrated cover - black cover with fillet Preface/introduction (approximately twelve typed pages) Notes: approximately five typed pages

The Photo Poche series was created in 1982 by Robert Delpire. Containing more than 180 published titles, it has sold three million copies worlwide. It is both a publishing phenomenon and a major reference of photographic history. The monographs feature the most important artists of international photography as well as the most relevant themes, subjects or trends that have acted as landmarks in the history of the medium. Each title comprises 144 pages and includes an introduction by the best specialists, a selection of 65 emblematic photographs by the artist or on the subject treated, and a set of notes (biography, bibliography, exhibitions) regularly updated.

Fabricated according to high quality standards (paper, engraving process, duotone or five color printing), Photo Poche publishes eight new titles per year and republishes a large part of its backlist with updates. Sold at an affordable price, the titles of the series target a wide readership and constitute the best initiation possible to the art of photography and its history. Published in Italian since 2004 (Fotonote) by Contrasto publishers and in English by Thames and Hudson (United Kingdom), the Photo Poche series can be adapted in different languages and represents a firstclass opportunity for any publisher willing to step into or confirm its presence in the photography book market.

English version fotofile by thames and hudson Italian version fotonote by contrasto editore Portuguese version photo poche by cosacnaify

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LIST OF TITLES 1. Nadar 2. Henri Cartier-Bresson 3. Jacques Henri Lartigue 4. Amérique. Les années noires 5. Robert Doisneau 6. Camera Work 7. W. Eugene Smith 8. Nicéphore Niépce 9. L’ Amérique au fil des jours 10. Robert Frank 11. Le Grand Œuvre 12. Duane Michals 13. Étienne-Jules Marey 14. Bruce Davidson 15. Josef Koudelka 16. Eugène Atget 17. André Kertész 18. L’Opéra de Paris 19. Mario Giacomelli 20. William Klein 21. Weegee 22. Autochromes 23. Alexandre Rodtchenko 24. Le Nu 25. Werner Bischof 26. Helmut Newton 27. Du bon usage de la photographie 28. Brassaï 29. Lee Friedlander 30. Le temps des pionniers 31. Photomontages 32. Édouard Boubat 33. Man Ray 34. La photographie britannique 35. Elliott Erwitt 36. Robert Capa 37. Marc Riboud 38. De la photographie comme un des beaux-arts 39. Étranges Étrangers 40. 41. 42. Histoire de voir : Coffret de 3 volumes - 1839/1880 1880/1939 - 1930/1970 43. Edward S. Curtis 44. Josef Sudek 45. Walker Evans 46. Willy Ronis 47. Images d’un autre monde.

La photographie scientifique 48. Norbert Ghisoland 49. Joel-Peter Witkin 50. Lewis W. Hine 51. Louis Faurer 52. Agustín V. Casasola 53. Don McCullin 54. Dieter Appelt 55. Sebastião Salgado 56. Edward Steichen 57. Felice Beato 58. L’Orientalisme 59. Izis 60. Bill Brandt 61. Berenice Abbott 62. Alain Fleischer 63. Seydou Keïta 64. August Sander 65. Charles Marville 66. Umbo 67. Peter Beard 68. Eugene Richards 69. Magnum Photos 70. Dmitri Baltermants 71. Robert Demachy 72. Jacob A. Riis 21

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73. Gilles Caron 74. Photogrammes 75. Lewis Carroll 76. Louis Stettner 77. László Moholy-Nagy 78. Sarah Moon 79. René Burri 80. La nature morte 81. Raymond Depardon 82. Albert Londe 83. L’homme transparent.

L’imagerie bio­médicale contemporaine 84. Bruno Barbey 85. Claude Cahun 86. Araki 87. Ralph Eugene Meatyard 88. Frank Horvat 89. Renger Patzsch 90. Leonard Freed 91. Hippolyte Bayard 92. Frantiˇsek Drtikol 93. Maurice Tabard 94. Alvin Langdon Coburn 95. Martín Chambi 96. Mary Ellen Mark 97. La photographie astronomique 98. Anders Petersen 99. La nature dans l’art 100. Je ne suis pas photographe…

101. (to be published) 102. Gianni Berengo Gardin 103. Pentti Sammallahti 104. Les Krims 105. Séeberger Frères 106. Christer Strömholm 107. agence VU’ galerie 108. Harry Gruyaert 109. Guy Bourdin 110. Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt 111. Martine Franck 112. Post mortem 113. Saul Leiter 114. Le sténopé 115. Ferdinando Scianna 116. La photographie surréaliste 117. Shoji Ueda 118. Stanley Greene 119. Autoportraits de photographes 120. Joan Fontcuberta 121. Patrick Zachmann 122. Mike Disfarmer 123. Georges Rousse 124. Julia Margaret Cameron 125. Jane Evelyn Atwood 126. La photographie sociale 127. Ernst Haas 128. Jean Gaumy 129. Paul Starosta 130. Paolo Pellegrin 131. Paul Strand 132. Tendance Floue 133. Paolo Roversi 134. L’objet photographique 135. (to be published) 136. Graciela Iturbide 137. Manuel Álvarez Bravo 138. David Seymour 139. Lucien Hervé 140. Roger Ballen 141. Daido Moriyama 142. Françoise Huguier 143. Anon. Photographies anonymes 144. Ragnar Axelsson 145. Malick Sidibé 146. L’un par l’autre 147. Gordon Parks

148. Bruce Gilden 149. Henri Huet 150. Jean-Louis Courtinat 151. David Goldblatt 152. Gabriele Basilico 153. Roman Vishniac 154. (to be published) 155. Flor Garduño 156. Lucien Clergue PHOTO POCHE HISTOIRE H 1. Che Guevara.

Photographs by René Burri, text by François Maspero H 2. La Commune. Paris 1871.

Text by Bernard Noël H 3. Mao. Text by Caroline Puel H 4. J. F. Kennedy. Text by Jean Lacouture H 5. Gandhi. Text by Catherine Clément H 6. Jean Jaurès.

Text by Jean-Noël Jeanneney H 7. Haines. Irlande, Balkans, Rwanda.

Text and photographs by Gilles Peress H 8. Le Front populaire.

Texts by Jean Lacouture H 9. François Arago.

Texts by Monique Siccard H 10. Sarajevo, ma ville, mon destin.

Photographs by Milomir Kovaˇcevi´c, texts by François Maspero, Andrea Leˇsi´c et Milomir Kovaˇcevi´c H 11. La Guerre 14-18.

Texts by Christian Joschke PHOTO POCHE SOCIÉTÉ S 1. “Mes Parisiens”.

Photographs by Robert Doisneau S 2. “Cette Afrique-là”.

Photographs by Roger Ballen S 3. “Extérieur nuit”.

Photographs by Jane Evelyn Atwood S 4. “Serra Pelada”.

Photographs by Sebas­tião Salgado S 5. “États d’enfances”.

Photographs by Francesco Zizola S 6. “Carnet de visite”.

Photographs by Hien Lam Duc S 7. “Place de la Réunion”.

Photographs by the collectif de Mulhouse S 8. “Les noires vallées du repentir”.

Photographs by André Martin S 9. “Extrême Asie”.

Photographs by Philip Blenkinsop S 10. “Les enfants du diable”.

Photographs by Jean-Louis Courtinat S 11. ”Aveuglément”.

Photographs by Gaël Turine S 12. “Entre parenthèses”.

Photographs by Klavdij Sluban S 13. “Un chameau pour le fils”.

Photographs by Fazal Sheikh S 14. “Les yeux brûlants”.

Photographs by Antoine Agoudjian S 15. “Aux marches de la Chine”.

Photographs by Wu Jialin S 16. “Mineurs en peines”.

Photographs by Lizzie Sadin S 17. “Sertão”.

Photographs by Tiago Santana S 18. “Droits de regards”. 1961-2011 : Amnesty International et les photo­graphes S 19. “Le Mur et la Peur”.

Photographs by Gaël Turine

© Mara Vishniac Kohn, courtesy International Center of Photography

ROMAN VISHNIAC Texts by Maya Benton

12.5 x 19 cm 144 pages 74 black and white photographs PHOTO POCHE 153 Softback October 2014 Retail price: 13 euros

Roman Vishniac (1897-1990) has long featured in the history of photography as the creator of exceptional documentary work looking at the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe before the Shoah. From 1935 until 1938, he relentlessly visited the ghettos and villages of Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia and Romania, where, in conditions of extreme hardship, he captured the traditional customs and lifestyles of these populations as though already sensing the hecatomb to come. “I felt that this world was about to be snatched away by the lunatic shadow of Nazism.

I felt that a whole people was on the verge of annihilation,” he recalled.

In 1984, he published Un monde disparu, preface by Elie Wiesel, which revealed his heart-rending report to the world.

Born in Russia, Roman Vishniac studied biology and zoology and was frequently forced into exile to escape anti-Semitic persecution. In 1920, he left Moscow to settle in Berlin where, influenced by the modernist movement, he developed his already refined art of street photography, defying the restrictions forced on Jewish photographers, to document the expansion of the Third Reich’s discriminatory and anti-Semite policies. At the end of the year 1940, after several months of arrest and imprisonment in France, he set out for New York where, with his family, he opened a portrait studio and made unsuccessful attempts to warn the authorities of the terrible plight of Europe’s Jewish populations. In 1946 he became an American citizen and produced several photo-stories of Europe in the aftermath of the war. In 1955, his photographs were included in the famous “Family of Man” exhibition, created by Edward Steichen.

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© Lucien Clergue

LUCIEN CLERGUE introduction by françois hébel

Lucien Clergue died in November 2014. He dedicated his whole life to graphic photography. Appointed as a member of the Fine Arts Academy in 2006, he was the first photographer to be rewarded by the Institute of France.

Born in 1934 in Arles, Lucien Clergue was brought up in a town devastated by bombardments by an ill mother, whom he lost at the age of eighteen.

He taught himself his art by photographing the landscapes and beaches of the Camargue, a passion born of his eagerness to capture the special light and texture of the region’s natural elements. In 1957, his sensual and provocative female nudes caused outrage. During his career he met a great many inspirational artists such as Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau and SaintJohn Perse whom he photographed in the privacy of their workshops and studios. He was first noticed by Edward Steichen, and his photographs were presented in 1961 at the MoMA (New York). In 1969, he created the Rencontres internationales de la photographie in Arles, alongside his friend, the writer Michel Tournier. The festival has gone on to become one of the most important photography festivals in the world. In 1982 he also created the École nationale supérieure de la photographie in Arles. Through his multidisciplinary approach, Lucien Clergue has sought constantly to bring together the worlds of photography, literature, cinema, music and bull-fighting. He produced sixty-five books and over twenty short and medium-length films. Throughout his life, Lucien Clergue never stopped photography, even in his role as an ambassador for the art.

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12.5 x 19 cm 144 pages About 70 black and white photographs PHOTO POCHE 156 Softback September 2015 Retail price: 13 euros

© Flor Garduño

FLOR GARDUÑO

12.5 x 19 cm 144 pages 70 black and white photographs PHOTO POCHE 155 Softback October 2015 Retail price: 13 euros

Born in Mexico in 1957, Flor Garduño is an exemplary representative of the wealth and diversity of Mexican photography, which has made an important contribution to the history of world photography.

During her training she struck up friendships with two great artists: Kati Horna, the famous Hungarian anarchist photographer who had settled in Mexico and whose teachings she assiduously followed; and Manuel Álvarez Bravo, the great master of Mexican photography, to whom she was an assistant for two years. In the company of Bravo, she learned the subtleties of the dark room and the technique of complex prints.

At the age of twenty-five, Flor Garduño decided to devote her life to photography. During her travels around the Mexican countryside, Flor Garduño developed her own style and captured the living conditions of farmers, the atmosphere of pueblos and the variety of rural landscapes from a radically anti-folkloric perspective.

In 1985, she published her first book Magia del juego eterno (“The Magic of the eternal game”) presenting six years of research and work, which revealed her powerful vision of an indigenous culture marked by a mythology and religion whose rituals border on magic. In Bestarium, which she published two years later, her animal photography creates a dialogue with the country’s ancestral Indian culture, in which each animal is related to a specific divinity.

From the 1990s, Flor Garduño began a new period of formal research when she turned to still lifes, the study of the female nude and a much more personal approach to photography.

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Š Bruno Barbey

BRUNO BARBEY INTRODUCTION BY ANNICK COJEAN

Bruno Barbey is a photojournalist and a classic picture hunter, the kind who likes to understand as well as see, in color and in black and white.

A member of the Magnum agency, in his travels across the world capturing revolts, famines, wars and revolutions, encountering heads of State, refugees, farmers and soldiers, he has refused aestheticism, horror and sordidness.

In his intense commitment to capturing the present moment, he has produced a highly sensitive and lucid body of work.

12.5 x 19 cm 144 pages 72 color and black and white photographs PHOTO POCHE 84 Softback September 2015 Retail price: 13 euros 25

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© Harry Gruyaert

HARRY GRUYAERT texts by Brice Matthieussent

Harry Gruyaert is a Belgian photographer working for the Magnum Agency and is one of the leaders of documentary colour photography. He had an important role in the establishment of chromatic colour, and used their specificity and his mastery of it as the very substance of his writing.

Colour photography only developed late in the history of photographic art as black and white photography held a privileged place in the canon of the art. While Eggleston and Meyerowitz deployed it carefully, Harry Gruyaert examined its potential in practical terms, setting out to open up and understand the problems related to this “colour-material” and what it demanded from both spectators and photographers. As a reporter, his frequent trips to Egypt, Morocco or to the United States gave him the opportunity to refine his techniques for photographing urban, sea or country landscapes, making radiantly beautiful pictures, which his mastery of structure and composition only serve to refine. His influence on contemporary art is praised by all.

12.5 x 19 cm 144 pages 75 color photographs PHOTO POCHE 108 Softback April 2015 Retail price: 13 euros 26

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© Harry Gruyaert

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VANDANA SHIVA

Pour une désobéissance créatrice – Entretiens Vandana Shiva

Creative Disobedience – Interviews Lionel Astruc Foreword by Olivier de SchuTter

In a series of interviews with the alter-globalization icon Vandana Shiva, Lionel Astruc reveals how this combative woman views the problems facing our contemporary world. Shiva helps us fully understand what is currently at stake, including maintaining peace and democracy, issues of famine and the preservation of resources, eco-feminism and “seed freedom”.

Doctor in quantum physics and philosophy, Vandana Shiva is the co-founder of the alter-globalization movement. Her protests and court cases against the most powerful multinational companies have earned her a whole host of awards including the Alternative Nobel Prize. Her work based on teaching by example has spread throughout the world and initiated a global movement called the Alliance for Seed Freedom. She is also a key world figure of eco-feminism.

The journalist and author Lionel Astruc concentrates on ecological themes and those revolving around the interdependence of economies. He has written some ten books, most of them field surveys into sustainability in various industries (foodstuffs, fashion, tourism…) in France and across the world.

14 x 19 cm 204 pages Softback Coedition Colibris/Actes Sud November 2014 Retail price: 19 euros 28

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MÈRE ET PÈRE EN DEVENIR Becoming a mother, Becoming a father esther wiedmer

Becoming a mother or a father, and becoming parents together is not “something we do” but a dynamic process that is always developing.

We have our own paths to find. Pregnancy in itself is a remarkable experience and entails a great change in the way women think about their lives and selves. Esther Wiedmer talks of this threshold between two lives as a crossroads where the future parents need to read the signposts to choose the right path.

From her experience as a therapist but also as a mother, Esther Wiedmer has created a toolbox for future parents containing simple practical and concrete information within anyone’s reach. To her the book provides accompaniment to maternity, in which she assimilates contrasting perspectives and disciplines to bring a fresh outlook to this phase of life.

From embryology to meditation, via nutrition, pediatrics, immunology and psychology, she encourages readers to rethink their ways of life.

The author incites future parents to examine their habits and daily rhythms and to make changes where necessary before the child arrives. For Esther Wiedmer, becoming a mother or a father is essentially the same journey with similar questions encountered along the way. The way that the experience is lived within the body is naturally different however, so she also picks out gender-specific moments for both and devotes a special chapter to fathers.

Esther Wiedmer is a general practitioner, naturopath and nutritionist. She organizes conferences and gives talks for the general public and health professionals on themes of food, healthy lifestyles and preventative medicine. She is the author of Se nourrir simplement, vivre sainement (Rouergue, 2011).

14 x 19 cm 312 pages 18 color illustrations Softback April 2015 Retail price: 22.50 euros 29

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EARTHFORCE

Manuel de l’éco-guerrier Earthforce

The Eco-Warrior’s Manual captain paul watson

At the age of eighteen, Paul Watson ­co‑founded Greenpeace, the youngest of the group. In 1977 he founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which has become the most effective ocean defense organization in the world. To his opponents, he is a pirate and eco-terrorist. But to those who believe “petitions and banners are not enough to save the oceans”, he is a hero.

In forty years we have lost 50% of our planet’s mammalian species.

Scientists warn that if we stand back and do nothing, our own existence will be endangered in decades to come. Ok, but what can we do? And how?

An animal lover since early adolescence, Paul Watson is a modern-day pirate and ecologist. He co-founded Greenpeace and founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an organization defending the oceans and their inhabitants. During years of combat, he has implemented a whole series of strategies to protect sea species from human predation and applied the Art of War to ecology, saving the lives of thousands of whales, hundreds and thousands of dolphins and millions of seals without ever injuring an “enemy”, or a member of his own crew.

In this manual he shares the maneuvers that have enabled him to achieve his victories. The book was initially published in 1993 and is essential reading for anybody eager to preserve their own immediate living environments or the world in general and for anybody ready to fight for a world in which humanity lives in harmony with nature. This tour de force invites us to defend our planet before it is too late.

14 x 19 cm 192 pages Softback Coedition Sea Shepherd France/Actes Sud March 2015 Retail price: 18 euros 30

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L’ÉCOLE DU COLIBRI

La pédagogie de la coopération The Colibri school Teaching Cooperation

Isabelle Peloux and Anne Lamy

In 2006, Isabelle Peloux created a different kind of primary school in the heart of the agro-ecological farm, Les Amanins, in the Drôme. Here she developed new teaching methods based on cooperation rather than competition which aimed at teaching children to work in a different way, while respecting the usual school program.

To this end, she was inspired by three major education movements: the Freinet movement founded on children’s free expression and experimentation; Antoine de La Garanderie’s mental management which explores, describes and studies the mental processes of knowledge acquisition; and the notion of socio-cognitive conflict which enables children to become aware of others’ perspectives and reformulate their own. She added aspects to encourage children to discover relationships with others, as well an approach fostering peace.

Her teaching methods have given extremely positive results. Children naturally love learning if they understand what they’re learning and why, and if the teaching method allows them to be active in the learning process.

Her lived experience is ultimately less about method and more about the results she has achieved after 30 years of research. It is a work that will enrich readers in many ways and provide teachers with valuable insights into their own personal development. The work offers concrete examples from actual classroom situations, as well as more theoretical writing looking at cooperation-based teaching methods.

Isabelle Peloux is a school teacher and trainer in teacher/taught relations. She also runs parent groups in which parents can expression their own personal concerns.

She is also the founder of the Colibri lower school in the Drôme region in France, in the heart of Les Amanins agro-ecological farm.

Anne Lamy is a journalist, specializing in psychology, education, and society. She has written and co-written more than a dozen books including L’État adolescent with Daniel Marcelli (Armand Colin) and Grandir en temps de crise with Philippe Jeammet (Bayard). She has also written a number of non-fiction works for children.

14 x 19 cm 228 pages Softback Coedition Colibris/Actes Sud October 2014 Retail price: 22 euros 31

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Born 17 May 1978 in Liège, Belgium, François Olislaeger graduated from the Emil-Cohl School of Graphic Arts in Lyon. Today he divides his time between Paris and Mexico.

Since 2003, he has worked for the press (Le Monde, Libération, Les Inrockuptibles, Beaux-Arts Magazine, etc), while publishing documentary cartoons and contributing to various journals.

MARCEL DUCHAMP Un petit jeu entre moi et je Marcel Duchamp

A little game twixt me and I François Olislaeger

To coincide with the Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, François Olislaeger takes us on an astute and amusing journey through the artist’s work from his childhood to posterity. Drawing on a whole host of sources, the author offers commentary, notes, and possible paths of enquiry, on a fold-out 6 meter frieze. François Olislaeger’s drawings offer a beautiful insight into the artist’s character, his personal life, his phlegmatic dandy-esque personality, and the way he blew away the art world and its prevailing codes between games of chess with his contemporaries.

“A superb piece of drawing. François Olislaeger’s black and white work unravels the life of the iconoclastic artist who delivered a killer blow to fine arts of the period. Before our eyes, the work unveils a highly documented saga of Duchamp’s life.” Les Inrockuptibles.

15.5 x 22.5 cm 72 pages Black and white illustrations Fold-out book Coedition Centre Pompidou/Actes Sud October 2014 Retail price: 19 euros 32

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ULYSSE

Les chants du retour Ulysses

Songs of returning Jean Harambat

Ulysses is back. Alone on the beach of Ithaca after ten years of war and wilderness, he is ready to go home, but doesn’t recognize his surroundings.

It is as if everything is shrouded in mist. Has he really arrived at his destination?

Hence begins the tale that faithfully follows Homer’s account. It is however interrupted at various junctures to allow commentary from thinkers or unknown observers, who accompany Ulysses through his story, until he takes on the pretenders and is reunited with Penelope. Ulysses is now a beggar, roaming the hills of his motherland to conquer back his palace and his life. While this album tells of Ulysses return it also sheds light on the meaning of this return for the Greeks and ourselves.

Jean Harambat was born in Les Landes in 1976. After studying economy and philosophy, he decided in 2004 to devote his life to drawing and writing. He has illustrated several stories for the press (XXI, Le Monde 2, Géo, Sud Ouest, Feuilleton). His album, Les Invisibles (Futuropolis 2009) won the Historical comic book Prize at the Blois festival.

In writing Ulysses, les chants du retour, an expression of his love for literature, the author was received in residency in Ithaca itself.

19.5 x 24.5 cm 240 pages Color illustrations Hardback October 2014 Retail price: 26 euros 33

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Matthias Lehmann lives and works in the Paris region where he was born thirty-six years ago.

He started publishing drawings and cartoons for fanzines in the 1990s in France and abroad.

In recent years he has also turned to the traditional press, providing illustrations for Libération and Le Monde. He has published five books, notably L’Étouffeur de la RN115 and Les Larmes d’Ézéchiel with Actes Sud BD, and more recently La Ruche et le Mémorial (éditions Ion).

LA FAVORITE The Favorite Matthias Lehmann

The orphaned Constance now lives with her grandparents in a well-to-do home far from the madding crowd. Her grandfather listens to Gustav Mahler in his armchair, glass in hand, cursing the cruel hand of fate that has afflicted the family for ages. Destiny has made a coward of him and driven his loathed wife to punish and beat the child, and to dress the boy as a girl.

When the new guardians of the house with their two children arrive, Constance discovers his sexuality and revolts against his own guardians’ régime.

19.5 x 28 cm 160 pages Black and white illustrations Hardback Rights sold in Germany April 2015 Retail price: 23 euros 34

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Chantal Montellier started out painting and teaching drawing before she started creating cartoons for the press in the 1970s.

Her first album was published in 1996 by Les Humanoïdes Associés. She went onto produce over twenty hard-hitting titles, before enduring five years in the wilderness after Les Humanoïdes was bought out by publishers less sensitive to her favorite themes: marginalization and exclusion. In 1990 she reemerged publishing Les Aventures de Julie Bristol with Dargaud, telling the tale of the relationship between women, art and society.

LA RECONSTITUTION Livre 1

The Reconstitution Vol. 1

Chantal Montellier

Chantal Montellier was a pioneer in producing cartoons for women and women’s publications. Here she shares her autobiography. Punctuated by descriptions of dreams, this uncompromising account tells of her difficult family background, her artistic vocation and her struggle to exist as a woman and artist.

19.5 x 28 cm 288 pages Color illustrations Softback January 2015 Retail price: 32 euros 36

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Born in 1974 Gilles Tévessin studied at the Duperré School of applied arts before illustrating children’s books and working for the press. Un Taxi nommé Nadir in 2006 was his first comic book which he produced with Romain Multier, a thoroughbred Parisian, antiques dealer, archivist and decorator at the Comptoir Général in Paris. In 2010 he published the docu-fiction Nord, Nord-Est also with Actes Sud.

MÉNIL’DÉCOR Ménil’décor Romain Multier and Gilles Tévessin

A colorful portrait of Ménilmontant, a traditional working class district in the northeast of Paris, related through four of its emblematic figures.

We stroll around the area with Jean, who has lived in the district all his life, as he recounts anecdotes and memories of the Belle Époque.

Along the way, we encounter Youssef, who arrived in the 1950s, then Titi, who has never really broken free from 1980s, and finally Hugues, the newspaper vendor, who welcomes all inhabitants of this bastion of humanity and diversity with the same smile and the same gift of the gab.

After Un taxi nommé Nadir – a rambunctious road-movie through the capital in the company of an Algerian taxi driver – here is Romain Multier’s latest tribute to Paris and its denizens.

19.5 x 28 cm 108 pages Color illustrations Softback February 2015 Retail price: 21 euros 37

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Jean-Luc Rabanel was the first chef in France to have obtained a Michelin star for his organic restaurant. He has already published: L’Atelier du vivant (Actes Sud, 2007) and Rabanel (Rouergue, 2011).

© François Lefebvre

Born in Aix-en-Provence, François Lefebvre produced the sumptuous mouth-watering photography for the work.

Born in Marseille, Silvie Ariès spent many years as head of the La Provence agency.

She also partnered Jean-Luc Rabanel on his previous book Rabanel.

LES RECETTES DE MON BISTROT Recipes from my bistro jean-luc Rabanel Photographs by François Lefebvre Texts by Silvie Ariès

In autumn 2007, Jean-Luc Rabanel created the bistro, “À Côté”, next door to his gastronomic restaurant in Arles. Amid a warm, relaxed atmosphere, he serves a range of traditional regional fare as well as childhood favorites.

The bistro was awarded 2 toques in the 2008 Gault and Millau guide and appears in the 2009 Michelin Guide. In 2013, he was awarded with a Bib Gourmand.

In this work, he brings together 104 recipes in which he reinterprets fine regional standards: bull gardiane, bouillabaisse, and a barigoule of artichokes. His special touch comes from precise cooking times, a preference for lighter dishes and aroma. He also offers tips to get the best out of seasonal produce.

The work offers a repertoire of delightful Provincial cuisine rich in flavor and accessible to all.

19 x 26.5 cm 256 pages Hardback May 2015 Retail price: 29.90 euros 38

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© Hans Silvester

PÉTANQUE ET JEU PROVENÇAL Pétanque, a game from Provence Photographs by Hans Silvester Texts by Hans Silvester and Yvan Audouard

No sooner had Hans Silvester arrived in France in 1957, his Vespa was stolen in Marseille, so he hitched to Arles. Here in a peaceful shaded square, he watched people playing pétanque for the first time. It was here that he fell in love with Provence, the land of radiant sunshine and delicious calm shade.

He settled on the slopes of the Vaucluse in 1960 before quickly swapping his pétanque balls, and corkscrew for a camera. He embarked on a journey around the region and its tiny towns and villages following pétanque players, a world essentially composed of male farmers. His magnificent pictures bathed in light show the beauty of living together in communities, at a time when nobody could have guessed that such a lifestyle would change so fast and so radically.

Born in 1938 in Germany, Hans Silvester graduated in photography in 1955 and soon became a roving reporter around Provence as he laid down roots there in the 1960s.

He has published extensively for the press especially for Géo magazine.

His main works include: Tsiganes et gitans (2011), Les Habit de la nature (2013), Chevaux de Camargue (2011), Les Peuple de l’Omo (2009), La Planète affolée (2010).

A man of letters, Yvan Audouard (19142004) was a famous journalist for the satirical weekly newspaper the Canard enchaîné. In this very personal text, he tells of the art of playing pétanque in his native Provence.

This insightful work of 140 photographs mostly taken in 1976 around Provence, accompanied by Yvan Audouard’s beautiful text, celebrates the encounter between actors playing out their own eternal drama.

26 x 26 cm 144 pages 140 illustrations Hardback October 2015 Retail price: 25 euros 39

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