Author: Pierre Bessard

Editions Bessard is a paris-based independant publishing house created by pierre bessard in end of november 2011. Focusing on working with artists, writers and curators to realise intellectually challenging projects in book form.
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The Chinese Photobook: In the …

The Chinese Photobook: In the last decade there has been a major reappraisal of the role and status of the photobook within the history of photography. Revisionist histories of photography as recorded via the photobook have added enormously to our understanding of the medium’s culture, particularly in places that are often marginalized, such as Latin America and Africa. However, until now, only three Chinese photobooks have made it onto historians’ short lists. Yet China has a fascinating history of photobook publishing, and the exhibition, coproduced by the Rencontre d’Arles and Aperture, will reveal for the rst time the richness and diversity of this heritage. The exhibition is based on a collection compiled by Martin Parr and Beijing- and London-based Dutch photographer team WassinkLundgren. The Chinese Photobook will reveal much about China itself, and the country’s dramatic twists and turns during the last 100 years.
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After my Zine Collecton #12 at …

After my Zine Collecton #12 at 660$ on ABBOOKS now just discover on AMAZON This Face at 206$! Description : Xu Yong: ‘Portrait, photographs showing a female face, sometimes wearing make-up, sometimes not, at first glance they seem unrelated, but they are all of a young woman called Zi U, a chinese sex worker’ This Face, by Xu Yong (whose Xiaofangjia Hutong was included in Parr/Badger The Photobook: A History Volume 2) is a limited edition of 100 copies numbered and signed by the artist. A small booklet of 16 pages, notebook’s reproduction of Zi U, prostitute of luxury in Beijing, a flyer text (text by Xu Yong about his concept) is also laid-in.