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Jeudi 7 avril 2016 Le Bal Books - Paris Filigranes présente 4 livres – 4 signatures - 4 rencontres en présence de - Kourtney Roy pour Enter as Fiction - Sara Imloul pour Das Schloss - Rip Hopkins pour Belgian Blue Blood - Guillaume Lebrun pour Melos à partir de 18h30 Le Bal Books 6, Impasse de la Défense 75018 Paris
booksignings in march / april .. look out for more dates to come!
Provoke: Between Protest and Performance - Photography in Japan 1960-1975
(2016)
Cover Image:
Shomei Tomatsu, Takuma Nakahira, Editor, 1964.
東松照明, 「編集者 中平卓馬」
The short-lived Japanese magazine Provoke, founded in 1968, is nowadays recognized as a major contribution to postwar photography in Japan, featuring the country’s finest representatives of protest photography, vanguard fine art and critical theory in only three issues overall. The magazine’s goal was to mirror the complexities of Japanese society and its art world of the 1960s, a decade shaped by the country’s first large-scale student protests. The movement yielded a wave of new books featuring innovative graphic design combined with photography: serialized imagery, gripping text-image combinations, dynamic cropping and the use of provocatively “poor” materials. The writings and images by Provoke’s members-critic Koji Taki, poet Takahiko Okada, photographers Takuma Nakahira, Yakata Takanashi and Daido Moriyama-were suffused with the tactics developed by Japanese protest photographers such as Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikoh Hosoe and Shomei Tomatsu, who pointed at and criticized the mythologies of modern life. Provoke accompanies the first exhibition ever to be held on the magazine and its creators. Illuminating the various uses of photography in Japan at the time, the catalogue focuses on selected projects undertaken between 1960 and 1975 that offer a strongly interpretative account of currents in Japanese art and society at a moment of historical collapse and renewal.
Lancement de Studios from Nowhere / JEUDI 7 JANVIER 2016 À 19H
We’ve launched this week our new window display with pictures from Philippe Chancel’s Kim Happiness serie, a beautiful work on North Korea. You can see it outside of Le BAL until January. If you like the work, come visit us in the bookshop : we have some copies of Kim Happiness’s limited edition for sale !
Courtesy Galerie Melanie Rio / (c) Philippe Chancel
Saturday 14th november is the last day of our Paris Photo’s special program !
At noon Le BAL will be hosting a conversation between David Campany & John Divola (reservations necessary !). More here :
http://www.le-bal.fr/fr/mh/le-bal-lab/recontre-avec-john-divola-et-david-campany/ And last but not least, three more guests in the bookshop from 5pm to 7pm :
José Pedro Cortes « One's own arena » Vincent Delbrouck « Dzogchen » Daniel Blaufuks « This business of Living »
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Hope to see you during that amazing week-end !
More books and meetings on friday 13th november - starting at 4 pm until 7 pm :
Onaka Koji « Seitaka-awadachiso » Andre Gelpke « Sex-theater » & « AMOK » Olivier Cablat « Duck » + Fabula Rasa « Homecoming » / Galerie 2600 Ivars Gravlejs « Early Works » Maurice van Es « Now will not be with us forever » Pieter Hugo « The journey » Marguerite Bornhauser « 8 »
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Come and join us at Le BAL during Paris Photo ! Here are our program of meetings, book lauches and signings for thursday 12th november, starting at 4pm until 7pm :
Bruce Connew « Body of Work» Andrea Modica « As We Wait » Joseph Maida « New Natives » Philippe Chancel « Kim Happiness » Lorenzo Castore « Ultimo Domicilio » Edoardo Hahn « Landscape Materials » David Wilson « Minor Collisions » Bill Henson « particle mist » Karen Knorr« Belgravia »
Stay tuned here :
A performative conference, on the 22nd of October, 19.30h at LE BAL, with Karin Krijgsman, Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber
Happy to share with you : Laurent Chardon signs his new book “Dedalé” on thursday the 24th of september, at 18.30h - at le bal books, of course .. hope to see you there!
get your summer reading at our summer sales, starting august 8! lots of nice books with some heavy reductions, and le bal café is chipping in, too ..
upcoming booksignings: baptiste giroudon/ola rindal/gilles raynaldy(11june)// david fathi/clement verger(18juin)//alec soth(24juin)//susan meiselas(25juin)//christian patterson/stephanie solinas/cedric delsaux/yuri torptsov(26juin)//benedicte deramaux(2 juillet)
See you soon!
Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart; The end lost in dream, They float past our view, We only watch their glad, early start.
Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose; Their widening scope, Their distant employ, We never shall know. And the stream as it flows Sweeps them away, Each one is gone Ever beyond into infinite ways. We alone stay While years hurry on, The flower fared forth, though its fragrance still stays.
“Petals” by Amy Lowell, in A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass (1912), in the Internet Archive thanks to the University of Toronto Robarts Library.
Image from Shin-bijutsukai v.2 from the Smithsonian Libraries’ Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Library
Next thursday ! Jungjin Lee, Carlos Lobos, Cyrille Weiner - 19h @ BAL Books
