Product Description: I have always had the dream to make books that would mirror a life formed by the wind pushing us, by the fires I always ignite much to the police's chagrin: books that, like my photographs, my drawings, my writing - like an attitude - are not produced but crafted...read more

Product Description: I have always had the dream to make books that would mirror a life formed by the wind pushing us, by the fires I always ignite much to the police's chagrin: books that, like my photographs, my drawings, my writing - like an attitude - are not produced but crafted...read more

Product Description: I have always had the dream to make books that would mirror a life formed by the wind pushing us, by the fires I always ignite much to the police's chagrin: books that, like my photographs, my drawings, my writing - like an attitude - are not produced but crafted...read more

Product Description: "For the first time in twenty years, these painted photographs have finally been published. These pictures of creatures, overwhelmed by colours and forms, seem to be printed from a negative stored in my mind. You can see the fear of their disappearance, the desire to fix their spirit...read more

Product Description: "'The most important thing is to find a beginning and an end', says Martin d'Orgeval, who is gathering all these crimes. 'Not really alone on this planet, but all of them are losers', is written on one of these paintings, no wiser than another one, where a star is drawing my heart, two zeros my wife, a single one my toy...read more

Product Description: Beckett is the result of a little-known encounter that took place over 30 years ago in Tangiers, between the then-burgeoning photographer François-Marie Banier and the great Irish-born writer Samuel Beckett. Banier kept spotting Beckett's iconically gaunt and tapering frame-"a marsh-bird vanished in the middle of the crowd of Moroccans in djellabahs and indifferent tourists"-and was so entranced by his curious movements and features that he determined to photograph him...read more

Product Description: Robert Frank's father, Henry, was both the proprietor of a bicycle shop in Zurich, and a keen amateur photographer. Album makes public for the first time a selection of Henry Frank's photographs, including landscapes, family portraits, still-lifes and cityscapes...read more

Product Description: With his unique talent for capturing emotions using lenses, colors and words, artist François-Marie Banier inspires both his subjects and viewers to conquérir le rêve (conquer the dream). Vive la Vie is an intimate monograph resulting from a collaboration between Banier and fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg...read more

Product Description: For the past three decades French photographer François-Marie Banier has turned his lens on Yves Saint Laurent, Johnny Depp, Samuel Beckett, Silvana Mangano and Vladimir Horowitz, among other icons. He is equally enthralled with capturing anonymous life on the street: "My thirst for faces, for bodies, for ways of sitting, standing and walking and for newly discovered gazes slakes all other thirsts...read more

Product Description: The Polaroid camera combined two of Andy Warhol's obsessions--the disposable nature of modern consumerism and the photograph as readymade. An inveterate and relentless user of Polaroid cameras, he made tens of thousands of instant photographs during the 1970s...read more

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Product Description: Photographs by Francois Marie Banier. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In Past/Present, accomplished writer, playwright, and artist Francois-Marie Banier turns his camera on celebrities and people in the streets, creating an extraordinary collection of photographs. Here are the famous and the unknown captured with an artist's eye and a writer's insight...read more