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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Maxime Ballesteros – Les Absents
| Editor | Nadine Barth |
| Publisher | Hatje Cantz |
| Year | 2017 |
| Cover | Hardcover |
| Language | English, French |
| ISBN | 978-3-7757-4356-3 |
| Pages | 272 |
| Weight | 1041 g |
| More | |
| Contributors | Maxime Ballesteros, Caroline Gaimari, John Isaac |
| Type of book | Exhib'publication |
| Museum / Place | Johann König, Berlin |
| Article ID | art-60041 |
Strong, emphatically physical, and always a bit surreal, the French photographer Maxime Ballesteros (*1984) uses analogue images to present his view of a world in which borders are dissolving and a subjective reality comes to light.
He lives to take pictures and work with his imagination. From the time he first picked up a camera as a teen, he hasn’t put it down. His photographs show a section of the world where day and night, dream and nightmare, the subjective and the objective are of equal importance. He shoots photographs in the moment, following his protagonists to parties, private apartments, and the beach at dawn—shimmering and excessive, sharp and always in style.
The striking photobook Les Absents is his first monograph, produced in cooperation with the visionary culture and fashion network Sang Bleu in London, including various texts and poems by the artist himself.
