Editions

Domestic and emotional companions, subjects of scientific study, objects of fascination and wonder — animals have never ceased to appear in the viewfinder of photographers since the invention of the medium. This book explores how their images have shaped the way we picture them and influenced how we...

Hannah Darabi's Why Don't You Dance? is set against a backdrop of turbulent events, an uncertain future, censorship and self-censorship. Amid this unstable environment replete with recurring uprisings and escalating conflict, Darabi serves as an investigator: she gathers, interprets and arranges pho...

Published on the occasion of a major solo exhibition at Jeu de Paume, Paris, this book encompasses 25 years of the photographic œuvre of Luc Delahaye. Including all works Delahaye produced between 2001 and 2025, the book covers the decisive period in which he increasingly distanced himself from war ...

The children's photobook is a relatively recent area of research. Photo Elysée has been regarded as a pioneer in this field, having acquired Paul Cottin's collection in 2015 with the intention of exhibiting and publishing it. On the initiative of the Institut pour la photographie Hauts-de-France, th...

This book offers an invigorating overview of some sixty photographers from Generation Z, born between the mid 1990s and 2010, whose work reflects an urgent need for representation and a desire to tell their own stories in a constantly changing world. In contrast to the fleeting stream of images circ...

Man Ray (1890-1976) was a pioneer. With his conceptual approach and innovative techniques, he liberated photography from the steadfast orthodoxies by which it had been bound and opened the floodgates to new ways of thinking about the medium. Focusing on his studio and portrait work in the interwar y...

Over the past ten years, Debi Cornwall has explored the narratives that have shaped the image of America. Her striking, formally composed color documentary photographs encourage us to reflect on the staging and normalization of state power. The exhibition presents two series of photographs that repr...

The unique photographic work of Deborah Turbeville positions her as a major figure since her beginnings in the 1970s. Her work defies classification. Her images are difficult to date at first glance; they seem imbued with a dreamlike atmosphere. Turbeville stands out from her male contemporaries, wh...

A real challenge. To build a cabin to accommodate the abominable snow beast. Will he come? Will it come? The reader is eager to find out. But the snow beast may not be where we want it to be... A funny and sensitive immersion in the photographs of Hans Steiner and Frédéric Boissonnas. Readership: fr...

Capturing the almost-nothing, the everyday, the desire through a gaze. Between oneself and the world: photography as a focus. Is it possible to seize power (in imagery) with affection and gentleness? How to escape the ordinary, the commonplace, and the trivial aspects of the repetition of our action...