Signed; Antoine d'Agata - Anticorps - 2013

Rarest exceptionally signed copy on the front matter by Antoine d’Agata (born 1961), 560 pages and a very large number of black-and-white and color photographs with serial images and 330 full-page photographs, some double-page, texts in French by Antoine D’Agata. Solid illustrated hardcover with image on the cover and on the dust jacket. Nota Bene: the first printing of this book was sold out as early as 2013 and a new print run was launched by the publisher in 2014. This copy bears a December 2012 printer’s mark. In excellent condition, practically like new.

Catalogue of the Agata retrospective presented at BAL in Paris at the beginning of 2013; it won the Author’s Book Prize at the Rencontres d’Arles 2013. This large-volume book traces the entire photographic career of Antoine d’Agata. It features numerous images from his well-known series on emotional wandering and sexual relations under the influence of drugs, in underground environments more or less illicit. It also includes the other subjects favored by the author, which read like narratives of his travels in moments of lucidity: dilapidated urban and peri-urban environments, abandoned buildings and gloomy streets, portrait series of inhabitants in the places traveled, often sad or strange, but sometimes more cheerful as well. D’Agata tells us about his life and travels in the most raw and direct way possible... the energy comes through, more like a shock, which will leave no one indifferent!

Presentation by Editions Xavier Barral: : "The slow shipwreck of a man without ties, a survivor of a long journey, repeating from room to room." "Autobiographical journal, a tale of a arduous, radical yet lucid quest, lived at night, mixing sex, wandering, suffering and drugs, Anticorps offers a vertiginous plunge into the night that forges the reflection carried out by Antoine d’Agata on the power dynamic between two antagonistic worlds. From social alienation to the solidarity of the flesh, from immorality to the transparency of amorality. A full participant in the program he condemns himself to live, d’Agata is bound to follow to the letter—and through the body’s experience—this demanding system. Anticorps traces a photographic practice inseparable from a certain way of apprehending existence, where risk, desire, recklessness and chance remain essential elements. No moral stance, merely the ethics of asserting that one must, to explore certain universes, share them to the end."

Antoine d’Agata was born in 1961 in Marseille. At 17 he was drawn to punk and anarchist movements. He began frequenting brothels and regularly experimented with various artificial paradises. In 1983 he left France and traveled for the next ten years. In 1990, he took photography courses at the ICP in New York, where he met Larry Clark and Nan Goldin. From 1991 to 1992, he was an intern at Magnum Photos’ New York office. Between 1999 and 2004, he was represented by Agence Vu. He is a laureate of the prestigious Niépce Prize in 2001. In 2004 he became a member of Magnum Photos.

Copy in excellent condition, practically like new. A personal collection book kept with the greatest care. Secure shipping with reinforced packaging and international tracking guaranteed. For multiple purchases, group shipping is possible with reimbursement of any excess postage paid via Paypal.

2.2 kg excluding packaging.