Signed; Antoine d'Agata - Praxis - 2021

This signed copy of PRAXIS, published in 2022 by Studio Vortex, is part of the Darwin Bookshop because it is not a book about photography—it is a theoretical, textual and visual choreography of photography as trance, resistance and rupture. Conceived by Antoine d’Agata with artistic direction by Tania Bohórquez, the book spans over thirty years of movement, incarceration, image-making and writing, building itself as a fragmented, militant manifesto.

Designed with dense, archival typography and minimal graphic noise, PRAXIS assembles interviews, field notes, personal lists, letters, prison texts, declarations and visual documents, alongside citations of over 80 authors—from Agamben and Blanchot to Genet, Duras, Artaud and Wittgenstein. The book also incorporates xylographs, engravings and murals produced in Mexico and France by collectives including Le Dernier Cri and Taller de Gráfica Siqueiros in Oaxaca. Every formal decision in the book serves to dissolve traditional notions of authorship and documentary.

Printed in Istanbul by MAS Matbaa and published in a first edition of 800 copies (plus 50 copies of a special edition), this volume is signed by d’Agata and acts as both theory and relic—an operating manual for photographic life lived at the edge. At Darwin, PRAXIS is held as a tool: not a retrospective, but a grammar of the photographic breakdown.

Technical Sheet

Title: PRAXIS
Artist / Author: Antoine d’Agata
Texts: Yannick Haenel
Date: 2022
Technique / Printing Method: Offset printing
Medium / Materials: Hardcover
Dimensions: approx. 16.5 × 24 cm
Language: French
Pages: 432
Publisher / Editor: Studio Vortex
Printed by: MAS Matbaa, Istanbul
Edition: First edition of 800 copies 
ISBN: 978-2-9570325-2-5
Signed: Yes
Condition: MINT