20th Century

20th CENTURY is THE century of photography and for changing from analogue to digital, too. Photograph was used for illustration, advertising, art or journalism - photo books as well. Search here for rarities from the beginning of this era or new editions!

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1920s 'tl 1940s (309)
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1950s 'til 1970s (731)
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1980s & 1990s (702)
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DEGIORGIS, Nicoló - Hidden Islam
DEGIORGIS, Nicoló - Hidden Islam
'Hidden Islam' by Nicoló DEGIORGIS shows Muslim places of prayer in Northern Italy. First architectural documentation until the interiors are 'discovered'. Important in connection with '9/11' and the consequences for the Christian-Muslim relationship.
58,00 € Weight 0.8 kg
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HENNEK, Mat - Silent Cities
HENNEK, Mat - Silent Cities
Portraits of some of the largest cities in the world. The metropolises conceived and built as vessels of human activity are transformed into monuments of silence: empty, sometimes eerie places for activity and relaxation that still have to take place.
45,00 € *
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LOCKEMANN, Elisabeth NEUDÖRFL, Bettina - Plan
LOCKEMANN, Elisabeth NEUDÖRFL, Bettina - Plan
Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), etwa. 28 x 24 cm., 180 S., 86 S/W-Aufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
49,00 € *
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MARSHALL, Karen - Between Girls
MARSHALL, Karen - Between Girls
The book 'Between Girls' by American photographer Karen MARSHALL shows a group of teenagers in New York and documents the emotional bonds between 16-year-old girls to show as well as their symbolic relationships. The book design is by Teun van der HEIJDEN
from 39,90 €
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The Red Bulli. Stephen Shore and die Neue Düsseldorfer Fotografie
The Red Bulli. Stephen Shore and die Neue Düsseldorfer Fotografie
The focus of the catalog illuminating the early phase of the BECHER school is on the mutual influences between the image concepts emerging in Düsseldorf and the innovations of the 'New-Color Photography' and the 'New Topographics' movement in the U.S..
198,00 € Weight 1.8 kg
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Points of view. Masterpieces of Photography and their stories
Points of view. Masterpieces of Photography and their stories
The compendium includes many international photographers of diff. groups & schools of 20th century (New Vision, Straight Photography, New Topographics, New Color, Becher School), collected by Gallery Kicken in Berlin to celebrate their 30's birthday.
58,00 € *
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VITALI, Massimo - Natural Habitats
VITALI, Massimo - Natural Habitats
'Natural Habitats', the successor to 'Landscape with Figures', comprises 70 color photographs and contains 120 miniature images that create visual connections between color, composition and time. Compared with first volume it shows a different perspective
128,00 € *
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KESSELS, Erik - Unfinished Father
KESSELS, Erik - Unfinished Father
'Unfinished Father' by Erik KESSELS is the photographic documentation of a car construction project of his father, which remained unfinished because the father died over it. The volume symbolizes the image that the son has made of his very active father.
32,00 € *
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ALBERTINI, Fabrizio - The Mecca of Coney Island
ALBERTINI, Fabrizio - The Mecca of Coney Island
Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 19,5 x 30 x 1 cm., 52 pp., b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 150 numbered copies
24,00 € *
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Ladd, Jeffrey (ed.) - (Nearly complete) 'ERRATA-Library' as Set
Ladd, Jeffrey (ed.) - (Nearly complete) 'ERRATA-Library' as Set
18x linen bound HC with dust jackets (mostly), each book: 18,5 x 24 cm. (9,5 x 7 in.), with duotone b/w &/or color ills., text langiage: English
398,00 € *
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Mißelbeck, Reinhold (ed.) - Prestel-Lexikon der Fotografen
Mißelbeck, Reinhold (ed.) - Prestel-Lexikon der Fotografen
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 28 cm., 300 pp., Color & b/w ills., text language: German - GERMAN TEXT ONLY! Prestel, 2002.
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'Die ersten 30 Jahre – Photographie'
'Die ersten 30 Jahre – Photographie'
'Die ersten 30 Jahre - Photographie' presents the 'Schule Friedl Kubelka für künstlerische Photographie', the private school for photography in Austria, which is still influential. With photographs and an interview with the founder & the current director.
33,00 € *
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PARR, Martin - Early Works
PARR, Martin - Early Works
Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 25 x 2,5 cm., 144 pp., b/w ills., text language: English
58,00 € *
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The Polaroid Book
The Polaroid Book
Actual print run, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17,5 x 22 x 4 cm., 352 pp., color & b/w ills., text language:. Taschen 2008 (2005).
68,00 € Weight 1.13 kg
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TILLIM, Guy - Avenue Patrice Lumumba
TILLIM, Guy - Avenue Patrice Lumumba
In the photo volume 'Avenue Patrice Lumumba' the South African photographer Guy TILLIM deals with the urban architecture of colonial and post-colonial society in Africa. His focus is on their changes due to multiple shifts in power over the past 50 years.
68,00 € Weight 1.2 kg
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SASSEN, Viviane & Wolfgang TILLMANS - art. Das Kunstmagazin. März 2017
SASSEN, Viviane & Wolfgang TILLMANS - art. Das Kunstmagazin. März 2017
Broschierte Ausgabe, deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN!
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STERNFELD, Joel - Hart Island
STERNFELD, Joel - Hart Island
The photo volume 'Hart Island' by American photographer Joel STERNFELD is a photographic journey in color through this public burial ground in New York where over three quarters of a million people have been buried since its purchase in 1869.
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'LAND_SCOPE. Fotoarbeiten von Roni Horn bis Thomas Ruff aus der DZ Bank Kunstsammlung' by Ulrich Pohlmann, Christina Leber et. al. (eds.)
'LAND_SCOPE. Fotoarbeiten von Roni Horn bis Thomas Ruff aus der DZ Bank Kunstsammlung' by Ulrich Pohlmann, Christina Leber et. al. (eds.)
The out-of-print catalog 'Land_Scope' presents a variety of ways in which photo artists such as BIALOBRZESKI, DEVLIN, EGGLESTON, GHIRRI, GÜTSCHOW, HÜTTE, JOHNE, KEETMAN, MOSSE, RIEBESEHL, RUFF, SHORE, SUGIMOTO approach the landscape.
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'Harlem. A Century of Images' by Deborah Willis (ed.)
'Harlem. A Century of Images' by Deborah Willis (ed.)
This volume illustrates one hundred years of district history in Harlem with photographic works by Eve ARNOLD, Richard AVEDON, Cornell CAPA, Roy de CARAVA, Henri CARTIER-BRESSON, Bruce DAVIDSON, Leonard FREED, Helen LEVITT, Aaron SISKIND and WEEGEE, a.o.
98,00 € *
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WYLIE, Donovan - Scrapbook
WYLIE, Donovan - Scrapbook
For his 'Scrapbook' with own experiences when he grew up in Belfast as the son of a mixed marriage in the 1970s and 1980s, the Irish photographer Donovan WYLIE used scrapbooks from Northern Ireland from the late 1960s to early 1990s as an inspiration.
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FREY, Mary - Real Life Dramas
FREY, Mary - Real Life Dramas
'Real Life Dramas' by Mary FREY is a time machine that takes us 35 years back in time, into the reality of an undetermined place. Hyperreal photographs capture charged banalities on large-format films: images of people of the US-American middle class.
from 120,00 € Weight 1.1 kg
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AXELSSON, Ragnar - Die letzten Jäger der Arktis
AXELSSON, Ragnar - Die letzten Jäger der Arktis
The Icelandic photographer Ragnar AXELSSON drove to the most remote Inuit settlements in Greenland. In the book 'Die letzten Jäger der arktis' he documents the struggle for survival in an expressive way, e.g. through the unusual angles of his photography.
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D'AGATA, Antoine - Francis Bacon
D'AGATA, Antoine - Francis Bacon
This double volume shows aesthetic parallels between the French magnum photographer Antoine d'AGATA and the British expressionist painter Francis Bacon. This bilingual edition combines 27 photos with 25 graphic works.
68,00 € Weight 0.3 kg
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Photographie. Sehen, beobachten, deuten.
Photographie. Sehen, beobachten, deuten.
Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 25 x 17,6 x 3,6 cm., 384 S., 379 Abb. (davon 26 in Farbe), deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
49,00 € *
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KAINDL. Kurt - A Spanish Festival
KAINDL. Kurt - A Spanish Festival
In 'A Spanish Festival', Kurt KAINDL documents the 'Romería del Rocío', to which the pilgrims arrive every year at Whitsun from all over Spain to celebrate the cult of the Holy Spirit and pay homage to the Virgin Mary. These b/w photos were made in 2000.
25,00 € *
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KESSELS, Erik - In almost every picture #9. How to shoot a black dog
KESSELS, Erik - In almost every picture #9. How to shoot a black dog
'In almost every pictrue #9. How to shoot a black dog' by Erik KESSELS deals with one family’s attempt to solve one of the great mysteries of photography. Before the digital age there was a time when photographers actually had to take photos themselves.
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TILLMANS, Wolfgang - Wolfgang Tillmans
TILLMANS, Wolfgang - Wolfgang Tillmans
Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 24,5 x 30,5 cm., 304 S., 383 Farb-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
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Streetlife and Homestories. Photographs from the Goetz Collection
Streetlife and Homestories. Photographs from the Goetz Collection
by Michael Buhrs and Ingvild Goetz (eds.) - Engl. ed., HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 23 cm., 224 pp., 256 ills., text language: English - German ed. also to pre-order
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SUDA, Issei - The Work of a Lifetime - AS SIGNED COPY!
SUDA, Issei - The Work of a Lifetime - AS SIGNED COPY!
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25,5 x 32,5 cm., 128 pp., 90 ills., Ltd. to 500 copies
498,00 € * Weight 1.2 kg
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Pieter-HUGO-Library
Pieter-HUGO-Library
A collection of various photo book titles by the South-African photographer Pieter HUGO (b.1976). The titles listed in this set are out of print and / or signed. This complete offer can include various editions of the same title.
2.950,00 € *
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Gallery of Honour of Dutch Photography
Gallery of Honour of Dutch Photography
'Gallery of Honours of Dutch Photography' contains nearly one hundred photographs, each remarkable for its artistic, aesthetic and social qualities. Together, the images tell the story of 180 years of photography in the Netherlands and its colonies.
32,00 € *
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FELDMANN, Hans-Peter - Voyeur 5
FELDMANN, Hans-Peter - Voyeur 5
In 'Voyeur 6', Hans-Peter FELDMANN's carefully composed sequencing and design invites you to interpret the photos as a narrative - a photo book as a comic strip. Including celebrities like Mohammed Ali, Isabella Rossellini or Henry Miller.
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Hasselblad Foundation (ed.) Published: Photobooks in Sweden
Hasselblad Foundation (ed.) Published: Photobooks in Sweden
The annotated, richly illustrated bibliography on the history of photo books in Sweden - from early examples with glued-in albumin prints to contemporary books, from traditional formats to going out design - has published very seriously and with expertise
0,00 € * Weight 1.2 kg
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RACTLIFFE, Jo - Photographs: 1980s to now
RACTLIFFE, Jo - Photographs: 1980s to now
'Photographs. 1980s to now ', contains for the first time a selection of the work of the South African photographer Jo RACTLIFFE. Looking over the past 35 years, it contains images from important photo essays as well as works that have never been shown.
95,00 € *
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Lexikon der Fotografen 1900 bis heute
Lexikon der Fotografen 1900 bis heute
by Hans-Michael Koetzle. Hardcover in slipcase, 25,5 x 30 x 12 cm., 512 pp. - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
98,00 € *
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Faraway Focus. Photographers go Travelling (1880-2015)
Faraway Focus. Photographers go Travelling (1880-2015)
The out-of-print catalog volume 'Faraway Focus. Photographers go Travelling (1880-2015)' shows the changing perspectives in travel photography through 180 works. The works of fifteen photographers represent the most important photographic eras and styles.
9,95 € * Weight 0.8 kg
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Fotographers A-Z
Fotographers A-Z
'Photographers A-Z' brings together photographers who have made a significant contribution to photographic culture, as well as the most important photographic volumes of the past century. The entries are illustrated with facsimiles from books & magazines.
from 16,00 €
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VANHÖFEN, Jörn - Die Elbe
VANHÖFEN, Jörn - Die Elbe
In the out-of-print 'Die Elbe', Jörn VANHÖFEN delves into the ephemeral and atmospheric, he discovers Elbe ports and cities and, of course, the faces of the Germans & Czechs living here. Stories of life on the Elbe and biographical memories round it off.
33,00 € *
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PEETERS, Heleen - Horse
PEETERS, Heleen - Horse
Humans and horses have a long history in common. A less documented part is the horse used for food. Starting with her grandfather, who was once a horse butcher, Belgian photographer Helen PEETERS examined and documented horse (meat) culture worldwide.
38,00 € * Weight 0.9 kg
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Photography. Groundbreaking Moments
Photography. Groundbreaking Moments
From the invention of the camera obscura to the birth of digital photography, this history of photography’s greatest advances by the author Florian Heine focuses on individual artists, works, and moments that decisively shaped the evolution of a genre.
9,95 € * Weight 0.8 kg
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STREIT, Jindrich - Village People 1965-1990
STREIT, Jindrich - Village People 1965-1990
The poetic and radical photographs by Jindřich ŠTREIT are also part of the photo volume 'Village People 1965-1990'. He created a universal image of man and his black and white photos are among the great classics of humanistic photography.
45,00 € *
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VITALI, Massimo - Photographer
VITALI, Massimo - Photographer
Massimo VITALI's interest is the social events in places of leisure & consumer culture. This catalog is an ideal addition to his other large-format illustrated books: in addition to 24 works in color, it contains six texts on the photographer's work.
9,95 € *
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