21st Century

In her rare, out-of-print volume 'Dildo', published in a very limited edition of only 55 copies, Japanese photographer Momo OKABE accompanies her friends in their transformation from woman to man. She developed her intimate, artistic photographs by hand.

Cafe Lehmitz Photobook Libraries shall enable collectors as well as institutions to acquire out-of-print titles at a price that can be paid. This library, the Paul GRAHAM Photobook Library, contains currently 19 photo volumes - mainly signed copies.

The title of the out-of-print autonomous artist book 'Sindbad' by Gerhard RICHTER comes from a series of 98 colored lacquer paintings behind glass (2008). Already in his first installation he created the book's concept by putting them together as diptychs

The title of the out-of-print photo volume 'Until the Kingdom Comes' by Simen JOHAN is derived from a part of the prayer known as the Lord's Prayer. #14 of 75 numbered and signed copies. 28 color images on 64 unbound pages in a cloth-bound clamshell box.

'Cette Montagne. C'est moi' is a 'real Revier 'book about a coal mining area that stretches from France to Belgium and Germany to Poland. Dutch photographer Witho WORMS documented the heaps, photobook designer Hans GREMMEN congenially staged the pictures.

The photo volume 'Niagara' by Alec SOTH is less about the natural wonder than the human desires associated with this place. They were taken with a large-format 8x10 camera over the course of two years on both the American and Canadian sides of the Falls.

The photographic volume 'Approximate Joy' by Christopher ANDERSON offered here is from the 1st edition and is signed by the Magnum photographer. Collector's edition (1 of 30) with a signed C-print on metallic paper. Book with print and yellow slipcase.

The out-of-print photo volume 'Pontiac' by Swedish Gerry JOHANSSON' shows a desolate American industrial landscape as a result of the financial crisis and as the third and final part of the series that began with 'Kvidinge' and continued with 'Ulan Bator'

The book 'Showcaller' explores the work of Talia CHETRIT which is filled with a desire to control the physical and historical limits of the camera, to pursue its potential for manipulation, and to question the relationship between photographer and subject

For his out-of-print book 'Behind the Block', Tobias ZIELONY visited the peripheries of modern cities such as Halle, Marseille & Bristol to explore the youth culture there in 'subcultural melting pots' and special zones of urban civilization at eye level.