21st Century

The photo volume 'Edit Beijing' by Guy TILIM is the result of his artist residency in China. Other renowned photographers whose works have been published in this series of photo books with original prints are Pieter HUGO, Michael KENNA and Hannah MODIGH.

'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.

In out-of-print photo volume 'Matriarchs', Austrian photographer Maria HAAS focuses on the investigation of cultures in which women have a special status. She opens these cultures to the viewer and captures their beauty and vitality in sensitive portraits

In his photo book 'Ctrl-X', Kai LÖFFELBEIN explores the use of limited resources and documents the path of e-waste from Europe and the USA to the post-apocalyptic Agbogbloshie (Ghana), the e-waste city Guiyu (China) and the backyard workshops of New Delhi

HC with dust jacket & obi, 26,5 x 26,5 x 3 cm., 324 pp., b/w ills., bilingual texts: Japanese / English

'Too Much But Not Enough' is an avant-garde fashion project by Yang LI & Antoine D'AGATA, consisting of 23 LP album covers & booklets, Intimate texts touch on themes of self-knowledge & beauty, love & disillusion, personal freedom & social constraint.

This photo book set by Nick BRANDT includes the volumes 'The Day May Break' (2021) and 'The Day May Break. Chapter Two' (2023).

The photographic volume 'Inhabitants' by prominent U.S. photographer Raymond MEEKS is the result of an artist residency, which will be exhibited in New York and Paris. The series is combined by a detailed poem by George Weld.

The photo book 'Alternative Moons' is the first joint artist volume by Robert PUFLEB & Nadine SCHLIEPER about how a sudden journey began into a world of truth and narrative, of illusion and imagination, you are the cosmonaut exploring the inside.

'Anchor in the Landscape' by Adam BROOMBERG & Rafael GONZALEZ portraits olive trees in the territories of Palestine occupied by Israeli settlers. Each bears witness to the presence & resilience of the Palestinian people and their relationship to the land.

In out-of-print street-photography book 'Istanbul', Andreas HERZAU captures facets of the city on the border between Europe and Asia: Workers on the ferry from one continent to the other as well as Muslims at prayer and people in front of fashion posters.

'Ikonar. Archival Constellations' contains a large number of materials by Josef KOUDELKA from the years 1960 to 2012 as well as important series from his photographic work together with seven thematic constellations derived from the logic of his archive.

This issue, #10 of the magazine 'Toiletpaper', 'December 1944', by Maurizio CATTELAN and Pierpaolo FERRARI, is a special edition with signatures printed in gold ink on the cover. It was published in a limited edition of only 500 copies numbered by hand.

Photo book 'Cotton Rose', is the result of a long-term project in a Japanese prefecture, where Jitka HANZLOVÁ visited people and ceremonies over two years. For her, the cotton rose is a symbol of the Japanese soul: fragile and persistent at the same time.

The out-of-print volume 'The Hasselblad Award 2006' presents works by South African photographer David GOLDBLATT from 2004 to 2006 that address the country's situation in the post-apartheid era, including a number of his new triptychs on folding panels.

With his book with analogue color photographs, 'Enter the Forest', Alexandre Miguel MAIA continues a tradition that sees the forest as a recurring theme in photography. The book was printed on certified recycled paper and produced entirely in Germany.

In her out-of-print volume 'LAND', Dutch photographer Laura van SEVEREN expands the concept of landscape photography to include abstraction; In addition, their work includes an industrial-economic-critical aspect. This makes the work a relevant photo book

In 2019, Daido MORIYAMA spontaneously decided to publish photographs from Yokohama, the 2nd largest city in Japan, where he had had 'a good time' during the summer. The b/w material was enough for two volumes, 'Akai Kutsu' volume 1 & 2 in the same format.

HC, 15 x 20 cm., 128 pp., 100 ills., bilingual text: German / ENglish

Out-of-print 'Dauerparker' by Christoph ENGEL encourages reflection on the aesthetics of transience as well as the transience of the aesthetics of the car. The photographs unite the opposites of light & shadow, permanence & transience, technology & nature

The photographs in the book 'Hey! Hattori' by Yasushi MORI illustrate the love spun together by the Japanese photographer and his pet cat Hattori-kun, who fled Futaba, a town in Fukushima when the Great East Japan Earthquake devastated the region in 2011.

Out-of-print 'Projects Done' shows works by Candida HÖFER in unusual formats: Small-format of 'Zoological Gardens', 'The Citizens of Calais', 'On Kawara', or large images such as 'Türken in D.' and slides of '80 Pictures', shown with black on the pages.

In her photo volume titled 'Veiled. Too busy being awesome', Saskia AUKEMA deals with the niqab: the face veil. Here she shows a world that remains forever hidden from most. Interview fragments add depth to the photos, for which she was awarded in 2016.

In the photo book 'China Dream', which bears the name of a patriotic calendar, we take part in the study by exiled Chinese photographer Teresa ENG about the contrast between cultural knowledge about China and the reality of a country in constant change.

Record #40 consists of photographs that Daido MORIYAMA took in French capital, Paris, in 2018. Near Saint-Michel, Rue Mouffetard and around 'Moulin Rouge', his thoughts drifted back thirty years to the time when he lived for a short period in Paris.

In China DE MAAR made photographs of the ephemeral world of the home, of being rooted. The trained sociologist seeks out those striking and magical places where families have come together for generations-where life has 'worn itself into' a house.

'Le Luxe' by Roe ETHRIDGE includes work from the 2000s without lapsing into the moribund weight of a retrospective. It continues his exploration of image making with diverse image inventories: from private images to magazine photos to archived screenshots

'Post script' by Laura EL-TANTAWY, designed by Sybren KUIPER in accordeon format, contains previously unpublished images & written reflections in which she takes the reader behind the images and into the thoughts and emotions that led to their creation.

Photo volume 'Land' is a result of Lorenzo CASTORE's artist's stay in Gliwice, which witnessed events that erupted with the Second World War II. 'Land' is a summary of his wanderings, a photographic travel diary that focuses on the history of the people.

In 'Sea Stories', the photos by Robert ADAMS describe the cycles of nature with a new naturalism. It contents a sequence of three visual narratives: among alder and maple trees, along the beachand back through meadows and what remains of the inland forest

'Labour book. 2014-2015' by Ukrainian photographer Kirill GOLVCHENKO is to be understood as a criticism of the economic situation in his home country. Against the background of the original document of his father, he shows the true situation of pensioners

This anthology contains 160 pictures by ninety female photographers to answer the question of whether there is a 'female gaze' in photography. The focus is on the four major subject areas of social reality, family, female body and virtual reality.

Based on a classic landscape tradition, carefully composed 5x4 photographs are given a special effect by increasing the color & composition. Especially in moments when the expected narrative is roughly often gross due to pollution or destruction of nature

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17 x 23 cm., 112 pp., 101 color ills., text language: English

The photographers collektive SPUTNIK consists of: Agnieszka RAYSS, Rafal MILACH, Jan BRYKCZYNSKI, Adam PANCZUK, & Michal LUCZAK. All this photographers are included with their own photo book titles a paperback format in this box.

'Centralia' exposes hidden crimes of war as an indigenous people fight for their survival. It explores the unsteady relationship between reality & fiction and how our perceptions of reality & truth are manipulated. Shortlisted for First Book Award in 2017

Photo volume 'Private Views. A Highrise Panorama of Manhattan' by Andi SCHMIED provides views from the tallest buildings in Manhattan, for example over Central Park, or from the bathroom in Calacatta Tucci marble with a view of the Empire State Building.

In 'Tierra' Espe PONS invites us to delve deeper into memory, through places that have been marked by the trauma of the Spanish Civil War. The images urge us to examine the surroundings we pass by every day, to see them ias a repository of silent pain.

From post-empire to the new Middle Kingdom. For his series 'The Pearl River', photographer Christian LUTZ went to the Chinese special economic zone Macao. His photographic gaze laconically and insistently scans the smooth surfaces of this brave new world.

'Nachtfahrt. A Taxi Blues' by Josef ŠNOBL shows the happiness & misery of the cab business in poignant pictures, unbelievable events and observations. A unique insight into the phenomenon of the big city between drunks, celebrities and business travelers.

'Allerseelen' by Alexander BINDER brings together a phantasmagoria of mystical images. He has seamlessly managed to blend crystal rainbows with even the most arcane and dark twilights and thus once again constructing a world of haunting beauty & mysticism

The b/w images by Sibylle BERGEMANN collected in her out-of-print photo book 'Fenster' do not follow any overarching plan, but are an expression of subjective perception. Each with its details captured window says something about the people they belong to

This new edition of 'Once, Still and Forever' (original released in 2013) is limited to 1,000 signed copies. BACKHAUS proves her infallible instinct for picture compositions that open up a cosmos of unforeseen meanings in the midst of loving familiarity.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 37 x 2 cm., 54 pp., duotone b/w ills., text language: English

The out-of-print volume 'Retrospective' on Douglas BUSCH includes works ranging from street photography, architecture and landscape photography to color photographs that leave the field of photography. With texts in German, translated to English.

The out of print photo book 'Outposts. Kandahar Province' by Irish magnum photographer Donovan WYLIE shows color photographs of the Forward Operating Bases that were set up in the Afghan province of Kandahar to support the ISAF mission.

'Gaudi, Impresiones Intimas' by Aitor ORTIZ represents an artistic interpretation using the means of photography, poetry, book design & printing. The result: a Bible-like publication that is impressive in its minimalism, precisely designed and implemented

German photographer and father Oliver RASCHKE is grateful to have had the opportunity to experience and document his family life. His volume 'The World Ain't Enough' represents the first 10 years of his sons' lives. Time is racing. The conquest continues.

In 'Unresolved' Meinrad SCHADE examines how conflicts also show themselves in everyday life. The series, made in Israel & Palestine, is the continuation of his long-term project 'Krieg ohne Krieg' documenting landscapes and people in the grip of conflicts

The volume 'Liechtenstein' documents a group of 20 photographs by former BECHER-scholar Candida HÖFER taken in fall/winter 2021. The works reflect her exploration of places of cultural life and, in this case, the architecture of the Kunstmuseum in Vaduz.

'Cologne and its photo books. Cologne in the photo book from 1853 to 2010 'by Werner Schäfke shows the city as a large puzzle. Whether published in-house, on behalf of the city or industry, they document the diversity of this old & young Rhine metropolis.

Inspired by military manuals, American ex-soldier Ben Brody's diary-like photo book 'Attention Servicemember' is a passionate exploration of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Catalan photographer Txema SALVANS' keen view of contemporary Spanish society. In the photo book 'My Kingdom' he combines black and white photos with quotes from the political rhetoric of the former King of Spain. This methodology makes emotions visible.

'Krystyna's World', includes 37 color photographs by Todd HIDO, both published and previously unpublished material, from intimate photos to succinct large format images. The Khrystyna model can always be seen in the various scenes, hence the book title.

Out-of-print volume 'As Dark As Light' contains a set of 16 nocturnal photographs made by Axel HÜTTE in various cities around the world. Aside from the underlying theme of night photography, the works are united by the strict geometry of the compositions.

For his volume 'Wall and Peace', Kai WIEDENHÖFER has documented walls and barrier fences all over the world: in Berlin, Belfast, Mexico, Ceuta & Melilla, in Baghdad and the wall on the border line with the West Bank, with the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Egypt.

The photographic volume 'Yajiri' by the Japanese photographer Akihide TAMURA, limited to 300 signed and numbered copies, contains fifteen color photographs of flying military aircraft at a U.S. air base near Tokyo.

'Jenny, Jenny' is not documentary: ZIELONY avoids the journalistic impetus for certainty & truth. To him, the authenticity of the subject is as relevant as the question of the objectivity of the documentary image: both are never free of dramatic elements.

For her out-of-print book 'Sailboats and Swans', Michal CHELBIN portrayed prison inmates in Ukraine & Russia. The portraits oscillate between strangeness and reality. The title refers to the wallpaper that often adorns walls and hallways of these prisons.

For her self-published, out-of-print photo volume 'Plánētes', German photographer Birgit KRAUSE trusts her unusual gaze completely and finds a new foreign country in reality. It is as if you are looking at images from an astronomical voyage of discovery.

The out-of-print book 'PKIN' (Pałac Kultury i Nauki) by Jacek FOTA deals about a huge communist building in Warszaw. It contains 70 color photographs and 10 pages of personal notes based on staff interviews. The book design is made by Ania NALECKA-MILACH.

The volume 'Byker revisited' is the result of a long-term project lasting over 40 years: the Finnish photographer Sirkka KONTTINEN returned again and again to the poor residential area of Newcastle, where she herself lived in the late 1970s/early 1980s.

The volume 'Vele' by Tobias ZIELONY is based on his animation film about the building complex 'Le Vele di Scampia', a symbol of the Camorra’s power in the Naples region and a key centre of European drug trafficking with an selection of 287 single images.

by Fred Ritchie and Carole Naggar (eds), HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 29 x 3 cm., 272 pp., 1,600 ills., text language: English

This catalog contains two significant photo projects from American photographer Mitch EPSTEIN: 'Recreation' documents the openness of a pluralistic society. 'American Power' draws attention to one of America's central power factors, the energy industry.

The out-of-print double volume 'Talents 06' contains the photo series 'The Cast' by Tobias ZIELONY as well as the text contribution 'I love America. On the adaptation of reality in the photographs of Tobias Zielony' by Jutta von Zitzewitz.

In the book 'Tokyo Debugger', Shinya ARIMOTO intersperses photos of abandoned architectures as traces of past human activities, expanding the scope of his insect series - another world within Tokyo, dominated by the most successful creatives on the planet

'Henry Rox Revue' edited by Wolfgang Vollmer could also be a children's book. Artistic feats as well as bizarre everyday occurrences are depicted here with the help of fruits and vegetables, which the photographer has arranged in imaginative arrangements.

In out-of-print volume 'This is War' Moises SAMAN shows what war really means: pain, destruction, darkness. The images are far from that reality that today's media present in the form of hypertechnical video games, as shiny and manipulated TV productions.

This long out-of-print monograph by Andreas GURSKY includes the artist's best-known works as well as new works unpublished until 2018. Essays provide new insights into key images - an indispensable survey of one of the world's most influential artists.

In 2015, World Press Award winner Peter BIALOBRZESKI returned to his hometown Wolfsburg to document the changes that the city has undergone since he left many years ago. 'Wolfsburg Diary' is part of the ongoing international 'Diary' photo book series.

Cloth bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 26 x 20,5 x 1,5 cm., 52 pp., 29 color ills., text language: English

The volume 'Gedruckt und erblättert' deals about the photobook as a medium of aestethic articulation and contains recent contributions from art scholars on the subject, discussing the photobook as a cultural-historical, social as well as political medium.

In out-of-print book 'Nichtraum' Nicole AHLAND depicts the interplay of light, space & tim showing deserted spaces, shifted into darkness or overexposed by light. Using analog photography, she creates effects of transparency, superimposition & soft focus.

In 'Hong Kong Flora', Michael WOLF turns his attention to plants and flowers in the urban jungle of the Asian metropolis. Each leaf, each branch, each flower a visible sign of the power of nature and people´s single-mindedness, to customize their habitat.

The winner of the First Book Award 2014 includes staged family photos. 'FROWST' refers to Bert Hellinger’s therapeutic method 'Family Constellations'; the title' takes up the paradoxical nature of the family: Frowsty rooms are both cozy and claustrophobic

This 2nd volume, 'Conversations 2', by Rémi Coignet contains a set of 15 talks he did with players in contemporary photography to investigate the role of the volumes in the work of photographers, designers & publishers - and how their books are designed.

In 'Conversations', Rémi Coignet explores in interviews the question of what role the photo book plays in the work of photographers, designers & publishers and how their titles are conceived. Two more volumes with interviews have been published until now.

Photo book 'The Silence of Dogs in Cars' by Martin USBORNE contains billboards of dogs silently peering through car windows. The staged photos evoke a mood of loneliness & longing. Yet they are less about dog portraits and more about separation in general

Photo artist Jaakko KAHILANIEMI owns 100 ha of forest. With his conceptual project '100 Hectares of Understanding' he tries to better understand his forest area and to show new ways of thinking and methods of how one can experience and feel the forest.

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 29 x 26,5 cm., 255 S., S/W- und Farbaufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Photo book 'On Tthe Sixth Day' interprets the people and animals in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires. In contrast to globalized factory farming, the continuous cycle of life & death is present every day from morning to evening on small plots of land

In his photo volume 'Songbook', the US-American Magnum photographer Alec SOTH shows images detached from their news context and in them reveals the longing for connection to one's own roots. The photo book title was printed in three editions.

In 'Beautiful, Still,' US-american photographer Colby DEAL documents overlooked communities and cultural traits that are gradually being erased by gentrification, as well as communities of color whose members are often portrayed with negative connotations

HC mit Schutzumschlag, 30 x 38 x 4,5 cm., 320 S., color ills., in deutscher Sprache. GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Self-published photo book 'Please Notify the Sun by Stephen GILL is about the world inside a fish. We see places and spaces, caves and grottos, beaches and mountains, rock formations and oil slicks. It offers a huge panorama of the most diverse sceneries.

German photographer In the photo book '4100 Duisburg' you can see how the photographer Laurenz BERGEual language of silence and light that captures the visible present of places over which history seems to have passed as well as the echoes of former life.

Haunting, distorted and otherworldly images in the out-of-print volume 'Site/Cloud' epitomizes the approach of Daisuke YOKOTA to pushing the development process & possibilities of analog image making, introducing imperfections and visual noise into them.

HC (flexicover), 24 x 33 cm., 548 pp., 283 color & 186 b/w ills., text language: English

2nd print run, Swiss broschure (no dust jacket, as issued). 21,5 x 27 x 1 cm., 48 pp., 24 color ills., no text, Ltd. to 400 copies (+ 50 copies for the first ed. of 2017)

Adolescence is the subject of the photographic volume 'Bärenmädchen' (Bear Girls) by German photographer Ute BEHREND. She tells the story of a fictional 'Indian tribe' that separates its adolescent girls and draws parallels to our society.

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Japan' by prominent British photographer Michael KENNA is the result of intensive travels to Japan. Printed in Triton, the volume has a red cloth cover and is also surrounded by a Japanese folding slipcase.

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 29 x 1 cm., 42 pp., 22 color ills., 300 gr., no text

Magnum photographer Sebastião SALGADO traveled the Brazilian Amazon for six years and photographed the incomparable beauty of this unique region: the rainforest, the rivers, the mountains as well as the people living there - irreplaceable for mankind.

'Things here and things still to come' by José Pedro CORTES is interspersed with landscape and detailed views of the city of Tel Aviv - old cars, overgrown palm trees, colonnades, puddles of water. The book is included in 'Photobook: A History, VOL.III'.