Photobooks for PARIS 2022

In the category 'Photo Books for Paris 2022' you will find a current compilation of the books that I will take with me to Paris, to the POLYCOPIES Photo Book Event 2022, which takes place parallel to the Paris Photo. These are new releases, some of which will be on display for the first time, as well as international classics and rarities - display copies, original packaged titles and signed photo books.

Location description

This annual get-together of international publishers, photographers as well as photo book professionals takes place on a boat, the Bataeu Concorde, anchored opposite the Louvre, on the Musée D'Orsay side.
This place is characterized by an informal atmosphere in the midst of many new publications, some of which mur appear in small editions and are often already quickly sold out. Also, the publishers and photographers often come from far away, so that only here is the compact opportunity for exchange and information.
In addition to the booths, culinary delights and a beautiful view are offered on the boat's terrace. In the belly of the boat there is a well-equipped bar with cold as well as hot drinks at (relatively) low prices untypical for Paris.

Café Lehmitz Photobooks

Café Lehmitz Photobooks is located on the terrace, where you can browse or have your book signed and/or dedicated on the occasion of a book signing. An unforgettable moment, which you will see every time you open the book you have bought, is guaranteed!

Signing hours

This year's book signing sessions with Regina ANZENBERGER, Herman VAN DEN BOOM, Andrea DIEFENBACH, Nina KORHONEN, Olaf UNVERZART as well as photographers to be added will take place from Thursday to Saturday, as follows:

Photo books by the artists

Out-of-print English reissue of 'The Decisive Moment' by Henri CARTIER-BRESSON as meticulous facsimile of the original. It comes with an additional booklet containing an essay on the history of the famous volume by Centre Pompidou curator Clément Chéroux.
698,00 € * Weight 2.6 kg
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
298,00 € Weight 0.7 kg
SIGNED COPY! The out-of-print photo book 'Lebensmittel' (Food) by Michael SCHMIDT documents the industrialization in food production. The volume consisting of B/W & color photographs was the last publication on which he still worked until its completion.
298,00 € * Weight 2.7 kg
For her book 'Hafiz', Sabiha ÇIMEN documented the life at Koranic schools for girls in Turkey for three years. A return to schools as she once visited them with her twin sister. The title refers to someone who has memorized all 604 pages of the Holy Quran
198,00 € Weight 0.8 kg
'The World's First Photobook Was Blue', by ALBÁRRAN CABRERA shows their work as well as explains their artistic process. The title is a reference to Anna ATKINS, the spiral binding to BRASSAI and the book itself is a tribute to photography's complexity.
198,00 € Weight 0.7 kg
New publication of the 1982 black and white photos by Roger MELIS, first published in 1986 as a photo book. 'Paris zu Fuss' (Paris on Foot) was the first book by an East German photographer who told life in a strange city through photography alone.
198,00 € * Weight 1.1 kg
For his 'Tableaux chinois', Thomas RUFF has digitally processed Chinese propaganda images distributed worldwide by the Communist Party. In this large-format photo volume, the work transports the images of the 20th century into today's visual language.
128,00 € * Weight 2.2 kg
The photo volume 'Scapes' by American John DIVOLA contains some of his renowned series like 'Four Landscapes', 'As Far As I Could Get' and 'Dogs chaising my car in the desert'. The books on these have long been out of print. The essay is by David Campany.
120,00 € Weight 0.8 kg
Photobook 'Cafe Lehmitz' by Anders PETERSEN shows the former meeting place and final stop for people from the red light district of Hamburg's Reeperbahn as a living social entity with its own self-image and with dignity. Actual with a preface by Tom Waits
98,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
'Revoir' by JH ENGSTRÖM is based on photo material from the mid-90s and beginning 2000s, the time of creation of his 'Trying to Dance'. At that time he questioned the meaning of photography for himself - positively answered by the freedom he experienced.
from 95,00 € Weight 1.5 kg