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

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
'Mining Photography: The Ecological Footprint of Image Production' is dedicated to the material history of key raw materials in the context of photography, their dependence and establishs the connection to the history of mining, disposal & climate change.
36,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
The book gives photo series a contextualization and brings them into a sensually experienceable form. In 'Fotobuch denken' (Thinking the Photobook) Bettina LOCKEMANN opens an approach from a scientific point and elaborates precise terms for its analysis.
from 24,00 € Weight 0.2 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
In their volume 'Look at me like you love me' Jess T. DUGAN reflects on desire, intimacy, society and how our identities are shaped by these experiences. A highly personal collection of portraits, couples and still lifes, interwoven with diary-like notes.
54,00 € * Weight 0.9 kg
The photo volume 'Roots & Bonds' - part of a trilogy - by Regina ANZENBERGER contains forest images, created in the thicket. An atmospheric, quiet and artist volume - shown by the selection of images, the book design as well as the choice of paper used.
65,00 € Weight 0.6 kg
The photographs by D'Angelo WILLIAMS in his volume 'Contact High' visualize the black body in theatrical, dance, and occasionally everyday scenes. The intimate images focus on notions of kinship and spirituality interwoven with quiet political gestures.
from 42,00 € Weight 0.7 kg
SIGNED COPY! Limited volume 'Under the Apple Tree' by Regina ANZENBERGER shows portraits of family members taken with an analog Rolleiflex. The apple tree is both a real setting anchored in her biography and a place of longing to which there is no return.
from 58,00 € Weight 0.5 kg
The SIGNED book 'Residency' trace the wanderings of photographer Nina STRAND around Paris, as she attempts to find inspiration for her art. While exploring the city, she also explores the medium's history as well as art photography and where it is today.
28,00 € * Weight 0.2 kg
In his debut photo volume 'Haven', Dutch photographer Sem LANGENDIJK brings together the lifeworlds of various port cities in a documentary fiction, highlighting the transformation of disused port areas and the communities living there.
38,00 € * Weight 0.9 kg
The photo volume 'Gspell' by South Tyrolean photographer Roland REINSTADLER not only gives an insight into the once meager and extremely deprived life in the mountains, but also contains very successful color photographs from an aesthetic point of view.
from 39,90 € Weight 1 kg
The images of ALBARRÁN CABRERA in 'Remembering the Future' speak to us of memory and experience. At first glance, their very clarity is moving. After a time, rather than real scenes, they begin to seem the settings for dreams about to vanish into the mist
58,00 € * Weight 0.7 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
For his photo volume '101 Movies. A Survey of American Drive-in Theatres 1976', Herman VAN DEN BOOM documented the remains of Drive-In movie theatres in the US-states of Nevada, Texas, California, Oklahoma, Colorado and Arizona in black and white photos.
25,00 € * Weight 0.5 kg
The leporello volume 'One Day Every Day' by Zuzana PUSTAIOVÁ is an ironic commentary on social norms. It shows the deeper layers of institutional restrictions, which are thought up by politics and passed on to the public by the media and social networks.
0,00 € Weight 0.4 kg
The self-published volume 'Woodward' by Christian KASNERS deals with one of the five major avenues in Detroit. Through the sequence of images, the changing social and economic conditions of the largest U.S. city on the US-Canada border, are conveyed.
48,00 € * Weight 0.9 kg
The debut photographic volume 'Unreliable memories' by Nick MEEK, contains a selection from his acclaimed series created between 2002 and 2017. It deals with the collective psyche, which is tapped into by the imagination and leads to a fiction of reality.
48,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
In 'Photographic Syntax', ALBARRÁN CABRERA explains why they produce their own images using different photographic processes, why they use the medium of photography as a learning tool, and the thoughts behind images, many of them previously unpublished.
0,00 € Weight 0.5 kg
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
'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
'Archive of Longing' by Hannah MODIGH contains full-page portraits of homeless women in color. A personal statement by the photographer and a concluding text by Jenny Maria Nilson are also part of the volume. The design is made by book designer Patric LEO
68,00 € * Weight 0.7 kg
In 'Back to Back: From Backyard to Boulevard' Stig De BLOCK documents in an honest, intimate way the lowrider scene in L.A, California. The boulevard as a place where disputes can be settled and people from different rival neighborhoods can be together.
55,00 € *
Inspired by Valerie Solanas' tract SCUM, Justine KURLAND presents her own feminist initiative: the 'Society for Cutting Up Men's Books'. Her volume 'SCUMB Manifesto' contains collages created by cutting up and reconfiguring photo books by male artists.
from 78,00 € Weight 1.5 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
With the photo volume 'Walking Distance', Olaf UNVERZART shows his interpretation of a travel diary. Beyond sights, well-known places with supposedly country-typical folklore, it opens the view for the things and living beings in between - an in-between.
39,00 € Weight 0.5 kg
In his photo volume 'Praga Obscura' Czech photographer Josef ŠNOBL intimately recounts his youth in a city that was gray and depressing for him, accompanied by haunting black-and-white photographs from the 1970s and the period from 1990 onwards.
25,00 € * Weight 0.7 kg
'In India' by Mitch EPSTEIN is the result of eight trips the US photographer made between 1978 and 1989. Because of his own Indian family life, he was both an in- & outsider in his work. So, he was thus able to immerse himself in a variety of subcultures.
from 55,00 €
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
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
'Good Hope' by Carla LIESCHING, combines essays and found photographs with sources ranging from apartheid-era trade journals, tourist pamphlets, magazines to current newspapers and family albums. A critical examination of contemporary settler colonialism.
from 25,00 €
In his debut book 'We Were Born Before the Wind' Henri PRESTES deals with loneliness as well as melancholy. The pictures were created in the cold months in Portugal, when he often roamed in the dark through small villages, mountains and lonely fields.
78,00 €
Self-published photo volume 'Handmade' by the Finnish photographer Nina KORHONEN contains over eighty color photographs documenting everyday life in Kochi Prefecture. The text by Yukiko Duke is reproduced in the book in three languages.
44,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg