Photobooks for Paris 2022

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.