Product / object photography

This photo book, 'The Advertising Photographs', presents for the first time the impressive advertising portfolio of the Czech photographer Josef SUDEK. The volume includes also an introduction by art historian Vojtech Lahoda as well as a full bibliography

Out-of-print, but newly released photo volume 'Contraband' by Taryn SIMON documents in photographs over 1000 items that were seized around the clock from passengers entering the U.S. from abroad and detained, as well as express shipments that were seized.

For his biographical book 'Phlippe Halsman. A Photographer's Life', Henry Leutwyler explores the meaning inherent in inanimate objects. To do this, he photographed objects from Halsman's possessions - cameras, eyeglasses, as well as a series of letters.

This out-of-print book, 'Mati & the Music', presents works by Mati KLARWEIN, which he produced for record covers by Miles Davis, Carlos Santana, Earth Wind & Fire, Buddy Miles as well as Jimi Hendrix. He has also worked for record labels such as Blue Note

In the volume 'Die Bücher' by Annette KELM, her precise photographic view of those books that were burned by Nazi students in the middle of Berlin on May 10, 1933, is representative of the persecuted authors and the possibilities of representing history.

The book 'Dinge' by Johannes GRAMM forms the conclusion of a long-term project. Even more than the materials & shapes of the real objects in the book and their photos, the objects themselves evoke universal, familiar memories, very directly while reading.

The catalog 'Fortschritt als Versprechen' (Progress as promise. Industrial photography in divided Germany) places commissioned works in the context of their contemporary use for the first time. The focus is on the concepts linked in East and West Germany.

'Black is a matter of Taste' is a visual thesis in the form of many reproduced polaroids of household objects, foodstuff or people, accompanied by a series of texts about Theo van DUSSELDORP: an interview, an essay, as well as selections from his lectures

In 'Book Manifest' Irma BOOM presents her vision of the nature, meaning nad relevance of the book. Based on more than 350 of her books, she shares her knowledge gained from intensive research and discusses context and relationship to the traditional book.