Düsseldorf School

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.

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.

Out-of-print volume 'Berlin 1978-1987' by Boris BECKER shows early works of the photographer of the Düsseldorf Photo School, taken on 35mm and medium format. In the course of history and the change of our perception, these have gained in importance.

This long out-of-print monograph by Andreas GURSKY includes the artist's best-known works as well as new works unpublished until 2018.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.

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.

For years, former BECHER student Candida HÖFER traveled around the world to photograph public and semi-public libraries. The photographic volume 'Libraries. The Return' brings together an essence of past work and juxtaposes it with current images:

The volume 'Höfe' by Bernhard FUCHS shows farms in the area around Helfenberg (Austria) that have been passed down from generation to generation. They are scattered in the hilly landscape of the Mühlviertel, where the climate is harsh and the soil barren.

This catalog volume contains a summary of Thomas RUFF's exhibitions to date - from his earliest beginnings to his most recent works - and thus provides a complete overview of the entire oeuvre of one of the famous artists of the Düsseldorf Photo School.

Actual print run, HC, 25 x 29 x 3,5 cm., 336 pp., text language: English

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 24 x 30 x 2 cm., 116 S., 60 Farbaufn., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT FOR THIS ED. ONLY! - English ed. also to pre-order as long as availbale!

Photo-text volume 'The Düsseldorf School of Photography' traces its ascendancy from the mid-1970s. Filled with superb reproductions of the artists' best-known pictures, this compendium offers the first encyclopaedic overview of this important movement.

The focus of the catalog illuminating the early phase of the BECHER school is on the mutual influences between the image concepts emerging in Düsseldorf and the innovations of the 'New-Color Photography' and the 'New Topographics' movement in the U.S..

The compendium includes many international photographers of diff. groups & schools of 20th century (New Vision, Straight Photography, New Topographics, New Color, Becher School), collected by Gallery Kicken in Berlin to celebrate their 30's birthday.

The catalog accompanies the exhibition SUBJECT AND OBJECT. PHOTO RHINE RUHR and contains many illustrations, current texts and photo-historically significant articles. It examines relationships between different photographic positions that have developed.

In the volume 'Raum und Bild' (Space and Image), a dialog between applied & artistic photography unfolds from the comparison of images by Candida HÖFER with interiors from the over 150-year-old photography collection at the Museum für Fotografie in Berlin

Long time out-of-print catalog volume 'Aus der Distanz' features works by Bernd and Hilla BECHER as well as by Becher students Andreas GURSKY, Candida HÖFER, Axel HÜTTE, Thomas RUFF, Thomas STRUTH as well as Petra WUNDERLICH. And it contains two texts.

'Bauten' by Boris BECKER was published on the occasion of an exhibition at Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf. It consists of a cassette with 8 color prints and a leaflet with text by Katja Blomberg and an index with details. No. 80/100, autographed on the map.

The German-language text volume 'About my artists' contains speeches, lectures, texts about German and international photographers, artists, friends, books and works on the 75th birthday of the publisher's founder and director Lothar Schirmer.

'Venedig' (Venice) is a city portrait by prominent photographers: Martin PARR, PELLEGRIN, PINKHASSOV, POWER and VOIT - four MAGNUM members and one Thomas Ruff student. The photos of Venice, its waters & its people allow us to look into the heart of a myth

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 22,5 x 29,5 x 2 cm., 184 S., 108 Farb-Abb., 1.000 gr., deutsch-sprachiger text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

'Ludwig Wittgenstein. Photography as Analytical Practice' contains his album, photographs of automata, and other self-portraits. In addition, the book places his photographs in a dialogue with the photographic practice and theory of contemporary artists.

The out-of-print volume accompanying the 2013 exhibition at Museum Kunstpalast offers an overview of 70 works by Candida HÖFER, created exclusively in Düsseldorf over the course of 40 years. It represents the beginning but also shows the work around 2013.

The out-of-print catalog 'Land_Scope' presents a variety of ways in which photo artists such as BIALOBRZESKI, DEVLIN, EGGLESTON, GHIRRI, GÜTSCHOW, HÜTTE, JOHNE, KEETMAN, MOSSE, RIEBESEHL, RUFF, SHORE, SUGIMOTO approach the landscape.

The volume 'Die Konstitution der Dinge' by Eva Witzel is the first comprehensive examination of the phenomenon of abstraction in works by Andreas GURSKY. 'Abstract' stands for a thematic interpretation: a condensation of motifs referring to the universal.

The photo volume 'Fathom' ('Lot' in the German version) by Bernhard FUCHS contains full-paged portraits. Once again we feel the prevailing atmosphere of closeness and distance, which is unique to him, was already visible and tangible in his other series.

Paperback with photo works by Andreas GURSKY, Candida HÖFER, Axel HÜTTE, Thomas RUFF und Thomas STRUTH

The out-of-print photo volume 'Streets and Trails' by Bernhard FUCHS contains seventeen full-page color illustrations. The photographs by formerly Bernd-BECHER-student show quiet, deserted streets and trails in rural surroundings. Limited to 500 copies.

This 'Special Edition Catalogue' is the first collection world-wide to feature each of the 18 series in Thomas RUFF's extensive portfolio. One of the special points about this collection is the use of different paper grades for the five included books.

All of the editions from the last four decades by photographer Candida HÖFER in one volume, 'Editions 1987-2020' form a representative cross-section of her entire visual oeuvre. The introductory essay was written by art historian Anne Ganteführer-Trier.

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.

Out-of-print catalog for the major 'Bernd & Hilla Becher' retrospective at Metropolitan Musem with 3 essays and 108 plates to their life & work in a broad sweep. For the 1st time including their early works as well as an interview with the son Max Becher.

In his debut photo book, 'Fotografien 1991 1995', Laurenz BERGES shows the condition of barracks rooms like former Soviet troops, as they presented themselves after the fall of the Wall: clean-swept rooms that he photographed in daylight and in color.

In recent years, technology and constructed landscape have become overarching topics for Thomas STRUTH. The catalog volume 'Nature & Politics' contains all of the works in the exhibition and is the most comprehensive photo volume of his most recent works.

HC with dust jacket, 32 x 28 x 3 cm., 180 pp., 131 color- & duotone b/w ills., bilingual texts: German /English

English Edition. In photo volume 'Bangkok' photographer Andreas GURSKY alludes to the ecological problems threatening Bangkok, which culminated in the widespread flooding that devastated large parts of Thailand shortly after these pictures were taken.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 30 x 2,5 cm., 128 pp., color ills., 1.200 gr., bilingual: German / English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 19 x 24,5 x 1,5 cm., 108 pp., 49 (48 in color) fullpaged ills., bilingual text: German / English (English text as inlet)

This comprehensive monograph on the work of Thomas RUFF focuses on series of the last 20 years, for which he used found photographs of most diverse origins. In his examination of these visual worlds, he explores the technical conditions of photography.

Out-of-print double photo volume on the work of German photographer Axel HÜTTE accompanied his exhibitions 'Night and Day', with works created between 1995 and 2017, and 'Frühwerk', which focused on his early work with photos taken between 1978 and 1995.

HC, 30 x 29 cm., 264 pp., 228 ills., english (+ german text as inlet)

Out-of-print book 'Autos' by Bernhard FUCHS gives the photographs the apparent character of general pictorial plates, but on closer inspection they reveal themselves to be sensitive recordings of everyday situations and individual portraits of vehicles.

This photo volume, 'Bunt: Farbige 1970er Jahre' (Colored. Colorful 1970s) by early BECHER student Volker DÖHNE, shows photographs of colorful cars in groups as well as stand-alone gazebos. The book is rounded off by a German-language introductory text.

With photo works by Andreas GURSKY, Ed RUSCHA and Thomas DEMAND - Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 30,5 x 24,5 x 2 cm., 119 S., 46 S/W & 39 Farb-Abb., 1.100 gr., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

G/French. Following the concept of typology and comparative vision, the 61 b/w photos of this German-French re-issue capture the entire spectrum of BECHER’s encyclopedia of industrial buildings in a representative manner and in characteristic 'portraits'.

One of the last master students of Bernd and Hilla BECHER, published his first conceptual work, the portrait of the small lower saxonian city in which he once grew up, on newspaper paper - nine years before publication in photo book format.

The selection of images made for this out-of-print catalog volume of the Andreas GURSKY exhibition in Baden-Baden focuses on the immanent moment for the construction and reconstruction of reality.

The series from 1989 is the artist's first conceptual work in which he grapples with his hometown. In keeping with the tradition of the BECHER school, his photographs show a sober documentary and sometimes humorous view of the small town in Lower Saxony.

The photographic volume 'Berlin. Wilhelmstrasse 44' by Candida HÖFER deals with an icon of 'architecture brute', which was built in the middle of the 1970s in the former GDR and is now shared by the Embassy of the Czech Republic and a Max Planck Institute

'Industrielandschaften' by Bernd & Hilla BECHER is a novelty: For the first time, your view of the whole opens up, including the settlement and residential buildings of the workers. The systems are presented in context and thus receive a narrative element

The catalog for Thomas STRUTH retrospective provides information about his artistic development: from the first series 'Unconscious Places' to 'Nature and Politics', which deals with research and globalization, as well as early works and archive material.

HC, 33 x 42 x 1,5 cm., 80 pp., 36 color ills., bilingual text: German / English

Following the concept of typology and comparative vision, the 61 b/w photos of this German-French re-issue capture the entire spectrum of BECHER’s encyclopedia of industrial buildings in a representative manner and in characteristic 'portraits'.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 23,5 x 1 cm., 56 pp., 28 color & duotone ills., 350 gr., bilingual: German / English

'Silent Spaces' is accompanied a film by Rui Xavier which shows Candida HÖFER taking photographs, working and preparing exhibitions in locations. A dense, empathetic portrait of the artist which, relying on its own visual language, manages without words.

'Imperial. Majestic. Magical' accompanied an Austrian Axel HÜTTE exhibition. It contains older cycles and newer works. Front portraits meet shimmering figures with a landscape character, Venetian cityscapes meet current photographs of the lagoon city.

This First edition of photo volume 'Fabrikhallen' by Bernd & Hilla BECHER contains b/w photographs from the 1960s to 1990s. All factory halls were recorded in Germany, each recording is provided with the location and the date of the recording time.

The photographic volume 'Waldungen' by Austrian photographer Bernhard FUCHS contains fifty landscape photographs taken in the 2010s in his home country, which he had left in the 1990s to study with Bernd BECHER at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie.

With this monograph, 'Werke/Works. 80-08', an attempt has been made for the first time to fan out the oeuvre of Andreas GURSKY, who for many years has been one of the most important photographic artists in the world, in its entire encyclopedic breadth.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 27,5 x 3 cm, 352 pp., 850 duotone b/w ills. & 45 color ills., multi-lingual text: German / French / English

'Fotografien werden Bilder' contains works by 9 Becher class graduates Volker DÖHNE, Andreas GURSKY, Candida HÖFER, Alex HÜTTE, Tata RONKHOLZ, Thomas RUFF, Jörg SASSE, Thomas STRUTH and Petra WUNDERLICH, who have reformulated the perception of photography

Photo works by Bernd & Hilla BECHER, Joachim BROHM, Jitka HANZLOVÁ and Rudolf HOLTAPPEL 4 slipcased pb, approx. 28 x 28 x 3 cm., 240 pp., Black & white and color photographs, GERMAN text only

'Texte zum Werk' (writings on Thomas Struth), brings together selected essays on the work of Thomas STRUTH. Twenty contributions invite to think and philosophize about the work of the prominent German photographer of the Düsseldorf School of Photography.

The out-of-print photo book 'Fakes' by Boris BECKER shows objects with a secret: they contained smuggled goods or are products from brand piracy. Their curious stories often only flash up in the factual picture titles like: Bowling Ball Cocaine Costa Rica

2nd print run, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 31,5 x 29,5 x 2 cm., 60 pp., 16 color ills., text language: English

The German-language photographic volume 'Bibliotheken' (Libraries) by Candida HÖFER contains photographs of famous library rooms in Europe and the USA. The color photographs are accompanied by an essay by the Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco.

In this photo book, 'Weimar', Candida HÖFER presents photographs of famous interior rooms in the city of Weimar, one of the big cultural sites of Germany, where Goethe and Schiller lived in the late 18th century and the Bauhaus was founded in 1919.

This catalog volume, 'Photographs 1984-2009' is the first monograph on Boris BECKER, who studied with Bernd & Hilla BECHER. All important series of works are shown. In it he concentrates in a special way on formal structures as well as color accents.