Best of 2020

The poetic universe of Spanish photographer duo ALBARRÀN CABRERA is presented in this volume of the 'Des Oiseaux' photo book series in the form of a dreamlike journey to the land of birds. Each photo is like a story that seems to be stopped for a moment.

This out-of-print photo volume, 'Pale Blue' by the photographer duo ALBARRÁN CABRERA, is a symbolic journey to the origins of planet earth. Its design reflects different layers of the earth and times to remind us that everything is related to everything.

The photo book 'In the Beginning' covers the first seven years in the work of the American photographer Diane ARBUS. The monograph contains over 100 early photographs from 1956 to 1962, which clearly show the development of her typical, suggestive images.

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'.

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.

'Budapest Diary' is the ninth vol. in the 'City Diary Series' by Peter BIALOBRZESKI. In this series, the photographer has already reported on city experiences in Cairo, Athens, Wolfsburg, Taipei, Kochi, Wuhan, Beirut and Zurich. Series will be continued.

'Give my regards to Elizabeth' is Peter BIALOBRZESKI's first photo book - clearly influenced by British color photography of the 1980s. Now, 27 years after the hand-made copies, the Trade Edition followed as facsimile in the original layout.

In the 'Osaka Diary' photo book, Peter BIALOBRZESKI focuses on the traditional economic center of Japan and one of the largest metropolitan regions in the world. The pictures in the 10th volume of his 'City Diary' series show a city in constant change.

The photographic catalog volume 'Aenne Biermann. Fotografin' presents the work of the self-taught photographer as an example of photographic modernism beyond the centers of the avant-garde and also addresses the self-image of bourgeois women in the 1920s.

First overall presentation of the photographic work of the photographer, who was born in Dresden. To rediscover is a careful and accurate chronicler, a busy player in the GDR photo scene and a skeptical, distant observer of the post-reunification period.