Best of 2020

The book 'Magic Eye' offers an overview of the work of René GROEBLI. We discover his fascination for movement and speed. And we encounter the rich hues of his unique, innovative color photography, through which even commissioned works become timeless art.

This selection of 94 photographs in 'Tra l'altro. 1976-81', taken with 35mm cameras, stand for the transition from GUIDI's visual thinking and the progressive shift to color photography, which he began in the early 1980s with the large format 8x10 camera.

97 unique images made from the same photographic negative. A photo book about the oldest living organism known to man and a book about the instability of the photographic image and the enigmatic intertwinement of time, reality and perception.

With its generous image flow, this book, 'A Diary', celebrates important Japanese photographer Daido MORIYAMA as the 2019 Hasselblad Award winner and his highly influential, lifelong radical and authentic approach to photography.

Richly illustrated compendium with many readable and interesting essays. The extensive field of amateur or commercial photography is examined: pictures that were created for bureaucracy, commerce & for personal commemoration - in contrast to artistic use.

In this photo book, '78', with previously unpublished material, which was created between 1971 and 1983, Issei SUDA's unique & deeply urban vision unfolds in a series of contrasts and allusions. The contrasting black tones of his work became his trademark

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.

'Ephemere' by Paul CUPIDO emphasizes the volatility of existence in the process of creation, metamorphosis and disappearance. It's about the fragility of life, the interconnectedness of human / non-human and the silence on which every expression is based.

In January 2020, Alec SOTH received a letter from a prison inmate asking the photographer for a dialogue. 'The Parameters of our Cage' contains the following correspondence in times of COVID-19 pandemic, 'Black Lives Matter' movement and civil unrest.

'The Book of Everything' celebrates Mary Ellen MARK's extraordinary life, work and vision in over 600 images and in various texts. From 1963 until her death in 2015, the Magnum photographer told brilliant, intimate, provocative stories.

This catalog - signed on request - will be published on the occasion of the photo exhibition that will take place in Cologne on the 25th anniversary of the world premiere. It contains the documentation of the project by the photographer Roland KAISER.

'At the Edge of Pictures' is the first monographic study of life and work of John STEZAKER. By using the eventful decades of the 1970s and 80s as a prism, Yuval Etgar offers a new reading of his mode of operation and a mapping of the strategies of collage

At the center of 'Doors' is the documentation of photographer Yusuke YAMATANI's European tour, a self-portrait project that combines photography with drum performance. In addition to the performances, snapshots, landscapes und encounters are recorded.

'Let’s get shitfaced, it’s free.' contains photographic recordings, Erik KESSELS' answer to the idea of ​​a sketchbook - brought into a form that examines image contexts, themes, colors and textures; not to give answers, but to provoke and to question.

'Polis' - 'the city', as the Greeks simply called Istanbul became 2015 an experience that went far beyond the purely geographical division. SCHWERTFEGER shows the scars of the city and her roughness - a portrait of the metropolis beyond the usual clichés.

'45' by Damian HEINISCH, is about train journeys on the Donesz-Oslo line that took place at three different times. It brings together a common family history, first in pictures followed by diary-like short texts. The 35mm photos are from his last trip.

This new printed edition of Todd HIDO's legendary and coveted first monograph has been reissued to celebrate the upcoming 20th anniversary of this important photo book - undoubtedly one of the most influential and most cited photo monographs of our time.

The third volume in the series 'Conversations' by Remi Coignet also contains interviews with participants from the international photo scene on the role of the photo book in the work of photographers, designers & publishers, as well as their book design.

Pb. with pergament dust jacket, 15 x 18 x 1 cm., 64 pp., color ills., bilingual texts: Japanese / English

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.

Found negatives from the Photo Kandiye archive are the basis for the self-published volume 'Fading Away' by the Turkish photographer Murat Yusuf SEN. The two texts contained therein also name the political aspect of the disappearance of people.

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.

The photo booklet 'By the Sea' - a narrow and large-format - contains a collection of landscape photos that the OGAWA took during various stays on the Japanese coast in winter. In addition to works in b/w, like in 'Shimagatari', we see here works in color

In this photo volume, 'Seventy-Two and One Half Miles Across L.A.', Mark RUWEDEL documents a drive through Los Angeles, crossing as many geographical, economic, political and cultural boundaries as possible. Books by Ed RUSCHA served him as inspiration.

British photographer Jack DAVISON shoots like a painter and in this way brings out the surreal and sensual from the stuff of everyday life. With their deep shadows and tight frames, his photographs have a cinematic quality.

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.

'La Puente' about women in a brothel in Ecuador by Charlotte SCHMITZ won the FotoEvidence competition to publish the series as a book. The polaroids were created in cooperation with the women, who chose their poses and painted the photos with nail polish.

Limitierte Ausgabe mit Print! Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag, wie erschienen, 21,5 x 26,5 x 2,5 cm., 192 S., Farbabbildungen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - ONLY GERMAN!

The self-published photo volume 'Wet City / Islak Kent' Murat Yusuf SEN's contribution to the urban change in Istanbul. He contrasts the rapid development with the slow process of the collodion wet process from the beginnings of photography.

Pb. with cloth spine (no dust jacket, as issued, offset litho printed on coated FSC, uncoated FSC, bible paper and recycled coloured paper), 31 x 23 x 2 cm, 180 pp. with many foldouts, 46 color & 37 b/w photographs, 8 ills., 9 press cuttings, text languag

French photographer David NISSEN's self-published volume 'Out of the Darkness' follows a mysterious rhythm. The black and white photos create a loneliness of light and its shadows. The slim photo volume in a small print run of 300 copies is really a gem.

Photo book 'Autobahn' by Berlin based Ostkreuz photographer Jörg BRÜGGEMANN contains color photographs of German motorways that were taken between 2014 and 2019. It questions the present and future significance of the achievement from the Weimar Republic.

The nearly 40 year old color film material for the classic photo book 'A1 - The Great North Road' by Paul GRAHAM is a photo-historical document of the 1980s' Great Britain - Margaret Thatcher's reign and the declining industrial base.

'It is as it is' shows numerous letters, photos & documents, as well as pictures from the time when Gerhard RICHTER's early work in Dresden ended with his flight from the GDR in 1961 and his official work in the West was not to begin until the end of 1962

The book 'Showcaller' explores the work of Talia CHETRIT which is filled with a desire to control the physical and historical limits of the camera, to pursue its potential for manipulation, and to question the relationship between photographer and subject

'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.

'He Threw The Last Punch Too Hard' by Hannah KOZAK tells the story of her mother, who left Hannah's family for another man. He turned out to be violent. This photo book could inspire other women to leave an abusive relationship before it's too late.

In this volume of the 'Des Oiseaux' book series, photographer Leila JEFFREYS takes us on a journey to amazing bird species that she has been portraying in her studio since 2008, where she observed 'how many birds have specific expressions, just like us'.

This out-of-print photo volume 'ZwischenZeiten' by Michael KERSTGENS is an empathetic documentation of the town and its inhabitants in Mühlhausen (Thuringia) in March 1990. The b/w title is historical, but unspectacular and therefore all the more poignant

The out-of-print catalog for huge Michael SCHMIDT retrospective, took place in Berlin, includes well-known and rarely seen works as well as the very informative texts by renowned authors can already be considered a reference work about Berlin photographer

The third artist book by EGGLESTON, first published in 1978, as a facsimile. The focus is on flowers in all their everyday splendor - be it as a kitsch spray made of gladiolus & carnations in a glass vase or as an abandoned bouquet on a white marble tomb.

In 'Ciprian Honey Cathedral' Raymond MEEKS carefully examines the legibility of our material surroundings and the people who are closest to us. He is known for using photography to poetically distill the boundaries of sight, awareness, and understanding.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 14 x 22,5 x 1,5 cm., 160 pp., 101 b/w ills.,

This out-of-print catalog, 'Photobloc. Central Europe in Photobooks', contains interesting essays on various topics in the history of Central European photo books and - in addition to many photo book illustrations - an article on East German photography.

The idea for the volume 'The Dreaming' by Yasuhiro OGAWA arose when he, on the occasion of his 50th birthday, went through his archives from 27 years as a photographer & traveler. The retrospective contains moments, which has something dreamlike for him.

In this photo volume, 'I walk toward the sun which is always going down' by Alan HUCK, a nameless, monologuing narrator wanders photographically through an American city. The indeterminate in photography and written language becomes an attention exercise.

This publication by MORIYAMA, 'Okinawa s49', with photos from 1974, appears in a new format, large and narrow, in a very limited quantity and stands out from the mass production due to its innovative design & craftsmanship. The first title in this format.

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.

This photo compendium celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the Hasselblad Award and the influential work of all its winners to date. They are international artists, innovators, activists and legends who have shaped the modern history of photography.

Distortions, experiments and illusions characterize GUIDI's early work from the late 1960s and early 70s, which he further developed by introducing a 'fisheye' lens. In 'Lunario' he returns to the moon as a source of stylistic and thematic inspiration.

'Day Sleeper' shows Dorothea LANGE through the eyes of Sam CONTIS, addressing resonances between the two ways of seeing. An unknown side with unseen photos of her family, studio portraits and photos taken in the streets of San Francisco and the East Bay.

This photo book, 'Bonsai', is a very beautiful and elaborately designed artist's book, whose slipcase is covered with silky Japan paper. By manipulating the backgrounds & perspectives the series of the Japanese Masao YAMAMOTO gets a surrealistic touch.

New edition, second printing. Wendy EWALD's 'Portraits and Dreams' - begun in 1975 - offers access to a view of the rural south of the USA that is expanded through the eyes of children. It contains alos recordings and stories from the original publication

Bootleg ed. of 'Raised by Wolves' by Jim GOLDBERG. It contains harrowing stories about teenage runaways living on the streets of San Francisco and LA. It combines photographs, documents as well as handwritten, passages about their lives and feelings.

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'.

Graciela ITURBIDE, one of the main figures in Latin American photography, combines the documentary with the lyrical. For her, living birds stand for freedom. Birds photographed by her attract and repel us, attract our attention.

Texte: Marc Feustel (engl.) and Jeffrey Ladd (engl.) Interviews mit: Stefanie Diekmann (dt), Regine Ehleiter (dt), Christoph Hochhäusler (dt), Felix Hoffman (dt), Stefanie Pluta (dt), Linnea Semmerling (dt), Olivier Cablat (engl.), Emilie Lauriol (engl.)

In the 1st volume of the DISCOURSE series 'Migrant Mother, Migrant Gender', cultural theorist Sally Stein takes up Dorothea LANGE's now famous portrait and proposes to see it as a disturbing image for women's conflicted relationship to home and the world.

For 'Afterlife', the sixth volume of his long-term photo book project on India's saga, 'A Myth of Two Souls', France based photographer Vasantha YOGANANTHAN created collages of multiple image layers to put the viewer in a state of disorientation.

Eiji OHASHI's long-awaited photo book from his 'Roadside Lights' series of vending machines in winter landscapes. The volume published here as Leporello is a continuation of the highly acclaimed photo series of vending machines along the streets of Japan.

'Polaroid SX-70' is a facsimile that was compiled by William EGGLESTON himself and contains the only photos he has ever taken with this medium. It consists of 56 Polaroid shots - made between 1972 and 1981 - assembled by hand in a black leather album.

Three-photo-volume-set 'The Outlands' by William EGGLESTON are drawn from the photos he made on color transparency film from 1969 to 1974 that formed the basis for 'Chromes' and for the seminal exhibition at the MoMA in 1976 curated by John Szarkowski.

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.

„The photo book ‚William Eggleston 414‘ is Harmony Korine & Juergen TELLER’s visual memoir of a road trip they took ten years ago with William EGGLESTON and his son, Winston, from Memphis to Mississippi.

New edition. 'So it goes, so it goes' by Miho KAJIOKA presents a work about time, memory and place. The series shows intuitive images of fragments of their everyday life at different points in time. Inspiration was Kurt Vonnegut's novel 'Schlachthof 5'.

The renowned photographer Anders PETERSEN documented the goings-on in his home city of Stockholm between 2015 and 2018. The result is the photographic volume 'Stockholm', a typical collection of energetic black-and-white images of a rapidly growing city.

'Morals of Vision' continues the series of new releases of William EGGLESTON's artist books after 'Flowers' na 'Election Eve'. 1978's design was largely retained, the images were fixed by hand. In this way the character of the artist's book was preserved.

With the photo book 'La Cucaracha', the South African photographer Pieter HUGO has once again succeeded in creating an impressive social portrait in which he was more interested in the people of Mexico than in the country's architecture or economy.

B/w photographs from the 1920s to 1950s, some of which were published for the first time, create a small custom painting of a time when not only the region, which is still rural, has crossed the threshold of modernity, but also the photography itself.

2nd print run, linen bound HC with dust jacket, 26,5 x 24,5 x 1,5 cm., 120 pp., b/w ills., text language: German (the insert with three columns of text 'Berlin-Wedding' by Thomas Weski is bilingual: German / English)

The new out-of-print edition of 'A Way of Seeing' by Helen LEVITT impresses with high-quality reproductions. Since its first publication in 1965, this volume of b/w photographs from New York in the 1940s has been revered as a classic of street photography

'Chroma' contains a photo series that originated in the early 1980s when John DIVOLA was looking for more stable material, such as the artificial, industrial cibachrome - very flawed for conventional images, but with properties that produced these images.

'Todesmarsch 1945. Leipzig – Fojtovice' is a harrowing combination of contemporary documents, survivor reports and artistic photographs as black & white double exposures by Herbert NAUMANN as an impressive reminder of the terrible suffering that spring.

Photo book 'In Veneto' contains a selection of hitherto unpublished works that Guido GUIDI took between 1984 and 1989. The visited places in provinces of Treviso, Vicenza, Padua & Venice, bearing testimony to the process of change of rural area in Italy.

For one summer, Heidi SPECKER portrayed pupils in her hometown and, through the subtle positioning that creates rituals, developed a sensitive picture essay that represents an examination of her own biography, which is shaped by the agricultural industry.

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.

In DISCOURSE book series, cultural theorists, curators or artists examine a topic, a work of art or an idea in an illustrated text. This episode includes titles by Sally Stein, Duncan Forbes, Alec Soth & Jörg Colberg about Dorothea LANGE, Lewis BALTZ...

The luxuriously bound photo book 'MOOD / MODE' presents around 200 photographs from the extensive work of the Dutch photographer Anton CORBIJN and examines the interface between photography and the world of fashion - in the broadest sense of the word.

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.

Juxtaposing works by photographers Annie LEIBOWITZ, Gregory CREWDSON and Andreas GURSKY, critic Jörg Colberg examines in 'Photography's Neoliberal Realism' how these artists produce the capitalist equivalent to the socialist realism of the Soviet Union.

'John Heartfield. Buchgestaltung und Fotomontage' - Book Design & Photomontage - documents a collection of his work, which allows to gain an overview of his work as a graphic designer. All titles are arranged both chronologically and alphabetically.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), text language: English

English ed., linen bound HC with screen printing, 24,5 x 31 cm., 496 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

'Suicidal Birds' by Sebastain ROGOWSKI shows his 1st trip through Kazakhstan with no specific destination and no fixed accommodation. The photographers Alex WEBB & Alec SOTH will have been the inspiration for the great photos in the best sense of the word

Byung-Hun MIN's birds in 'Des Oiseaux' live in an ethereal space. They seem to be shrouded in a silvery light. The photographer's meticulous work allows him to render not only what he has seen, but also what he has perceived.

This book by Carolyn DRAKE was created under the impression of a group of women who call themselves 'Knit Club'. The nature of this club is enigmatic: a cross between a gang, a mysterious cult and a group of girlfriends who share the most intimate secrets

Pb. with plastic dust jacket, 22 x 30 x 2 cm. 180 pp., 151 b/w ills., bilingual texts: German / English

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.

Fadengeheftete, gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 14 x 18 cm., 144 S., 80 S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN!

'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.