Best of 2020

'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.