Best of 2020

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Photo book 'In Veneto' contains a selection of hitherto unpublished works that Guido GUIDI took between 1984 and 1989.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.