Photo Books from Germany

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.

Houseplants combined with portraits and still lifes. The specific view of everyday life enables Ute BEHREND to find ever new pictorial inventions and surprising combinations in her book 'Zimmerpflanzen' (Houseplants), which open up a new view of the world

'Female View' traces the transformation of the fashion photo image from the 1940s to today through exemplary positions: from the fashion magazine to the exhibition and the coffee table book to video staging and digital self-representation in social media.

This self-published volume, 'Ich hatte zwar eigentlich Lamm bestellt, aber kein Problem' has the subtitle 'A walk through my soul'. As in his other, self-published book titles, Gerald v. FORIS has its own, highly inspiring imagery. Limited to 300 copies.

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.

The photo volume 'Unbekannte Raritäten' reflects a collection, which includes handicraft works by Hannh HÖCH, as well as rarities collected by her. The collection documents important areas of her life and provides insights into her personal relationships.

'Hartes Leben auf der Höh' by Michael KERSTGENS tells the story of an unusual person, about his work, his life and his loneliness. The journalist Gabriel Grüner and photographer had made a report about the Ahrntal mountain farmers for the magazine 'Stern'

'Annelise Kretschmer. Fotografin' was published to accompany the exhibition at Folkwang Museum. In addition to the photos, it contains an interview, an artist chronology, an annotated catalog of the exhibited works, a selected biography & a bibliography.

The catalog volume contains photographs by Vera LUTTER that she took with a camera obscura. These capture more than a single moment, but an entire period of time, thus questioning what is conventionally understood as the documentary value of photography.

This photo volume 'Standing by the Wall - Berlin 1990' by Josef Wolfgang MAYER is designed in triptychs and consists exclusively of fold-out pages that expand the individual picture into a panorama. This suddenly makes the past time present again.