Photo Books from Germany

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.

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.

"Whether fast concrete highways, quiet cuts through dark forests, paved commercial strips or dusty tracks on a clear-cut mountainside, Robert ADAMS'’ roads function as metaphors for solitude, connection or freedom." (© Fraenkel Gallery, 2018)

Timm RAUTERT'S work cycle 'Image Analytical Photography' is considered a major work of photography in the 1960s and 1970s and is at a time of radical discussion about the social relevance of art. This time it comes as a linen-bound edition.

The photo volume 'Deutschland. Die frühen Jahre. 1951 - 1969' by Walter VOGEL contains black-and-white photographs taken in the post-war period in his native Düsseldorf and the Ruhr area. This was also the time of his training with Otto STEINERT in Essen.

The debut photo book, 'Auto Land Scape' by Michael TEWES, is the result of a long-term project. He brings highways into our field of vision, shows them as an independent architectural form and elicits details from them that we otherwise do not perceive.

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.

'Berlin 1966-70' by Arwed MESSMER shows the student protests from the perspective of the Berlin police. For this he digitized over 1000 negatives. Edited in a film-like sequential narrative structure, he breaks down the boundaries between photo and film.

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.

'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.