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The photo volume 'Asleep in Dirt' by Yair OELBAUM contains photographs taken with a Macro 5 Polaroid camera. By experimenting with the camera, which was originally intended for dental and crime scene photography, he created abstract, emotional images.

'The Need to Know' by Michael S. HONEGGER is an investigation into his father's double life during the Cold War, the impact on his family, strange encounters, odd radio transmissions and inexplicable coincidences that became the normality of his childhood

Italian photographer Fausto GIACCONE reached Cavallino Treporti at summer afternoon, and in the uncertainty of the day coming to an end, he was guided by the light. One of the first shots became the cover of the photo book 'Volit di Cavallino Treporti'.

Company publication from the 1990s by Scotland born prominent fashion photographer Albert WATSON

Out-of-print photo book 'Wegweiser zum Glück' (Roadmap to Happiness) by Wilhelm SCHÜRMANN deals with everyday life in a Dortmund street). The serial black-and-white photographs in the book lie somewhere between factual stocktaking and personal enthusiasm.

The images taken during the 'Great Depression' in the USA in the out-of-print book 'When Innovation Was King' by Lewis HINE and the message they contain are particularly relevant today in the face of high unemployment in a rapidly changing global economy.

'Berlin on a Dog's Night' by Gundula SCHULZE ELDOWY contains images made in old East Berlin from the cycles 'Berlin in einer Hundenacht', 'Der Wind füllt sich mit Wasser', 'Aktporträt', 'Arbeit', 'Straßenbild' & 'Tamerlan' together for the first time.

Out-of-print book 'Eine Reise nach Sardinien. Fotografien 1927' brings together a representative selection from the simple collection of 30 black and white photographs by the Cologne photographer and important pioneer of modern photography, August SANDER.

In 'Outsiders. American Photography and Film 1950s-1980s', Diane ARBUS, Garry WINOGRAND, Nan GOLDIN, Danny LYON, Kenneth Anger, D.A. Pennebaker & Shirley Clarke bring into focus the pleasure to defy status quo and set stage for a more inclusive culture.

Out-of-print, German-English language 'Dear Aby Warburg. What can be done with images?' traces the specific artistic practice in dealing with photographic material and makes it clear that context & actualization are decisive for the meaning of photographs

The photo book 'Brandmauern' (firewalls) by Harf ZIMMERMANN contains traces of the bombings of the Second World War, with bullet holes, bomb splinters and outlines of past buildings, whether densely overgrown, bare or covered with graffiti and advertising

The images in self-published book 'False Friends' by Dominic TURNER play with the idea of information gaps & misunderstandings. They explore shadows & veils of a familiar but not quite recognizable world and challenge us to rethink our own interpretation.

The limited edition catalog 'Faces and Places. 1980-2023' contains reproductions of several pages from the albums of US-American photographer Jamel SHABAZZ (b.1960), focusing on his extensive portrait work in New York City parks over the last forty years.

This catalog volume of the work of Swedish artist duo Klara KÄLLSTRÖM & Thobias FÄLDT between 2011 and 2021 invites us to critically consider the prevailing narratives about today's world and how photography is used in the creation of these narratives.

The photo publication 'The Polaroid Kidd' by Mike BRODIE consists of fifty Polaroid housed in a gray cardboard case with silkscreen printing. The design is inspired by the punk ethos the people pictured live by and the utilitarian train cars they ride in.

The mono.kultur issue #37 is dedicated to US-american photojournalist & war reporter James NACHTWEY. One issue consists of photographs, the other of an interview, reproduced in English, about the reality of wars and how images can bring about resistance.

The photo book 'Udachny/Lucky' by Hanne van ASSCHE contains portraits, landscapes and details of Udachny, a small mining town in a remote Russian region. Hospitality and optismism of the inhabitants turn the scenery into a vibrant and colorful community.

The photo volume'Tokyo Jazz Joints' by Northern Irish photographer Philip ARNEILL and James Catchpole documents the culture of disappearing jazz pubs and cafes in Japan / Tokyo, the Jazu Kissa, where jazz records are played and time seems to stand still.

'Too Much But Not Enough' is an avant-garde fashion project by Yang LI & Antoine D'AGATA, consisting of 23 LP album covers & booklets, Intimate texts touch on themes of self-knowledge & beauty, love & disillusion, personal freedom & social constraint.

For out-of-print volume 'Schrott', two photographers each documented an industrial site in the Ruhr region: Joachim BROHM in the port of Duisburg (1993), Ralf KREUELS took night shots in Duisburg-Rheinhausen as well as in the port of Dortmund (1996/1997).

The photographic volume 'Aufwacken' by Jens NOLTE is the result of a four-year project about the heavy metal festival in Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, with a selection of snapshots, portraits of the festival visitors as well as the devastated festival area.

The book 'Eine Reise' about Arno FISCHER gives an insight into his practice and the various roles he played in the course of his career - also as a teacher. It contains more than 100 b/w and color images - taken between the early 1950s and the late 2000s.

The photographic volume 'Inhabitants' by prominent U.S. photographer Raymond MEEKS is the result of an artist residency, which will be exhibited in New York and Paris. The series is combined by a detailed poem by George Weld.

In 'Rivers Run Through It' Mark RUWEDEL follows the Los Angeles River to the Pacific Ocean. Using large and medium format, he recalls 19th century photographers like WATKINS & O'SULLIVAN as well as 'New Topographics' photographers of the 1970s

In his volume 'Abschied mit einem leisen "Klick"' Klaus BOCK comprehensively examines how the Austrian illustrated magazines during the First World War fulfilled the task of stirring up and channeling emotions with photographs: to collectivize them.

In his 'The Americans List II' Jason ESKENAZI collected answers by photographers visiting the 'Looking In' exhibition about 'The Americans' by Robert FRANK, choosing their favorite image and why. The book could to become a classic in photography education

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Paris Goutte d'Or' by Italian photographer Elena PERLINO documents the private and public coexistence of over thirty ethnic groups in the 18th arrondissement, a Paris neighborhood commonly considered dangerous.

In her volume 'Flight', German photographer Antonia HENSCHEL listed those places in alphabetical order that she has traveled to within a year, from Amsterdam to New York and Stockholm to Zurich. After that, the order results from the chronology of events.

For 'Quand même / Anyway / Nevertheless', Dorothée LEBRUN invited her neighbors during the pandemic to create a visual chronicle that parallel drama runs. A resolutely modern artist's book that belongs to a contemporary approach to documentary photography

'Metrópolis' by Adriana LESTIDO gathers b/w shots of Buenos Aires from 1988 to 1999, documenting the city's sprawl (Constitución, La Boca, Villa Lugano, Pompella) and a now unrecognizable Puerto Madero. Evocatively somber images of a bygone Buenos Aires.

Self-published photo volume 'Als een vogel zu vrij' (Like a free bird) by Suzanne VALKENBURG is about life in a trailer park on the edge of a residential area in Arnhem. It includes about 70 black-and-white photographs showing an indestructible community.

The black-and-white photographs in the volume 'Bye-bye, Belyn. In a village in Brandenburg' by Conny HÖFLICH show the everyday life of young people in a small village. The photographs were taken between 2005 and 2007.

'Allerseelen' by Alexander BINDER brings together a phantasmagoria of mystical images. He has seamlessly managed to blend crystal rainbows with even the most arcane and dark twilights and thus once again constructing a world of haunting beauty & mysticism

In her photographic volume 'Inventur' Mira BERGMÜLLER gives insight into rooms of the collegiate church St. Margarethen, describing the church from its everyday use and thus sharpens the view for art and architecture as witnesses of a history of faith.

The announced photographic volume 'Leipzig 1972' by Ute ESKILDSEN and Timm RAUTERT is the result of a series taken during a week in autumn 1972. It shows a very subjective, silent picture of Leipzig. A special, historical document of analog photography.

In 'The Screw', Akihito YOSHIDA shows people who make the 'screws' of ships in small workshop in Bangladesh. They work together to create a cold, hard metal by pouring molten red liquid, like magma, into the pitch-black ground, covered with iron sand.

Portraits in 'Homeless' by Bryan ADAMS show characters beyond socio-economic circumstances. The portraits can be seen as a continuation of 'Wounded': young British soldiers who have suffered life-changing injuries during the fighting in Iraq & Afghanistan

The self-published, out-of-print volume 'Apathie. Erfurt/IX1155/82' (Chronicle of an Escape Attempt) by Michael ANHALT shows the scenes of the action, partly in historical photographs from 1982, partly from 2008, as well as a number of original documents.

The out-of-print survey volume on the photography of Dennis GUN features works - primarily photographic stagings - by turkish-born artist from 2008 to 2010. He critically explored historical and art historical as well as scientific and mythological themes

The photo volume 'A Black Matter' by Grégoire ELOY is a publication of images produced in 2010 in French astrophysics laboratories (Project “Ether”). In the book, the French photographer tracking what's going on in the corridors of astrophysics.

The out-of-print photo book 'Drive' by Andrew BUSH presents a voyeuristic look at Los Angeles motorists in their own driving living rooms. The captions are tantamount to notes on the speed and direction of travel he made during sue accompanying drive.

In his out-of-print photo volume 'Tonatiuh', Juan BRENNER examines the contemporary Guatemalan society from the perspective of the mestizaje and the consequences of the Spanish conquest in the form of a complex, segregated and deeply troubled society.

The photographic volume 'Looking for the Mountain' by Japanese photographer Kyoko KAWANO is about a search. The color photographs in it tell of both details and great sights on her treks through the mountains. It comes published with an accordion binding.

The photo book 'Dr. Paul Wolff & Alfred Tritschler. Printed Images' shows how 35mm Leica photography changed society and consumers in the Weimar Republic period and the 'Third Reich', and the leading role played by the two photographers in this process.

In 'No Place on earth', Patrick BROWN documents the escape Rohingya fled the destruction of their homes and brutal persecution in Myanmar for neighboring Bangladesh. It includes also an essay about the genocide and a description the powerful photography.

For her out-of-print book 'Sailboats and Swans', Michal CHELBIN portrayed prison inmates in Ukraine & Russia. The portraits oscillate between strangeness and reality. The title refers to the wallpaper that often adorns walls and hallways of these prisons.

The catalog on Sergey BRATKOV, titled 'Glory Days', contains images from 1997 to 2007- an idiosyncratic mix of reportage & staged photography. It places his work in the context of recent photographic art and the social environment in Russia and in Ukraine

The photos in 'At Dusk' by Miyuki OKUYAMA give insight into her inner life and her states of mind as she moved from one culture to another. The images are inspired by fragmented childhood memories, long repressed fears, and vaguely remembered nightmares.

'Fastidiosa' by CAIMI & PICCINNI is the result of 6 years of photojournalism by the duo on the plight of local farmers and environmental degradation in the Puglia region of southern Italy. A very personal and intense account of the Xylella plant epidemic.

The volumes ‘The Path to Freedom' tell Ukraine's historical path of a struggle for freedom. They portray the important events from the 1st attempts at a revolution through its photographic language and look at photography's development during this period.

In 'We Share the Meal' by Lars BORGES, the complex relationship with food is explored through a personal relationship. A fictional journey, because all forms of social coexistence are connected by narratives that not infrequently emerge at dinner table.

Using old paintings, newspaper clippings, letters & photographs, this book, 'Dear Franklin' by Kurt TONG, tells a fictional love story and immerses the reader in the history of the Chinese diaspora, from the fall of the Middle Kingdom in 1912 to the 1950s

The photo volume 'Thingstätten' edited by Katharina BOSSE deals with open-air theaters and meeting places of National Socialism. Art and documentation, text and image enable an interdisciplinary examination of the significance of the past for the present.

The photographic volume 'A Light Inside' by Danielle VILLASANA is a counter to the sensationalist, stereotypical portrayals of trans women. It shows their life in Peru, where the photojournalist spent three years in a community of transwomen in Lima.

'Archive of Longing' by Hannah MODIGH contains full-page portraits of homeless women in color. A personal statement by the photographer and a concluding text by Jenny Maria Nilson are also part of the volume. The design is made by book designer Patric LEO

In his debut book 'We Were Born Before the Wind' Henri PRESTES deals with loneliness as well as melancholy. The pictures were created in the cold months in Portugal, when he often roamed in the dark through small villages, mountains and lonely fields.

Self-published photo volume 'Handmade' by the Finnish photographer Nina KORHONEN contains over eighty color photographs documenting everyday life in Kochi Prefecture. The text by Yukiko Duke is reproduced in the book in three languages.

In 'Book Manifest' Irma BOOM presents her vision of the nature, meaning nad relevance of the book. Based on more than 350 of her books, she shares her knowledge gained from intensive research and discusses context and relationship to the traditional book.

In 'Beautiful, Still,' US-american photographer Colby DEAL documents overlooked communities and cultural traits that are gradually being erased by gentrification, as well as communities of color whose members are often portrayed with negative connotations

In 'Belfast' Krass CLEMENT revisits his work over 30 years on, gathering 114 unpublished b/w images and carefully placing then in sequence, offered without caption or comment. His work invites the viewer to spot the lone figure walking through the scene.

The b/w photographs from the 1970s in 'Watarasegawa. Time goes by' by Mitsuru FUJITA show mountains, fields, roads and abandoned places in a place where a disaster occurred in a copper mine in 1880.- testimonies of a past struggle between nature and man.

The visual document 'Psychodemié' by Antoine D'AGATA reveals human vulnerability during the Covid 19 pandemic. It questions global social and political dynamics in the context of the pandemic against the glowing backdrop of a city confined to hospitals.

The volume 'Modern Alchemy' contains a series of eighty photographic works by Dutch photographer Viviane SASSEN and a philosophical essay by Emanuela Coccia. When they meet, they create a space in which seeing and thinking are to be redesigned and renewed

For his photo volume '101 Movies. A Survey of American Drive-in Theatres 1976', Herman VAN DEN BOOM documented the remains of Drive-In movie theatres in the US-states of Nevada, Texas, California, Oklahoma, Colorado and Arizona in black and white photos.

The photographs in the self published volume 'Reserved Mr. Memory' by Patrick MURPHY were taken over a 50 year period in and they are from the southern states of the United States of America. Image subjects include portraits, landscapes and religion.

'After' by Martin KOLLAR was created after the death of his partner. It is a careful sifting through his archive - a crystallization of contexts and themes that he had not seen before. The aim of the book is to show how the before merges into the after.

'Ludwig Wittgenstein. Photography as Analytical Practice' contains his album, photographs of automata, and other self-portraits. In addition, the book places his photographs in a dialogue with the photographic practice and theory of contemporary artists.

'Good Hope' by Carla LIESCHING, combines essays and found photographs with sources ranging from apartheid-era trade journals, tourist pamphlets, magazines to current newspapers and family albums. A critical examination of contemporary settler colonialism.

In 'Photobooks &' researcher Matt Johnston explores trends & practices based on research, interviews & his own experiences. He proposes a critical framework for looking at photo book use and calls for a reorientation to address its communicative potential

Photo book 'Suburban Bus' by Mexican photographer Alejandro CARTAGENA tells the story of people who want a better life in a city that lacks everything: decent roads, enough buses and safety on buses. It is shortlisted for the Paris PhotoBook Award 2021.

The photo volume '1078 Blue Skies / 4432 Days' by Anton KUSTERS contains limited edition Polaroid photos of the abstract blue skies above European concentration camps of the German Nazi regime. It is the result of a long-term project lasting six years.

The volume 'Sasuke' includes emblematic photo series about the two cats of Masahisa FUKASE, Sasuke & Momoe. It combines unpublished images as well as photo icons, because his cats have already been the subject of several books. This is to be the last one.

Der Band 'Blue Prints', ist eine Hommage an eine Pionierin der Fotografie und eine große britische Künstlerin, Anna ATKINS, die 1843 den ersten Fotoband der Geschichte schuf. Er enthält eine Auswahl der schönsten Cyanotypien sowie Texte von Rolf Sachsse.

This volume 'Crimson Line' by the Australian photographer Trent PARKE is about his passion for the transformative powers of light, the ephemeral changing colors of dawn & dusk, the multitude or different reds that made him curious about the color crimson.

'Galerna' is part of a long-term project in which Basque photographer Jon CAZENAVE questions his identity & territorial belonging. He makes a personal cut and frees himself from his insatiable thirst for black after a decade of uncompromising photography.

'The Italian Photobook 1931-1941' by Giorgio Grillo traces the short, intense history of (photo)graphic modernism in Italy - as a medium between autonomous visual research and a 'functional' use in the often overlapping areas of advertising & propaganda.

'Erna Helena Ania' by Tomasz LACZNY, tells a breathtaking, thoughts provoking story of a mother's love for her daughter, inscribed in the history of the World War II's end and its aftermath, told by a grandson, in whose life its elements sound echo like.

With the photo volume 'Walking Distance', Olaf UNVERZART shows his interpretation of a travel diary. Beyond sights, well-known places with supposedly country-typical folklore, it opens the view for the things and living beings in between - an in-between.

The multi-layered photographs in 'Metropolis. Berlin' by Barbara WOLFF take the viewer on an emotional journey through the city. 'Metropolis' is about the change of the city of Berlin, about provocation and chaos, about secrets, but also about visions.

'A Parallel Road' by Amani WILLETT, explores in a nuanced & multi-layered way the themes of history, racism, violence as well as black identity in the USA. It reflects on the past & present within a major American theme and encourages an integral dialogue

For 'Dream Moons', Yurian Q. NOBEL set himself the task to photograph his closest surroundings even before the lockdowns caused by COVID-19: All photos had to be taken within the confines of his house. And he turned tangible reality into what we don't see

In 1963, Ed RUSCHA photographed filling stations from Oklahoma to LA. He published them in 'Twentysix Gasoline Stations'. He took 60 photographs which he edited to 26. 7 unpublished images from New Mexico are reproduced here, from the original negatives.

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

„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.

The second photo volume by Tariq ZAIDI, 'Sin Salida', is the result of three years of documentation and shows the struggle of the state of El Salvador against two brutal gangs that have sophisticated extortion and domination networks throughout the region

The catalog volume brings together the most important works by Jitka HANZLOVÁ as well as insightful texts, thus bridging the gap between works such as 'Rokotnik' & 'inhabitant' from the 1990s to their most recent, contemplative series, 'Vanitas' & 'Water'

'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.

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.

Josh KERN's self-published title 'Love Me' is an artist's book - created out of the desire to create something new. The book with page-filling (and even more hidden) color photographs and handwritten notes reflects this unbridled young artist's creativity

The Belgian company 'Gevaert' had accidentally disposed many tons of silver from photo film production since the 1920s. A factory worker realized what assets were being washed away every day; this story fascinated photographer Lucas LEFFLER.