Insider Tipps

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.