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'Hidden Islam' by Nicoló DEGIORGIS shows Muslim places of prayer in Northern Italy. First architectural documentation until the interiors are 'discovered'. Important in connection with '9/11' and the consequences for the Christian-Muslim relationship.

HC with dust jacket & obi, 26,5 x 26,5 x 3 cm., 324 pp., b/w ills., bilingual texts: Japanese / English

This version of the book 'EIN-HEIT' (U-NI-TY) is a re-edit. Originally published in 1996, Michael SCHMIDT investigated the question of 'unity', tracing the symbolism & iconography of political systems, their propaganda & the images of people they project.

This photo book set by Nick BRANDT includes the volumes 'The Day May Break' (2021) and 'The Day May Break. Chapter Two' (2023).

'Die Amerikaner' is the German edition of this work that looked at the Americans from a new perspective and which revolutionized the aesthetics of the photo book. It was first published in 2008, on the occasion of the anniversary of the French original.

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.

The photo book 'Alternative Moons' is the first joint artist volume by Robert PUFLEB & Nadine SCHLIEPER about how a sudden journey began into a world of truth and narrative, of illusion and imagination, you are the cosmonaut exploring the inside.

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 18 x 25 cm., 352 S., S/W-Aufnahmen. deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

'Anchor in the Landscape' by Adam BROOMBERG & Rafael GONZALEZ portraits olive trees in the territories of Palestine occupied by Israeli settlers. Each bears witness to the presence & resilience of the Palestinian people and their relationship to the land.

'Ikonar. Archival Constellations' contains a large number of materials by Josef KOUDELKA from the years 1960 to 2012 as well as important series from his photographic work together with seven thematic constellations derived from the logic of his archive.

With 'Across the Ravaged Land' the trilogy by Nick BRANDT about the disappearance of animals in East Africa is ending. In addition to powerful animal portraits, people appear for the first time; essays summarize his odyssey that spanned more than a decade

The out-of-print volume 'The Hasselblad Award 2006' presents works by South African photographer David GOLDBLATT from 2004 to 2006 that address the country's situation in the post-apartheid era, including a number of his new triptychs on folding panels.

In 2019, Daido MORIYAMA spontaneously decided to publish photographs from Yokohama, the 2nd largest city in Japan, where he had had 'a good time' during the summer. The b/w material was enough for two volumes, 'Akai Kutsu' volume 1 & 2 in the same format.

HC, 15 x 20 cm., 128 pp., 100 ills., bilingual text: German / ENglish

Robert CAPA is considered to be the founder of photojournalism. His impressive photos of the Spanish Civil War made the passionate opponent of war world over night famous. In addition to most famous works, this portfolio also presents rediscovered images.

Out-of-print publication reconstructs the process of the creation of the book 'Love on the Left Bank' by Dutch photographer Ed van der ELSKEN on the basis of unpublished documents - contact prints, sketches, maps - as well as a text by Tamara Berghmans.

This book, 'Fotogeschichten Sülz und Klettenberg. 1855-1985', shows the neighborhoods from the end of 19th century to 1980 and the people who lived and worked here. Images, texts & commentaries make this contribution to Cologne's urban history so valuable

For nearly two decades, Harry CALLAHAN photographed his wife in countless ways: nude & clothed, on the beach, in the woods, in public parks & on city streets, and in the privacy of the family home. 'Eleanor' is the definitive publication of these photos.

This out-of-print German language volume 'Photographien 1969-1989' spans the work by US-American Robert MAPPLETHORPE from the early 1970s and shows his most iconic images from portraits to still lifes and figure studies alongside lesser-known photographs.

This 13-volumes collection on the work of Swiss photographer Jakob TUGGENER, 'Books and Films' contains facsimile editions of the first twelve original book dummies from the years 1936 to 1982 as well as a selection of his 16 mm short films on DVD.

This chronologically arranged monograph on the work of Eugène ATGET shows a photograph and includes the commentary of the editor, John Szarkowski. However, it is less about an exact analysis than about capturing the context and describing the attributes.

US photographer Edward WESTON kept a diary in which he recorded his struggle to understand himself, society and his art. 'The Daybooks of Edward Weston' were edited by Nancy Newhall in two volumes: one for his time in Mexico and one for Californian time.

In 'Sea Stories', the photos by Robert ADAMS describe the cycles of nature with a new naturalism. It contents a sequence of three visual narratives: among alder and maple trees, along the beachand back through meadows and what remains of the inland forest

The photo volume 'Monochrome' contains a fine selection of very contrasting contemporary black and white photographs by Daido MORIYAMA, taken in the years between 2008 and 2012. The volume complements its simultaneously published counterpart 'Color'.

'The Disappeared' by ambitous photo book editor contains portraits of people who disappeared in Argentina. It is a political bond that wants to keep the memory of these people alive. Printed on thin paper, it is primarily an inexpensive photo book item.

This photo volume, '10 Jahre Hambacher Forst', tells the stories of the people who fought for the preservation of Hambach Forest, Germany, in a combination of artistic as well as activist positions, photographs, original sounds and archive material.

In 'Fotografiegeschichte der Abstraktion' (Photographic history of abstraction), Kathrin Schönegg traces the history of photography: from the experimental beginnings in the 1830s, through (pseudo)scientific, applied & artistic contexts, to digitalization.

After the discovery in 1979, the Serra Pelada awakened a longing for the legendary gold country 'El Dorado'. This book contains the complete portfolio in large format reproductions and museum quality, a foreword by Sebastião SALGADO and an essay by Riding

This anthology contains 160 pictures by ninety female photographers to answer the question of whether there is a 'female gaze' in photography. The focus is on the four major subject areas of social reality, family, female body and virtual reality.

The photographers collektive SPUTNIK consists of: Agnieszka RAYSS, Rafal MILACH, Jan BRYKCZYNSKI, Adam PANCZUK, & Michal LUCZAK. All this photographers are included with their own photo book titles a paperback format in this box.

'JFK. A photographic memoir by Lee FRIEDLANDER is the first to show archive photos of the public reaction to the election and assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A moment in US history that enchanted the nation and continues to impress today.

This perfectly produced photo volume, 'Kvidinge' by Gerry JOHANSSON, contains photographs taken between 2004 and 2007. It has been published in April 2007 as part of the exhibition 'On the verge of his existence' at the Hasselblad Center in Stockholm.

Pb. with dust jacket & obi belt, 22,5 x 30 x 3,5 cm., 432 pp., 291 b/w ills. text language: English

In his ongoing 'City Diary' project, Anders PETERSEN - awarded with the Dr.-Erich-Salomon-Award, DGPh - examines the less public side of urban life, in volumes #1 to #3, he photographed such different cities like Stockholm, Tokyo as well as St. Petersburg

For 40 years the Swiss police officer Arnold ODERMATT captured accident scenes & property damage. What results from his official work is 'Karambolage', a selection of melancholic, sometimes funny & always strange atmospheric photos of our mobile society.

The Anti-War book 'Kriegsfibel' (War primer) by Bertolt Brecht and Ruth Berlau processes press photos from the Second World War. Images of machines and gruesome scenes were given new captions, socialist-realist epigrams to give the scenes a primal meaning

Cloth bound HC, approx. 24 x 28 x 2 cm., o.pp., b/w ills., trilingual text: German, French, English, limited to 500 copies

The b/w images by Sibylle BERGEMANN collected in her out-of-print photo book 'Fenster' do not follow any overarching plan, but are an expression of subjective perception. Each with its details captured window says something about the people they belong to

The out-of-print volume 'New Orleans 1960' is about the birthplace of jazz. The photos were taken in 1960 during a trip when he traveled through the United States with musicologist Joachim E. Berendt for 'Jazzlife' to document America's original art form.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 37 x 2 cm., 54 pp., duotone b/w ills., text language: English

For this really small black and white photo volume, 'Now I want to be your dog', the photographer Morten ANDERSEN exhumed his portraits of his French friend Antoine D'AGATA during their studies together at the ICP in New York in the early 1990s.

This out-of-print photo volume 'Menschen ohne Maske. Photographien 1906 - 1952' by German photographer August SANDER in paperback format is a re-issue of a 1971 publication, released at Swiss Bucher Verlag.

'Mauvais genre' presents views of men and women at the intersection of private life, the history of homosexuality, and feminist activism. Christine Bard and Isabelle Bonnet shed light on this often-silenced aspect through photos from Lifshitz collection.

Michael KENNA published 'The Rouge', a book on the Ford Rouge complex, back in 1995. The images on the same subject - the industrial complex built in Michigan in the early 20th century - published in 2016 are masterfully reproduced and superbly printed.

English or German. Based on Helmar LERSKI's series 'Metamorphosis', this compendium, 'Faces. The power of the face', brings togehter portraits from the time of the Weimar Republic. Experiments, feminist role-playing games and political ideologies collide.

This black-and-white photo volume, 'Beautiful America. 1968-1980', by American photographer Jerry BERNDT documents an important, troubled transitional period in America's recent history and illuminates the literal and ironic aspects of its 'beauty'.

The out-of-print volume 'Retrospective' on Douglas BUSCH includes works ranging from street photography, architecture and landscape photography to color photographs that leave the field of photography. With texts in German, translated to English.

97 unique images made from the same photographic negative. A photo book about the oldest living organism known to man and a book about the instability of the photographic image and the enigmatic intertwinement of time, reality and perception.

For '1-2-3-4' famous Dutch Anton CORBJIN put together pictures from his archive, including recordings that have never been published. The result is one of his most important photo books ever and an experience for lovers of photography and music alike.

'Gaudi, Impresiones Intimas' by Aitor ORTIZ represents an artistic interpretation using the means of photography, poetry, book design & printing. The result: a Bible-like publication that is impressive in its minimalism, precisely designed and implemented

German photographer and father Oliver RASCHKE is grateful to have had the opportunity to experience and document his family life. His volume 'The World Ain't Enough' represents the first 10 years of his sons' lives. Time is racing. The conquest continues.

Out-of-print 'Leipzig. Photographs 1956-1959' by Günter BLUTKE shows the saxonian city in the mid-fifties, taking us back to that time and the people living this time of new beginnings, 10 years after the war and before Germany was divided in two states.

The photo volume 'Rowing a Tetrapod' by Japanese photographer Fumi ISHINO follows an aleatoric structure and is about the distinction between the local & the foreign and how it blurs. The book creates an imaginary space that is prone to misinterpretation.

The accordion volume 'New York 1989-93', is the first in a series of twelve volumes that are intended to make the person Antoine D'AGATA, a hypothetical double, tangible. Two coupled existences, where one cannot exist without the virtuality of the other.

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.

Pb. ( as digital offset), 14 x 18 x 0,5 cm., 46 pp., b/ ills., Ltd. to 100 copies

For the photo volume 'At Home', Susan KANDEL looked for families who would allow themselves to be photographed at home and succeeded in being invited into many private homes. As a result, she discovered that each house she entered was a world of its own.

The US report in out-of-print book 'Heartland' by Thomas HOEPKER is a prime example of committed photojournalism personally interpreted, of photography as reportage at the highest level of formal aestheticism. Photo history and at the same time up to date

This monograph comprehensively documents Toni SCHNEIDERS 'artistic life's work. On display are the well-known works from the 'fotoform' era, the travel photographs taken since the late 1950s, as well as nature, technology and portrait photographs.

For this out-of-print photo volume, 'Roma', Joseph KOUDELKA has revised and expanded 'Gypsies'. This book contains all black-and-white photographs taken between 1962 and 1971 from Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, France as well as from Spain.

2nd print run, pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 30 cm., 46 pp., b/w ills., bilingual text: English / Lithuanian

Pb., 21,5 x 28,5 x 2 cm., unpaginated, b/w ills, text language: English

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 26 x 2 cm., 91 pp., 46 b/w ills., text language: English. Ltd. ed. to 600 copies

The powerful black-and-white images in out-of-print photographic volume 'London 1958-59' by Chilean Magnum photographer Sergio LARRAÍN present a vivid portrait of a coal-fired, smoke-filled London long gone.

This photo volume set 'Seven Stories' by Robert FRANK is a collection of small volumes that represents a new stage in his practice. As always, his photographs and stories relate to life and milieu: houses in Mabou and New York or trips to China and Spain.

Out-of-print volume 'Berlin 1978-1987' by Boris BECKER shows early works of the photographer of the Düsseldorf Photo School, taken on 35mm and medium format. In the course of history and the change of our perception, these have gained in importance.

'Du mich auch' by Anders PETERSEN contains images, taken in Hamburg & Stockholm in the 60s - surrounded by bar girls, petty thieves, dock workers, Bob Dylan copies, street vendors from the fish market, legless war heroes, they lived & worked on St.Pauli.

Out-of-print book 'Mann für Mann' by Roswitha HECKE contains over 40 images from all over the world. Around half of the b/w images were taken in New York City, the rest in Barcelona, Naples, Cairo, London a.o. They all show men, individually or in groups.

Pb. with obi belt (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 26 x 3,5 cm., 365 pp., 410 ills. (365 b/w ills., 45 ills. in color), text language: Japanese

The volume 'Byker revisited' is the result of a long-term project lasting over 40 years: the Finnish photographer Sirkka KONTTINEN returned again and again to the poor residential area of Newcastle, where she herself lived in the late 1970s/early 1980s.

In the book 'Tokyo Debugger', Shinya ARIMOTO intersperses photos of abandoned architectures as traces of past human activities, expanding the scope of his insect series - another world within Tokyo, dominated by the most successful creatives on the planet

'Masahisa FUKASE' introduces one of the most radical and original Japanese photographers of his generation, famous for 'The Solitude of Ravens'. It also includes lesser known works from his multi-layered corpus such as collages, self-portraits, Polaroids.

'In My Room' contains nude studies in black and white that Saul LEITER made indoors in his studio in New York, often illuminated by the lush natural light. In the 1970s he planned to turn them into a book, which was never realized during his lifetime.

The out-of-print photo book 'Die Poesie der Form' (The Poetry of Form) contains around 75 b/w images by Imogen CUNNINGHAM, neither strictly chronologically nor thematically organized: Bodies, plants, still lifes and portraits, including with August SANDER

The out-of-print photographic book 'From Craft to Art' contains some 100 original prints by Robert DOISNEAU, as well as a new version of anessay, which explores the ability to capture 'the luminous melancholy that separates the individual from the mass'.

HC, 22 x 24 cm., 300 pp., 220 tritone ills.

'Provoke. Between Protest and Performance ', accompanied the first exhibition as a catalog, which was shown through the magazine and the photographers involved - Daido MORIYAMA, Takuma NAKAHIRA, Yutaka TAKANASHI - and determines its historical relevance.

Slipcased HC, 30,5 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 48 pp., 40 duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies

In 'Workshop. S/W-Fotografie nach dem Zonensystem', Andreas WEIDNER, a representative of fine art photography in the tradition of f/64 group around Ansel ADAMS, Edward WESTON & Imogen CUNNINGHAM, shows its consistent application with large format camera.

'ABC', selected and designed by William KLEIN himself, offers a visual survey of his varied career. It includes his poetic street photography of New York, Moscow, Rome, Tokyo and Paris; his fashion photography; filmstills; and his painted contact sheets.

In this out-of-print photo book 'Lines, Marks, and Drawings. Lines, Marks and Drawings. Through the Lens of Roger Ballen', this volume examines his work from a new perspective, from distinctive portraits and complex photographic tableaux to YouTube films.

The winner of the First Book Award 2014 includes staged family photos. 'FROWST' refers to Bert Hellinger’s therapeutic method 'Family Constellations'; the title' takes up the paradoxical nature of the family: Frowsty rooms are both cozy and claustrophobic

In his out-of-print photo book 'Dark Knees', Mark COHEN documents his hometown of Wilkes-Barre for more than 40 years through the eyes of a stranger. With their dazzling combination of lines, the images convey this sense of restless energy and strangeness

German-language anniversary edition of the classic photo book. Walker EVANS put together 'American Photographs' himself. It became a sober, yet highly aesthetic description of the United States in the 1930s that influenced generations of photographers.

This 2nd volume, 'Conversations 2', by Rémi Coignet contains a set of 15 talks he did with players in contemporary photography to investigate the role of the volumes in the work of photographers, designers & publishers - and how their books are designed.

In 'Conversations', Rémi Coignet explores in interviews the question of what role the photo book plays in the work of photographers, designers & publishers and how their titles are conceived. Two more volumes with interviews have been published until now.

The photo book 'Street Portraits' by Dawoud BEY contains portraits taken with a large format camera and a unique positive/negative Polaroid film. The photos depict the self-expression & performance of a cross-section of the population in an urban setting.

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 and text book, 'Side Walk', combines very personal photographs & writings by Italian photographer Frank HORVAT, taken during his time in New York in the late 1970s and the 80s. Through different papers, 'Side Walk' depicts both sides of his work

'Flaneur durch das nächtliche Paris' concentrates BRASSAI's 1930s night images. Located between reportage, social documentation & poetic vision, his nocturnal Paris from the interwar period is above all a milestone in the history of younger photography.

Leinengebundener HC (ohne Schutzumschlag),

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 29 x 26,5 cm., 255 S., S/W- und Farbaufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

In the 1930s, Werner MANTZ was commissioned to produce an extensive photographic documentation. In the photo book 'On Coal Mining in Limburg' this work is presented as an important historical document of a glorious era in the style of New Objectivity.

In his photo volume 'Songbook', the US-American Magnum photographer Alec SOTH shows images detached from their news context and in them reveals the longing for connection to one's own roots. The photo book title was printed in three editions.

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

Out-of-print volume 'Los Angeles 1964' by Magnum photographer Bruce DAVIDSON contains previously unpublished photographs from Los Angeles. He had been sent there by a magazine, but the publication of the pictures had been rejected for undisclosed reasons.