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'Istanbul' by Miron ZOWNIR contains b/w pictures taken before and during the coronavirus pandemic. It shows how diverse the realities of life in Turkey's capital are and depicts a social reality that also includes ever-increasing poverty & social taboos.

The out-of-print photographic volume of the Teikai book trilogy by Daisuke YOKOTA, 'Wandering at Midnight' (after 'Linger' and before 'Immerse'), depicts the lonely, midnight drift through the outskirts of a city, human obsession and undreamed dreams.

Haunting, distorted and otherworldly images in the out-of-print volume 'Site/Cloud' epitomizes the approach of Daisuke YOKOTA to pushing the development process & possibilities of analog image making, introducing imperfections and visual noise into them.

The out-of-print volume 'Matter / Burn Out' by Daisuke YOKOTA is a documentation of the exhibition of the same name in Xiamen, which was burned after its completion. This was documented, with the data processed, manipulated and revived to create this book

For 'Afterlife', the sixth volume of his long-term photo book project on India's saga, 'A Myth of Two Souls', France based photographer Vasantha YOGANANTHAN created collages of multiple image layers to put the viewer in a state of disorientation.

HC with dustjacket, 26 x 26 cm., 60 pp., 32 b/w ills., Japanese/English

The book 'Amsterdam Portraits' by Dutch photographer Bastiaan WOUDT presents a cross-section of Amsterdammers of all ages, origins and professions and thus gives a wonderful picture of the diversity of this city. This is what Amsterdam looks like today.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 25 x 2 cm., 120 pp., 89 color ills., text language: English

Re-edit, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 25 cm., 112 pp., col. ills, text language: English

Re-edit, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 25 x 2 cm., 112 pp., color ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 25 x 2 cm., 112 pp., color ills., text language: English

HC with dust jacket, 26 x 32,5 x 2 cm., 176 pp., b/w ills., text language: English (German text booklet included)

The out-of-print photo volume 'UFO' by Albert WATSON contains masterpieces from four decades: a comprehensive retrospective of portrait, fashion, reportage and still life photographs by one of the world's most creative and prolific photographic artists.

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

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 26 x 1 cm., 48 pp., 38 b/w ills., bilingual text: Japanese / English, 187 gr., Ltd. ed. to 500 copies

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17 x 21,5 x 2 cm., 160 pp., 123 color & b/w ills., bilingual text: English / Belorussian

Gebundene Ausgabe, 30,5 x 22 x 1,5 cm., 128 S., S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

HC in japanese binding (without dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 40 cm., 44 pp., no text, Ltd. to 180 numbered copies

HC with dust jacket, 25,5 x 25,5 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., 61 duplex b/w ills., bilingual: English and French

The selection made for this book, 'Photographs 1951-2000', shows why Shomei TOMATSU is regarded by almost all living Japanese photographers - including the stars of the scene like Nobuyoshi ARAKI or Daido MORIYAMA - as 'godfather' of Japanese photography.

The 'Phaidon 55' book series provides a fascinating, pocket-sized introduction to some very important, influential, visionary photographers. Shomei TOMATSU is very well represented with a selection of great photographs that show the course of his career.

This out-of-print German-language monograph, 'Chewing Gum and Chocolate', about the work of the Japanese post-war photographer Shomei TOMATSU provides a good overview of the work of one of the most important Japanese photographers of the 20th century.

The volume 'World Is Where You Stop' by Tomasz TOMASZEWSKI looks critically at our reality, where good & evil, euphoria & suffering, wealth & poverty, virtue & licentiousness, coexist side by side - situations that are difficult to pass by indifferently.

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 24,5 x 30,5 cm., 304 S., 383 Farb-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

The out-of-print book 'Miroslav Tichý' contains blurred images by the Czech that are reminiscent of pictures by Gerhard RICHTER or Sigmar POLKE. Thousands of photographs taken in the 1960s and 70s with self-made cameras made of cardboard and adhesive tape

Actual print run, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17,5 x 22 x 4 cm., 352 pp., color & b/w ills., text language:. Taschen 2008 (2005).

The photo book 'WOW' is about people Mario TESTINO encountered that have forced him to stop and look. They are all different, but what he saw made him want to celebrate their unique individuality. Each photograph represents a door into a new world.

Japanese bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 16,5 x 1,5 cm., 64 pp., 33 ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 300 copies

'Tokyokei' documents both: Issei SUDA's very personal view of his hometown and an important Japanes period. This photo book is perhaps the most personal title of the Japanese master. It contains 106 previously unpublished b/w photos from the 1970s and 80s

Definitive re-edit, slipcased HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25,5 x 27,5 x 2 cm., 152 pp., 141 b/w ills., bilingual text: Japanese / English. Ltd. to 500 copies

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

Reissue of the original volume from 1971. 'Pornography' by Klaus STAECK is an irritating panopticon of everyday violence, a total work of art, offensive in many senses of the word and could hardly be more topical as an artist's manifesto against violence.

The photo volume 'Niagara' by Alec SOTH is less about the natural wonder than the human desires associated with this place. They were taken with a large-format 8x10 camera over the course of two years on both the American and Canadian sides of the Falls.

ALSO AS SIGNED COPY! In 2006, MAGNUM photographer Jacob Aue SOBOL travelled to Tokyo. He photographed close to reality, in the streets and public places. 'I, Tokyo' is full of passion & directness - and awarded with the 'Leica European Publishers Award'.

For 'Arrivals and Departures' Jacob Aue SOBOL photographed twins in their home in Moscow, chased hunters in the mountains of Ulan-Bator and hurried pedestrians in busy Beijing. A photographic journey whose common thread are only the rails of the Transsib.

'Transparencies' by Stephen SHORE offers an alternative representation of that legendary episode on which 'Uncommon Places' is based. These parallel made 35mm works reimagine his signature themes through experiments with composition, attitude and color.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 18,5 x 24,5 cm., (with 1 signed print, 28 x approx. 35 cm./11"x14" from a selection of 10 images, printed on museum quality paper), 144 pp., 69 duplex ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 100 copies

The Essays from the 1970s and 80s in 'Photography Against the Grain' by Allan SEKULA show how he criticized photography, the circumstances of its production and consumption, and revealed from the perspective of an insider what the medium did not depict.

Toni SCHNEIDERS made a decisive contribution to the renewal of the visual language of the avant-garde photography after 1945. In this 100th birthday celebrating catalog, we rediscover him as a portraitist, as a travel, industrial & landscape photographer.

The out-of-print catalog for huge Michael SCHMIDT retrospective, took place in Berlin, includes well-known and rarely seen works as well as the very informative texts by renowned authors can already be considered a reference work about Berlin photographer

The book 'Berlin Kreuzberg' contains some early works by photographer and former police officer Michael SCHMIDT. The black and white photos taken in the Berlin district in the mid-1970s show the urban environment subjectively but without any artistic airs

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 301 x 23 x 2 cm., 96 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

In his black-and-white photo volume 'Night Walk' US-American photographer and New Yorker Ken SCHLES tells of his lost youth in Brooklyn. Twenty-five years after this groundbreaking volume of photographs 'Invisible City' the series were newly published.

In 'Invisible City', Ken SCHLES documents New York's East Village neighborhood during its heyday in the 1980s. Using scans of original negatives and the five-plate technique, this reprint surpasses the original and brings the classic into the 21st century

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17,5 x 24,5 x 2 cm, digital printed color ills., text language: English - Ltd. to 27 numbered copies

The photo book 'Cologne as it was. 408 photographs from 1920 to 1939 'by August SANDER, shows the images for the first time as the photographer created them. The German language volume also contains an introduction to its history and editorial corrections

Catalan photographer Txema SALVANS' keen view of contemporary Spanish society. In the photo book 'My Kingdom' he combines black and white photos with quotes from the political rhetoric of the former King of Spain. This methodology makes emotions visible.