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process of the creation of the book 'Love on the Left Bank' by Dutch photographer Ed van der ELSKEN on the basis of unpublished documents - contact prints, sketches, maps - as well as a text by Tamara Berghmans.

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'.

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

'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.

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 33,5 x 37,5 x 3 cm., 124 S., S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

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

2nd printrun, slipcased set of 2 linen bound HCs, each with dust jacket, 20 x 20 x 2 cm., 388 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

Photography exists because of the light, but the landscapes in VAN DER MOLENS photographs stand out from the darkness. Her monochrome photographic works arise out of the desire to penetrate deep into the core of the isolated world in which she photographs

Out-of-print artist's book, 'Lange Weile' by Tina BARA, contains b/w-mages taken between 1983 and 1989 in East Berlin, the old GDR and other travels. This visual diary captures a moment right before the collapse of an entire political & ideological system

HC, 24 x 28 cm., 128 pp., 45 b/w ills., text language: English

HC with dust jacket, 30,5 x 30,5 x cm., 56 pp., b/w ills., bilingual text: Japanese & English, Ltd. to 400 copies

Out-of-print photo book set 'Nocturnes' explores six different photographic journeys - by Tiane Doan na CHAMPASSAK, Gert JOCHEMS, Olivier PIN-FAT, Daisuke YOKOTA, Aaron McELROY and Esther VONPLON - into ‘the night’. Different papers for each photo essay.

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

German Ed.! 3. Auflage, in Leinen gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 25 x 33 x 3,5 cm., 399 S. + 23 S. Beilage, S/W Aufn., 2.100 gr., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 31 cm., 80 pp., 47 ills., 2 pictures silver on black paper, English

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

This monograph makes the best of Lee MILLER's work accessible, including surrealist compositions & travel photos. At the end of the Second World War she was a war correspondent in Europe and documented the liberated Dachau & Buchenwald concentration camps

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

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 volume 'Somnyama Ngonyama. Hail the Dark Lioness', the monograph by Zanele MUHOLI, one of today's most powerful visual activists, contains radical statements on identity, race and resistance, as well as a direct response to all forms of racism.

re-edit 2017, HC with dust jacket, 26 x 31 x 2 cm., 104 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

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), 20 x 25 x 2 cm., 120 pp., 89 color ills., text language: English

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.

HC with dust jacket, 32 x 29 cm., 208 pp., b/w ills., multi-lingual texts: English / German / French

2nd print run, slipcased pb., 23,5 x 29,5 x 1 cm., 48 pp., 54 b/w ills., 500 gr., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 copies

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

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 30 x 1 cm., 128 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

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

This out-of-print photo volume, 'New York' by Masao GOZU, represents a re-release and contains early black-and-white photographs by the Japanese photographer from the 1970s that deal with urban life in the New York borough of Brooklyn.

'Polaroid SX-70' is a facsimile that was compiled by William EGGLESTON himself and contains the only photos he has ever taken with this medium. It consists of 56 Polaroid shots - made between 1972 and 1981 - assembled by hand in a black leather album.

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

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

Leporello, 11 x 14,5 cm., 29 ills., Ltd. to 70 regular editions, 30 editions with a small print, 5 expl. with a bigger print

'Transmontanus' is a black and white photo book by Salvi DANÉS, which deals with a poetic story of the return to the landscape he got to know as a child. The title alludes to the wind coming from the Pyrenees that characterizes this region, teh Empordà.

Re-edit, clipped Pb. with linen dust jacket, 21 x 30 x 1 cm., 47 pp. (many foldout pages!), 24 b/w ills., bilingual text: Japanese / English, Ltd. to 350 copies

The annotated, richly illustrated bibliography on the history of photo books in Sweden - from early examples with glued-in albumin prints to contemporary books, from traditional formats to going out design - has published very seriously and with expertise

Zweite Auflage. Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 24,5 x 30,5 x 3 cm., 338 S., S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN!

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 33,5 cm., 88 pp., 14 inserts and 64 tritone b/w ills., text language: English

Out-of-print photographic volume 'Liebes Leben' (Dear Life) by Roswitha HECKE consists of 94 images documenting the everyday life of street prostitute Irene. The b/w photographs were taken partly in Germany and partly in Italy (Rome?) in the mid-1970s.

Staple bound pb. in plastic bag, 15 x 20 x 0,5 cm., 48 pp., 28 b/w ills., bilingual texts: Spanish / 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 photographic volume 'Reenactment' by Arwed MESSMER presents an artistic perspective on the legacy of the GDR secret police. It uses photos from the archives of the Ministry of State Security (Stasi) showing failed escape attempts at the Berlin Wall.

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 '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.

The photo booklet 'By the Sea' - a narrow and large-format - contains a collection of landscape photos that the OGAWA took during various stays on the Japanese coast in winter. In addition to works in b/w, like in 'Shimagatari', we see here works in color

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 15 x 19,5 x 1,5 cm., 112 pp., 50 duplex b/w ills., bilingual text: German / English