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process of the creation of the book 'Love on the Left Bank' by Dutch photographer Ed van der ELSKEN on the basis of unpublished documents - contact prints, sketches, maps - as well as a text by Tamara Berghmans.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

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 31 x 4 cm., 591 pp., highly illustrated, German text

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

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), text language: English, Ltd. to 600 numbered copies

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 30 cm., 48 pp., 20 b/w ills., text language: English

'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

'Cologne and its photo books. Cologne in the photo book from 1853 to 2010 'by Werner Schäfke shows the city as a large puzzle. Whether published in-house, on behalf of the city or industry, they document the diversity of this old & young Rhine metropolis.

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.

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

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.

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

'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.

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 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

'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.

The out-of-print photo and text volume 'Fotoreportagen 1956-1965' on the work of Dirk ALVERMANN contains in addition to the black and white photographs an excellent article on his photo books penned by the photo book connoisseur Thomas Wiegand.

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.

PB. (no dust jacket, as issued), 29,5, 21 x 2 cm., 90 pp., b/w ills., bilingual: Japanese / English, Ltd. to 1,000 copies

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!

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 images in 'In einem stillen Land' (In a quiet country) by Roger MELIS bear witness to the skepticism & resignation of the East Germans, but also to their pride, spirit of contradiction & longings - an interior view created after the fall of the GDR.

Staple bound pb. in plastic bag, 15 x 20 x 0,5 cm., 48 pp., 28 b/w ills., bilingual texts: Spanish / English

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

'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.

SC in plastic slipcase, 29 x 29 x 2 cm., 112 pp., color & b/w ills., 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

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

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

This out-of-print photographic volume 'London 1949' by René GROEBLI is the result of a two-week-staying in the bombed-out capital with his rolleiflex camera. The 2nd part of the book contains a series of images shot at London's Crystal Palace Park in 1951

Long out-of-print photo volume 'Bag Saga Blok' by Danish Krass CLEMENT, is a neighborhood portrait spanning over five decades around an old movie theater in Copenhagen's Vesterbro neighborhood - presented with an impressive range of photographic styles.

With b/w works by Antoine D'AGATA, Trent PARKE, Anders PETERSEN, Roger BALLEN, Jacob Aue SOBOL, Keizo KITAJIMA, Kim THUE, Marco VERNASCHI, Margaret M. DE LANGE, Michael ACKERMAN, Olivier PIN FAT, Giancarlo CERAUDO and Daisuke YOKOTA

'In History' shows how Susan MEISELAS deals with basic questions such as the relationship to her subjects, use & distribution of her images, and the relationship of images to history & memory. A contribution to the debate on contemporary photojournalism.

German edition. Sebastião SALGADO has created a world of images that show nature, animals and indigenous peoples in intense beauty. The volume 'Genesis' is the result of an epic 8-year expedition to regions where the planet has remained untouched before.

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

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.

Re-edit, linen bound HC, 26 x 25 cm., 104 pp., 77 tritone b/w ills., text language: English

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.

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.

Out-of-print photography book 'Father Figure. Exploring Alternate Notions of Black Fatherhood' by US photographer Zun LEE explores issues of identity and representation, particularly how African-American men and fathers are represented in popular culture.

After the city of Naples, Valentina PICCINNI & Jean-Marc CAIMI are now exploring their hometown, Rome. They looked for their own vision and created an idiosyncratic, mysterious & abysmal b/w portrait that is reminiscent of films by Visconti and Fellini.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 28 x 1,5 cm., 140 pp., 97 b/w (tritone) ills., English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 32 x 1,5 cm., 144 pp., 100 b/w ills., bilingual texts: German / English

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.

This reissue of 'Tulsa' by American photographer Larry CLARK contains raw, haunting images from 1963, 1968 as well as 1971, documenting a youth that gradually destroyed itself. The b/w photos are as moving and disturbing today as when they first appeared.

HC with dust jacket, 19 x 24 x 2,5 cm., 240 pp., 146 b/w ills., multilingual language: French, English, Polish & Russian

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