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process of the creation of the book 'Love on the Left Bank' by Dutch photographer Ed van der ELSKEN on the basis of unpublished documents - contact prints, sketches, maps - as well as a text by Tamara Berghmans.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

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

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 301 x 23 x 2 cm., 96 pp., b/w 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!

Reprint for 1976, once on the occasion of the first color photography exhibition in a museum as the catalog published. The book with a crocodile leather-like cover contains a total of around 48 EGGLESTON photographs and is also as a reissue a must-have!

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

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 26 x 0,5 cm., 72 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

2nd print run, pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 14 x 21 x 0,5 cm., 120 pp., 61 b/w ills., no text, Ltd. to 50 copies

Out-of-print photo book 'PARIS 88/89' by Daido MORIYAMA offers a view of the French capital through the lens of a Japanese master photographer who lived there alone in the late 1980s, having shortly before discovered photographer Eugène ATGET for himself.

This out-of-print black-and-white volume 'Pigalle' by German photographer Roswitha HECKE is the result of a long-term project. In the 1970s, the Hamburg photographer documented the lives of transvestites who lived and worked on the world-famous strip.

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

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.

In this 8th volume of a photo book series with screen-printed canvas covers, Daido MORIYAMA's 'Tiles in Aizuwakamatsu' the Japanese photographer takes as its subject the flood of roundish tiles that decorated the toilet of his hotel room in Aizuwakamatsu.

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

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

Long time out-of-print catalog volume 'Aus der Distanz' features works by Bernd and Hilla BECHER as well as by Becher students Andreas GURSKY, Candida HÖFER, Axel HÜTTE, Thomas RUFF, Thomas STRUTH as well as Petra WUNDERLICH. And it contains two texts.

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

The book 'A City Aglow' by Shunji DODO book is a warm, dizzyingly up-close and overwhelming portrait of Thailand's capital Bangkok. Made in medium 6x6 format, the black-and-white photographs were taken during numerous visits between the mid-1980s and 2019

Slipcased pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 25,5 x 20,5 x 1,5 cm., 64 pp., 39 b/w ills., text language: English

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

Dutch Version! Pb. with dust jacket, 24 x 29 x 2,5 cm, 196 pp., b/w ills., text language: dutch - TEXT ONLY IN DUTCH!

Out-of-print book 'Signs' is about Nino MIGLIORI, who is credited with a profound change in Italian post-war photography. The images - mostly in b/w - testify to the versatility, creativity & innovation that have characterized his work from the beginning.

Zen Foto Book #13. Two portraits of Tokyo in 1995 & 2010. After merely 15 years, the streets, the people, the textures have all completly changed. TAKEFUJI made two intense portraits, in which the city has metamorphosed from pleasure-dome to sunless sea.

by Nina Kloepper (ed.) With photo works by Karl BLOSSFELDT, Alfred EHRHARDT, Bernd und Hilla BECHER, Hiroshi SUGIMOTO and Claudia FÄHRENKEMPER

In this 'Record' issue, 'No. 25, Japanese photographer Daido MORIYAMA presents his vision of Okinawa’s extraordinary light from his visit in 2013.

The black and white photographs of this photo essay, 'Valparaiso' by Alberto GARCIA-ALIX, were taken between July 13 and August 2, 2015, during a residency for the International Festival of Photography in the Chilean town of Valparaiso.

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Blackcelona' by Salvi DANÉS records a journey into the gray tones of urban polychromy, leading us through that chiaroscuro that engulfs the morphology of the city. It is an invitation to an aesthetic experience.

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.

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

In his self-published photo book 'White Crow', Hans BOL considers crows and ravens as messengers of the gods, symbols of transformation and harbingers of eternity. Interspersed with pictures of his father, this volume concludes the trilogy 'God's Allies'.

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 x 24,5 x 1 cm., 40 pp., 40 color ills., text language: English

This monograph contains impressive pictures by Jürgen SCHADEBERG, black and white works of his entire oeuvre (1951-2005) from South Africa, Lesotho, Berlin, London, Malaga, New York, Botswana and again South Africa with the photos of Nelson Mandela.

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

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 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, Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 19 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

For the photo book 'Forcella', the photographers CAIMI & PICCINNI examined the oldest and smallest city district of Naples, Forcella. The black and white photos show life in the area that has been forgotten by the state and ruled by poverty & the Camorra.

For 'Holy Bible', BROOMBERG & CHANARIN show photos of Archive of Modern Conflict with an eye toward Adi Ophir's tenet: that God reveals Himself through catastrophe, and power structures from the Bible correlate with those of modern systems of governance.

Limited edition photo book 'Bike Kill' shows life in a Brooklyn bike club. The French Julie GLASSBERG spent three years documenting the world of the Black Label Bike Club. The title refers to an annual celebration of bike chopping, friendship and anarchy.

HC, 25 x 39 cm., 96 pp., 57 bw-ills., Ltd. ed. to 500 copies

1st print run, pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 14 x 21 x 0,5 cm., 120 pp., 61 b/w ills., Ltd. to 50 copies

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

Linen bound HC, 29 x 33 cm., 256 pp., 95 ills., text language: English

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.

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'.

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.

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 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.

The unusual 'PBM_Catalog Box' contains leporellos, brochures and posters for the 33 exhibitions and projects shown during the PhotoBookMuseum pop-up in Cologne. The shape of the box alludes to the exhibitions shown in traditional shipping containers.

Out-of-print photo volume '9 Gates of No Return' by Agata GRZYBOWSKA presents nine people who, for different reasons and life choices, decided to give up their lives in the city and settle in the forests of the Bieszczady Mountains in southeastern Poland.