Hartmann Books was founded by Angelika & Markus Hartmann with Nadine Engler to show and publish works that are convincing and relevant to the topics of our time. The project is based on the belief that the book is still a relevant medium of human culture.

'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
128,00 € Weight 1 kg
HC (no dust jacket, as issued but with Obi belt), 22,5 x 30 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., color ills., bilingual text: German / English, Ltd. to 300 copies
35,00 € *
'Ein gutes Bild muss scharf sein' closes a gap in the literature about Arnold ODERMATT, who as a self-taught photographer in the post-war period recorded accidents, police service, everyday life as well as his family with his 6x6 medium format camera.
16,80 € * Weight 0.4 kg
Special ed. with Print, 'Stillleben mit Himbeeren und Birnen' (Fine art print, 24 × 30 cm.), folder with print and book, signed, Ltd. to 50 copies. Also available as trade edition without print
180,00 € *
HC (two different cover colors, no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 20,5 cm., 64 pp., 20 color ills., bilingual text: German / English
24,00 € *
Open binded HC, 29 x 29 x 1 cm., 64 pp., 42 color ills., text language: English
38,00 € *
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 24 cm., 72 pp., 30 color ills., multi-lingual text: German / Russian / English
28,00 € *
In 'Hinterland', Hans-Christian SCHINK tries to strike a balance between the brittle beauty of this landscape form and its melancholy atmosphere, which results from the endangerment of this landscape by the permanent exploitation of its resources.
from 45,00 € Weight 1.3 kg
The book, 'War of Whispers' by John WILLHEIM is about what was later called 'the CIA's secret war' conflict in Laos in the 1960s/1970s. The photographer's sympathies were with the Hmong who fought this proxy war. The book design is by Sybren (SYB) KUIPER.
49,00 € *
'Sibylle' showcases photographers, fashion- & graphic designers, models, writers as well as its political & sociocultural background of almost 50 year long publishing history as the definitive publication on an important chapter of German media history.
0,00 €
Photo book 'Autobahn' by Berlin based Ostkreuz photographer Jörg BRÜGGEMANN contains color photographs of German motorways that were taken between 2014 and 2019. It questions the present and future significance of the achievement from the Weimar Republic.
from 38,00 € Weight 1.2 kg
'Give my regards to Elizabeth' is Peter BIALOBRZESKI's first photo book - clearly influenced by British color photography of the 1980s. Now, 27 years after the hand-made copies, the Trade Edition followed as facsimile in the original layout.
from 34,00 €
Threadknotted pb. with dust jacket, 17 x 24 cm., 56 pp., 40 color ills., bilingual text: Englisch / Deutsch
18,00 € *
Photo volume 'Nowhere' by Frank van der SALM - designed by Irma BOOM - shows a world that is mainly about Instagrammability. Architecture, design and cityscape driven by the mechanisms of global big business - everywhere the same antiseptic beauty.
from 55,00 €
'Berlin 1966-70' by Arwed MESSMER shows the student protests from the perspective of the Berlin police. For this he digitized over 1000 negatives. Edited in a film-like sequential narrative structure, he breaks down the boundaries between photo and film.
45,00 € * Weight 1.5 kg
HC (tipped-in image, no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 28,5 cm., 96 pp., 39 color ills., bilingual text: English / German
38,00 € *
The atmospheric images in Michael LANGE's photo book 'Cold Mountain' combine the quiet majesty of mountain landscapes with fleeting moments of nature perception.
 How do we perceive what we see, and how do we find ways to express feelings in pictures?
48,00 € *
Leporello, 11 × 13,5 x 1,5 cm., 17 post cards on one printed sheet, English, Ltd. to 800 copies
12,00 € *
The photo volume 'Tree and Soil', combines their own landscape photographs from Fukushima with historical material from a naturalist. Robert KNOTH and Antoinette de JONG underline the value of nature by interpreting changes documented in photographs.
from 55,00 € Weight 0.6 kg
HC with foil stamping (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 29 cm., 104 pp., 84 duotone b/w ills., bilingual texts: German / English
0,00 € *
Hardcover with foil stamped type, 24 x 26 cm., 88 pp., 54 tritone b/w ills., bilingual text: German / English
38,00 € *
In 'Papa, Gerd und der Nordmann', Ostkreuz photographer Espen EICHHÖFER explores central questions about his origins: Where do I come from? Where am I at home? What is home? His photos were taken between 2009 & 2019 on vacation trips to his Norwegian home
38,00 € *
2nd print run (blue cover), 26 × 32 x 2 cm., 144 pp., 69 duotone b/w ills., bilingual text: German / English
59,00 € *
The volume 'Dark Whispers' by Beatrice MINDA reflects the ambivalent aspects of the British colonial period. In far-eastern Myanmar, she documents the oldest, still inhabited houses, which originate from colonially influenced lifestyles in 20th century.
from 39,00 €
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 22,5 x 2 cm., 128 pp., 56 color ills., English / German
35,00 € *
'Realitatea' by Andrea DIEFENBACH is the result of a long-term project and contains vignettes from Moldova, a country in a state of limbo, and facsimiles of newspapers and texts that place them in the context of the political events of the past ten years.
from 45,00 € Weight 1 kg
HC with foil stamped title and tipped-in image on back cover (no dust jacket, as issued), 30,5 x 24,5 cm., 168 pp., approx. 70 color ills., bilingual text: German / English
34,00 € *
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 28 x 3 cm., 240 pp., approx. 660 ills., bilingual: German / English
39,00 € *
The book 'Blind Spots', the first volume by Danish artist Balder OLRIK, is a study of our perception. In his images, he disrupts our visual habits by removing context-specific pictorial elements, also as a call to perceive our environment more consciously
from 35,00 € Weight 1.3 kg
Pb. with belly band (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 36 x 2 cm., approx. 184 pp., approx. 65 color ills.,
58,00 € *
The photo book 'Divided we Stand' by duo Mathias BRASCHLER & Monika FISCHER brings together 82 portraits of citizens of the United States and their honest opinions and views on the deep divisions that permeate the United States of America and its society.
from 39,00 €
The book 'Unter Wasser' is both a radical break and a consistent continuation of previous work by Hans-Christian SCHINK. The setting is biotopes in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: lakes, ditches and so-called 'Sölle', in which he worked with an underwater camera.
49,00 € *
In his photo book 'L.A. Crossing' Jens LIEBCHEN looks at a city of contrasts from a moving car. Photo icon 'La Brea/Beverly' by Stephen SHORE serves as a hook and one thinks of famous photo series by US photographer Lee FRIEDLANDER as well as by Ed RUSCHA
40,00 € *
The book 'Verso Nord' is the result of a collaboration between Guido GUIDI & Gerry JOHANSSON during a campaign in Castelfranco. The former focused on the historic city center with his large format camera and the latter on the suburbs in his medium format.
from 45,00 €
In 'Daughters of Magic' Ostkreuz agency photographer FRITZ documents Mihaela Minca, the most powerful witch in Romania. Magic & mysticism are part of everyday life in her Roma family & closely knit community, witchcraft is an expression of female strength
38,00 € *
The compendium 'KONTINENT', published on the occasion of same named exhibition in Berlin, contains color and b/w photographs of the participating Ostkreuz photographers. It addresses the most important issues currently preoccupying the European population
39,90 € *
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 28 x 1,5 cm., 148 pp., 78 color ills., bilingual text: German / English
0,00 € *
Minimalist publication 'Mountain' by Ursula SCHULZ-DORNBURG, now out of print at the publisher, presents her 2006 cycle of black-and-white images of the mythical Mount Ararat in eastern Anatolia. The English-language introductory is by Hartwig Fischer.
98,00 € * Weight 0.2 kg
For his work about farmers in Emiglia Romagna NERI was awarded the first August-Sander-Prize for portrait photography. A 'real' photo book now follows the only paperback catalog volume as a bound edition - excellent printed in the Alteburger Druckerei!
from 38,00 €
Brutalist architecture & concrete fascinate Sue BARR (professor of photography, London). With her large format camera, the British woman traversed all of Italy from the Alps to Naples and photographed the previously largely ignored motorway architecture.
44,00 € Weight 0.6 kg
What in other families' guest room was called the 'Africa room' by the SCHÖNHARTINGs. In the lavishly designed book 'Das Erbe', the Ostkreuz photographer embarks on an associative journey, a personal dialogue with private, social colonial responsibility.
38,00 € *