Our books reflect the unique diversity that is made possible by forms & discourses. Combining first-rate, high-quality production with custom design, we create publications that testify to a great passion for special books that are exacting aesthetically.

This photo volume, '10 Jahre Hambacher Forst', tells the stories of the people who fought for the preservation of Hambach Forest, Germany, in a combination of artistic as well as activist positions, photographs, original sounds and archive material.
28,00 € *
For years, former BECHER student Candida HÖFER traveled around the world to photograph public and semi-public libraries. The photographic volume 'Libraries. The Return' brings together an essence of past work and juxtaposes it with current images:
18,00 € * Weight 0.5 kg
The photographs of Sebastian MÖLLEKEN in the out-of-print photo book 'Tagebau' shift the sensation of time and size; they show how the landscape shapes the people who live in it - at the same time, the people shape the landscape.
39,80 € Weight 1.3 kg
This catalog - signed on request - will be published on the occasion of the photo exhibition that will take place in Cologne on the 25th anniversary of the world premiere. It contains the documentation of the project by the photographer Roland KAISER.
from 38,00 €
In his out-of-print book 'Legitimacy of Landscape' Yaakov ISRAEL explors the Arab, Bedouin & Druze villages in Israel ( Palestine. It follows in the footsteps of the in the Holy Land in the 19th century active photographers Félix BONFILS & Francis FRITH.
98,00 € * Weight 0.8 kg
'Queer Tattoo' by Rudolph, Wolbergs & Polinsky is the first comprehensive presentation of the vibrant, diverse queer tattoo community. Presented are 50 international tattoo artists:inside, introduced through extensive portraits, texts, and picture spreads
45,00 € * Weight 1.1 kg
'Polis' - 'the city', as the Greeks simply called Istanbul became 2015 an experience that went far beyond the purely geographical division. SCHWERTFEGER shows the scars of the city and her roughness - a portrait of the metropolis beyond the usual clichés.
from 38,00 €
'Island in my mind' by Russian photographer Irina ROZOVSKY emerged from material she photographed at Cuba in 2012. The project received the first prize in the Dummy Awards at the Kassler Photo Book Festival in 2014.
0,00 € * Weight 1 kg
Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 27 x 22 x 2 cm., 136 pp., 76 b/w ills., bilingual texts: German / English
0,00 € * Weight 0.9 kg
For 'Afterlife, My 20th Century' Ruth MARTEN selected photographic originals from the 19th and 20th centuries. Overpainting resulted in pictures full of psychoanalytic riddles, from the depths of her artistic subconscious.
28,00 € *
The photo book 'Cinemas' brings together for the first time a film of cinemas that were newly created by Hugo SCHMÖLZ and his son Karl Hugo SCHMÖLZ between 1935 and 1957, especially in the Rhineland and the Ruhr area.
45,00 € * Weight 0.5 kg
Linen bound HC (with acetate dust jacket), 31 x 24 x 2 cm., 72 pp., color ills., text language: English
from 48,00 € Weight 0.9 kg
The Cologne Carnival in photo works by German photographers Theodor BARTH, Ute BEHREND, Thekla EHLING, Dirk GEBHARDT, Matthias JUNG, David KLAMMER, Frederic LEZMI, Nadine PREISS and Wolfgang ZURBORN.
0,00 € *
HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 21,5 cm., 176 pp., b/w ills., English, Ltd. to 500 copies
34,00 € *
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.
55,00 € * Weight 1 kg
In the photo book 'Migration as Avantgarde' - from an Hannah Arendt essay (1943) - Michael DANNER combines his own photos and texts with historical recordings to create a multi-layered narrative that is repeatedly broken up in terms of design and content.
from 40,00 € Weight 1 kg
In his book 'Revier', a photographic essay about home and loss, Matthias JUNG mixed portraits and photographs of objects that, like people, have had to move to new homes and, like archaeological finds, tell of a life that is in danger of being forgotten.
42,00 € Weight 1.1 kg
Photo volume 'Été' by Olaf UNVEZART and Sebastian SCHELS shows ski resorts in the French and Italian Western Alps. The atmosphere of the tourist architecture and infrastructure in the snowless and deserted places is strangely melancholic and enraptured.
0,00 € *
HC with acetate dust jacket, 14,5 x 20 x 1,5 cm., 128 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 600 copies
35,00 € *
In a dense photographic narration, Moritz KÜSTNER describes in the photo book 'Silence is the Sound of Fear' the change in Crimea and the life of the Crimean Tatars in the years 2014 to 2019, consisting of displacement, hope, resistance and new beginnings
32,00 €
High dimension sized photo volume 'Off Worlds' by Louise AMELIE & Aljaž FUIS shows the periphery of American natural & urban landscapes. Spatial separation from society often creates a felt demarcation, as an expression of independence, pride and freedom.
38,00 € * Weight 0.487 kg
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 28 x 2 cm., 340 pp., b/w ills., bilingual text: German / English
42,00 € *
SC, 23 x 30 cm., 44 pp., 36 b/w ills., Spanish / English
22,00 € *
This out-of-print photo volume 'Dacapo', co-designed by Dirk ALVERMANN, contains b/w photographs whose subjects range from street carnivals in Düsseldorf & Cologne to everyday situations and photographs that can be read as political-critical commentary.
18,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
In their volume 'Peripheren' Katja STUKE & Oliver SIEBER relate the city of Paris to the Ruhr area. In their colorful photographs, which were taken along the Périphérique in Paris, they refer in a 'New Topographics' manner to urban places in the Ruhr area
45,00 €
Pb ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 186 S., ca. 160 S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN!
19,80 € *
The compendium 'New Queer Photography: Focus on the margins' presents over fifty contemporary photographic positions, including already established names as well as numerous talents little noticed by the public or still unknown.
58,00 € *
For 'Scrap Book', Hajime KIMURA rearranged his 'Kodama' material and enriched it with photographs, annotations as well as illustrations. The book consists of raw image clippings and sketches, conveying his unique approach to the rare Matagi tribe.
0,00 € Weight 0.3 kg
Out-of-print volume 'Gehaltene Zeit' (Time kept) with works by Ursula ARNOLD, Arno Fischer and Evelyn RICHTER makes stylistic comparisions possible and shows the different working conditions, which contribute to the understanding of the respective œuvres.
0,00 € *
For his photo volume 'Paris Exclusivement', Walter VOGEL has documented a bygone Paris. With wistfulness and enthusiasm, he has captured photographically how demolitions and construction projects have given rise to something new in this fascinating city.
39,90 € Weight 0.5 kg
In 'Butterflies and Caterpillars' Ardelle SCHNEIDER documents the current drag scene in the USA. In doing so, she allows the subtleties of the characters to become visible. With a careful lighting direction, she creates shots full of intimacy and dignity.
45,00 € *
With the photo volume 'Walking Distance', Olaf UNVERZART shows his interpretation of a travel diary. Beyond sights, well-known places with supposedly country-typical folklore, it opens the view for the things and living beings in between - an in-between.
39,00 € Weight 0.5 kg
The photo volume 'N.A.' by Doug RICKARD is a personal hymn to the USA. With his photographs he provides an undisguised view of the dark side of American society and touches on topics such as discrimination, politics and the dangers of digital surveillance
from 37,50 €
In 'A40', Sebastian MÖLLEKEN documents the 'lifeline', which connects almost all major cities of the Ruhr area - Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, Bochum, Oberhausen and Duisburg. Landscape and portrait shots create an overall picture of the life shaped by the A40
19,80 € * Weight 0.7 kg
'Die Zukunft hat schon begonnen' (The Future Has Already Begun) represents the major monograph on Rudolf HOLTAPPEL, considered THE chronicler of the Ruhr area of the 50s. In addition, he created free, experimental works and photographed on numerous trips.
38,00 € Weight 1.6 kg
Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 30 x 23,5 x 1,5 cm., 72 S., 47 Farbaufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
28,00 € *