The publishing bookstore for art, art science, photography u.a. based in Cologne exists since 1969. In parallel, the publisher Gebrüder König was founded, with artist books u.a. by Gilbert & George, Fischli & Weiss and Gerhard Richter.

This version of the book 'EIN-HEIT' (U-NI-TY) is a re-edit. Originally published in 1996, Michael SCHMIDT investigated the question of 'unity', tracing the symbolism & iconography of political systems, their propaganda & the images of people they project.
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  • Ed(s)/Author(s): Thomas Weski
  • Format: HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 19,5 x 26,5 x 3 cm., 316 pp., b/w ills., text language: English
Out-of-print 'Projects Done' shows works by Candida HÖFER in unusual formats: Small-format of 'Zoological Gardens', 'The Citizens of Calais', 'On Kawara', or large images such as 'Türken in D.' and slides of '80 Pictures', shown with black on the pages.
98,00 € * Weight 0.9 kg
In 'Fotografiegeschichte der Abstraktion' (Photographic history of abstraction), Kathrin Schönegg traces the history of photography: from the experimental beginnings in the 1830s, through (pseudo)scientific, applied & artistic contexts, to digitalization.
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  • Format: Paperback (no dust jacket, as issued), 15,5 x 23 x 3 cm., 400 pp.
  • Language(s): German
  • Year of Release: 2019
  • Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln
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Crossfading of human bodies in the karst coastal landscape of the Crimean peninsula. The protagonists were taken from contemporary history & the present. MIKHAILOV reproduces here the history of photographic image production in resolution and form finding
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  • Format: HC, approx. 22 x 28 cm., 128 pp., 119 ills., Ltd. to 180 copies
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Pb. with poster as dust jacket, 21,5 x 28 x 1 cm., 68 pp., with 14 color & 23 b/w ills., bilingual texts: German / English
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  • Ed(s)/Author(s): Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Christin Müller, Florian Ebner
  • Book design: Nicola REITER
  • Format: Pb. with poster as dust jacket, 21,5 x 28 x 1 cm., 68 pp., with 14 color & 23 b/w ills., bilingual texts: German / English
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HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 22,5 x 2 cm., 208 pp., 84 color ills., multilingual: German, English, Norwegian, Hebrew
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  • Ed(s)/Author(s): Enrico Lunghi, Susanne Gaensheimer, Suzanne Landau
  • Format: HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 22,5 x 2 cm., 208 pp., 84 color ills., multilingual: German, English, Norwegian, Hebrew
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With its generous image flow, this book, 'A Diary', celebrates important Japanese photographer Daido MORIYAMA as the 2019 Hasselblad Award winner and his highly influential, lifelong radical and authentic approach to photography.
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  • Photographer(s): Daido MORIYAMA (JP)
  • Ed(s)/Author(s): Hasselblad Foundation (ed.), Sandra Phillips (text), personal notes by: Simon Baker, Mark Holborn, Hervé Chandès, Nick Rhodes & by Ishiuchi Miyako
  • Book design: BANKERWESSEL
  • Format: HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 30 x 2,5 cm., 244 pp., 223 b/w & 47 color ills.
  • Language(s): English
  • Year of Release: 2019
  • Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne
498,00 € Weight 1.8 kg
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Gerhard RICHTER's compendium of his series, 'Atlas', shows more than 800 plates including the series 'War Cut', as well as about 50 plates with the late motifs, including the designs for the stained glass window in the south transept of Cologne Cathedral.
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  • Ed(s)/Author(s): Helmut Friedel
  • Format: GERMAN ED.! Gebundene Ausgabe, 18,5 x 22 x 6,5 cm., 864 S., Farbaufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
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Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 264 S. mit 25 ganz- bzw. doppelseitigen S/W-Abb., Bibliographie, Indices, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
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  • Format: Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 264 S. mit 25 ganz- bzw. doppelseitigen S/W-Abb., Bibliographie, Indices, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
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In his tireless search, LEMPERT has already created a large image archive. His interest in nature is complemented by his extensive research into the properties and materiality of the photographic image. His photographs are resistant to any categorization.
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The volume 'Gedruckt und erblättert' deals about the photobook as a medium of aestethic articulation and contains recent contributions from art scholars on the subject, discussing the photobook as a cultural-historical, social as well as political medium.
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  • Ed(s)/Author(s): Désirée Düdder
  • Format: SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 15,5 x 23 cm., 280 pp., highly illustrated, German only
28,00 € * Weight 0.7 kg
Small, out-of-print photo book on the occasion of an exhibition in the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. It contains the series 'Drift' exhibited there with b/w photographs of a sequence that is made during an eruption of the Stomboli volcano on an Italian island.
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SC, 15,5 x 21 cm., 112 pp., German (also available in English!)
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  • Ed(s)/Author(s): Thomas Seelig
  • Format: SC, 15,5 x 21 cm., 112 pp., German (also available in English!)
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English edition. The text and picture book 'Andy Warhol. EXHIBITS a glittering alternative' explores the exhibition strategies of the American artist Andy WARHOL. It presents probably the most famous icon of Pop Art as an installation artist and curator.
38,00 €
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German photographer In the photo book '4100 Duisburg' you can see how the photographer Laurenz BERGEual language of silence and light that captures the visible present of places over which history seems to have passed as well as the echoes of former life.
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  • Photographer(s): Laurenz BERGES (GER)
  • Ed(s)/Author(s): Heinz Liesbrock
  • Book design: Claudia OTT
  • Format: Linen bound HC with dust jacket, 26,5 x 33 x 3 cm., 160 pp., color ills.
  • Language(s): bilingual texts: German / English translation (as inlet)
  • Year of Release: 2020
  • Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Koenig, Cologne
  • Print run details: 1st print run
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This catalog volume of the work of Swedish artist duo Klara KÄLLSTRÖM & Thobias FÄLDT between 2011 and 2021 invites us to critically consider the prevailing narratives about today's world and how photography is used in the creation of these narratives.
78,00 € * Weight 2 kg
The volume 'Höfe' by Bernhard FUCHS shows farms in the area around Helfenberg (Austria) that have been passed down from generation to generation. They are scattered in the hilly landscape of the Mühlviertel, where the climate is harsh and the soil barren.
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  • Format: Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 25,5 x 25 x 2 cm., 100 S., 48 Farbaufn., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT FOR THIS ED. ONLY! - English ed. also to pre-order as long as availbale!
198,00 € * Weight 0.7 kg
'I love you stupid' illustrates the fast life of young deceased artist Dash SNOW and his importance for the New York scene. The abundance of material as well as the 'appearances' of many people of the scene make this volume a document of US youth culture.
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  • Ed(s)/Author(s): Mary Hansen
  • Format: Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 18,5 x 28 x 4 cm., 435 pp., color ills., text language: English
398,00 €
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In the Soviet era, Ukrainian waiters asked 'tea or coffee?' The addition is an expression of the economic changes that MIKHAILOV examines using the example of his hometown Kharkov. Have the promises of salvation of the 'Orange Revolution' been fulfilled?
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  • Photographer(s): Boris MIKHAILOV UKR
  • Format: HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 29 x 20,5 x 3 cm., 238 pp., color ills.
  • Language(s): English
  • Year of Release: 2011
  • Publisher: Koenig, Cologne
  • Print run details: out of print, 1st print run
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This catalog volume contains a summary of Thomas RUFF's exhibitions to date - from his earliest beginnings to his most recent works - and thus provides a complete overview of the entire oeuvre of one of the famous artists of the Düsseldorf Photo School.
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  • Ed(s)/Author(s): Rei Masuda
  • Format: Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 29,5 x 3 cm., 272 pp., highly illustrated, bilingual: Japanese / English
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