Koenig Books

For his photobook compendium 'Canon. On African Photobooks', Johannes Wohnseifer selected titles from his private collection that focus on the African continent. These photobooks, published between 1948 and 2011, are presented here in chronological order.

The catalog accompanies the exhibition SUBJECT AND OBJECT. PHOTO RHINE RUHR and contains many illustrations, current texts and photo-historically significant articles. It examines relationships between different photographic positions that have developed.

For the first time, the author, M.Stoll, outlines a theory of the photo book as a school of vision, based on the theoretical, media-specific, political and artistic context of the photo books '60 Fotos' by Aenne BIERMANN and 'Das Watt' by Alfred EHRHARDT.

The two-volume publication presents insights into the early work of Robert ADAMS as well as a previously unpublished text on his perception of modern sacred architecture - in the context of the buildings of the friendly German architect Rudolf Schwarz.

HC with dust jacket, 20,5 x 25,5 x 1 cm., 72 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

In the volume 'Atelier Man Ray', Herbert Molderings captures the artistic environment as well as those objects that the latter collected and produced himself in order to compose lifelike arrangements from them - an impressive view of an imaginative cosmos

Pb. (no dust jacket as issued), 20 x 28 x 2 cm., 142 pp., 152 ills. (78 in color), bilingual: German / English

SC, 23 x 27 cm., 216 pp., bilingual texts: German / English

The catalog 'Accra/London. A Retrospective' is dedicated to the body of work produced to date by Ghanaian photographer James BARNOR, tracing his photographic practice over six decades: both the work in his homeland and his work, from London in the 1960s.

In Sahara, numerous people make a living from the laborious digging, processing, forging & selling of fossils. 'A Guide to Trees' contains photos of the region as well as a fake guide. In 'A Guide to Fossils' Yto BARRADA documents the region & its people.