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This chronologically arranged monograph on the work of Eugène ATGET shows a photograph and includes the commentary of the editor, John Szarkowski. However, it is less about an exact analysis than about capturing the context and describing the attributes.

'Labour book. 2014-2015' by Ukrainian photographer Kirill GOLVCHENKO is to be understood as a criticism of the economic situation in his home country. Against the background of the original document of his father, he shows the true situation of pensioners

Photo volume 'Private Views. A Highrise Panorama of Manhattan' by Andi SCHMIED provides views from the tallest buildings in Manhattan, for example over Central Park, or from the bathroom in Calacatta Tucci marble with a view of the Empire State Building.

The narrow catalog for the exhibition 'foto-auge' in the Hamburg Deichtorhallen (2002-2003), which has been out of print for a long time, contains a five-page introduction to art history and personal biographical data as well as 28 b / w illustrations.

In 'Tierra' Espe PONS invites us to delve deeper into memory, through places that have been marked by the trauma of the Spanish Civil War. The images urge us to examine the surroundings we pass by every day, to see them ias a repository of silent pain.

Boxed pb., 21 x 23 cm., o.pp., color ills., text language: English

97 unique images made from the same photographic negative. A photo book about the oldest living organism known to man and a book about the instability of the photographic image and the enigmatic intertwinement of time, reality and perception.

German photographer and father Oliver RASCHKE is grateful to have had the opportunity to experience and document his family life. His volume 'The World Ain't Enough' represents the first 10 years of his sons' lives. Time is racing. The conquest continues.

In 1963, Ed RUSCHA photographed filling stations from Oklahoma to LA. He published them in 'Twentysix Gasoline Stations'. He took 60 photographs which he edited to 26. 7 unpublished images from New Mexico are reproduced here, from the original negatives.

This photo book is the result of Nicolai HOWALT's fascination with experiments of Nils R. Finsen for healing by invisible light rays on the periphery of the electromagnetic spectrum and their obvious similarities to the basic elements of photography.

Bilingual catalog volume. This slim photo publication about Eugéne ATGET is catalog number 4 of the Cologne-based gallery Rudolf Kicken, which was published on the occasion of the sales exhibition.

Pb., 21,5 x 28,5 x 2 cm., unpaginated, b/w ills, text language: English

Out-of-print 'The Peace Weary' by Diana SCHERER and Menno Wigman was created after 'A Murder in Rotterdam' with police photographs from 1905 to 1967. Independently of each other, both were inspired by the photographs and developed this joint book project.

For her self-published, out-of-print photo volume 'Plánētes', German photographer Birgit KRAUSE trusts her unusual gaze completely and finds a new foreign country in reality. It is as if you are looking at images from an astronomical voyage of discovery.

The out-of-print book 'PKIN' (Pałac Kultury i Nauki) by Jacek FOTA deals about a huge communist building in Warszaw. It contains 70 color photographs and 10 pages of personal notes based on staff interviews. The book design is made by Ania NALECKA-MILACH.

The out-of-print double volume 'Talents 06' contains the photo series 'The Cast' by Tobias ZIELONY as well as the text contribution 'I love America. On the adaptation of reality in the photographs of Tobias Zielony' by Jutta von Zitzewitz.

Cloth bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 26 x 20,5 x 1,5 cm., 52 pp., 29 color ills., text language: English

In 'Workshop. S/W-Fotografie nach dem Zonensystem', Andreas WEIDNER, a representative of fine art photography in the tradition of f/64 group around Ansel ADAMS, Edward WESTON & Imogen CUNNINGHAM, shows its consistent application with large format camera.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued,), 16 x 24 x 2 cm., 296 pp., 140 quadri color & b/w ills., 950 gr., text language: English

Broschierte Ausgabe (ohne Schutzumschlag, wie erschienen), 10 x 19 x 1,0 cm., 88 S., deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN AVAILABLE!

SC, packed in a metal net (no dust jacket, as issued), 12 x 16 cm., 96 pp., 45 color ills. + 4 loose postcards + 5 loose documents, Ltd. to 500 copies

'A Picturial History of the Empty Chair' by Erik KESSELS & Karel de Mulder deals with the subject of absence. Looking at an empty chair makes us wonder who could sit or who might be sitting there. Not knowing or seeing can make a photograph more exciting.

Self-published photo book 'Please Notify the Sun by Stephen GILL is about the world inside a fish. We see places and spaces, caves and grottos, beaches and mountains, rock formations and oil slicks. It offers a huge panorama of the most diverse sceneries.

HC, 30 x 25 cm., 200 pp., English

Adolescence is the subject of the photographic volume 'Bärenmädchen' (Bear Girls) by German photographer Ute BEHREND. She tells the story of a fictional 'Indian tribe' that separates its adolescent girls and draws parallels to our society.

'Theatre of Memory' by Eikoh HOSOE with photographs of Butoh dancers Tatsumi Hijikata (in 'Kamaitachi') as well as Kazuo Ohno ('Butterfly Dream') shows the ability to bring memories to life through the intersection of photography, dance theater & painting

'Ohne Vorstellung. Circusfotografien von 1950 bis 1970' by Heinz NEUMÄRKER documents the so-called 'backstage area'. His photographic position lies between the affectionate approach of a CHARGESHEIMER and the precise recordings of a Henri CARTIER-BRESSON.

The 1929 self-published publication '50 Years Leonhard Tietz 1879/1929' contains an illustrated description of the company history. At the end of the volume, Werner MANTZ is explicitly named as the author of the artistic black and white recordings.

'Discover' by Francois DAIREAUX contains the story of a journey into the future, revealing the contrasts of a contemporary China in constant construction, with cities growing out of the ground as if by magic. With texts by sinologist Emmanuel Lingot.

The photo volume 'Two Rivers' by Magnum member Carolyn DRAKE deals about the two most important rivers in Central Asia, Amu Darya and Syr Darya. The self-published, unconventional book was designed by prominent Dutch photo book designer Sybren KUIPER.

The out-of-print catalog volume 'Anthony Hernandez' shows in over 30 street photographs the social landscape of Los Angeles, which Anthony HERNANDEZ has been documenting for more than forty years. The b/w and color photographs date from the 1970s and 80s.

'Directions for Leaving' on the work of Jeffrey SILVERTHORNE 1971-2006 pointedly asks existential life questions about identity, gender, love, violence, sexuality and death. The transsexual becomes the ultimate symbol, seeking ways to show his inner self.

HC, 15 x 21 cm., 48 pp., Ltd. to 750 copies

The black-and-white images in the photographic volume, 'Happy. Brooklyn 1988-1993', are from the first photography project by Finnish photographer Nina KORHONEN is about the story of 'Finntown', a part of Brooklyn inhabited by Finnish immigrants.

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 15,5 x 21 x 2 cm., 120 Seiten, S/W-Aufnahmen, deutsch-sprachier Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN, Ltd. to 500 copies

Open binded pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 32 x 2,5 cm. 172 pp., 87 color & b/w ills., bilingual text: Englsh / Dutch, Ltd. to 375 copies

In this out-of-print catalog volume 'Photographs 1961-1967' by Dennis HOPPER, 18 photographs were published for the first time at that time, as well as 21 photographs taken from the 1986 photo volume 'Ouf of the Sixties' and republished.

At the center of 'Doors' is the documentation of photographer Yusuke YAMATANI's European tour, a self-portrait project that combines photography with drum performance. In addition to the performances, snapshots, landscapes und encounters are recorded.

The out-of-print and hard-to-find volume 'In Search of Dignity and Justice. The untold story of Conservancy Workers in Mumbai' by Sudharak OLWE shows the fate of workers in Bombay. It contains fourty-six mostly full-paged b/w images and six pages of text.

Out-of-print 'A World in Ruins. Vienna 1945-1948' by Ernst HAAS tells history as a psychic collage. The images of the deep depression in the rubble of bombed-out history contrast with the optimistic awakening. A little-documented part of Austria's history

Open bound pb. (no dust jacket, as issued) 19,5 x 25 x 1,5 cm., 120 pp., b/w & color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 800 copies

Over 150 photo books from a private collection for sale. Signed titles, some in their original packaging and collector's editions with print from 2010 to 2016. Also to find next days with detailed description in the 'other second-hand photo books' section

'Nová Evropa' by Christian KASNERS deals with the society of Czech Republic, which oscillates between the idea of a united Europe and anti-European populism. On billboards the photographer searches for manifestations of the ideological & political ideas.

'Written on the Land' includes the work of Mark RUWEDEL from 1990 to 2001 and addresses the impact of technologies & culture on the US landscape, using resource extraction as an example, as well as the 'conquest' of the West through railroad construction.

The images in the photo volume 'Humo / Smoke by British photographer Adrian TYLER and the writer and photo historian Horacio Fernandéz, were taken in a disused tobacco factory. The texts come from the Stanford University archive of cigarette advertising.

Out of print since a long time, this photo volume, 'Death Valley' by French photographer Jeanloup SIEFF, contains sixty black-and-white photographs, mainly landscapes of California's Death Valley.

In 'Tween' Oliver RASCHKA accompanies his sons through the labyrinth of the 'tween' years. He fills a gap in contemporary photographic art. From Käthe BUCHLER to Sally MANN and Katharina BOSSE, the view of one's own children has been dominated by women.

'Let’s get shitfaced, it’s free.' contains photographic recordings, Erik KESSELS' answer to the idea of ​​a sketchbook - brought into a form that examines image contexts, themes, colors and textures; not to give answers, but to provoke and to question.

This out-of-print edition of 'The Americans' by Robert FRANK comes from Chrsitian Verlag and was published 30 years after the photographs were taken. The book has been published in various editions and languages (including Chinese, Greman and French).

HC with dust jacket, 30,5 x 30,5 x cm., 56 pp., b/w ills., bilingual text: Japanese & English, Ltd. to 400 copies

This out-of-print photo Hysteric-Glamour-volume by MIkiko HARA contains color photographs taken with a 1930s camera without a viewfinder. Her motifs are from of everyday life, which highlight unique aspects and moods through composition and light color.

Newspaper format, 29 x 38 x 0,6 cm., 16 pp., color ills., English, Ltd to 50 copies

Italian photographer Fausto GIACCONE reached Cavallino Treporti at summer afternoon, and in the uncertainty of the day coming to an end, he was guided by the light. One of the first shots became the cover of the photo book 'Volit di Cavallino Treporti'.

The out-of-print photo book 'Tengelmann 1896-1968. Ausblick' is an elaborately designed company publication, which was realized in the late 1960s by the collective of Rolf BÜNEMANN (layout), Karl-Heinz KLUBESCHEIDT (photos) and Karl-Heinz WEBER (graphics)

The very limited edition volume 'Everyday Abstracts' by Luke Drozd is a silkscreened publication, part of the 'Accumulation Primitive' series , featuring abstract works created from collected textures. Here volume 69 of 70.

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, 21 x 28 cm., 128 pp., text language: Englsh

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 28 x 23 x 1 cm., 32 pp., 28 b/w ills., bilingual texts: English / Japanese - Ltd. to 500 copies

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 13 x 18 1 cm., 88 pp., b/w ills., text language: Japanese, Ltd. to 500 copies

The monograph 'Small Biography' features photographs by Shoji UEDA from the 1930s to the 1990s, originally published in Camera Mainichi magazine between 1974 and 1985. The limited edition of 1000 copies was numbered with an ink stamp on the colophon page.

Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 17,5 x 25 cm., 401 S., zahlr. S/W Foto-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

The debut photo volume 'Heartbeat' by Dutch photographer Machiel BOTMAN consists of grainy, contemplative black and white photographs accompanied by poetic text. The autobiographical and non-linear style of the work suggests the transient nature of life.

'Architekturphotographie in Köln. 1926-1932' to the same named exhibition at Museum Ludwig, Cologne, contains b/w photographs by the photographer Werner MANTZ showing Cologne buildings from the 1920s and 30s - photographed in the style of New Objectivity.

The photo book 'Emotions in between Emotions' by Steve Dean MENDES invites on a journey through the art of portraiture. Inspired by the great Flemish Old Masters and the Pre-Raphaelites, he shows people with all their natural fragility and beauty of soul.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued) approx. 14,5 x 16 x 1 cm., 64 pp., 50 b/w ills., text language: Swedish

The special of the title 'The Bird Project' by Eril BERGLIN lies in its realization as a high-gloss book. The contrast between the natural, colorful plumage and the cold colors of the urban space in which the birds find themselves is particularly striking

Photographer Harry GRUYAERT took the color photos in the narrow photo book 'Irish Summers' from 1983-84 while traveling to Ireland. Some portraits have already been the subject of earlier photo books, but are presented here as a series for the first time.

The text volume 'Inselstolz. Zwischen Strandkorb und Sturmflut' (Island Pride. Between beach chair and storm surge) recounts twenty-five lives in the North Sea, written down by Gerhard Waldherr, flanked by colorful portrait photographs by Alexander BABIC.

Dutch photographer Bastiaan WOUDT captured the local culture of Morocco with a monochrome look for this book. 'Bastiaan Woudt in Morocco' is the eighth part of a book series by the Van Vlissingen Art Foundation that supports talented Dutch photographers.

The photo volume 'Thingstätten' edited by Katharina BOSSE deals with open-air theaters and meeting places of National Socialism. Art and documentation, text and image enable an interdisciplinary examination of the significance of the past for the present.

Presenting earliest work by Edward WESTON from a discovered family album, 'Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist' compares his first artistic efforts with his masterworks to show persistence & evolution of his vision to find essential form with intensity

Out-of-print (German language?) volume 'Autoportrait' by Robert MAPPLETHORPE showcases 65 self portraits, many previously unpublished and culled from his earliest works, that offer insight into the photographer's complex personality and self-explorations.

The photo book 'In the Beginning' covers the first seven years in the work of the American photographer Diane ARBUS. The monograph contains over 100 early photographs from 1956 to 1962, which clearly show the development of her typical, suggestive images.

The special edition of self published photo volume 'Wet City / Islak Kent' by turkish photographer Yusuf Murat SEN comes in a special box including a numbered & signed copy plus one limited edition fine art print. This edition box is limited to 100 copies

Self published out-of-print photographic volume 'Distance. 1991-1995' by Koji ONAKA is about an unspecified city and in its industries. The black-and-white images show railroad infrastructure and roads, as well as a worn port. Signed & numbered (178/300).

The book 'Unimachi 1997' by Koji ONAKA was created in 2012 under the impression of the devastating tsunami in Japan. The b/w photographs show the urban everyday life of the region at the end of the 1990s. The series was later published again as a volume.

The images in the self-published volume 'da denk ich, dass ich fliegen kann' by Conny HÖFLICH give insight into the parallel world of children and the loss of immediate access. The pictures also tell of this in their ambivalence of closeness and distance.

The dualistic principle of the chiaroscuro design forms in the large-format photo book 'Visual Dualism. Dolomites' by Austrian photographer Peter MATHIS is an essential focus and leaves us speechless when looking at the Dolomites in black and white.

The narrow band 'summer days. Peace Days' contains a selection from films that Robert CAPA exposed on his last visits to Berlin in the summer of 1945. New prints made from the original negatives in 1986 were used as a model for reproduction.

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.

Open spine pb., 23,5 x 32 x 1,5 cm., 188 pp. (+ 64 inserted pp., 10,5 x 15 cm.), bilingual textes: French / English

This out-of-print photo volume, '40 let fotoreportérem', offers a comprehensive overview of the work of Emil FAFEK. Starting with photos from the Second World War and the Liberation, through the Reconstruction to the Czech politics of the 1950s to 1980s.

'Der Westerwald im Spiegel der Zeit' gives an insight into August SANDER's work in his home area in around fifty photographs. Here, motifs from his work 'People of the 20th Century' are combined with photos that he had filed under the name 'Bauernarchiv'

Out-of-print photo book 'Amerikabilder by Gerry JOHANSSON' contains photographs from 1962 and 1963. His black-and-white shots of New York and Chicago breathe the aura of famous American photographers such as Robert FRANK, Lee FRIEDLANDER and Walker EVANS.

HC, 15 x 21,5 cm., o.pp., b/w ills, Ltd. to 700 copies

The multi-layered photographs in 'Metropolis. Berlin' by Barbara WOLFF take the viewer on an emotional journey through the city. 'Metropolis' is about the change of the city of Berlin, about provocation and chaos, about secrets, but also about visions.

'Perspektive Fine-Art' by Andreas weidner is a textbook about analog, thoughtful b/w photography. It is a sophisticated textbook that familiarizes the practitioner with analog technique and materials and shows him how to use them for his own image ideas.

In addition to works selected by Eva BESNYÖ herself, the out-of-print volume contains previously never shown works with motifs from Budapest, Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Milan with attention to light, shadow, cropping and line play.

The book 'The Naval Base' is about a Dutch town that was built, bombed and rebuilt by the government. Rob HORNSTRA documents how people live in and with the naval base. The photos are accompanied by text and commentary; the design is by KUMMER & HERRMAN.