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 volume 'Autoportrait' by Robert MAPPLETHORPE showcases 65 self portraits, many previously unpublished and culled from his earliest works, that offer insight into the photographer's complex personality and self-explorations.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