Based in Leipzig Spector Books explores the possibilities offered by an active exchange between all parties involved in the book production process: artists, authors, book designers, lithographers, printers and bookbinders.

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 18 x 25 cm., 352 S., S/W-Aufnahmen. deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
32,00 € *
'Ikonar. Archival Constellations' contains a large number of materials by Josef KOUDELKA from the years 1960 to 2012 as well as important series from his photographic work together with seven thematic constellations derived from the logic of his archive.
48,00 € * Weight 1.4 kg
'Jenny, Jenny' is not documentary: ZIELONY avoids the journalistic impetus for certainty & truth. To him, the authenticity of the subject is as relevant as the question of the objectivity of the documentary image: both are never free of dramatic elements.
32,00 € * Weight 0.7 kg
Sewn pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 28 cm., 128 pp., 30 b/ & color ills., bilingual text: German / English
32,00 € *
The volume 'Vele' by Tobias ZIELONY is based on his animation film about the building complex 'Le Vele di Scampia', a symbol of the Camorra’s power in the Naples region and a key centre of European drug trafficking with an selection of 287 single images.
40,00 € * Weight 0.8 kg
Gebundene Ausgabe, 19 x 27,5 cm., 156 S., 110 Farb-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
34,00 € *
Thread-sewn pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 28,5 cm., 304 pp., 299 b/w ills., bilingual text: German / English
32,00 € *
Thread-sewn HC with silk, laminated & embossed with dust jacket, 24,5 x 31,5 cm., 72 pp., 32 triplex b/w ills., bilingual texts: English / German
36,00 € *
'Mining Photography: The Ecological Footprint of Image Production' is dedicated to the material history of key raw materials in the context of photography, their dependence and establishs the connection to the history of mining, disposal & climate change.
36,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
Japanese bound pb., 24 x 30 cm., 92 pp., 57 color ills., bilingual text: English / French
28,00 € *
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 15 x 19,5 x 1,5 cm., 112 pp., 50 duplex b/w ills., bilingual text: German / English
28,00 € *
by Florian Ebner (ed.), HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 30 x 3 cm., 278 S., reichhaltig illustriert, 1.700 gr., Deutsch-sprachig - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
68,00 € *
Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 24 cm., 192 pp., b/w & color illustrated, English
32,00 € *
by Hannah DARABI (ed.) Thread-sewn pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 33 cm., 540 pp., approx. 750 b/w & col. ills.,
48,00 € *
Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 14,5 x 1 cm., 168 pp., b/w ills., Ltd. to 5 of 500 copies, bilingual text: English / Japanese
48,00 € *
Fadengeheftete, gebundene Ausgabe, 23 x 29 cm., 376 S., zahlreiche S/W- & Farb-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
42,00 € *
New edition of the long out-of-print photo volume, 'Berlin, Fruchtstraße am 27. März 1952'. Arwed MESSMER and Annett Gröschner address the facets of photo documentary by creating the portrait of a street of 32 individual photographs by Fritz TIEDEMANN.
38,00 €
'Wolfen' by Tobias ZIELONY combines several levels: images from Wolfen-Bitterfeld; their storage in archive film format and a text that oscillates between essay & science fiction. Darkness is thematized here on a biographical, physical & historical level.
32,00 € *
In the out-of-print volume 'Maskiovka', German photographer Tobias ZIELONY documents the gay techno scene in Kiev, Ukraine. Maskirovka' alludes to a Russian method of deceptive warfare.
0,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
SC, 112 pp., 40 color ills.
34,00 € *
This photo book, 'Echo', by Jungjin LEE is an elaborately by Helmut VÖLTER designed catalog volume. It contains eleven groups of works from over twenty years of creative work by the Korean photographer. Three essays contextualize the photo works.
from 42,00 €
The six-volume publication 'The Fall' accompanied the retrospective on Tobias ZIELONY. Each volume show two to four works in their entirety and are accompanied by a text that provides a counterpoint to these works in the form of an essay or a narrative.
58,00 € *
Perfectbound softcover, 22 x 27,5 x 3 cm., 322 pp., 160 b/w & 190 color ills., text language: English
36,00 € *
In out-of-print volume 'Trona. Armpit of America' by Tobias ZIELONY, self-staging of the protagonists plays an important role. Through the intensive contact between him and them, relationships develop that make the subjects less shy in front of the camera
0,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
2nd printrun, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 27,5 x 3 cm., 264 pp., 132 two colour printed b/w ills., multilingual text: French, German, English
38,00 € *
'Men like Hitler' shows more than 100 private photos of men taken before 1945. Admittedly, the moustache on its own does not make someone a Nazi. But the men must have been known whom they resembled and owned the likeness when they looked in the mirror.
32,00 € *
Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 30 x 2 cm., 166 pp., 92 color ills., 8 fold out pages, trilingual text: German / English / French
34,00 € *
In 'Ukrainian Night', Miron ZOWNIR documents drug addicts from Poltava, homeless people at Kiev Central Station, street children in Odessa & Chernivtsi, revealing the profound fault lines in Ukrainian society that were already heralding the revolution.
32,00 € Weight 0.9 kg
In 'Manitoba', Tobias ZIELONY documents the lives of young indigenous gang members in Winnipeg. In the tradition of classic photojournalism, he makes use of various genres: portraits of gang members, architectural shots and views of the urban landscape.
24,00 € *
A work with which RAUTERT already received attention during his studies in Essen in 1973, here published again because of a symposium & exhibition. The book comprises 56 individual works of this cycle which explore the basics of photography grammatically.
11,90 € *
Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 31 x 2,5 cm., 340 pp., 470 color ills., English
36,00 € *
Pb. with letterpress printed dust jacket, 23 x 32,5 cm., 140 pp., 17 b/w & 60 color ills., English
32,00 € *
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 31 x 30 x 2 cm., 144 pp., color ills., English
42,00 € *
Schweizer Broschur, 23 x 30,5 cm., 360 S., zahlreiche Fotos (u.a. 39 Fotos von Henri CARTIER-BRESSON), deutsch-sprachiger text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
34,00 € *
Andreas HORLITZ, Wolfgang SCHULZ, Miron ZOWNIR - Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 22 x 28 x 2 cm., 240 S., 130 S/W-Abb. & 19 Farb-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
28,00 € *
2nd print run, sewn pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 34 x 2 cm., 196 pp., b/w ills., text language: German (with English text as supplement)
0,00 € *
SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 11 x 18 cm., 312 pp., highly b/w & color illustrated, English
0,00 € *
by Florian Ebner, Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 19 x 25 x 2 cm., 160 pp., color ills., multi-lingual texts: Arabian / German / English
32,00 € *
The exhibition catalog on the work of East-German photographer Evelyn RICHTER presents central groups of works, from the beginnings of her photographic activity in the 1950s to the fall of the Berlin Wall. It also includes photographs from her archive.
42,00 € * Weight 1.4 kg
Gebundene Ausgabe in Fadenheftung ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienn), 24 x 31 x 1,5 cm., 128 S., S/W-Aufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
36,00 € *
The bibliophile photo volume 'Panoptikum' by Herbert LIST, published for the first time, contains b/w photographs taken in 1944 in the Prater in Vienna, which show fairy tale scenes, historical tableaux as well as medical subjects created from wax figures
54,00 € * Weight 1.2 kg
First overall presentation of the photographic work of the photographer, who was born in Dresden. To rediscover is a careful and accurate chronicler, a busy player in the GDR photo scene and a skeptical, distant observer of the post-reunification period.
42,00 € *
The six-volume publication 'The Fall' accompanied the retrospective on Tobias ZIELONY. Each volume show two to four works in their entirety and are accompanied by a text that provides a counterpoint to these works in the form of an essay or a narrative.
58,00 € *
Physicist Masanao ABE built an observatory with a view of Mount Fuji in the late 1920s. From there he held the clouds that surrounded the mountain for over 15 years. The motifs unintentionally fit into a iconographic tradition: the mountain and the cloud.
0,00 € *
22+5 saddle-stitched booklets in a box, 24 x 31 cm., 458 pp., 115 b/w ills. & 235 color ills., quadrolingual (Bosnian, French, German, English)
0,00 € *
Sewn pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 29,5 cm., 124 pp., 124 b/w ills., text language: English
28,00 € *
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 30,5 cm., 256 pp., 100 b/w & 150 color ills., 1.600 gr., bilingual: English / German
42,00 € *
Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 27 cm., 216 pp., 194 color ills., bilingual: German / English (no text, just a few words as details)
45,00 € *