Category COLOGNE

Cologne is not famous for Footfachmesse 'Photokina', brought to life by Fritz Gruber. Before the then Cologne Werkschule was wound up, photography was also taught in Cologne with high standards. Today, Cologne is home to the prestigious Hunsthochschule für Medien, or KHM for short, with an extremely well-stocked photobook library, which still offers the study of artistic photography in the degree program 'Mediale Künste'.

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In the category simply labeled 'COLOGNE' you will find photo books that deal with the West German city of Cologne with its millions of inhabitants and its photo industry, or / and that are written by photographers living here. By not only subsuming Cologne under the category 'Rhineland', but by creating its own main category in the WebStore of Cafe Lehmitz Photobooks, the importance of the photo city Cologne shall be made conscious.


This photo volume, '10 Jahre Hambacher Forst', tells the stories of the people who fought for the preservation of Hambach Forest, Germany, in a combination of artistic as well as activist positions, photographs, original sounds and archive material.
28,00 € *
The book 'LOMMERZHEIM: ...die Legende lebt' contains history & stories about the cult Kölsch pub in the Cologne-Deutz district. The publishers were able to win over 40 text and picture authors who contributed their memories and numerous picture documents.
48,00 €
Published in newspaper format, '40 Jahre laif. 40 Positionen dokumentarischer Fotografie' is both an exhibit and a catalog of the exhibition of the same name, which celebrates the anniversary of the German photographers agency from Cologne.
40,00 € * Weight 1.8 kg
In out-of-print book 'Nichtraum' Nicole AHLAND depicts the interplay of light, space & tim showing deserted spaces, shifted into darkness or overexposed by light. Using analog photography, she creates effects of transparency, superimposition & soft focus.
0,00 € * Weight 0.9 kg
Out-of-print book 'überRÄUME Sankt Cäcilien + Sankt Peter Köln' by Nicole AHLAND combines extensive 'art photographic investigations' expands the physical boundaries of Cologne's last double church complex preserved to this day into light & bright spaces.
25,00 € * Weight 0.8 kg
SIGNED COPY. In his 2nd photo volume 'Keine Experimente', Dirk ALVERMANN takes a critical and mocking stance on the period of the economic miracle as well as the Nazi past. The b/w photographs were taken between 1956 and 1961 in Berlin and the Rhineland.
548,00 € * Weight 0.2 kg
'Kölner Heil (Cologne Salvation). 1986-1996' by Bernd ARNOLD examines the power & rituals of the Catholic Church in Cologne as well as an autonomous system of salvation in its power structures, which lives on seemingly untouched by all the developments.
from 20,00 € Weight 0.8 kg
Signed. 'Wahl Kampf Ritual' by Bernd ARNOLD examines German election campaigns by photographing politicans during their 'work': Brandt, Schmidt, Kohl, Schröder, Merkel as well as Strauss, Vogel, Rau, Lafontaine, Scharping, Stoiber, Steinmeier & Steinbrück
19,80 € * Weight 0.8 kg
'Bauten' by Boris BECKER was published on the occasion of an exhibition at Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf. It consists of a cassette with 8 color prints and a leaflet with text by Katja Blomberg and an index with details. No. 80/100, autographed on the map.
178,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 27,5 x 3 cm, 352 pp., 850 duotone b/w ills. & 45 color ills., multi-lingual text: German / French / English
0,00 € *