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.


Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 23 x 30,5 x 1 cm., 96 S., ganzseitige Farb-Abb., 450 gr., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
24,00 € * Weight 0.5 kg
Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 18 x 26 x 1 cm., 121 S., 111 S/W-Aufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
28,00 € *
This catalog, published on the occasion of an auction of International Style photographs, contains many exterior and interior photos as well as furniture, an introductory text and a detailed appendix, in which all photographers and architects are named.
32,00 € * Weight 0.5 kg
'Nachtfahrt. A Taxi Blues' by Josef ŠNOBL shows the happiness & misery of the cab business in poignant pictures, unbelievable events and observations. A unique insight into the phenomenon of the big city between drunks, celebrities and business travelers.
25,00 €
This out-of-print volume, 'Kirmes Südstadt 1961' with photographs by Erik SCHWARZ, documents - like the early photo book classic 'Unter Kranenbäumen' by CHARGESHEIMER - Cologne local color and the living conditions of ordinary people in post-war Cologne.
from 28,00 € Weight 0.5 kg
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 21 x 1,5 cm., 101 pp., b/w ills., 990 gr., German text only
24,00 € *
Out-of-print 'Pegel Köln' by Wilhelm SCHÜRMANN deals with urban life (e.g. in Cologne) and the understanding of the city photo book. The title is also programmatic and stands for a level at which the well-worn genre of the city photo book can still work.
78,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
Text volume 'Energies/Synergies 9' reflects an interesting and entertaining conversation between Wilhelm SCHÜRMANN and Klaus Honnef. It unfolds the exciting drama of documentary photography as an art form between the world of magazines and the art world.
19,80 € * Weight 0.3 kg
This out-of-print photo volume 'das nötig' by Colgne based Wilhelm SCHÜRMANN shows 1980s dreary everyday places in German cities (from the Aachen, Düsseldorf and Liège areas, many pictures from Cologne) as well as shots from the artist scene of that time.
from 60,00 € Weight 1.3 kg
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 29,5 x 1,5 cm., 144 pp., 111 b/w ills. + 10 color ills., 1,100 gr., bilingual texts: German / English
28,00 € *