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.


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
Gebunden, mit Schutzumschlag, 24,5 x 28 x 4 cm., 352 S., mehr als 460 Abb., deutsch-sprachig - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
500,00 €
The collection 'Margret. Chronik einer Affäre' (Chronicle of an Affair) is an emphatically sober and at the same time obsessive, authentic documentation, shows the changes in a couple's dealings with each other and is a moral portrait of the late 1960s.
198,00 € Weight 0.6 kg
2nd reprint (2007). In his out-of-print photographic volume 'Unter Krahnenbäumen', first published in 1958, CHARGESHEIMER documents street life and the housing situation in the 1950s. The text in the book was written by Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll.
198,00 € * Weight 0.6 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
by Matz / Vollmer. Huge presentation box, within ONE book (HC, 24 x 29 cm., 392 pp., 440 color ills., German) + ONE OF THREE Digital-PhotoPrints from analog negativ (29 x 42 cm.) - Ltd. to 250 copies! Greven Verlag, 2014.
128,00 € *
Huge Presentation Box, within one book (24 x 29 cm., 384 pp., 425 color ills.) + ONE OF THREE numb. High-End-Digital-PhotoPrints, authorized by the Rheinischen Bildarchiv (29 x 42 cm.), Ltd. to 100 copies
128,00 € *
The out-of-print photo book 'Fakes' by Boris BECKER shows objects with a secret: they contained smuggled goods or are products from brand piracy. Their curious stories often only flash up in the factual picture titles like: Bowling Ball Cocaine Costa Rica
98,00 € Weight 0.9 kg
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
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 30,5 cm., 200 pp., b/w ills., bilingual text: German / English, Ltd. to 300 copies
68,00 € *