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 book, 'Fotogeschichten Sülz und Klettenberg. 1855-1985', shows the neighborhoods from the end of 19th century to 1980 and the people who lived and worked here. Images, texts & commentaries make this contribution to Cologne's urban history so valuable
35,00 € *
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 € *
'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 €
'Cologne and its photo books. Cologne in the photo book from 1853 to 2010 'by Werner Schäfke shows the city as a large puzzle. Whether published in-house, on behalf of the city or industry, they document the diversity of this old & young Rhine metropolis.
38,00 € * Weight 2 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
Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 12,5 x 20,5 x 1 cm., 112 S., 60 S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
9,95 € *
In her photo volume 'Summer Heart', Cologne based photographer Thekla EHLING accompanies the growing up of her own children. She documents situations and moods and the viewer finds himself entangled in associations and memories of his own childhood.
48,00 € *
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 € *
'Chargesheimer im Zoo', contains b/w shots of animals & people at the Cologne Zoo. The volume by the Cologne photographer contains unknown photographs, shown for the first time, from a time when a visit to the zoo was still one of the year's highlights.
from 28,00 €
The out-of-print volume on August SANDER shows around 40 b/w photographs that are exemplary for the portrait work created between 1921 and 1930 - around the time of the Weimar Republic: people from Cologne, the Westerwald, the Eifel, Hamburg and Berlin.
18,00 € * Weight 0.5 kg
'Architekturphotographie in Köln. 1926-1932' to the same named exhibition at Museum Ludwig, Cologne, contains b/w photographs by the photographer Werner MANTZ showing Cologne buildings from the 1920s and 30s - photographed in the style of New Objectivity.
0,00 € Weight 1.1 kg
In out-of-print photo book 'Die Deutschen', René BURRI mainly depicts everyday life in Germany, where the bullet holes from the war can still be seen on the wall of the building. Hepursued his project for many decades. In 1986 and 1999, it was republished
0,00 € Weight 1.5 kg
In his book 'Köln. Das Gesicht einer Stadt' (Cologne. The Face of a City), Jo FOBER expressively portrays and documents the metropolis on the Rhine and the development of its architecture. In this way, he skillfully presents a new perspective on the city.
29,95 € Weight 1.2 kg
The Cologne Carnival in photo works by German photographers Theodor BARTH, Ute BEHREND, Thekla EHLING, Dirk GEBHARDT, Matthias JUNG, David KLAMMER, Frederic LEZMI, Nadine PREISS and Wolfgang ZURBORN.
0,00 € *
'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
At the 1937 World's Fair in Paris, Cologne was the only city in the world to be represented with its own pavilion at the Seine river, captured by Karl Hugo SCHMÖLZ. The photo book 'Cologne and the Seine' tells a forgotten episode of Franco-German history.
30,00 € * Weight 1.4 kg
Japanese bound pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 26 x 1,5 cm., 52 pp. (FocusBook 90g von Papyrus), 51 color ills., no text, Ltd. to 30 copies
0,00 € *
'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
Handbound pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 15 x 21 x 1 cm., 48 pp. 880g/m2 Geese Aspero plus), 37 color ills., Ltd. to 25 copies!
0,00 € *
pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 26 x 1,5 cm., 52 pp. (FocusBook 90g von Papyrus), 51 color ills., no text, Ltd. to 30 copies
0,00 € *
Gebundene Ausgabe, 24 x 36x 3 cm., 200 Seiten, 153 Photographien, vierfarbig reproduziert nach Vintage Prints, und 165 Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
58,00 € *
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
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 € *
HC mit SU (Prägung eines Motivs nach einer Tuschezeichnung von August Macke), mit Fotografien von CHARGESHEIMER, Heinz HELD, Hans JESSE, Werner KOEP, K. KUHNT/D.BALKHAUSEN, Rolf PRETZ und Hans REUTER
0,00 € * Weight 1.1 kg
In his book 'Revier', a photographic essay about home and loss, Matthias JUNG mixed portraits and photographs of objects that, like people, have had to move to new homes and, like archaeological finds, tell of a life that is in danger of being forgotten.
42,00 € Weight 1.1 kg
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
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
Out-of-print volume 'Berlin und die Berlinern' with 60 images by Lynn MILLAR and 27 b/w images by Will McBRIDE contains a compilation of the most expressive photos of an exhibition shown in 1958, supplemented by additional shots from East and West Berlin.
45,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
Broschiert (ohne Schutzumschlag, wie erschienen), 23,5 x 29 cm., 160 S., approx. 150 S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
0,00 € *
The photo book 'Cologne as it was. 408 photographs from 1920 to 1939 'by August SANDER, shows the images for the first time as the photographer created them. The German language volume also contains an introduction to its history and editorial corrections
from 34,00 € Weight 4.5 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
For 'Wald' (forest) Gerhard RICHTER chose photos from an extensive collection, which was created since 2005 in the forest near his house. It follows a dramaturgy developed together with text pages and opens up analogies to the overall work of the artist.
0,00 € * Weight 1.3 kg
The book 'Persil and Petticoat. Cologne from 1949 to 1959. Photographs by Fred Jaeger' offers insights into everyday life, mood & zeitgeist of an era. The pictures tell of the new joie de vivre and the longing for variety: A decade of Cologne comes alive.
from 35,00 €
Gebunden, mit Schutzumschlag, 24,5 x 28 x 4 cm., 352 S., mehr als 460 Abb., deutsch-sprachig - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
500,00 €
Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 11 x 18 x 3 cm., 252 pp., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
0,00 € *
Handmade pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 15 x 21 x 0,5 cm., 48 pp., 35 color ills., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY! Ltd. to 30 copies
0,00 € *
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
by Matz / Vollmer. Hardcover, 24 x 29 x 4 cm., 288 pp., 310 Abb., deutsch-sprachig - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
39,90 € *
'Fotografen sehen Köln' contains works by Cologne photographers such as August Sander, Werner Mantz, August Kreyenkamp, Karl Hugo Schmölz, Heinrich Ewertz a.o., which show the historical upheavals and the rapid development of the medium of photography.
55,00 € *
'Köln. 1970/1995' contrasts b/w photographs by the photographers CHARGESHEIMER and VOLLMER. The comparison reveals the change of Cologne, its architecture as well as infrastructure and provides subtle insights into historical backgrounds and cultural life
0,00 € *
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 € *
In 'Köln in Wirtschaftswunderzeiten' (economic miracles), Heinz HELD portrays the city of Cologne its residents from the 'rubble times' to the mid-1970s. The era of acceleration & expansion is reflected in its views of buildings, everyday life & portraits
29,80 € *
In 1944/45 Lee MILLER accompanied the fighting troops of the US Army and photographed German cities, places & people that had just been liberated. The pictures in this photo book, 'Köln im März 1945', are both - historically and artistically -spectacular.
24,90 € *
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 € *
For his 'Unter freiem Himmel' (Outdoors), Dirk GEBHARDT was on the road as a participant observer. With his children, their friends and playmates, he romped in parks and playgrounds for over ten years, observing the process of growing up with his camera.
from 28,80 € Weight 0.6 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 € *
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 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