America

US photographer Edward WESTON kept a diary in which he recorded his struggle to understand himself, society and his art. 'The Daybooks of Edward Weston' were edited by Nancy Newhall in two volumes: one for his time in Mexico and one for Californian time.

The out-of-print volume 'New Orleans 1960' is about the birthplace of jazz. The photos were taken in 1960 during a trip when he traveled through the United States with musicologist Joachim E. Berendt for 'Jazzlife' to document America's original art form.

'Public Matters' by documentary photographer Janet DELANEY gathers images from sunny Reagan-era San Francisco, capturing the spirit of protests & parades, and people shaken by the turn to conservative government as their 1960s demands now came to a halt.

In 'Beautiful, Still,' US-american photographer Colby DEAL documents overlooked communities and cultural traits that are gradually being erased by gentrification, as well as communities of color whose members are often portrayed with negative connotations

Out-of-print volume 'Los Angeles 1964' by Magnum photographer Bruce DAVIDSON contains previously unpublished photographs from Los Angeles. He had been sent there by a magazine, but the publication of the pictures had been rejected for undisclosed reasons.

The photographic volume 'Pasaco, 1996' by Luis CORZO contains archival material & new images of places, objects as well as people involved in his kidnapping. With that, he addresses violence, corruption, the death penalty and criminal rehabilitation.

'But Still, It Turns', a photo and text book edited by prominent British photo artist Paul GRAHAM, brings together collected dynamic and diverse works that tell open stories. These are brought together in this volume - in harmony and revealing dissonance.

This so far only monograph on Sid GROSSMAN, a comprehensive survey of his life and work, includes early social documentary work (1930s), more personal and dynamic street photography (1940s), and late experiments with abstraction in b/w and in color.

In this out-of-print photo volume, 'Colors. The Polaroids', Dennis HOPPER documents gang graffiti in Los Angeles in the mid-80s. The photographs, reproduced in their original format, preserve that ephemeral kind of street art and communication method.

In this out-of-print catalog volume 'Photographs 1961-1967' by Dennis HOPPER, 18 photographs were published for the first time at that time, as well as 21 photographs taken from the 1986 photo volume 'Ouf of the Sixties' and republished.

The photo volume 'Coming and Going' by Jim GOLDBERG tells a wider story of the universal shape of our lives through their loves & losses, comings & goings, and the ways we come to understand them - A significant contribution to contemporary bookmaking.

'Written on the Land' includes the work of Mark RUWEDEL from 1990 to 2001 and addresses the impact of technologies & culture on the US landscape, using resource extraction as an example, as well as the 'conquest' of the West through railroad construction.

The photographic volume 'At the Beach' by Tod PAPAGEORGE is the result of a long-term project that began in 1975 and ended in 1988. In 1978 he returned to Los Angeles to expand the series he had begun three years earlier, adding images in 1981 and 1988.

In his photo volume 'LA', Hans-Christian SCHINK generates - based on the precise investigation of the no man's land of Los Angeles - a contrast of nocturnal panoramic shots with extreme cropped enlargements that only hint at traces of urban action spaces.

'Archive' by Sofia COPPOLA is an art book that enables an intimate encounter with methods & references and provides an insight into working processes. It contains personal archive material and an interview with the renowned film journalist Lynn Hirschberg

'Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography' by Stephen SHORE, with its essays, photos and stories,

For 'Floridas' Anastasia SAMOYLOVA photographed the sunshine state on intensive road trips. Black-and-white photographs by Walker EVANS from the 1930s to the 1970s are presented parallel to the contemporary color photos, thus interweaving past and present

'Sit Lux Et Lux Fuit' by Mauro D'AGATI, with its images of Masonic meetings, temples, symbols, documents and portraits of Masons, provides a glimpse into their complex rituals, which are a blend of serious, mysterious traditions and everyday Cuban life.

The volume 'This Will Not End Well' by Nan GOLDIN is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of her work as a filmmaker. The stories told range from traumata to the portrayal of her bohemian friends and a journey into the darkness of addiction.

This out-of-print photographic volume, 'Original Disfarmer Photographs', presented at ist publishing for the first time the vintage prints of the US-american photographer Mike DISFARMER, one of the greatest portrait photographers of the young 20th century

In 'Joke,' Talia CHETRIT calmly tackles themes of life, death, and birth through a variety of visual languages. Using a wide range of photographic tropes & traditions, she explores the power dynamics between photographer / subject that interfere & collide

Presenting earliest work by Edward WESTON from a discovered family album, 'Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist' compares his first artistic efforts with his masterworks to show persistence & evolution of his vision to find essential form with intensity

In out-of-print book 'A Clearing', Raymond MEEKS documents the stark geological & human assertion of presence against the flattening insistence of time, erosion & poverty. The figures in the landscape appear so isolated that they take on a mythical power.

'Gathered Leaves Annotated' by Alec SOTH brings together five books on over 700 pages of newsprint, updated the original by adding double-page spreads with detailed annotations as notes & text, as well as additional photos. A new compass through his work.

This out-of-print new edition of the 1965 monograph 'The Flame of Recognition' about American photographer Edward WESTON contains a cross-section of his work, with portraits and nature photographs as well as texts from his diaries and letters.

'American' by Werner AMANN, is the result of a long-term project. Portraits from L.A., New York, Las Vegas, Gainesville, Miami, Kansas City, the border city Tijuana as well as the deserts of the Western alternate with travel pictures of streets & places.

This out-of-print photo volume, 'Passé Imparfait: La Route de devenir photographe,' by Ralph GIBSON, surveys the beginnings of the American photographer's career in San Francisco (1960 to 1963), Los Angeles (1963 to 1966), and New York in 1967 - 1970).

The out-of-print book 'Bedu' by US-American photographer & filmmaker Jim MANGAN tells through 35 mm and instant photography a story about group of friends passes through an exploding curtain of dirt to find themselves in an inexplicable alternate reality.

'Harlemville' by Clare RICHARDSON is the result of a long-term project in which she documented the everyday life of a community in North America, which is guided by the writings of Rudolf Steiner, promoting free expression, creativity and imagination.

In the book 'Verlassene Ort' (Abandoned Places) various photographers document the beautiful and at the same time eerie atmosphere of places where decay has set in and nature has returned. The history & present of these places are explained in short texts

The out-of-print photographic volume 'A Letter from Japan.' with its black-and-white photographs by U.S. wartime photographer John SWOPE, include shots taken mostly in war-torn Japan in 1945, contrasting with his work as a Hollywood photographer.

Portraits in 'Homeless' by Bryan ADAMS show characters beyond socio-economic circumstances. The portraits can be seen as a continuation of 'Wounded': young British soldiers who have suffered life-changing injuries during the fighting in Iraq & Afghanistan

'1991' by Richard MISRACH documents the remains after the cataclysmic firestorm that struck Oakland & Berkeley Hills. He roamed the devastated area and also targeted the most intimate details. The book was published to commemorate the 20th anniversary.

The photographs by D'Angelo WILLIAMS in his volume 'Contact High' visualize the black body in theatrical, dance, and occasionally everyday scenes. The intimate images focus on notions of kinship and spirituality interwoven with quiet political gestures.

With works by Robert FRANK, Garry WINOGRAND, Joel STERNFELD, William EGGLESTON, Alec SOTH, Victor BURGIN, Taino ONORATO & Nico KREBS and many more

'Mouvement' about René BURRI gives an overview about his work which has written history. Removed from sensationalism yet no less striking are his images of the theater of war, of people suffering in poverty & with equal intensity to the spheres of beauty.

Out-of-print photo volume 'The Playbook' by Alex S. MACLEAN features aerial photos of the American leisure industry. From symmetrical beauty of sports stadiums to the spaghetti-like tangles of pathways at theme parks to picnickers on a sprawling beach.

'Albums' by Jamel SHABAZZ presents for the first time his work from the 70s to 90s as it exists in his archive: small prints, thematically grouped & classified as traditional family photo albums. Some essays classify his work in the history of photography

This out-of-print photography book, 'United States. 1970-1975', by Danish photographer Jacob HOLDT documents the differences between rich and poor in 1970s America. The color photographs were taken with a cheap amateur camera.

'Quitting Your Day Job. Chauncey Hare's Photographic Work' addresses the difficult relationship between art & politics that has defined the career of Chauncey HARE. Robert Slifkin draws on largely unexplored material to analyze these brilliant photographs

In the book 'Frames of References' we get to know the extensive work of Lucinda DEVLIN. As one of the early important representatives of the 'New Color Photography', her focus is on interiors of all kinds and since the 2000s on outdoor spaces & landscapes

The volume 'A Humanist Gaze' by Joseph RODRGUEZ intimately documents the life of people who live at the fringes of society: families who live on the wrong side of the law, prostitutes in Mexico, jail inmates in Zambia and pentecostal pilgrims in Romania.

The catalog 'Saul Leiter. Die Große Retrospective' sheds new light on one of photography's most enigmatic figures. It shows New York street scenes, fashion & nude photographs and makes archive material, contact prints & notebooks accessible to the public.

The out-of-print 'Zeitblende' was published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the famous photo agency Magnum. The picture & text book provides an overview of the impressive field of reportage photography that is commensurate with its significance

'Hurricane Season' by Hannah MODIGH deals on an area in Louisiana which is each year at summer and autumn flooded by storms. The floods are a natural part of life and the inhabitants have in a fatalistic way adapted to the frequency of the hurricanes.

Pb., 17 x 23,5 x 1 cm., 96 pp., 5 colours (b/w ills.), no text, some informations in English

'A Pound of Pictures' by Alec SOTH, brings together newest works. It reflects the desire to capture and crystallize experiences, especially memories in paper form. A thoughtful photographic journey, complemented by his own notes in the detailed afterword.

'Die Kennedys. Portrait of a Familie' von Richard AVEDON führt uns zurück in den Januar 1961. Er enthält für die Modemagazine Look und Harper's Bazaar gemachte Fotos der Familie John F. Kennedys, der kurz zuvor zum Präsidenten der USA gewählt worden war.

The photographs in the self published volume 'Reserved Mr. Memory' by Patrick MURPHY were taken over a 50 year period in and they are from the southern states of the United States of America. Image subjects include portraits, landscapes and religion.

In over 400 duotone images, out-of-print book 'Fotografien' on the work by Swiss René BURRI - edited & compiled by Hans-Michael Koetzle - shows his unique relationship to the major political events, key politicians, artists & cultural figures of his time.

Der Fotoband 'American Gothic' von Gordon PARKS enthält die 1942 entstandene Serie über die Regierungsangestellte Ella Watson mit mehr als 50, zum Teil bislnag unveröffentlichten S/W-Aufnahmen, zusätzlichem Archiv- sowie sehr informativem Textmaterial.

In this out-of-print photo volume, 'Sequentially Yours', Elliott ERWITT presents a series of diverse character sketches. Each of them consists of a quick succession of single shots. The subjects vary from lively street scenes to lovers in casual embrace.

For 'America 2006' two well-known photographers collaborated under the pseudonym 'Obvious & Ordinary' to focus on the images rather than personalities. Despite the fact some works are inspired by William EGGLESTON, their aesthetics are clearly expressed.

The out-of-print volume 'The Lost Album' contains works by Dennis HOPPER taken between 1961 and 1967. Selected for his first major exhibition in 1969/70, the prints were stored in boxes, rediscovered and 2012 shown to European audience for the first time.

In the volume 'Topographies: Aerial Surveys of the American Landscape', Stephen SHORE revisits the ambitions of the 1975 'New Topographics' by taking a new bird's eye view of the relationship between the natural and the man-made in the American landscape.

The book 'There I Was' by Collier SCHORR marks a change of medium as well as a conceptual departure. Using images of her father at work to Snyder's own snapshots of Vietnam to reportage images, she outlines Snyder's journey from Queens to Vietnam and back

Generations have visited Lookout Mountain west of Denver to gaze out over the city and surrounding countryside. For his photographic volume'On Lookout Mountain' Robert ADAMS compiles a selection of views taken in 1970 and 1984 - evoking hope and despair.

'Las Vegas. Notes from a Different Planet' by Barbara FILIPS and author Petra Piuk is a polyphonic portrait. It is at the same time a novella, a text montage, a picture story, but above all: a breathless journey into the heart of the gambling metropolis.

The out-of-print photographic book 'Paul Strand: The World on my Doorstep' contains, in addition to his best pictures from his late years - 1950 to 9176 - an intimate biographical essay, as well as an essay by Ute Eskildsen on his portraits & landscapes.

For his photo volume '101 Movies. A Survey of American Drive-in Theatres 1976', Herman VAN DEN BOOM documented the remains of Drive-In movie theatres in the US-states of Nevada, Texas, California, Oklahoma, Colorado and Arizona in black and white photos.

The photo volume 'Mystery of the Ordinairy' shows how the work of William EGGLESTON contributed significantly to the paradigm shift from B&W to color photography. He recognized its power early on, as well as its unique quality for depicting the everyday.

'American Odyssey' by Mary Ellen MARK consists of previously unpublished images as well as photos from her most famous projects such as 'Streetwise' & 'The Damm Family'. It contains the most iconic images as well as other powerful shots, from later years.

In his out-of-print book 'Children', Lee FRIEDLANDER presents more than 300 black-and-white images in two sections. Taken together, the images offer a picture of America's youth through the eyes of one of the most renowned photographers of his generation.

Swiss bound, handmacde HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 64 pp., approx. 40 b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 25 copies

The color images in out-of-print volume, 'Red Eye to New York' by American photographer Janet DELANEY, brim with joie de vivre and reveal a precious blend of private life in public and the fleeting moments of connection between photographer and subject.

This out-of-print volume, 'Picturing America: Photorealism in the 1970's', offers a snapshot of this chapter in art history, when in the late 1960's a number of young artist:s in the United States began painting images directly from photographs.

'Words That Helped' by Robert ADAMS contains quotes collected in notebooks over six decades from artists like Diane ARBUS, Ingmar Bergman, Paul Cézanne, Emily Dickinson, Dag Hammarskjöld, Dorothea LANGE, Fran Lebowitz & Alfred STIEGLITZ.

The collection for the book 'Personal Best' was selected by Elliott ERWITT himself. Anyone who browses through the carefully edited retrospective will be filled with a nostalgic mood, a sense of wonder - and an enduring feeling for the richness of life.

'Deana Lawson' accompanies her first comprehensive museum survey exhibition. A singular voice, she has been investigating and challenging conventional representations of black identities in the African American and African diaspora for over fifteen years.

In 'Some Say Ice', Alessandra SANGUINETTI alludes to the possibility of undoing death through the act of photography, making visible undercurrents of doubt. The book title was inspired by a poem by Robert Frost that deals with the inevitability of death.

'The People’s Trust' by Michael VAHRENWALD shows the changing financial institutions, specifically the repurposed remains of 19th & 20th century banks across the USA. The monumentality of these neo-classical facades stands in contrast with their new roles

by Michael Buhrs and Ingvild Goetz (eds.) - Engl. ed., HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 23 cm., 224 pp., 256 ills., text language: English - German ed. also to pre-order

Out of print photo book, 'Alamar' by Mauro D'AGATI represents a unique moment in the history of the Cuban Revolution, when a utopian dream became reality. At the same time, the Italian photographer's photographs illuminate the moment when the dream faded.

The out-of-print, paperback edition "Berenice Abbott. Changing New York 1935-1939" is a compact, German-language catalog volume about the famous black-and-white photo series of the US American.

In his photo volume 'A Road Through Shore Pine' Robert ADAMS traces a contemplative journey, first by car, then on foot, along a lonely tree-lined road to the sea. His photographs of trees hold a unique sensitivity to the subtleties and meanings of light.

For the US-american photographer Shellburne THURBER, an animated place is an extension of the body and a projection space. Her photo volume 'Analysis' shows a selection of color photographs of psychoanalytic practices in Buenos Aires and in New England.

The publication 'Heroes' by Karoliina PAATOS shows Gay rodeo which contradicts the prevailing idea of the cowboy. The drag culture is an essential part and everyone is allowed to take part. A boxed artist edition comes with additional booklets, foldouts.

To select the photographs for the now out-of-print photo book 'Kolor', Elliott ERWITT combed through his extensive archive. From the marketplace to the field camp, from Vegas to Venice, this diverse mix of carefully observed public and private curiosities

Edited and designed by Hans GREMMEN, this photographic volume 'Achive' on the work of Bertien van MANEN offers a unique insight and overview of the history of the Dutch photographer, making this publication the ultimate reference work on her work.

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.

„The photo book ‚William Eggleston 414‘ is Harmony Korine & Juergen TELLER’s visual memoir of a road trip they took ten years ago with William EGGLESTON and his son, Winston, from Memphis to Mississippi.

The photographic volume 'Stokely Carmichael and Black Power' looks at the groundbreaking portrayal of Carmichael by Gordon PARKS and offers a detailed analysis of his images. The texts explore the complex understanding of the movement and its leader.

In 'Butterflies and Caterpillars' Ardelle SCHNEIDER documents the current drag scene in the USA. In doing so, she allows the subtleties of the characters to become visible. With a careful lighting direction, she creates shots full of intimacy and dignity.

This out-of-print photographic volume, 'Blackout New York' by René BURRI, is a meditation on light and its absence, a reflection on seeing - and thus on photography itself. It tells the story of how people lose something they take for granted: light.

US-American Artist and art collector Jim SHAW is constantly on the hunt for pop culture pieces. 'The Hidden World' gives the chance to dive into an overflowing world of paintings, sculptures, brochures, t-shirts, books, vinyls and educational material.

'Extraction/Abstraction' by Edward BURTYNSKY presents lucid & informed documentations of large-scale extractive processes, and how those transform landscapes of industry into complete abstractions. It features also behind-the-scenes photographs at work.

The photographs of novice swimmers in the photographic volume 'Swimmers by Larry SULTAN', taken between 1978 and 1982, signify a departure from his conceptual work. These are colorful works characterized by unpredictable shapes and random abstractions.

In 'Outsiders. American Photography and Film 1950s-1980s', Diane ARBUS, Garry WINOGRAND, Nan GOLDIN, Danny LYON, Kenneth Anger, D.A. Pennebaker & Shirley Clarke bring into focus the pleasure to defy status quo and set stage for a more inclusive culture.

In his photo book 'L.A. Crossing' Jens LIEBCHEN looks at a city of contrasts from a moving car. Photo icon 'La Brea/Beverly' by Stephen SHORE serves as a hook and one thinks of famous photo series by US photographer Lee FRIEDLANDER as well as by Ed RUSCHA

This out-of-print catalog includes works by Ed RUSCHA from the 1960s to the early 2000s. Essays place painting, language use, and his photography in an art historical context and draw parallels to U.S. painters and the history of documentary photography.