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Out-of-print volume 'Los Angeles 1964' by Magnum photographer Bruce DAVIDSON contains previously unpublished photographs from Los Angeles.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.