America

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'American Odyssey' by Mary Ellen MARK consists of previously unpublished images as well as photos from her most famous projects such as 'Streetwise' & 'The Damm Family'.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.