America

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