Hartford School

Juxtaposing works by photographers Annie LEIBOWITZ, Gregory CREWDSON and Andreas GURSKY, critic Jörg Colberg examines in 'Photography's Neoliberal Realism' how these artists produce the capitalist equivalent to the socialist realism of the Soviet Union.

The photo book 'The Seven Cities' by American photographer Matt EICH is the third volume in the series that casts an unshakable look at the people and places that America seems to have forgotten. After Ohio and Mississippi, it focuses on Virginia here.

This photo book, whose dummy was awarded in 2019, combines a series of moments that reveal a specific local experience. The photographs suggest emotions and fears as well as the existence of historical, political and representational undercurrents.

In this photo volume, 'I walk toward the sun which is always going down' by Alan HUCK, a nameless, monologuing narrator wanders photographically through an American city. The indeterminate in photography and written language becomes an attention exercise.

Inspired by military manuals, American ex-soldier Ben Brody's diary-like photo book 'Attention Servicemember' is a passionate exploration of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

First Book Award 2019. Combining fragments of personal history, of memory and imagination, 'Oobanken' builds photographic narratives through constructions & performances. Made in Myanmar, this series also mirror the context: a place once suspended in time

'Sin & Salvation' is the result of a seven-year project with residents of the Baptist Town district. Matt EICH tells the long, twisted and complicated history of Baptist Town in a contemporary context using documentary portraits as well as landscapes.

Clothbound HC no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 28,5 x 1,5 cm., 104 pp., 45 tritone b/w images + 1 color image, English

'American Interiors' by M L CASTEEL shows the psychological consequences of war & military service through images of the interiors of cars owned by US veterans. The work moves between empathy for the survivors of service and outrage at warfare's violence.

Open spine binded HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 33 x 2 cm., 152 pp., 69 color ills., bilingual text: English / Japanese, Ltd. to 300 copies

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23,5 x 28,5 x 2 cm., 120 pp., 54 color ills., English

'What the Living Carry' tells about a small town in Southern USA. Based on his own memories of the rural surroundings in which he grew up, Morgan ASHCOM combines photos, typed letters and a hand-drawn map into a fictional story about a foreboding place.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 17 x 22 x 0,5 cm., 64 pp., 46 b/w ills., 400 gr., text language: English

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 24,5 x 1,5 cm., 72 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 copies

Photo volume 'Leviathan' by Morgan ASHCOM deals about a community founded in 1995 by nonconformists in southeast Ohio and tells of the utopia of an independent life in freedom parallel to the materialistic outside world and the confrontation with nature.

In his after sought and long-out-of-print volume 'Grays the Mountain Sends'Bryan SCHUTMAAT combines portraits, landscapes, and still lifes to explore the lives of working people residing in small mountain towns and mining communities in the American West.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23,5 x 19,5 x 2 cm., 128 pp., 74 ills., text language: English