Hartford School

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.

'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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.