Mack Books

Winner photo book of the 'First Book Award 2012'. A collection of postcards that grew between 1937 and 1980 and their legacy. Together these postcards tell us the story of two intertwined lives and the influence that collection has on their lives.

The winner of the First Book Award 2014 includes staged family photos. 'FROWST' refers to Bert Hellinger’s therapeutic method 'Family Constellations'; the title' takes up the paradoxical nature of the family: Frowsty rooms are both cozy and claustrophobic

The photo book 'Street Portraits' by Dawoud BEY contains portraits taken with a large format camera and a unique positive/negative Polaroid film. The photos depict the self-expression & performance of a cross-section of the population in an urban setting.

Mortality and the slow dissolution of late age are the main theme in the photo book 'Mother' as well as another aspect: If we fluctuate between life and death, the roles of child and parent become observers, the created becomes the creator.

In January 2020, Alec SOTH received a letter from a prison inmate asking the photographer for a dialogue. 'The Parameters of our Cage' contains the following correspondence in times of COVID-19 pandemic, 'Black Lives Matter' movement and civil unrest.

3rd print run, linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23,5 x 28,5 x 1,5 cm., 80 pp., text language: English

Pb. with dust jacket, 24 x 29 cm., 432 pp., 1002 colour ills., text language: English

The photo volume 'Easter and Oak Trees' by Dutch photographer Bertien van MANEN offers an enticing invitation to share a small part of this familial idyll.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 27 x 1 cm., 62 pp., color ills., text language: English

HC with coloured boards (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 25,5 x 1,5 cm., 72 pp., 38 color ills., text language: English

HC with dust jacket, 23,5 x 28 x 3 cm., (with works by Edouard BALDUS, Mathew BRADY, Louis DE CLERCQ, Maxime DU CAMP, Roger FENTON, Jean-Baptiste FRENET, Charles HUGO und David Octavius HÜGEL, Robert ADAMSON, Gustave LE GRAY and many more

The photo zine '321' by Roe ETHRIDGE is the result of a stay in Paris, Spring 2021, when the capital was under curfew. The photographer walked through the only moderately populated city and created this distinctive visual diary of a moment of in-between.

Pb, (no dust jacket, as issued), 28 x 39 x 1,5 cm., 40 pp., 16 color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 1,000 numbered copies

The out-of-print photo volume 'Confabulations' by Torbjörn RODLAND shows analog photographs that subtly distort fractured memories as well as childhood fantasies in order to arrive at the truth. Fragmentation serves as a starting point for new connections

'Vanilla Partner' by Torbjörn RODLAND brings together works made in Oslo, Tokyo, Beijing and Los Angeles. His fifth book continues in this vein, combining images of fetishized isolation in a layout that rejects the linear structure of thematic photo books

2nd print run, Leporello bound HC, 22,5 x 25 cm., 106 pp., 45 tritone plates, no text

The out-of-print volume 'Almost There' by Aleix PLADEMUNT presents a challenging constellation of images: the vastness of landscapes, archaeological images of Neanderthal remains and other findings. It is an exploration of what is closest and farthest.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 15 x 19 x 2,5 cm., 128 pp., 67 color ills., text language: English

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.

Distortions, experiments and illusions characterize GUIDI's early work from the late 1960s and early 70s, which he further developed by introducing a 'fisheye' lens. In 'Lunario' he returns to the moon as a source of stylistic and thematic inspiration.