Mack Books

Cafe Lehmitz Photobook Libraries shall enable collectors as well as institutions to acquire out-of-print titles at a price that can be paid. This library, the Paul GRAHAM Photobook Library, contains currently 19 photo volumes - mainly signed copies.

The photo volume 'Niagara' by Alec SOTH is less about the natural wonder than the human desires associated with this place. They were taken with a large-format 8x10 camera over the course of two years on both the American and Canadian sides of the Falls.

For 'Holy Bible', BROOMBERG & CHANARIN show photos of Archive of Modern Conflict with an eye toward Adi Ophir's tenet: that God reveals Himself through catastrophe, and power structures from the Bible correlate with those of modern systems of governance.

The book 'Showcaller' explores the work of Talia CHETRIT which is filled with a desire to control the physical and historical limits of the camera, to pursue its potential for manipulation, and to question the relationship between photographer and subject

This photo book, 'I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating,' by Alec SOTH, is a lyrical exploration of the personal. Regardless of where the phorographs were taken - in Odessa or Minneapolis - they are always about intimate encounters in private spaces.

Out-of-print photo volume 'Redheaded Peckerwood' by American photographer Christian PATTERSON, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land

Signed new edition. Paul GRAHAM's photo volume set 'A Shimmer of Possibility' is considered one of the defining photo books of the 21st century and was awarded the Paris Photo-Aperture Prize for the most important photo book of the last 15 years.

In his book trilogy consisting of 'A1. The Great North Road', 'Beyond Caring' as well as 'Troubled Land' - Paul GRAHAM documents life in the United Kingdom during the 1980s. This series established and him as an important voice in contemporary photography

This edition of 'Chizu / The Map' by Kikuji KAWADA is an exquisite facsimile of the two-volume maquette, which also includes a booklet of texts and an interview with the Japanese artist revealing the evolution of one of the best photobooks of all time.

In his out-of-print photo book 'Deutschland', Gerry JOHANSSON explains German history through its landscape, industrial scenes and buildings, residential streets and store fronts. Here ends the series of books for which he spent eighteen years traveling.

'She dances on Jackson' by Vanessa WINSHIP is the result of travelings across the United States - from California to Virginia, from New Mexico to Montana - always in search of the 'American Dream'. It contains her typical portraits & landscape photographs

In 'Ciprian Honey Cathedral' Raymond MEEKS carefully examines the legibility of our material surroundings and the people who are closest to us. He is known for using photography to poetically distill the boundaries of sight, awareness, and understanding.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Italian photographer Luigi GHIRRI pursued a project characterized by empathy for the changing everyday spaces of his time. During his short career he created a large number of color photographs as well as influential essays.

The book 'American Winter' by Gerry JOHANSSON shows half-empty cities across the U.S., with as much beauty as misery in snow-covered landscapes: a lonely church floating in a dappled sea of white, or bare trees lining endless highways tending to nothing.

Boxed set of 10 photo volumes by Jessica BACKHAUS, Gerry BADGER, Harvey BENGE, John GOSSAGE, Todd HIDO, Rob HORNSTRA, Rinko KAWAUCHI, Eva Maria OCHERBAUER, Martin PARR as well as Alec SOTH

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.

The images in the out-of-print photography book 'Deep Springs' by US photographer Sam CONTIS capture the strange beauty in macro and microcosmic views in a remote desert valley east of the Sierra Nevada. The focus is on a small, college founded in 1917.

In a sequential narrative punctuated by contrasting moments of violence and beauty, Ron JUDE follows in his out-of-print photo volume 'Lick Creek Line' the rambling journey of a fur trapper, methodically checking his trap line in a remote area of Idaho.

The out-of-print photo book 'Veramente' includes Italian photographer Guido GUIDI's entire oeuvre from 1959 to 2014. The pioneer of new Italian landscape photography was influenced by architectural history, neo-realistic Italian film and conceptual art.

For 'Scene' Alex MAJOLI photographed for eight years and across several continents. What holds all these images together is a sense of theatre. The world appears as an illuminated stage. We never really see people or places: we see the light they reflect