Mack Books

'Alison' includes a body of self-portraits. Beginning in 1970s in b/w, evolving into an exuberant, colorful, and obsessive practice. A singular, long-term exploration with beautiful, hilarious, enigmatic, heartbreakingly sad photos, sometimes all at once.

The photographic volume 'Inhabitants' by prominent U.S. photographer Raymond MEEKS is the result of an artist residency, which will be exhibited in New York and Paris. The series is combined by a detailed poem by George Weld.

'Anchor in the Landscape' by Adam BROOMBERG & Rafael GONZALEZ portraits olive trees in the territories of Palestine occupied by Israeli settlers. Each bears witness to the presence & resilience of the Palestinian people and their relationship to the land.

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

'Le Luxe' by Roe ETHRIDGE includes work from the 2000s without lapsing into the moribund weight of a retrospective. It continues his exploration of image making with diverse image inventories: from private images to magazine photos to archived screenshots

From its title to its formal arrangement of language, 'Dein Kampf' suggests a commentary on our cyclical anxieties about ideology. Anxiety is implicit in his photographs and Berlin - a city in which several ideologies collided - is their natural backdrop.

This selection of 94 photographs in 'Tra l'altro. 1976-81', taken with 35mm cameras, stand for the transition from GUIDI's visual thinking and the progressive shift to color photography, which he began in the early 1980s with the large format 8x10 camera.

'Public Matters' by documentary photographer Janet DELANEY gathers images from sunny Reagan-era San Francisco, capturing the spirit of protests & parades, and people shaken by the turn to conservative government as their 1960s demands now came to a halt.

The photo volume 'Rowing a Tetrapod' by Japanese photographer Fumi ISHINO follows an aleatoric structure and is about the distinction between the local & the foreign and how it blurs. The book creates an imaginary space that is prone to misinterpretation.

Catalan photographer Txema SALVANS' keen view of contemporary Spanish society. In the photo book 'My Kingdom' he combines black and white photos with quotes from the political rhetoric of the former King of Spain. This methodology makes emotions visible.

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.

What emerges in 'Golden Apple of the Sun' by Teju COLE, is a surprising portrait of a kitchen table in a home at a time of social, cultural as well as political upheaval. A written essay whose themes are as broad as the photos are broad in their subjects.

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.

The images shown in this volume, 'Puglia. Tra Albe e Tramonti', reveal relationship of Luigi GHIRRI with the Puglia region. Mostly little known and unpublished, they capture textures of urban life and delight with visual coincidences and tactile details.

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.

Photo book 'On Tthe Sixth Day' interprets the people and animals in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires. In contrast to globalized factory farming, the continuous cycle of life & death is present every day from morning to evening on small plots of land

In his photo volume 'Songbook', the US-American Magnum photographer Alec SOTH shows images detached from their news context and in them reveals the longing for connection to one's own roots. The photo book title was printed in three editions.

In 'Beautiful, Still,' US-american photographer Colby DEAL documents overlooked communities and cultural traits that are gradually being erased by gentrification, as well as communities of color whose members are often portrayed with negative connotations

'The Complete Essays' contains 68 texts by Luigi GHIRRI in which he discusses returning themes in his photographic work. It is also an unintentional, yet comprehensive treatise on the history and theory of photography, as well as a special autobiography.

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.

'But Still, It Turns', a photo and text book edited by prominent British photo artist Paul GRAHAM, brings together collected dynamic and diverse works that tell open stories. These are brought together in this volume - in harmony and revealing dissonance.

Out-of-print 'The Whiteness of the Whale' brings together the American series by Paul GRAHAM which reflect on the social fabric of contemporary USA while attempting to find something closer to the experience of being and seeing in the contemporary world.

In the book 'Over Time: Conversations about Documents and Dreams', Alessandra SANGUINETTI reflects with her cousins on the 'The Adventures of Guille and Belinda' series and its development. The in-depth conversation is illustrated with unpublished images

'An Attic Full of Trains' contains a selection of 8000 previously unpublished pictures by the Italian photographer Alberto di LENARDO. The color photos from the 1960s to 80s complement your Luigi GHIRRI or Guido GUIDI collection perfectly.

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

This volume, 'Double Orbit' by Grégoire PUJADE-LAURAINE, shows the everyday urban environment. However, his pictures read in their composition like a set of tarot cards, they become open-ended allegories, whose meaning is only revealed in the combination.

This photographic volume, 'Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body' by US-American photographer RaMell ROSS, presents a chronicle of the American South that is both mysterious and quotidian, a historical document and a radical imagining of the future.

The photo volume 'Coming and Going' by Jim GOLDBERG tells a wider story of the universal shape of our lives through their loves & losses, comings & goings, and the ways we come to understand them - A significant contribution to contemporary bookmaking.

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

Perfect Day' by Txema SALVANS shows Spain's holidaymakers in unexpected corners of the post-industrial landscape.The pursuit of leisure time defies the built environment with a deeply human determination to find peace against all odds.

Embossed linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued) with tipped-in image on back cover, 22 x 29 x 1,5 cm., 80 pp., color ills., text language:

'A Perpetual Season' by Gregoire PUJADE-LAURAINE lays a trail through a dreamlike city, offering glimpses into a network of spaces that emerge as silent witnesses to a forgotten order. Recurring forms & confused people punctuate this with an elegiac tone.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 29 x 26 x 1,5 cm., 60 pp., 32 color ills., text language: English

In his book 'FRG', Georg KUSSMANN describes a place caught between the weight of the past & the demands of the present. Evoking German histories of work ethics, dictates, & acronyms, he takes a subtle approach to how Germany struggles to understand itself

HC in Japanese paper (no dust jacket as issued), 22 x 28 x 1 cm., 96 pp., 58 tritone ills., text language: English

Open spined pb. (wrap around dust jacket), 21 x 26 cm., 184 pp., 49 color & 22 b/w ills., text language: English

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 25,5 x 2 cm., 104 pp., color ills., text language: English

'45' by Damian HEINISCH, is about train journeys on the Donesz-Oslo line that took place at three different times. It brings together a common family history, first in pictures followed by diary-like short texts. The 35mm photos are from his last trip.

'Archive' by Sofia COPPOLA is an art book that enables an intimate encounter with methods & references and provides an insight into working processes. It contains personal archive material and an interview with the renowned film journalist Lynn Hirschberg

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), japanese apper, 24 x 21,5 x 1,5 cm., 112 pp., 65 tritone b/w ills., text language: English

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.

In the out-of-print 'Gathered Leaves' box contains long unavailable Alec SOTH titles 'Sleeping by the Mississippi', 'Niagara', 'Broken Manual' & 'Songbook' as miniature volumes. In addition, 28 color prints with the most famous images are also a part.

'Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography' by Stephen SHORE, with its essays, photos and stories,

The book 'Pictures From Home' by Larry SULTAN as a reissue of the title documenting his repeated return to his childhood home. For this, Super 8 films were newly digitized as well as everyday footage juxtaposed with the 'American Dream' of the Reagan era.

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 'War Primer 2' by Adam BROOMBERG & Oliver CHANARAIN is the first English-language version of Bertolt Brecht's remarkable 1955 book 'Kriegsfibel' (War Primer). Today, in 'Fake News' times, it explores the power of images to create history.

In 'Joke,' Talia CHETRIT calmly tackles themes of life, death, and birth through a variety of visual languages. Using a wide range of photographic tropes & traditions, she explores the power dynamics between photographer / subject that interfere & collide

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

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.

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.

In 'The Pregnant Virgin' Torbjörn RODLAND explores analog photography in dialogue with online digital culture with precision and a sense of surrealism and surprise. The sequence feeds on symbolism and texture in a sense reminiscent of religious painting.

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

'Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography' accompanies an exhibition project by Lou Stoppard, which combines texts by the Nobel Prize winner with images by Harry CALLAHAN, Claude DITYVON, Daidō MORIYAMA, Issei SUDA, Henry WESSEL, Bernard Pierre WOLFF a.o.

In their volume 'Look at me like you love me' Jess T. DUGAN reflects on desire, intimacy, society and how our identities are shaped by these experiences. A highly personal collection of portraits, couples and still lifes, interwoven with diary-like notes.

In 'August', Collier SCHORR uses Polaroids that ise made in the early 1990s to explore the borderline of images that exist beyond the immediate moment. The volume implicitly exposes the distance between artist and subject, and between subject and costume.

'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

'Gathered Leaves Annotated' by Alec SOTH brings together five books on over 700 pages of newsprint, updated the original by adding double-page spreads with detailed annotations as notes & text, as well as additional photos. A new compass through his work.

The book 'The Devil is Leaving His Cave' by Wendy EWALD shows the daily lives of Mayan communities im Mexico just before the devastating aftermath of the Zapatista uprising - complemented by new work created in collaboration with young Mexican Americans.

HC with dust jacket, 20 x 20 x 2 cm., 80 pp., 45 color ills., text language: English

In this photo volume, 'Seventy-Two and One Half Miles Across L.A.', Mark RUWEDEL documents a drive through Los Angeles, crossing as many geographical, economic, political and cultural boundaries as possible. Books by Ed RUSCHA served him as inspiration.

HC in Japanese binding, 31 x 24 cm., 64 pp. color ills., text language: English

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

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

Alessandra SANGUINETTI documents the lives of cousins Guille & Belinda, living in rural Argentina, as they journey through childhood and adolescence to become women. 'The Enigmatic Meaning of Their Dreams' traces the first 5 years of their collaboration.

The photo book 'The Local' by Nick MEYER documents an US-American location in Masschustettes between striving and decline, a deeply personal report that reveals the struggles, the tumult and everyday life in a place where parameters themselves have moved.

The new edition, its 'director's cut', of the out-of-print photo book 'Ray's a Laugh' by Richard BILLINGHAM recreates the original vision of his deeply personal work with numerous previously unpublished images and a particular approach to sequencing.

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 book 'Uneasy Listening' features a dialogue between a psychoanalyst and a luthier. Grose & Brewer Young embark on an entertaining meditation that makes far-reaching references to psychoanalytic theory, philosophy, and contemporary politics & culture.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 26 x 1 cm., 88 pp., 30 color ills., text language: English

'The Photography of Nature & The Nature of Photography' was published on the occasion of the Hasselblad Award to Joan FONTCUBERTA. It contains 6 of his most famous series, revealing his ingenious work as a photographer, essayist, humorist & fantasy artist

HC (tipped in, no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 27 cm., 116 pp., 39 color & 31 b/w ills., English

2nd print run, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 32 x 2 x 24.5 cm. (9¾ x 12½ inch.), 232 pp. (28 double gatefolds), b/w ills., text language: English

'The Land in Between', Ursula SCHULZ-DORNBURG is about the bond between landscape & civilization. Areas of past historical importance show how conflict, destruction & decay transforms landscapes in Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen & Syria

In 'Rodeo Drive' Anthony HERNANDEZ not only documents the urban live, his photos also show the complexity of social spaces. In a single shopping street, which is a symbol of civic success, the socio-economic tensions between the classes become visible.

In the photo book 'Ouarzazate', the name of a Moroccan city with famous film sets, the landscape photographer Mark RUWEDEL continues his interest in contemporary ruins far away from the American deserts, where he has been working for thirty years.

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.

With the photo book 'Spanish Summer' JOHANSSON returns to one of the first places that fired his imagination: the plains of central Spain. In precise compositions an din b/w, a landscape is surveyed in which cultural traces have been etched for millennia.

The photographs by D'Angelo WILLIAMS in his volume 'Contact High' visualize the black body in theatrical, dance, and occasionally everyday scenes. The intimate images focus on notions of kinship and spirituality interwoven with quiet political gestures.

The photo book 'Nausea' by Ron JUDE follows the assumption that philosophical inquiry can be filtered through photographs. The monotonous spaces & objects captured visually serve as a task for exploring the connection between narratives and consciousness.

Embossed HC with tipped-in image (no dust jac ket, as issued), 22 x 28 x 2 cm., 132 pp., c olor ills., text language: English

Pb. with dust jacket, 16 x 22 x 1 cm., 76 pp., 43 color ills., text language: English

Paper-bound HC with tip-in photograph, 24,5 x 31,5 cm., color & b/w ills., text language:

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.

With the photo series 'A1', Paul GRAHAM created a new form of engaged photography, mixing elements of social documentary, 'New Color' and reportage. It was published as a photo volume and, their coveted new edition shows that his work endures to this day.

In 'Italia in Miniatura', images by Luigi GHIRRI show scale models of Italy's most important natural & architectural landmarks, placed in surreal proximity to one another in a theme park. The photos themselves reflect the processes of their representation

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

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.

The nearly 40 year old color film material for the classic photo book 'A1 - The Great North Road' by Paul GRAHAM is a photo-historical document of the 1980s' Great Britain - Margaret Thatcher's reign and the declining industrial base.

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 catalog volume 'House of Cards' accompanies the large Thomas DEMAND exhibition. It begins with his current series 'Modellstudien', but also includes the projects 'Black Label', 'Embassy' & 'Nagelhaus'. Additionally, it contains many informative essays

By intervening in disused interiors as well as the photo documentation of the modified scenes, the American photographer John DIVOLA also creates works in his photo volume 'Terminus' that are located between pictures, sculptures and installations.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 14 x 23 x 2 cm., 260 pp., some b/w ills., text language: English

'Quitting Your Day Job. Chauncey Hare's Photographic Work' addresses the difficult relationship between art & politics that has defined the career of Chauncey HARE. Robert Slifkin draws on largely unexplored material to analyze these brilliant photographs

Published in conjunction with an exhibition featuring photographs by three remarkable photographers at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to show their work, their relationship to one another and their place in the history of photography in the 1970s.

Compilation of textual, photographic & filmic essays, 'Art Isn't Fair', underlines Allan SEKULA's longstanding commitment to the many interfaces between art, photography and the changing terrain of power struggles from a local & international perspective.

'Paul's Book' by Collier SCHORR is about a model who she visited at home for a shooting. The idea was to experience photography as a social space, a conversation in which his body and her eyes try to understand the fascinations and fantasies of the other.

The volume 'lick of tongue, rub of finger, on soft wound' by Keisha SCARVILLE unfolds as an hypnotic visual essay impressively weaving together b/w & archival images, book passages, collages, personal texts, and film stills. With a text by Harmony Holiday

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Picture Summer on Kodak Film' by US-American photographer Jason FULFORD presents a dreamlike journey through a fictional place, where the sun as well as the shadows it casts play the main role in his playful narrative