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.

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 Mostly little known and unpublished, they capture textures of urban life and delight with visual coincidences and tactile details.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.