Mack Books

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 Mostly little known and unpublished, they capture textures of urban life and delight with visual coincidences & tactile details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

In the photo book 'Songbook', the 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.