Mack Books

The Essays from the 1970s and 80s in 'Photography Against the Grain' by Allan SEKULA show how he criticized photography, the circumstances of its production and consumption, and revealed from the perspective of an insider what the medium did not depict.

2nd print run, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 31,5 x 29,5 x 2 cm., 60 pp., 16 color ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 23 x 3,5 cm., 416 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

'The British Isles' by Jamie HAWKESWORTH documents over 13 years of life in the United Kingdom. The photographs paint an alternative history of this turbulent period in British history, a period marked by austerity, referendums, celebrations and conflict.

This photo volume 'The Moth' by Jem SOUTHAM has its origins in a black-and-white photograph taken in Cornwall in 1983. From this moment, the book unfolds like a succession of memories, only briefly interrupted by a sublime moment of the rural environment.

The reedit of a Japanese photobook classic! Coastal landscapes of Hokkaido serve as the backdrop for the deeply dark and impressionistic photographs of ominous flocks of crows in 'Ravens'. Masahisa FUKASE's mourning or an allegory of dark post-war Japan?

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23,5 x 22,5 x 2 cm., 112 pp., 78 color ills., text language: English

2nd print run, OTA-bound pb. with metallic silkscreen cover image & black painted edges, 20 x 17,5 x 3 cm., 576 pp., 280 metallic tritone b/w printed ills., text language: English

This beautifully designed catalog volume, 'And Time Folds', accompanied the great retrospective of the British photographer Vanessa WINSHIP and includes all of her important series as well as heretofore unpublished current works.

'TTP' by Hayahisa TOMIYASU consists of a series of photos taken from the 8th floor window of his student dormitory in Leipzig. Each picture is composed similarly, but turning the page, we see how the function of the ping-pong table is constantly changing.