Middle East

29 cards in a box, 15,5 x 21 x 1 cm., Ltd. ed. to 100 copies

In 'Unresolved' Meinrad SCHADE examines how conflicts also show themselves in everyday life. The series, made in Israel & Palestine, is the continuation of his long-term project 'Krieg ohne Krieg' documenting landscapes and people in the grip of conflicts

Inspired by military manuals, American ex-soldier Ben Brody's diary-like photo book 'Attention Servicemember' is a passionate exploration of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued) 19,5 x 22,5 x 1,5 cm., 88 pp., 54 color ills., text language: Swedish

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 25 x 1 cm., 111 pp., color ills., text language: English

2nd printrun, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 19 x 25 cm., 156 pp., 53 color ills., language: 19 × 25 cm., language: English

In his out-of-print book 'Legitimacy of Landscape' Yaakov ISRAEL explors the Arab, Bedouin & Druze villages in Israel ( Palestine. It follows in the footsteps of the in the Holy Land in the 19th century active photographers Félix BONFILS & Francis FRITH.

'Polis' - 'the city', as the Greeks simply called Istanbul became 2015 an experience that went far beyond the purely geographical division. SCHWERTFEGER shows the scars of the city and her roughness - a portrait of the metropolis beyond the usual clichés.

Pb., 236 pp., 115 b/w & 100 color ills.,

In the out-of-print photographic volume 'Gaza Works', Kent KLICH documents the historical and current situation in the still contested territory beyond any sensationalist photography. Pictures from his volume 'Gaza Photo Album' are also shown in context.

HC, 25,5 x 25,5 cm. in Clamshell (28 x 28 cm.), 92 pp., color ils., text language: English, Ltd. to 1,000 numbered copies

HC, 24 x 29,5 cm., 104 pp., 80 color ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 29 x 34 x 2 cm., 96 pp., 80 color ills., text language: English

The topic in 'Embed in Egypt' is the Arab Spring in Egypt. Young Turkish photographer tells the complex everyday life against the background of the escalating historical development. The diary-like volume was on the shortlist of the First Book Award 2014.

Swiss bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 30 x 1,5 cm., 108 pp., 66 duplex b/w ills., text language: English

HC, 15 x 21,5 cm., o.pp., b/w ills, Ltd. to 700 copies

Paperback (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 23,5 cm., 88 pp., highly illustrated, bilinguale texts: Spanish / English

The out-of-print volume 'Buzzing at the Sill' by Peter van AGTMAEL is a collection of reflections on war, militarism, identity, family and landscape, among other things. It is both an examination of the limits of photography and a tribute to its power.

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

This out-of-print photo volume, 'Decreazione' by Josef KOUDELKA, designed as a leporello, accompanied the exhibition of nine large-format black and white panorama photographs that were exhibited in the Vatican pavilion during the 2013 Biennale.

Pb (no dust jacket, as issued), 17,5 x 0,8 x 11,3 inch., 188 pp., text language: English

Black Garden: 29 x 21 cm., 184 pp., 154 duotone b/w ills., Open spine binding & Departure Lounge: 14,5 x 21 cm., 184 pp., 83 duotone b/w ills., Open spine binding, text language: English

HC with dust jacket, 26 x 32,5 x 2 cm., 176 pp., b/w ills., text language: English (German text booklet included)

'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

by Hannah DARABI (ed.) Thread-sewn pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 33 cm., 540 pp., approx. 750 b/w & col. ills.,

Hard covered leporello, 16,5 x 23 x 1,5 cm., 68 pp., 32 pictures, handfolded in accordeon style, Ltd. to 150 copies

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 21,5 cm., 176 pp., b/w ills., English, Ltd. to 500 copies

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

Spiral bound pb., 30 x 21 cm., 240 pp., color & b/w ills., 760 gr., text language: English

This book runs completely under the radar; for me it belongs in every good sorted photo journalistic library. While researches for a new image motif in art/photography of the early 20th century the editor collected interesting, often unknown material.

'Hello Camel' by Christoph BANGERT documents the bitter absurdity of war in Afghanistan, Gaza, Darfur, Lebanon and Iraq. He contrasts the clichéd notion of modern war as a fast-paced, dramatic and heroic event with calm and tidy, strange and alien images.

HC with dust jacket, 32 x 29 cm., 208 pp., b/w ills., multi-lingual texts: English / German / French

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 28 cm., 208 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

The self-published photo volume 'Discordia' by Moises SAMAN is a personal examination of the Arab Spring. The images from Syria, Libya and Egypt gain additional dynamics through the collages by Daria Birang. Folding pages create further cross-references.

2nd print run, Leporello bound HC, 22,5 x 25 cm., 106 pp., 45 tritone plates, no text

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 20 x 2 cm., 128 pp., 87 color ills., text language: English

Arabian Edition! HC (no dust jacket, as issued) in accordeon style, 23 x 16,5 x 3 cm., 68 pp., 32 ills., no text, Ltd. to 150 copies

This volume, 'Wall' by Czech photographer Josef KOUDELKA, contains panoramic pictures of the fence separating Israel from Palestine: panoramas dotted with concrete structures, trenches, checkpoints and roadblocks, where nature sometimes defies all of this

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 19 x 29 x 5 cm., 40 pp., Ltd. to ONLY 30 COPIES!

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 26 x 2 cm., 120 pp., 52 color ills., English, Ltd. to 450 numbered copies

In over 400 duotone images, out-of-print book 'Fotografien' on the work by Swiss René BURRI - edited & compiled by Hans-Michael Koetzle - shows his unique relationship to the major political events, key politicians, artists & cultural figures of his time.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 33 x 2 cm., 152 pp., 74 color ills., text language: English

Out-of-print 'Settlement' by Nick WAPLINGTON investigates the topography of Jewish identity in the West Bank, which is in conflict not only with the Palestinian majority but also with mainstream Israeli society: The series was part of 'This Time' project.

HC with dust jacket,

SC, 22 x 31 x 2 cm., 200 pp., 90 color ills., text language: English

Spiral bound HC, 13 x 18,5 cm., 46 pp., 31 color ills., bilingual texts: Japanese / English, Ltd. to 150 copies

Pb., 20,5 x 27 cm., 160 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

The book 'Silk Road. 1956-1974' deals with the journeys of Emilia 'Milli' BAU with a wealth of images and text material from three decades. She traveled the Middle and Far East; the pictures and the diary-like texts describe what she saw and experienced.

HC with dust jacket, 30,5 x 29 x 4 cm., 296 pp., 300 color ills., text language: English

The images in the book 'THEM' by Rosalind Fox SOLOMON are marked by a keen sense of life in the West Bank. They are interspersed with diary fragments revealing the humanity of each person photographed, a window into lives marked by violence & insecurity.

HC with dust jacket, 28 x 25 x 2,5 cm. (11 x 10 inch.), 228 pp., 114 color ills., text language: English

Special Edition. It comes in a folder, approx. 24 x 32 cm, hand bound + 1 signed & numbered print (ed. of 30)

HC with dust jacket, 32 x 28 x 3 cm., 180 pp., 131 color- & duotone b/w ills., bilingual texts: German /English

'An Archeology of Fear and Desire' by Frédéric BRENNER is an attempt to recontextualize Israel, exploring longing, belonging & exclusion. It is part of a project, were participating Joseph KOUDELKA, Gilles PERESS, Stephen SHORE, Nick WAPLINGTON a.o.

This out-of-print monograph on the work of the Iraqi photographer Latif al ANI gives a very good impression of international life in the 1960s and 1970s in a metropolis in the Middle East. 112 b/w photographs in almost page-filling square format.

This photo volume, 'Leave and Let Us Go', presents a portrait of Iraq. Alexandra Rose HOWLAND combines her own photographs with found images and written testimonies. Her aim is to challenge and expand the ways that geopolitical events are communicated.

During the work on the book 'As it may be', Bieke DEPOORTER gradually became aware of her status as an outsider - culturally and as a photographer. So she traveled back to Egypt with a book dummy and invited people to write comments directly on the photos

'Poppy. Trails of Afghan Heroin 'by Dutch Robert KNOTH and Antoinette de JONG, traces the heroin journey, which leads from Afghanistan via Central Asia, Russia and the Balkans to East Africa, Dubai and Western Europe and gets lost in the streets of London

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 31 x 2,5 cm., 340 pp., 470 color ills., English

In this very personal and impressive out-of-print photographic volume 'From Galilee to the Negev' the renowned US-American photographer Stephen SHORE turns to Israel and the Palestinian territories of the West Bank in his unmistakable documentary style.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 13,5 x 20,5 cm., 200 pp., color ills., English

An artistic documentary photo project about landscapes and urban spaces in Israel. The project is published as a 32pp newspaper. It combines landscape photographs with quotes from various authors on the politicization of the landscape in Israel/Palestine.

The black-and-white images in the out-of-print 'Sahraouis. Existences-Résistances' by Rogério FERRARI are the result of a month and a half of living together in the Sahara refugee camps in Tindouf in Algeria as well as in the liberated area of Tifariti.

18 'Ostkreuz' photographers portrait residents of Auroville, the slums of Manila, and the center of a decaying Detroit, Ordos in China, the artificiality of Dubai, and the bombed-out buildings in Gaza. The result is a portrait of a city that is all cities

'Vergessenes Südarabien' (Forgotten South Arabia) by Hans HELFRITZ is above all enthnologically and historically interesting. It documents the way of life on the Arabian Peninsula in the early 1930s. The approximately 150 photos were taken with a Leica.

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 24 cm., 96 pp., 76 color ills., appendix, bilingual: Italian / Persian, Ltd. to 150 signed & numbered copies

Published in newspaper format, '40 Jahre laif. 40 Positionen dokumentarischer Fotografie' is both an exhibit and a catalog of the exhibition of the same name, which celebrates the anniversary of the German photographers agency from Cologne.

'Chicago', BROOMBERG & CHANARIN offer a visual analysis of contemporary Israel beginning in Chicago and ending in a sniper's lair. Nothing here is what it seems. A watermelon is revealed to be a suicide bomb and a pastoral landscape becomes a warzone.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 25 x 1,5 cm., 76 pp., color ills., text language: English

HC with dust jacket, 25 x 32 cm., 224 pp., b/w ills., bilingual texts: English / Persian

by Florian Ebner, Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 19 x 25 x 2 cm., 160 pp., color ills., multi-lingual texts: Arabian / German / English

Newsprint (no dust jacket or cover, as issued), 29 x 42 x 1 cm., 20 pp. color ills., text language: English

The self published photographic volume 'Exit Ghost' by German photographer Kai BORNHÖFT is a well editied artist book with black-and-white photographs between hard book cover form industrial building production. It deals about the Arabian city Dubai.

Accordeon binded HC, 13,5 x 18 cm., 28 pp., 27 color ills., 2 folded inserts,

The out-of-print book 'First Color' by Magnum photographer Inge MORATH spans from her photographs from Spain (1954/55) to the pictures from Ireland and Romania in 1958 to her documentation of the Gaza Strip in 1960. It shows, her unique ability to compose

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 28 x 23,5 x 2 cm., 238 pp., color ills., text language: English

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 29,5 x 29,5 x 3,5 cm., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

The underlying thesis of the out-of-print, sought-after volume 'Generation Dubai. Exit, Voice and Loyalty' by Bijan KHEZRI is that the world is defined by economics, not laws. And there is hardly any other place in the world than Dubai to illustrate this.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16 x 21 x 1,5 cm., 128 pp., b/w (intro) & color (main part) ills., English

In his out-of-print photo volume, 'Impasse Hotel Syria', Krass CLEMENT does without any text, because the pictures leave no question unanswered. The very personal travel and photo book describes the recent past of the country in pictures taken since 2001

Irina ROZOVSKY's photographs in 'One to Nothing' are not politically charged, even though they were taken in Israel. The photographs were taken at a location of historical conflict, where it is not always clear who is the winner and who is the victim.

The opulent photo volume 'Desert of Pharan. Unofficial stories behind the mass expansion of Mecca' by Ahmed MATER offers a unique access to this site and the associated social and religious rituals as well as the planned architectural urban development.

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

This book, 'Baghdad Calling' by Geert van KESTEREN, is an appeal to the Western coalition. It shows everyday life in Iraq in 2006/07 through hundreds of photographs taken with cell phones or digital cameras, showing places that journalists dared not enter

'Salt Pans' by Edward BURTYNSKY explores industrial landscapes all over the world. The book consists of 31 aerial color photographs of the salt pans in the Little Rann of Kutch. These striking geometric images were created over 10 days from a helicopter.

Swiss bound pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 14 x 21 x 1 cm., 112 pp., color ills., Ltd. to 450 copies, 50 signed copies

'Ha Aretz' by Roger GRASAS is carefully researched and shows photos from all the territories that belong to the Holy Land, documenting the settings of the most important narratives of the Holy Scriptures, whose relevance is also described in a booklet.

Updated edition of the catalog which accompanied an exhibition of Don McCULLIN, including his work since the mid-1950s. A long career as a conflict photographer, social documentary practice, travel assignments and his recent engagement with landscape.