Monographies

This out-of-print monograph 'Aus dem fotografischen Werk 1938-2004' on the work of Robert HÄUSSER contains countless b/w images, which have been assigned in chronological order to chapters by various well-known authors (the texts are written in German!).

The out-of-print catalogue volume (only in French!) deals about the Latvian photographer Gustavs KLUCIS who's credited with the invention of political photomontage (alongside the Dadaists Hannah HÖCH & Raoul HAUSMANN and the Russian El Lissitzky).

The out-of-print book 'Miroslav Tichý' contains blurred images by the Czech that are reminiscent of pictures by Gerhard RICHTER or Sigmar POLKE. Thousands of photographs taken in the 1960s and 70s with self-made cameras made of cardboard and adhesive tape

The volume 'Tichy' contains around 80 reproductions of photographs & paintings by the Czech photographer Miroslav TICHY. The introduction is by Harald Szeemann, the essay by Roman Buxbaum (both in English). With a bibliography and a list of reproductions.

The out-of-print photo volume 'Tichy' (with 132 color reproductions) accompanied the exhibition on the Czech Miroslav Tichy at the Kunsthaus Zürich in 2005. The German-language texts are by Tobias Bezzola and Roman Buxbaum, foreword by Christoph Becker.

Out-of-print book 'The Camera as Conscience' is based on the archive of William Eugene SMITH and contains famous as well as previously unpublished images from the 1930s to the 1970s, mostly essays for 'Life', such as 'Country Doctor' and 'Spanish Village'

Out-of-print monograph on William Eugene SMITH shows images from six series: 'Country Doctor', 'Spanish Village', 'Nurse Midwife', 'A Man of Mercy', 'Minamata', as well as 'Pittsburgh'. It contains texts by himself about his working methods and principles

The limited edition catalog 'Faces and Places. 1980-2023' contains reproductions of several pages from the albums of US-American photographer Jamel SHABAZZ (b.1960), focusing on his extensive portrait work in New York City parks over the last forty years.

'Istanbul' by Miron ZOWNIR contains b/w pictures taken before and during the coronavirus pandemic. It shows how diverse the realities of life in Turkey's capital are and depicts a social reality that also includes ever-increasing poverty & social taboos.

The volume 'A Humanist Gaze' by Joseph RODRGUEZ intimately documents the life of people who live at the fringes of society: families who live on the wrong side of the law, prostitutes in Mexico, jail inmates in Zambia and pentecostal pilgrims in Romania.

In the book 'Frames of References' we get to know the extensive work of Lucinda DEVLIN. As one of the early important representatives of the 'New Color Photography', her focus is on interiors of all kinds and since the 2000s on outdoor spaces & landscapes

Illuminating fifty years of evolution in the field of art criticism, 'Diane Arbus Documents' provides a new template for understanding the work of any formidable artist. An important resource for photographers, researchers, art historians, and art critics

Shortlisted for the Arles 2023 Historical Book Award, the photography book 'One Brief Moment' reproduces original prints by US photographer Dave HEATH with beautiful precision. Many of these prints exist only as single work prints.

The out-of-print survey volume on the photography of Dennis GUN features works - primarily photographic stagings - by turkish-born artist from 2008 to 2010. He critically explored historical and art historical as well as scientific and mythological themes

The out-of-print photo book 'From Where There Is No Return' on the work of Alberto GARCÍA-ALIX reproduces over 250 images that compose the ambitious project on which the Spanish photographer has been working for several years in Madrid, Paris and Beijing.

The out-of-print 'Causes and Spirits' about William CARTER is both an autobiography and a study of people. Beginning in 1960it documents his travels around the world, from New York to Kurdistan, Dublin to Gaza, with landscapes that often yearn for people.

In addition to works selected by Eva BESNYÖ herself, the out-of-print volume contains previously never shown works with motifs from Budapest, Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Milan with attention to light, shadow, cropping and line play.

The out-of-print volume 'Early Works' by Issei SUDA contains black-and-white photographs that were published in several magazines between 1970 and 1975, prior to the 'Fushikaden' series - this photo collection is like a prologue to his personal history.

For his biographical book 'Phlippe Halsman. A Photographer's Life', Henry Leutwyler explores the meaning inherent in inanimate objects. To do this, he photographed objects from Halsman's possessions - cameras, eyeglasses, as well as a series of letters.

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Philippe Halsman. Retrospective' contains the best of his brilliant work. Here are his famous (Einstein, Dalí, Monroe) portraits, his testimonies to his fascination with surrealism, and his 'Jumpology' photos.

In his monograph on Ulrich WÜST, 'The Presence of Something Past,' Gary Van Zante contextualizes the work to American & German urban and landscape photography. With over 200 images, including for the first time some of his leporellos from the title series

'Ausgewählte Werke 1978-' by Sergej CHILIKOV shows Russian life of ordinary people in the countryside during the period of upheaval from the final phase of the Soviet Union to the post-communist present, far away from urban hustle & bustle and anonymity.

The catalog from Gropius Bau exhibition on Alexander RODCHENKO offers a broad overview of the many facets of his photographic oeuvre. It includes previously unpublished works from his estate and a readable essay on the photographic avant-garde in Russia.

This photo volume, 'Coming up for Air: Stephen Gill – A Retrospective', accompanied the exhibition about his 40-years-work including work from his classic long out of print books 'Hackney Wick', 'Hackney Flowers', 'Coexistence' and so much more.

The volume '1965-2022. From "Blue Horse" till now days' examines the photo work of one of Ukrainian artist Boris Mikhailov. For over 50 years, he has been developing an experimental photographic oeuvre in which he deals with social and political issues.

The volume 'This Will Not End Well' by Nan GOLDIN is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of her work as a filmmaker. The stories told range from traumata to the portrayal of her bohemian friends and a journey into the darkness of addiction.

'Sea of Files' celebrates Dayanita SINGH as the 2022 winner of the Hasselblad Award. It highlights her engagement with the archive as a vessel of cultural experience. An essay by Orhan Pamuk explores the lyrical reality of her images of state archives.

'Photographers References No.1' exposes the creative processes of South African photographer David GOLDBLATT. It provides insights into his practice by revealing personal references and influences that have helped shape his distinctive visual language.

Among the perfectly printed photographs in the book 'Fritz Kühn. Das photographische Werk 1931-1967', there is also a sequence of mostly unpublished photographs taken in Italy, which are among the most sovereign works of the artist who worked in the GDR.

Published in conjunction with a major exhibition, 'Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear' surveys four decades of his career. With essays on his multifaceted practice, and a new text by himself elucidates the methodology behind his system of presenting.

The book 'Das Magische Auge' (Magic Eye) shows the versatile work of Herbert LIST. Many of his photographs were taken in cities like Hamburg, Paris or Athens and exude an aura of mystery: Thus he wanted to illustrate the profound and ambiguous of reality.

The monograph 'Small Biography' features photographs by Shoji UEDA from the 1930s to the 1990s, originally published in Camera Mainichi magazine between 1974 and 1985. The limited edition of 1000 copies was numbered with an ink stamp on the colophon page.

This volume, 'Brett Weston: Master Photographer', is the most comprehensive overview of the life and photography of Brett WESTON. It covers the six decades of his work (1925-1986), each introduced by an essay by renowned authors such as Beaumont Newhall.

Out-of-print catalog for the major 'Bernd & Hilla Becher' retrospective at Metropolitan Musem with 3 essays and 108 plates to their life & work in a broad sweep. For the 1st time including their early works as well as an interview with the son Max Becher.

'Dancing with my camera' is the most comprehensive publication on Dayanita SINGH to date. It presents her work, contains works from the 80s, a new series and the works 'Museum of Chance', 'Museum of Shedding', 'I am as I am', 'Go Away Closer' & 'Box 507'.

'Die Zukunft hat schon begonnen' (The Future Has Already Begun) represents the major monograph on Rudolf HOLTAPPEL, considered THE chronicler of the Ruhr area of the 50s. In addition, he created free, experimental works and photographed on numerous trips.

'Where the World is Melting', is the first compilation by Ragnar AXELSSON himself of his 40-year life's work.It includes his highly acclaimed series 'Faces of the North', 'Glacier' and 'Last Days of the Arctic' as well as a previously unpublished series.

Presenting earliest work by Edward WESTON from a discovered family album, 'Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist' compares his first artistic efforts with his masterworks to show persistence & evolution of his vision to find essential form with intensity

'Shunk-Kender. Art through the Eye of the Camera. 1957-1983' accompanied the first retrospective. It documents the heady days of American and European postwar art and is an example of a rarely recognized photographic genre: the photography of art as art.

This volume on Eikoh HOSOE shows photos, but also introduces the most important protagonists of the art of Japan after 1945. It also contains essays that offer new perspectives on the work, as well as reprints of a selection of previously published essays

Zanele MUHOLI became known for pictures that show the lives of black lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals, queers and intersex people beyond deviance and victimhood. This catalog contains images from her most important as well as unpublished works.

'Une Intime Distance', explores the work of Nicholas NIXON, offering a cross-section of his oeuvre. Arranged around the Brown Sisters longterm-series are previously unpublished series: Industrial Landscapes, Southern Stater portraits to Close-ups of Faces

'Ellen Thorbecke - From Peking to Paris', features rare photographs of everyday life in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Paris and the Middle East in the 1930s/40s. The photos have a lively, candid style and demonstrate an eye for the vitality of street life

The photographic volume 'Contravisiones' by Joan FONTCUBERTA describes the elements that erode, question and defy the logic of the photographic language itself. This selection is about the search for elements that tend to the unreal, magical and dreamlike

The catalog 'Accra/London. A Retrospective' is dedicated to the body of work produced to date by Ghanaian photographer James BARNOR, tracing his photographic practice over six decades: both the work in his homeland and his work, from London in the 1960s.

Der Band 'Blue Prints', ist eine Hommage an eine Pionierin der Fotografie und eine große britische Künstlerin, Anna ATKINS, die 1843 den ersten Fotoband der Geschichte schuf. Er enthält eine Auswahl der schönsten Cyanotypien sowie Texte von Rolf Sachsse.

In 'Joseph Beuys: Kunst Kapital Revolution' Philip Ursprung undertakes a historical journey to central BEUYS locations and offers a comprehensive overview of his works in the social, as well as economic-political context of the Federal Republic of Germany

In 'Everyone is an artist', contemporary artists & representatives from diverse areas of society enter into a multi-layered, transcultural dialogue with BEUYS to confirm, question and expand his theses on the possibilities of a future conceived from art.

This comprehensive monograph on the work of Thomas RUFF focuses on series of the last 20 years, for which he used found photographs of most diverse origins. In his examination of these visual worlds, he explores the technical conditions of photography.

'Der Westerwald im Spiegel der Zeit' gives an insight into August SANDER's work in his home area in around fifty photographs. Here, motifs from his work 'People of the 20th Century' are combined with photos that he had filed under the name 'Bauernarchiv'

The book 'Walker Evans. America Leben und Kunst' by Svetlana Alpers about the photograph & heroe traces the phenomenon of a work whose author claimed that photography was the most literary of the visual arts. Afterword and translation are by Wolfgang Kemp

This book, 'Who is Michael Jang?', highlights the most important works by Michael JANG. For almost four decades he worked as a successful commercial portrait photographer and at the same time put together a huge archive with thousands of remarkable images

This second print run of the catalog volume on the work of reportage photographer Martin MUNKACSI, who shaped the beginnings of modern photojournalism, shows works from all phases as well as pictures that have not been seen since their first publication.

The out-of-print volume on Man RAY contains a selection of about 170 key works. It shows how the photographer has made use of various art media and techniques in an inventive and playful manner. The title is complemented by some readable scholarly essays.

Diary-like series, landscape shots and situational mood images. The catalog volume 'Why Not?' with further essays follows the latest development of the Finnish photographer Elina BROTHERUS. The book constantly explores the possibilities of photography.

'At the Edge of Pictures' is the first monographic study of life and work of John STEZAKER. By using the eventful decades of the 1970s and 80s as a prism, Yuval Etgar offers a new reading of his mode of operation and a mapping of the strategies of collage

The photo book 'In the Beginning' covers the first seven years in the work of the American photographer Diane ARBUS. The monograph contains over 100 early photographs from 1956 to 1962, which clearly show the development of her typical, suggestive images.

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

Since the early 1980s, Jamel SHABAZZ has been documenting the passengers of the popular New York transit system in the spirit of street photography. The images in 'City Metro' capture their fashions & moods, are timeless and captivate with their energy.

The b/w photographs in 'It's too funky in here' dance like the photographed dancers, twinkle like the eyes of the portrayed youth. Malick SIDIBE is the catcher of joy. Omnipresent at decisive moments that really needed to be caught - the memory of Bamako.

The monograph 'spacious' on Margerita SPILUTTINI's work depicts her enormous archive, a comprehensive chronicle of Austrian architecture as well as worldwide buildings by international star architects. Her free works also prove her artistic standing.

The photo book 'Wolf Suschitzky - Work' shows a selection of his photographs on the subject of 'work' by the Viennese born Wolf SUSCHITZKY.

Inspired by the origins of the European museum, the art and wonder chambers of the Renaissance, artist Bettina von ZWEHL shows in her overall presentation 'Wunderkammer' a cross section of her photographic reflections on institutionalized representation.

The luxuriously bound photo book 'MOOD / MODE' presents around 200 photographs from the extensive work of the Dutch photographer Anton CORBIJN and examines the interface between photography and the world of fashion - in the broadest sense of the word.

'The Space Between Us' by Alec SOTH accompanies his first solo exhibition of the same name at the Shanghai Center of Photography. The photographs specially selected for this volume come from all series. It also contains five essays by well-known authors.

Out-of-print book 'The Essential Cecil Beaton. Photographien 1920-1970' provides insight into the sheer inexhaustible creativity of this multi-talented photographer through outstanding pictorial examples and with personal statements by him on photography.

This monograph on Magnum agency co-founder Henri CARTIER-BRESSON is about the decisive moment, humility and humanity in his work. The images reproduced in black and white range from the earliest works to landscape photographs from the 1970s.

Softcover, square catalog volume, published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Wols Photograph 31/1-11/3 1979' at Museum Ludwig, Cologne. The German-language catalog text is by Lazlo Glozer.

'The Book of Everything' celebrates Mary Ellen MARK's extraordinary life, work and vision in over 600 images and in various texts. From 1963 until her death in 2015, the Magnum photographer told brilliant, intimate, provocative stories.

The catalog volume brings together the most important works by Jitka HANZLOVÁ as well as insightful texts, thus bridging the gap between works such as 'Rokotnik' & 'inhabitant' from the 1990s to their most recent, contemplative series, 'Vanitas' & 'Water'

This unique collection, named as the 'William Eggleston PhotoBookLibrary', consists of 20 titles by renowned American photographer William EGGLESTON. Some titles have been out of print for a long time and can here only be purchased in their entirety.

The out-of-print catalog for huge Michael SCHMIDT retrospective, took place in Berlin, includes well-known and rarely seen works as well as the very informative texts by renowned authors can already be considered a reference work about Berlin photographer

The book 'Magic Eye' offers an overview of the work of René GROEBLI. We discover his fascination for movement and speed. And we encounter the rich hues of his unique, innovative color photography, through which even commissioned works become timeless art.

First overall presentation of the photographic work of the photographer, who was born in Dresden. To rediscover is a careful and accurate chronicler, a busy player in the GDR photo scene and a skeptical, distant observer of the post-reunification period.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 27 x 2 cm., 192 pp., 106 color ills., text language: English

The catalog 'Explosion des Sehens' (Explosion of Sight) provides an insight into the work of Magnum member René Burri. It contains previously unpublished material and documents the diversity of his work - book & exhibition design, collages & watercolors.

'My Mind's Eye' about Peter FINK shows his b/w photographs from Japan, France, Portugal, North Africa as well as the Middle East. Art, culture & social issues are his themes - along with portraits, fashion, surreal still lifes & architectural reflections.

'Untold Stories' is the most personal statement of Peter LINDBERGH himself. It contains photos from the early 1980s until shortly before his death in 2019, which once again change the view of his extensive oeuvre clarifying his idea of fashion photography

“While haute couture is closely linked with an idea of perfection and the mastery of every last detail, I wanted to transport DIOR creations to an unexpected place. The streets of NYC embody the most contrasting background to reveal unforeseen emotions.”

English ed., linen bound HC with screen printing, 24,5 x 31 cm., 496 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

This monograph traces the career of Walker EVANS on the basis of more than 300 images - from the first photos from the late 1920s to the Polaroids of the 70s. It also shows documents from his own collection, which give the reader a more thorough insight.

With its generous image flow, this book, 'A Diary', celebrates important Japanese photographer Daido MORIYAMA as the 2019 Hasselblad Award winner and his highly influential, lifelong radical and authentic approach to photography.

GERMAN ED.! Gebundene Ausgabe, 24 x 36,5 cm., 480 S., 419 Farb-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY! Ausgabe.

This catalog examined & showed Michael SCHMIDT's self-portraits for the first time. In addition, 'Landschaft - Waffenruhe - Selbst - Menschenbilder' (Landscape - Truce - Self - Images of People) deals with well-known and other less frequently shown series

'Catálogo' by Miguel CAKLDERÓN gathers images of prostitutes that were shown to him when he was thirteen, so that he could choose one of them for his 'initiation into manhood'. Thirty years later, he uses them to analyze and narrate his sexual awakening.

This fourth volume of the seven volumes 'Edward Ruscha Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings' documents a total of 198 paintings from 1988 to 1992, contains a bibliography, a biographical chronology and closes with a classification by an art-historian.

The out-of-print volume on August SANDER shows around 40 b/w photographs that are exemplary for the portrait work created between 1921 and 1930 - around the time of the Weimar Republic: people from Cologne, the Westerwald, the Eifel, Hamburg and Berlin.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 19 x 25,5 cm., 184 pp., 100 b/w ills,, text language: English

HC with dust jacket, 24 x 34 x 6 cm., 472 pp., b/w & color ills., multilingual text: German, English, French

This out-of-print German language volume 'Photographien 1969-1989' spans the work by US-American Robert MAPPLETHORPE from the early 1970s and shows his most iconic images from portraits to still lifes and figure studies alongside lesser-known photographs.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 32 x 3 cm., 224 pp., 140 quadritone b/w ills., text language: English

Hannah STARKEY explores women and what it means to be female. From early productions to London Women's March documentary, 'Photographs 1997-2017', shows authoritative image-making and serves as an important touchstone for discussions about the female gaze

This extensive designed volume, 'The Complete Papers' by renowned artist Thomas DEMAND, contains previously unseen early works as well as reference reproductions of each of his pieces. Housed in a slipcase, is already considered a reference to his work.