Nature

With his book with analogue color photographs, 'Enter the Forest', Alexandre Miguel MAIA continues a tradition that sees the forest as a recurring theme in photography. The book was printed on certified recycled paper and produced entirely in Germany.

US photographer Edward WESTON kept a diary in which he recorded his struggle to understand himself, society and his art. 'The Daybooks of Edward Weston' were edited by Nancy Newhall in two volumes: one for his time in Mexico and one for Californian time.

In 'Sea Stories', the photos by Robert ADAMS describe the cycles of nature with a new naturalism. It contents a sequence of three visual narratives: among alder and maple trees, along the beachand back through meadows and what remains of the inland forest

'Allerseelen' by Alexander BINDER brings together a phantasmagoria of mystical images. He has seamlessly managed to blend crystal rainbows with even the most arcane and dark twilights and thus once again constructing a world of haunting beauty & mysticism

97 unique images made from the same photographic negative. A photo book about the oldest living organism known to man and a book about the instability of the photographic image and the enigmatic intertwinement of time, reality and perception.

Photo artist Jaakko KAHILANIEMI owns 100 ha of forest. With his conceptual project '100 Hectares of Understanding' he tries to better understand his forest area and to show new ways of thinking and methods of how one can experience and feel the forest.

Magnum photographer Sebastião SALGADO traveled the Brazilian Amazon for six years and photographed the incomparable beauty of this unique region: the rainforest, the rivers, the mountains as well as the people living there - irreplaceable for mankind.

The book 'Turning Back' by Robert ADAMS documents and observes the results of greed so unrestrained that they are indistinguishable from those of nihilism. It reflects what was lost, what is retained, and what we value as a people with a common history.

'Ephemere' by Paul CUPIDO emphasizes the volatility of existence in the process of creation, metamorphosis and disappearance. It's about the fragility of life, the interconnectedness of human / non-human and the silence on which every expression is based.

'Cloud Physics' by Terri WEIFENBACH explores the photographic ability to capture the transience of natural phenomena. Tiny variations of light and humidity, golden clouds, plant life rustling with moisture, animal presence in the depths of the forest.

The birds of French photographer Bernard PLOSSU in this volume of 'Des Oiseaux' series sometimes seem very familiar. And when they play with their wings spread out with the winds whistling in the air, they awaken in us the wish that we humans could fly.

Photography exists because of the light, but the landscapes in VAN DER MOLENS photographs stand out from the darkness. Her monochrome photographic works arise out of the desire to penetrate deep into the core of the isolated world in which she photographs

In 'Sakura', Yoshinori MIZUTANI attempts to visualize the movement of his observing eyes as well as distill the visual experience of meditating & wandering over the blossom tree. He shows that photography is also capable of capturing the passage of time.

German edition. Sebastião SALGADO has created a world of images that show nature, animals and indigenous peoples in intense beauty. The volume 'Genesis' is the result of an epic 8-year expedition to regions where the planet has remained untouched before.

'Looking at Ansel Adams' is an immersive study that explores his life as an artist by illuminating the stories behind twenty of his most significant images. Lesser-known but equally important photographs provide unexpected insights into his personal life.

This edition contains b/w photos taken between 1973 and 1991, a six-page interview with as well as a two-page biography. It was published in the 'Photographers at Work' series by the American Smithsonian Institute - like EGGLESTON's 'Horses and Dogs'.

The b/w photographs from the 1970s in 'Watarasegawa. Time goes by' by Mitsuru FUJITA show mountains, fields, roads and abandoned places in a place where a disaster occurred in a copper mine in 1880.- testimonies of a past struggle between nature and man.

With 'Piedmont', Josef KOUDELKA continues his exploration of the landscape. From the shores of Lake Maggiore to the mountain passes of the Alps, from agricultural valleys to the construction sites of Turin, from cement plants to the historical remains.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 27 x 1 cm., 62 pp., color ills., text language: English

The dualistic principle of the chiaroscuro design forms in the large-format photo book 'Visual Dualism. Dolomites' by Austrian photographer Peter MATHIS is an essential focus and leaves us speechless when looking at the Dolomites in black and white.

For 'Tree, Stone, Water', Gerry JOHANSSON captured the environment surrounding the Japanese, not the people. He took photographed rocks & mountain streams of the Nametoko Valley, deep inside forests teeming with the energy of life and the Seto inland Sea.

A figure of the younger Japanese photo scene, Yoshinori MIZUTANI, he examines the urbanity of his city Tokyo, documenting scenes bordering on the fantastic. His birds in 'Des Oiseaux' give the city back its secret.

In 'Natural Order', Edward BURTYNSKY captures a moment in spring 2020 when nature briefly caught its breath due to the corona lockdown. With his camera in his home, Gray County, Ontario, he documents the complexity, magic & resilience of the natural order

This book, '1416 Anholt' by Jäger ARÉN, shows the everyday life on the Danish island between Denmark and Sweden. With a sensitive eye and his Leica cameras, he has roamed nooks and crannies of the island, which has been his summer retreat since childhood.

'Cirren' by Angela SCHWANK contains photos showing the diversity of cirrus clouds and other high-altitude cloud forms and man-made changes in their appearance caused by air traffic. The negatives were taken over Vienna & surroundings and the Netherlands.

The volume 'Die 4 Jahreszeiten' (The 4 Seasons) by Swiss photographerJakob TUGGENER is a completely new version of the unique books he created in the 1940s on the themes of spring, summer, fall and winter. It is a reflection on human life and transience.

In 'Shikawatari' (Deer Crossing), Chieko SHIRAISHI focuses a herd of deer. The shy animals roam through the snowy landscape of wintry Dōtō (Eastern Hokkaido), across frozen lakes and sparse forests. Both keep distance from another, and watching each other

'Eternal U' by Hubert HUMKA - 3rd part of his book trilogy, together with 'Eden (2014) and 'Death Landscapes' (2018) - is about death and eternity. It's main axis are forest photographs (life), negatives (death) and embossed texts (traces we leave behind)

'Arctic Heroes' by Ragnar AXELSSON takes a moving look at the fate of the Greenland sled dog. Where the melting ice sheet is irrevocably destroying the traditional way of life of the hunters, global warming is an immediate threat to their daily survival.

In this book, 'Schnee' (snow) photographer Peter MATHIS captures the essence of snow. These breathtaking duotone images transform a traditional alpine landscape into picturesque canvases that are alternately otherworldly, sensual, haunting and heavenly.

Re-edit. SC, 13,5 x 17,8 cm., 192 pp., English

The photographs in 'After Us the Flood' give the abstract processes and complex interrelationships of the climate crisis a visual form. The international works of the last ten years was often the result of intensive research & cooperation with scientists.

In is photo volume 'Siberian Summer', Olaf Otto BECKER documents the inhospitable formations of earth and ice that tower like abstract sculptures above wet beaches in the permafrost zone, a group of researchers and the half-ruined port city of Tiksi.

The images of ALBARRÁN CABRERA in 'Remembering the Future' speak to us of memory and experience. At first glance, their very clarity is moving. After a time, rather than real scenes, they begin to seem the settings for dreams about to vanish into the mist

In 'Amazônia' Paul CUPIDO explores the ephemeral correspondences between body & earth. There is probably no place on earth more imbued with spirituality than the Amazon rainforest. With his camera, he enters into a dialogue with this mystical environment.

The out-of-print volume 'Aus der Werkstatt der Natur' brings together the most beautiful photographs by Karl BLOSSFELDT as well as an unpublished text by the master. It follows his traces in contemporary art e.g. in the comic fantasies by Benoît Peeters.

For 'Wald' (forest) Gerhard RICHTER chose photos from an extensive collection, which was created since 2005 in the forest near his house. It follows a dramaturgy developed together with text pages and opens up analogies to the overall work of the artist.

In photo volume 'Trance' Diana MICHENER reaches for the changing manifestations of the horizon: as an elegant line, drawn by the setting sun, dissolving in haze, almost covered by majestic boulders or only implied as a close-up of undulating rock deposits

The tree studies in this out-of-print photo volume, 'Trad' by Gunnar SMOLIANSKY, are social journalism in photographic form where people have left the scenery. The footage of fallen trees, however, is too vulnerable to please avid conservationists.

The atmospheric images in Michael LANGE's photo book 'Cold Mountain' combine the quiet majesty of mountain landscapes with fleeting moments of nature perception.
 How do we perceive what we see, and how do we find ways to express feelings in pictures?

Out-of-print photo book 'Vier mal vier. Photographs from Bargfeld' contains a selection of color photographs that Arno SCHMIDT took in Bargfeld and the surrounding area until his death in 1979. They show a trained eye for structures, nuances and details.

'Ama Lur' by Jon CAZENAVE challenges the notion of the frontier. By revealing an area charged with history and magic, he wants to (re)connect us with the ancient spirit of humanity as well as remind us of our balance with nature that leads us to this day.

HC with dust jacket, 20,5 x 25,5 x 1 cm., 72 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

In her book 'bath in brilliant green' Nina RÖDER shows a poetic perspective on various forms of helplessness and loss. The photographs, taken in Italy, Iceland, Ireland, Spain as well as in France, capture the different color atmospheres of the countries.

'Skyfish' by Japanese photographer Munemasa TAKAHASHI, born and still working in the metropolis of Tokyo, refers to his urgent desire to encounter nature. This photo book is interesting and understandable for everyone who's taking photographs in nature.

The documentation of the domestic bird world in this self published book, 'The Pillar' by Stephen GILL, was designed by the Greger Ulf NILSSON to a high-quality volume, which pleases not only birdwatchers, but also photo book lovers with lasting effect.

'Die Natur der Natur' by Norbert SCHOERNER contains photographs of bonsais from a rearing near Fukushima from seeds of tree species found in the shadow of the volcanic mountain Azuma-Kofuji. The pictures show them in constructed diorama-like environments.

This limited photo volume, 'Island Hoping' by Christina DIMITRIADIS, contains images of Greek islands and groups - taken while thousands of asylum seekers were crossing the Mediterranean Sea. The book asks whether the islands represent goals or obstacles.

In his out-of-print photo volume 'Trails, Takashi HOMMA documents trails of deer hunting in the snow-covered mountains, following the trails of red blood in the white snow that lead up steep slopes and across a river. Each scene like an abstract painting.

Cafe Lehmitz Photobook libraries shall enable collectors as well as institutions to acquire out-of-print titles at a price that can be paid. This library, the Lee FRIEDLANDER Photobook Library, contains 28 by and with contribution by this photographer.

British photographer Michael KENNA is a master of landscape photography and shows in his pictures a world that is almost transitory. In his volume of the 'Des Oiseaux' photo book series, his photographs of birds reflect nature without human presence.

Generations have visited Lookout Mountain west of Denver to gaze out over the city and surrounding countryside. For his photographic volume'On Lookout Mountain' Robert ADAMS compiles a selection of views taken in 1970 and 1984 - evoking hope and despair.

The reissue of photo volume 'Cottonwoods' by Robert ADAMS was originally published in paperback by Smithsonian in 1994 as part of the 'Photographers at Work' series. For the now expanded edition, further recordings from the series at that time were taken.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 35 x 28 x 2,5 cm., 176 pp., 76 color ills., bilingual: German / English

In 'Des Oiseaux', Finish travel photographer Pentti SAMMALLAHTI captures the secrets of nature and among them the world of birds. Coasts, marshes, parks, endless plains, forest clearings, snowy landscapes where birds reveal their presence in a refined way

The 'Hiroshi Sugimoto Collection' includes the five volumes from 2014 to 2019. Adopting different conceptual approaches and astounding aesthetic expedients, these series investigate his obsession though the photographic medium: the 'fossilization of time'

Linen bound HC, 38 x 31 x 2,5 cm., 100 pp., 42 b/w ills., multi-lingual text: French / English / Italian

In 'Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji', Takashi HOMMA explores his country's traditions of representation & depiction, and also offers a new encounter with his subject. Using pinhole cameras and digital technology, he forms haunting images of the mountain.

Terri WEIFENBACH's photos, taken in her private garden, reveal the secret world of nature inhabited by birds that nest in urban gardens. The American photographer immerses us in the infinitely small, 'Des Oiseaux' takes us into a living & wonderful world.

Crescent City was once a place almost limitlessly rich in natural resources. In 'Redwood Saw' Richard ROTHMAN tries to document culture, people & landscape of this city in particular and the USA in general, the place serves as a model of a former boomtown

The Icelandic photographer Ragnar AXELSSON drove to the most remote Inuit settlements in Greenland. In the book 'Die letzten Jäger der arktis' he documents the struggle for survival in an expressive way, e.g. through the unusual angles of his photography.

Out-of-print book 'A Field Guide to Snow and Ice' by Paula McCARTNEY contains 48 b/w & color plates printed with UV inks on uncoated paper. Leporello binding with multiple panel widths and stiff front & back covers. The spine is printed on synthetic paper

The photographs in out-of-print, large-formated 'New York Arbor' by Mitch EPSTEIN document the importance of trees to urban life in NYC, as well as their complex relationship with the residents. The superb printing makes viewing a breathtaking experience.

This photo book, 'Bonsai', is a very beautiful and elaborately designed artist's book, whose slipcase is covered with silky Japan paper. By manipulating the backgrounds & perspectives the series of the Japanese Masao YAMAMOTO gets a surrealistic touch.

English version. Sebastião SALGADO has created a world of images that show nature, animals and indigenous peoples in intense beauty. The volume 'Genesis' is the result of an epic 8-year expedition to regions where the planet has remained untouched before.

'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.

Graciela ITURBIDE, one of the main figures in Latin American photography, combines the documentary with the lyrical. For her, living birds stand for freedom. Birds photographed by her attract and repel us, attract our attention.

The book 'A Partial Eclipse' by Martin BOYCE brings together images of trees & foliage, ellipses, fractures & spider webs. Hundreds of photos were edited to create the form of a book that creates a sense of stillness & distance between viewer & photograph

For 'Second Nature', Guy TILLIM visited the islands of French Polynesia and the megacities of Brazil. The search for the 'second face' in natural and urban landscapes contains images of overwhelming beauty and almost Buddhist-looking calm and clarity.

Out-of-print book 'Forms of Japan' by Michael KENNA focuses on one formal theme in each chapter. In this way, book designer Yvonne Meyer-Lohr shows the interweaving of Japanese culture with nature and provides fascinating insights into Japan's aesthetics.

The volume 'Modern Alchemy' contains a series of eighty photographic works by Dutch photographer Viviane SASSEN and a philosophical essay by Emanuela Coccia. When they meet, they create a space in which seeing and thinking are to be redesigned and renewed

In this book, 'Snow', Austrian photographer Peter MATHIS captures the essence of snow. These breathtaking duotone images transform a traditional alpine landscape into picturesque canvases that are alternately otherworldly, sensual, haunting and heavenly.

Photo volume 'In Plain Air' by Irina ROZOVSKY is a lyrical portrait of Prospect Park in Brooklyn, the epitome of the American melting pot. Captured is the interaction of city and nature, in studies of its visitors wanting to escape the noise of the city.

'The River Winter' documents the subtle actors of change that change the landscape on the banks of the River Exe during the winter in 2010/11. The book is completed by an essay on how winter has been embedded in our cultural psyche since the last ice age.

'Urformen der Kunst' & 'Wundergarten der Natur' made him famous. 'Masterpieces', gathers the most beautiful of the strictly objective, yet poetic plant portraits by Karl BLOSSFELDT, which inspired both Surrealists & representatives of the New Objectivity.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 28 x 22 cm., 96 pp., 60 color ills., bilingual: German / English

Unbound Pb in printed plastic bag (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 30 x 1 cm., 64 pp., +1 post card (with back side informations about designer and publisher), 21 small b/w ills., no text

For 'Under the Light of the North' Otto Olaf BECKER uses landscape photography as well as the coffee table format to reach the intellect through beauty. With a sharpened eye he shows the wounds that man has torn through the overexploitation of the earth.

In his photo volume 'A Road Through Shore Pine' Robert ADAMS traces a contemplative journey, first by car, then on foot, along a lonely tree-lined road to the sea. His photographs of trees hold a unique sensitivity to the subtleties and meanings of light.

This volume 'Crimson Line' by the Australian photographer Trent PARKE is about his passion for the transformative powers of light, the ephemeral changing colors of dawn & dusk, the multitude or different reds that made him curious about the color crimson.

In the out-of-print book 'Nacktwanderer' by Swiss photographer Roshan ADHIHETTY we look into a world unknown to many. The photos show majestic green landscapes where European men and women hike naked through Germany, Switzerland as well as through Austria

Out-of-print 'Shinan' by Michael KENNA, is comprised of b/w images in which he emphasizes suggestion rather than description; sparse and graphic elements evoke a whole world- printed with a special black ink and tinted spot varnish on Japanese art paper.

In their photo volume 'On Listening to Trees', ALBARRÁN CABRERA show their special relationship with trees. However, they are mainly concerned with exploring man's relationship with nature, for example by using the writings of the novelist Hermann Hesse.

The out-of-print volume 'Karl Blossfeldt Photographs 1865-1932' by photo historian Rolf Sachsse contains a trilingual introduction (German, French & English) and more than fifty-five black-and-white illustrations of plant photographs from the late 1920s.

'Natur', a series of German landscapes created between 1987 and 1997, shows the imagery of Michael SCHMIDT. A complex interplay of light and dark from an abundance of silver and gray tones makes the subjective perception of the observer more difficult.

The out-of-print volume 'Das Gesicht er Landschaft. Rhein und Siebengebirge' contains landscape & plant photographs taken by August SANDER from the mid-1920s to the early 1940s. Two German-language essays provide the background to roundabout 70 b/w images

The out-of-print monograph by Japanese photographer Yoshiko SEINO, 'The Sign of Life', contains photographs taken during 2000-2002 in many places in Japan. With the essay 'Short Circuit the Whole of Creation!' by Asako Imaeda in English.

Ansel ADAMS is one of the most important photographers of the 20th century. The book 'Yosemite and the Range of Light', which is also out of print in new editions, contains 116 b/w images, some of which are now considered classics of landscape photography

The photographic volume 'Waldungen' by Austrian photographer Bernhard FUCHS contains fifty landscape photographs taken in the 2010s in his home country, which he had left in the 1990s to study with Bernd BECHER at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie.

In 'Reading the Landscape', Olaf Otto BECKER documents the overexploitation of nature with images showing idyllic places of longing in Malaysia, Indonesia or California, as well as huge tracts of land deforested on behalf of international corporations.

Lee FRIEDLANDER's out-of-print photo volume 'Stems' is not only a tender story of an artist's temporary struggle with physical limitations and pain, but also one of the more eloquent collections of black and white photographs on a narrow subject.

'Lake Erie' by Lynn WHITNEY capture a mood of diverse communities, changing landscapes as well as deeply rooted local history(s). Inspired by the work of Frank GOHLKE on the Erie Lake, her special eye for the unique, endangered landscape guides her.

Brazilean photographer Sebastião SALGADO returned for 'Africa' to document the pride and beauty of this continent as part of the 'Genesis' project - series of landscapes, fauna, flora and human communities as an investigation into a still pristine nature.

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.

In his volume 'Engadin', Gerhard RICHTER explores his deep relationship with the Swiss Alpine region, which he first visited in the late 1980s. The volume contains 80 illustrations: Paintings, overpainted photographs, plus previously unpublished documents

For his out-of-print photo volume 'Himalayas. Where Gods and Man meet', Jaroslav PONCAR has been to the Himalayas with his old Russian FT-2 panorama camera, making amazing pictures of an enormous landscapeof the Himalayan Mountains and especially Tibet.

HC with dust jacket, 29,5 x 29,5 x 1 cm., 72 pp., 34 duotone b/w ills., text language: English