Nature

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