Nature

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.