Announcements available for pre-order

In the 'Pre-Order Now' category you will find titles that Cafe Lehmitz Photobooks has picked up and will ship in the future. Since these are often titles for which CLP pays in advance, the price at the time of recording and the price at the time of availability may vary.


'Malanka' by Yelena YEMCHUK deals with a folklore ritual celebrated by ethnic Romanians in western Ukraine. She visited the village of Krasnoilsk to photograph the local Malanka. The photo series is personal, feminine, surreal and surrounded by magic.
62,00 € * Weight 1 kg
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.
45,00 € * Weight 1 kg
This photo volume is dedicated to Christer STRÖMHOLM (1918-2002), one of the major figures of 20th century European photography. With an unmistakable sensitivity to human suffering, based on his personal experience, he took photography in a new direction
62,00 € * Weight 1.2 kg
Colorful studies of form & light in the book 'Plein Soleil' by Jessica BACKHAUS are the logical continuation of her 'Cut Outs', in exploring the photographic possibilities of abstraction and crossing the boundary between documentary & poetic photography.
58,00 € * Weight 1 kg
'Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography' accompanies an exhibition project by Lou Stoppard, which combines texts by the Nobel Prize winner with images by Harry CALLAHAN, Claude DITYVON, Daidō MORIYAMA, Issei SUDA, Henry WESSEL, Bernard Pierre WOLFF a.o.
38,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
'Pharmakon' by Teju COLE combines subtle photos with a dozen short stories. The images were taken around the globe, expanding the oblique perspective he developed in 'Fernweh'. The interspersed images & texts act as intimate signals in our age of crisis.
58,00 € * Weight 1 kg
'Extraction/Abstraction' by Edward BURTYNSKY presents lucid & informed documentations of large-scale extractive processes, and how those transform landscapes of industry into complete abstractions. It features also behind-the-scenes photographs at work.
48,00 € * Weight 1.4 kg
Published in accordion format, 'This Train' by Justine KURLAND presents two interwoven narratives from the road trips across the USA she took between 2005 and 2010. A limited edition of 1,000 signed copies including a signed & numbered handmade print.
120,00 € * Weight 0.9 kg
In the book 'Over Time: Conversations about Documents and Dreams', Alessandra SANGUINETTI reflects with her cousins on the 'The Adventures of Guille and Belinda' series and its development. The in-depth conversation is illustrated with unpublished images
17,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
'The Way Back' presents works by Bruce DAVIDSON taken between 1957 and 1992 - from his earliest such as 'Brooklyn Gang' (1959), 'Time of Change' (1961-1965) 'East 100th Street' (1966-1968) to late works such as 'Subway' (1980) and 'Central Park' (1992).
65,00 € *
The photographic volume 'Palermo Panorama' by Mauro D'AGATI consists of thirteen chapters, organically evolving into a complex image of the city. Always full of empathy, he portrays the resilient characters and the decaying beauty of his hometown Palermo.
75,00 € *
For his volume 'Wall and Peace', Kai WIEDENHÖFER has documented walls and barrier fences all over the world: in Berlin, Belfast, Mexico, Ceuta & Melilla, in Baghdad and the wall on the border line with the West Bank, with the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Egypt.
125,00 € *
The announced photographic volume 'Leipzig 1972' by Ute ESKILDSEN and Timm RAUTERT is the result of a series taken during a week in autumn 1972. It shows a very subjective, silent picture of Leipzig. A special, historical document of analog photography.
185,00 € *
The photographic volume 'Frankfurt BIlder' by Barabara KLEMM documents her close relationship with the Main metropolis since the 1960s. Her photos of the student movement, as well as of Adorno and Horkheimer, quickly achieved (inter)national significance.
40,00 € *
The photo volume 'Works. 2023-1996' by Andreas GEFELLER brings together previously unpublished works, key images as well as current works. It shows how the photographer takes a critical look at a digitalized world and questions human habits of perception.
48,00 € *
The volume 'Hierzulande' gathers photo reportages by Robert LEBECK from 1955 to 1983. Some pictures are part of the cultural memory, others have rarely or never been published. His reports are legendary and make him an indispensable chronicler of our time
35,00 € *
The 23 images by Harry CALLAHAN in his book 'Morocco', taken in 1981, are the product of his shift to a strictly chromatic palette and demonstrate his continued interest in the visual intrigue of the everyday urban landscape & the passersby who occupy it.
38,00 € * Weight 0.7 kg
The book 'River Under Earth' by Dmitry ERMAKOV shows some essence of the original beauty of the European part of Russia - from Baltic Sea to Western Siberia - where real pagans live and Orthodox Russia is a silent agreement of the people with the rulers.
85,00 € *
'War & Peace in New York. Photographs 1966-1970' by Tod PAPAGEORGE, comprises two photo volumes that provide a comprehensive portrait of a troubled city in a dark, febrile time. This is a city built sweetly, if seriously, at heart, to belong and to like.
280,00 € *
After projects drawing from archives, Arwed MESSMER turns for 'Clearing the Dephts' to his own archive, which contains many problematic aspects of German history. Previously unpublished images are re-edited and series are set in relation to each other.
75,00 € *
'History in Pictures' by Joel STERNFELD often puzzle over notions of Westernization, globalization, and identity. Modernity, contradictions, inequality, hatred, technology, science, and emerging sexual identities have forever reshaped the human condition.
65,00 € *
This expanded edition contains images that are not contained in Mikhael SUBOTZKY's original photo volume 'Ponte City', which is out of print. A complex portrait of a place shaped by competing projections - refuge and monstrous place as well as dreamland.
48,00 € *
In this 8th volume of a photo book series with screen-printed canvas covers, Daido MORIYAMA's 'Tiles in Aizuwakamatsu' the Japanese photographer takes as its subject the flood of roundish tiles that decorated the toilet of his hotel room in Aizuwakamatsu.
124,00 €
In 'Daughters of Magic' Ostkreuz agency photographer FRITZ documents Mihaela Minca, the most powerful witch in Romania. Magic & mysticism are part of everyday life in her Roma family & closely knit community, witchcraft is an expression of female strength
38,00 € *
The planned volume 'Zoo' is set to be a wild ride through the work of Anders PETERSEN, whether it's deliberate portraits of animals or a chance photographic encounter with the legs of a woman in python print tights. Details to follow after its release.
65,00 € *
Only announced so far, this issue, 'The Complete Café Lehmitz Family Album', is to contain the complete material of the legendary footband. Then what will become of the classic itself? We are very curious!
68,00 € *
This photo volume, 'Matilda' by David BAILEY, is a love letter to Australia, but not a rosy portrait, rather a gritty, yet loving vision of rural and small-town Australia in the early 1980s. He enhances technical errors with his own doodles and cutouts.
58,00 € *
For 39 years, British photographer David BAILEY has photographed his wife Catherine on Polaroid film. The result, '117 Polaroids', has evolved organically over the decades. It is a visual poem, a testimony of collaboration and personal experience.
58,00 € *
In 'Road to Barking' David BAILEY documents the borough of Barking & Dagenham in London's East End and its inhabitants: musicians, flower sellers & butchers, passengers on the Underground, policemen & punks and abandoned boats on the banks of the Thames.
75,00 € *