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'Die Amerikaner' is the German edition of this work that looked at the Americans from a new perspective and which revolutionized the aesthetics of the photo book. It was first published in 2008, on the occasion of the anniversary of the French original.

'Post script' by Laura EL-TANTAWY, designed by Sybren KUIPER in accordeon format, contains previously unpublished images & written reflections in which she takes the reader behind the images and into the thoughts and emotions that led to their creation.

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.

The Anti-War book 'Kriegsfibel' (War primer) by Bertolt Brecht and Ruth Berlau processes press photos from the Second World War. Images of machines and gruesome scenes were given new captions, socialist-realist epigrams to give the scenes a primal meaning

The out-of-print volume 'New Orleans 1960' is about the birthplace of jazz. The photos were taken in 1960 during a trip when he traveled through the United States with musicologist Joachim E. Berendt for 'Jazzlife' to document America's original art form.

Out-of-print 'Leipzig. Photographs 1956-1959' by Günter BLUTKE shows the saxonian city in the mid-fifties, taking us back to that time and the people living this time of new beginnings, 10 years after the war and before Germany was divided in two states.

'Krystyna's World', includes 37 color photographs by Todd HIDO, both published and previously unpublished material, from intimate photos to succinct large format images. The Khrystyna model can always be seen in the various scenes, hence the book title.

For the photo volume 'At Home', Susan KANDEL looked for families who would allow themselves to be photographed at home and succeeded in being invited into many private homes. As a result, she discovered that each house she entered was a world of its own.

Out-of-print book 'Mann für Mann' by Roswitha HECKE contains over 40 images from all over the world. Around half of the b/w images were taken in New York City, the rest in Barcelona, Naples, Cairo, London a.o. They all show men, individually or in groups.

For her self-published, out-of-print photo volume 'Plánētes', German photographer Birgit KRAUSE trusts her unusual gaze completely and finds a new foreign country in reality. It is as if you are looking at images from an astronomical voyage of discovery.

The out-of-print double volume 'Talents 06' contains the photo series 'The Cast' by Tobias ZIELONY as well as the text contribution 'I love America. On the adaptation of reality in the photographs of Tobias Zielony' by Jutta von Zitzewitz.

The out-of-print photo book 'Die Poesie der Form' (The Poetry of Form) contains around 75 b/w images by Imogen CUNNINGHAM, neither strictly chronologically nor thematically organized: Bodies, plants, still lifes and portraits, including with August SANDER

In his out-of-print photo book 'Dark Knees', Mark COHEN documents his hometown of Wilkes-Barre for more than 40 years through the eyes of a stranger. With their dazzling combination of lines, the images convey this sense of restless energy and strangeness

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 29 x 26,5 cm., 255 S., S/W- und Farbaufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Linen bound HC with dust jacket, 29 x 33 x 3 cm., 344 pp., b/w ills., trilingual text: English / German / French

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Japan' by prominent British photographer Michael KENNA is the result of intensive travels to Japan. Printed in Triton, the volume has a red cloth cover and is also surrounded by a Japanese folding slipcase.

The photo object '3DPRK' by Matjaz TANCIC presents an extensive collection of North Korean people, photographed in stereo, focusing on common people: those who work in the fields and in the cooperatives, factories and steel mills throughout the country.

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 out-of-print catalog volume 'Anthony Hernandez' shows in over 30 street photographs the social landscape of Los Angeles, which Anthony HERNANDEZ has been documenting for more than forty years. The b/w and color photographs date from the 1970s and 80s.

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 16,5 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 200 S., 40 S/W-Aufnahmen (+9 grün eingefäbte Seiten) sowie 25 Farbaufnahmen, deutsch-sprachuger Text - HERE GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 15,5 x 21 x 2 cm., 120 Seiten, S/W-Aufnahmen, deutsch-sprachier Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN, Ltd. to 500 copies

This out-of-print photographic volume 'London 1949' by René GROEBLI is the result of a two-week-staying in the bombed-out capital with his rolleiflex camera. The 2nd part of the book contains a series of images shot at London's Crystal Palace Park in 1951

The out-of-print and hard-to-find volume 'In Search of Dignity and Justice. The untold story of Conservancy Workers in Mumbai' by Sudharak OLWE shows the fate of workers in Bombay. It contains fourty-six mostly full-paged b/w images and six pages of text.

Out-of-print 'A World in Ruins. Vienna 1945-1948' by Ernst HAAS tells history as a psychic collage. The images of the deep depression in the rubble of bombed-out history contrast with the optimistic awakening. A little-documented part of Austria's history

Out of print since a long time, this photo volume, 'Death Valley' by French photographer Jeanloup SIEFF, contains sixty black-and-white photographs, mainly landscapes of California's Death Valley.

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.

In his photo volume 'LA', Hans-Christian SCHINK generates - based on the precise investigation of the no man's land of Los Angeles - a contrast of nocturnal panoramic shots with extreme cropped enlargements that only hint at traces of urban action spaces.

In 'Mädchen' Diana SCHERER portrays both young girls & dresses for girls in an endearing but troubling reflection on innocence and the fostering of gender roles. Doll-like dresses accentuate the contrast between stylised appearances & child’s disposition.

Open spined pb. (wrap around dust jacket), 21 x 26 cm., 184 pp., 49 color & 22 b/w ills., text language: English

'Das Positiv' shows the concept of visualization, in which photographers imagine the final image in all its tonal gradation even before taking the picture. Ansel ADAMS points out all the possibilities that make the work on the positive a creative process.

The very limited edition volume 'Everyday Abstracts' by Luke Drozd is a silkscreened publication, part of the 'Accumulation Primitive' series , featuring abstract works created from collected textures. Here volume 69 of 70.

Softcover (no dust jacket, as issued), approx. 22 x 22 x 0,5 cm., 18 pp., 6 b/w ills., 100 gr., English, details in German/English

The out-of-print photo volume 'Deus ex Machina' by Ralph GIBSON offers the fruit of four decades of image making. The collection shows, how the prominent US-American photographer is ranging with his work between genres, creating new categories of vision.

The photo volume 'Niagara' by Alec SOTH is less about the natural wonder than the human desires associated with this place. They were taken with a large-format 8x10 camera over the course of two years on both the American and Canadian sides of the Falls.

In the out-of-print 'Gathered Leaves' box contains long unavailable Alec SOTH titles 'Sleeping by the Mississippi', 'Niagara', 'Broken Manual' & 'Songbook' as miniature volumes. In addition, 28 color prints with the most famous images are also a part.

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.

This new printed edition of Todd HIDO's legendary and coveted first monograph has been reissued to celebrate the upcoming 20th anniversary of this important photo book - undoubtedly one of the most influential and most cited photo monographs of our time.

Linen bound HC with dust jacket, 32 x 27,5 x 2 cm., 120 pp., 87 color ills. + 3 panorama views, English

In out-of-print photo book 'Die Deutschen', René BURRI mainly depicts everyday life in Germany, where the bullet holes from the war can still be seen on the wall of the building. Hepursued his project for many decades. In 1986 and 1999, it was republished

'Berlin on a Dog's Night' by Gundula SCHULZE ELDOWY contains images made in old East Berlin from the cycles 'Berlin in einer Hundenacht', 'Der Wind füllt sich mit Wasser', 'Aktporträt', 'Arbeit', 'Straßenbild' & 'Tamerlan' together for the first time.

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!).

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 27 x 22 x 2 cm., 136 pp., 76 b/w ills., bilingual texts: German / English

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 28 x 1,5 cm., 116 pp., approx. 100 b/w ills., German text only

The book 'American Winter' by Gerry JOHANSSON shows half-empty cities across the U.S., with as much beauty as misery in snow-covered landscapes: a lonely church floating in a dappled sea of white, or bare trees lining endless highways tending to nothing.

In this out-of-print photo volume, 'Nude', American photographer Ralph GIBSON shows a collection of nudes, his best works. His mysterious, dreamlike images pay homage to such greats as MAN RAY and Edward WESTON, while continually pursuing new frontiers.

Out-of-print photographic volume 'Liebes Leben' (Dear Life) by Roswitha HECKE consists of 94 images documenting the everyday life of street prostitute Irene. The b/w photographs were taken partly in Germany and partly in Italy (Rome?) in the mid-1970s.

The images in the self-published volume 'da denk ich, dass ich fliegen kann' by Conny HÖFLICH give insight into the parallel world of children and the loss of immediate access. The pictures also tell of this in their ambivalence of closeness and distance.

For her erotic volume 'Wicked', Ellen von UNWERTH has compiled 40 images of the highest art of seduction. With the Brazilian beauty Adriana Lima she stages a small intimate witches' sabbath, lets her romp, dance and ride through the pictures of the book.

In 'Invisible City', Ken SCHLES documents New York's East Village neighborhood during its heyday in the 1980s. Using scans of original negatives and the five-plate technique, this reprint surpasses the original and brings the classic into the 21st century

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.

Out-of-print 'Werner Bischof. Pictures' presents the work, which is in the area of tension between art and reportage and was created in a short time because of the early death of the photographer. It also contains the color photographs he took in the USA.

The out-of-print photo publication 'Umbra' by Viviane SASSEN delves into the world of shadows. A seductive and deceptive darkness that lies in every human soul, like a silent black lake with a surface as flat as a mirror that can only be broken.

Out-of-print photo book 'Amerikabilder by Gerry JOHANSSON' contains photographs from 1962 and 1963. His black-and-white shots of New York and Chicago breathe the aura of famous American photographers such as Robert FRANK, Lee FRIEDLANDER and Walker EVANS.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 30,5 x 1,5 cm., 148 pp., color & b/w ills., bilingual texts: German / English

'Perspektive Fine-Art' by Andreas weidner is a textbook about analog, thoughtful b/w photography. It is a sophisticated textbook that familiarizes the practitioner with analog technique and materials and shows him how to use them for his own image ideas.

Out-of-print volume 'NY JS DB 62' features photos of David BAILEY in wintry New York in 1962. By leaving the confines of the studio behind and taking photos on the street, he set new standards and brought the UK back to the forefront of popular culture.

In out-of-print book 'A Clearing', Raymond MEEKS documents the stark geological & human assertion of presence against the flattening insistence of time, erosion & poverty. The figures in the landscape appear so isolated that they take on a mythical power.

The German-language photo volume 'Bericht aus China. 1957-1980' by Magnum photographer Marc RIBOUD - simultaneously published as 'Visions of China' - contains around 100 documentary black-and-white photographs from the years 1957, 1965, 1971 and 1979.

This out-of-print new edition of the 1965 monograph 'The Flame of Recognition' about American photographer Edward WESTON contains a cross-section of his work, with portraits and nature photographs as well as texts from his diaries and letters.

The out-of-print photo volume 'Pontiac' by Swedish Gerry JOHANSSON' shows a desolate American industrial landscape as a result of the financial crisis and as the third and final part of the series that began with 'Kvidinge' and continued with 'Ulan Bator'

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 22,5 x 28,5 x 2,5 cm., 142 S., ganz- u. doppels. Farb- und S/W-Abb., 1.300 gr., deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN!

The out-of-print volume 'Buzzing at the Sill' by Peter van AGTMAEL is a collection of reflections on war, militarism, identity, family and landscape, among other things. It is both an examination of the limits of photography and a tribute to its power.

The images in 'Berlin' by Daisuke YOKOTA exhibit his signature experimental processing techniques whilst also demonstrating unconventional shooting methods like re-appropriating thermographic & infrared cameras and rendering the images onto analog film.

Alessandra SANGUINETTI documents the lives of cousins Guille & Belinda, living in rural Argentina, as they journey through childhood and adolescence to become women. 'The Enigmatic Meaning of Their Dreams' traces the first 5 years of their collaboration.

The out-of-print volume 'Deutsche Bilder: Fotografien 1965-1980' by Dietmar GOTTSCHALL documents the life in Germany covering a broad photographic spectrum, from everyday events on the streets of Germany to the world of the successful business journalist.

Vol.2 of late 1970s book series 'Photo-Galerie. Die Bibliothek berühmter Photographern' (The Library of Famous Photographers) is dedicated to the work of Hungarian photographer André KERTÉSZ.

Partly autobiographical images in 'Still' by Patrick HOGAN present an intimate view of his everyday encounters and surroundings in a remote area of County Tipperary. The powerful images explore expansive existential themes of love, fragility, decay & loss

The out-of-print photographic volume 'A Letter from Japan.' with its black-and-white photographs by U.S. wartime photographer John SWOPE, include shots taken mostly in war-torn Japan in 1945, contrasting with his work as a Hollywood photographer.

Out-of-print photographic volume 'Remaining Light' by Jordan SULLIVAN combines photographs taken on Skid Row and in an office building in downtown Los Angeles with text excerpted from Eugene Ionesco's novel 'The Hermit'. Laser-printed on uncoated paper.

Out-of-print 'Architectures of Waiting' by Ursula SCHULZ-DORNBURG shows bus stops in Armenia and stations of the Hejaz Railway in Saudi Arabia on a railroad line that once connected Damascus with Medina, but on which no trains have been running for long.

'The Photography of Nature & The Nature of Photography' was published on the occasion of the Hasselblad Award to Joan FONTCUBERTA. It contains 6 of his most famous series, revealing his ingenious work as a photographer, essayist, humorist & fantasy artist

SIGNED! 'The River of Kings' by Jacob Aue SOBOL documents the life in the Bangkok sois and the families living along the old railroad line that runs through the slum of Klong Toey. But also the people in the fancy shopping area also caught his attention.

With the photo book 'Spanish Summer' JOHANSSON returns to one of the first places that fired his imagination: the plains of central Spain. In precise compositions an din b/w, a landscape is surveyed in which cultural traces have been etched for millennia.

The out-of-print volume 'In the Shadow of the Pyramids' by Magnum photographer Laura EL-TANTAWY appears to be a general account of the hopes and setbacks associated with the Egyptian revolution.But through the texts it gains considerable personal depth.

'Black is a matter of Taste' is a visual thesis in the form of many reproduced polaroids of household objects, foodstuff or people, accompanied by a series of texts about Theo van DUSSELDORP: an interview, an essay, as well as selections from his lectures

The photo book 'Nausea' by Ron JUDE follows the assumption that philosophical inquiry can be filtered through photographs. The monotonous spaces & objects captured visually serve as a task for exploring the connection between narratives and consciousness.

Out-of-print book 'Human Territoriality' by Roger EBERHARD brings together photographs of former border areas around the globe and across human history. With detailed captions, the images help to decipher the multifaceted cartographic puzzle of our world.

Pb. with dust jacket, 16 x 22 x 1 cm., 76 pp., 43 color ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 31 cm., 152 pp., color ills., English, Ltd. to 500 copies

Limited edition photo book 'Bike Kill' shows life in a Brooklyn bike club. The French Julie GLASSBERG spent three years documenting the world of the Black Label Bike Club. The title refers to an annual celebration of bike chopping, friendship and anarchy.

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.

The images in out-of-print 'Ansichten von Pagan, Burma' by Ursula SCHULZ-DORNBURG document a temple system in Burma (Myanmar) in the late 1970s. The book contains landscape photographs as well as pictures of stone sculptures from inside the Ananda Temple.

The out-of-print 'Zeitblende' was published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the famous photo agency Magnum. The picture & text book provides an overview of the impressive field of reportage photography that is commensurate with its significance

The out-of-print photo book 'Apophenia' by Lukas FELZMANN is a combination of two archives: one of postcards sent to the artist's father and another with unpublished works by the artist. The juxtaposition leads to a surprising sequence of vertical images.

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Mont St Michel' by Michael KENNA contains a beautifully printed collection of 64 duotone plates of this island commune in the Normandy region of France. One of the more attractive books in his large body of work.

The photo book 'Message from the Interiror' is a large-format, paperback volume consisting of twelve masterpieces by Walker EVANS: black and white photographs, carefully reproduced using the gravure printing process, show views of American interiors.