About the photographers agency Ostkreuz

Ostkreuz is a Berlin photographer agency with an attached image archive. Its name is derived from the traffic junction of the same name in Berlin. Ostkreuz was founded in 1990 by seven photographers. The founding was preceded by an initiative by Stern photo journalist Petra Göllnitz. Sibylle Bergemann, Ute and Werner Mahler, Jens Rötzsch, Harald Hauswald, Thomas Sandberg and Harf Zimmermann were important photographers in the GDR. The Parisian photo agency Magnum was the model for visual language and the cooperative professional organization.

Photographers at the agency Ostkreuz, their photo books and photo books with their works

The Ostkreuz agency currently has 22 members (as of October 2020): Sibylle Bergemann, Jörg Brüggemann, Espen Eichhöfer, Sibylle Fendt, Johanna-Maria Fritz, Annette Hauschild, Harald Hauswald, Heinrich Holtgreve, Tobias Kruse, Ute Mahler, Werner Mahler, Dawin Meckel, Thomas Meyer, Frank Schinski, Jordis A. Schlösser, Ina Schoenenburg, Anne Schönharting, Linn Schröder, Stephanie Steinkopf, Mila Teshaieva, Heinrich Völkel, Maurice Weiss, Sebastian Wells


HC, 15 x 20 cm., 128 pp., 100 ills., bilingual text: German / ENglish
0,00 € * Weight 0.5 kg
The out-of-print photo volume 'The Polaroids' by Sibylle BERGEMANN contains poetic and empathetic moments that document what basically cannot be captured. Dreamlike and delicate images against oblivion, which elude a temporal and spatial classification.
98,00 € * Weight 0.5 kg
The bilingual volume contains photo works by Juergen TELLER, Ute & Werner MAHLER, Pari DUKOVIC, Brigitte LACOMBE and Paolo PELLEGRIN. With silk-screened plastic dust jacket, 24 x 32 x 2,5 cm., 352 pp., 158 color ills (plus thumbnails at book's end)
48,00 € *
'Sibylle' showcases photographers, fashion- & graphic designers, models, writers as well as its political & sociocultural background of almost 50 year long publishing history as the definitive publication on an important chapter of German media history.
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Out-of-print book 'Photographien' is the first monograph on Sibylle BERGEMANN. The pictures of the 'poetic realist' show respect for people & their living conditions. Fashion, reportage, essay, landscape, cityscape, portrait she mastered equally sovereign
178,00 € * Weight 1.6 kg
Photo book 'Autobahn' by Berlin based Ostkreuz photographer Jörg BRÜGGEMANN contains color photographs of German motorways that were taken between 2014 and 2019. It questions the present and future significance of the achievement from the Weimar Republic.
from 38,00 € Weight 1.2 kg
The photos in 'InselWesen' by Mila TESHAIEVA are reminiscent of old paintings. They depict Föhr island as a dream world and emphasize the fragility of its real existence. Föhr's inhabitants feel connected to traditions & nature in an almost sacred way.
95,00 €
Out-of-print book 'Zusammenleben' (Live together) by Ute MAHLER contains portraits from the GDR of the 1970s & 1980s. Ostkreuz photographer documents the different ways how people experience everyday life together and subtly captures what remains unsaid.
from 120,00 € Weight 1.2 kg
by Mathias Bertram (ed.), Special ed. in two books, slipcaes and with dust jacket, each 24,5 x 27,5 cm., total approx.420 pp., b/w ills., text language: German - GERMAN TEXT ONLY! Lehmstedt Verlag, 2020.
48,00 € *
'Stadt. Land. Hund' (City. Country. Dog) Photographs 1966-2010' accompanies an exhibition on the work by Sibylle BERGEMANN. In over 200 photographs it presents her unique cosmos. For the first time, it contains motifs from her early work in former GDR.
48,00 € *
In discreet and yet intimate photographs, Sibylle FENDT tells in 'Gärtners Reise' a love story of growing apart, finding each other again, and then disappearing. The images are not documents of the trip but symbols for a journey into unknown territory.
35,00 € *
In 'Papa, Gerd und der Nordmann', Ostkreuz photographer Espen EICHHÖFER explores central questions about his origins: Where do I come from? Where am I at home? What is home? His photos were taken between 2009 & 2019 on vacation trips to his Norwegian home
38,00 € *
2nd print run (blue cover), 26 × 32 x 2 cm., 144 pp., 69 duotone b/w ills., bilingual text: German / English
59,00 € *
The long-time project by the Ostkreuz photographer documents the emptiness of the refugee accommodation H8 - not a place, but only a street and a stream in the middle of the forest. Three years behind closed curtains - outside the beautiful Black Forest.
38,00 € * Weight 0.8 kg
18 'Ostkreuz' photographers portrait residents of Auroville, the slums of Manila, and the center of a decaying Detroit, Ordos in China, the artificiality of Dubai, and the bombed-out buildings in Gaza. The result is a portrait of a city that is all cities
198,00 €
This monograph on the work of the German photographer Sibylle BERGEMANN, published on the occasion of her 75th birthday, documents a representative exhibition of her work that was shown simultaneously at three locations in Berlin in spring 2017.
48,00 € * Weight 1.2 kg
The pictures contained in 'Promising Waters' by ukrainian photographer Mila TESHAIEVA show an atmosphere of uncertainty in which people place their hopes on a transformation whose direction remains uncertain. Photolucida Critical Mass Book Award 2012.
9,90 € * Weight 0.8 kg
Works by Tina BARA, Sibylle BERGEMANN, Kurt BUCHWALD, Lutz DAMMBECK, Thomas FLORSCHÜTZ, Ute MAHLER, Eva MAHN, Sven MARQUARDT, Barbara METSELAAR-BERTHOLD, Helga PARIS, Manfred PAUL, Rudolf SCHÄFER, Gundula SCHULZE-ELDOWY, Gabriele STÖTZER and Ulrich WÜST
44,00 € * Weight 1.2 kg
The photographs by Sibylle BERGEMANN illustrate the volume 'Himmelhölle Manhattan' by Irene Runge, which was published in the former GDR in the late 1980s. Classic street photography that captures the events of the day - with a dash of social criticism.
34,00 € * Weight 0.5 kg