Photo Montage

This issue, #10 of the magazine 'Toiletpaper', 'December 1944', by Maurizio CATTELAN and Pierpaolo FERRARI, is a special edition with signatures printed in gold ink on the cover. It was published in a limited edition of only 500 copies numbered by hand.

The 'Picture Book' by Hannah HÖCH contains adventures of mythical creatures in a zoological garden surrounded by flowers and plants. It is a children's book AND an cultural-historical document designed according to the Dadaist principle of photomontage.

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 29 x 1 cm., 42 pp., 22 color ills., 300 gr., no text

The photo volume 'Coming and Going' by Jim GOLDBERG tells a wider story of the universal shape of our lives through their loves & losses, comings & goings, and the ways we come to understand them - A significant contribution to contemporary bookmaking.

The handmade volume 'Visual History. Afghanistan 1980-2004' by Edward GRAZDA is reportage AND personal reflection on the people in Afghanistan with whom he spent time - and a documentary about those groups' creative approach to advertising and the media.

The catalog, edited by art historian Cécile Bargues traces how HAUSMANN comprehensively reflected photography in this intensive decade and developed a highly individual practice, both documentarily and lyrically, inextricably linked to his thinking & life

The photo volume 'Chongqing Souvenir' Lukas BIRK is about how to bring impersonal images of violence to discussion. The people depicted in the book are dissidents who have been mounted in a book designed in the manner of private memory albums of the time.

'The Drawer' by Vince Aletti, Winner of the PhotoBook Award in Paris 2023, contains collaged photos from magazines & books, gallery posters and other ephemera since the 1970s, which until this publication were stacked in a briefcase in the East Village.

2nd printrun (pink cover)! Sewn pamphlet binded Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 26 x 1 cm., 72 pp., 41 color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 175 copies

The volume 'lick of tongue, rub of finger, on soft wound' by Keisha SCARVILLE unfolds as an hypnotic visual essay impressively weaving together b/w & archival images, book passages, collages, personal texts, and film stills. With a text by Harmony Holiday

The text and photo volume 'Photomontage or Fake News. From Heartfield to Twitter' examines whether the re-location of the classic montage process in the age of social media have anything to do with utopias that have been lost and need to be reactivated?

Out-of-print volume 'Stills' is a dialogue between Katrien de BLAUWER - who collects photos from old magazines and newspapers to create collages - and US sound artist Danny CLAY, who in turn works with open forms, found objects, as well as toy instruments

John HEARTFIELD created in the 1930s some of the most visually arresting and politically incisive art of the 20th century. 'Laughter is a Devastating Weapon' by King & Volland, includes a great essay and more than 150 full-color reproductions of his works

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 16,5 x 1 cm. (9 x 6.5 x 0.5 in.), 90 pp., numerous b/w photos and drawings, approx. 250 gr., text language: English

English ed. HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 22,5 x 1,5 6 pp., 40 ills., text language: English

Linen bound Pb (no dust jacket, as issued), 14 x 20 x 3,5 cm., 720 pp., 366 color ills., bilingual text: Arabic / English

Self-published volume 'Do You Sea?' by Selen BOTTO deals about unvisible waste on beaches. It contains over 50 photomontages, the Italian photographer/artist by covering areas of colored beach photographs with plastic pieces and photographing them again.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 29 x 2 cm., 160 pp., color & b/w ills.,English

HEARTFIELD turned the original documentary character of the press photos used upside down and actively used his art visually and with pointed humor against war and fascism. Statements by contemporary artists illuminate his work in the age of fake news.

Out-of-print book 'A George Grosz Montage. Collages 1917-1958' presents previously unpublished material, portraits by Arnold NEWMAN and Irving PENN and 4 essays (one by Klaus STAECK). The German-language book comes with a 16-page English-language booklet.

Inspired by Valerie Solanas' tract SCUM, Justine KURLAND presents her own feminist initiative: the 'Society for Cutting Up Men's Books'. Her volume 'SCUMB Manifesto' contains collages created by cutting up and reconfiguring photo books by male artists.

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 29 x 1 cm., 40 pp., 22 color ills., 300 gr., no text

The catalog from Gropius Bau exhibition on Alexander RODCHENKO offers a broad overview of the many facets of his photographic oeuvre. It includes previously unpublished works from his estate and a readable essay on the photographic avant-garde in Russia.

The out-of-print catalogue volume (only in French!) deals about the Latvian photographer Gustavs KLUCIS who's credited with the invention of political photomontage (alongside the Dadaists Hannah HÖCH & Raoul HAUSMANN and the Russian El Lissitzky).

Photo montage is mostly associated with avant-garde modernism as an aesthetic design principle. Here, for the first time, there is a comprehensive reminder that assemblies by TALBOT, DAGUERRE & ENSLEN already existed before HAUSMANN, HEARTFIELD & HÖCH.

'John Heartfield. Buchgestaltung und Fotomontage' - Book Design & Photomontage - documents a collection of his work, which allows to gain an overview of his work as a graphic designer. All titles are arranged both chronologically and alphabetically.

Pb. with dust jacket, 22 x 30 x 1,5 cm., 220 pp., b/w & (a few) color ills., text language: Japanese

The photo volume 'Unbekannte Raritäten' reflects a collection, which includes handicraft works by Hannh HÖCH, as well as rarities collected by her. The collection documents important areas of her life and provides insights into her personal relationships.