For Heart

97 unique images made from the same photographic negative. A photo book about the oldest living organism known to man and a book about the instability of the photographic image and the enigmatic intertwinement of time, reality and perception.

Mortality and the slow dissolution of late age are the main theme in the photo book 'Mother' as well as another aspect: If we fluctuate between life and death, the roles of child and parent become observers, the created becomes the creator.

Adolescence is the subject of the photographic volume 'Bärenmädchen' (Bear Girls) by German photographer Ute BEHREND. She tells the story of a fictional 'Indian tribe' that separates its adolescent girls and draws parallels to our society.

Rinko KAWAUCHI's volume in the 'Des Oiseux' series focuses - like the text by ornithologist Guilhem Lesaffre - on the way of life of swallows, their history, their south-north migration, the season of birth, and their special relationship with humans.

The birds of French photographer Bernard PLOSSU in this volume of 'Des Oiseaux' series sometimes seem very familiar. And when they play with their wings spread out with the winds whistling in the air, they awaken in us the wish that we humans could fly.

In her photo volume 'Summer Heart', Cologne based photographer Thekla EHLING accompanies the growing up of her own children. She documents situations and moods and the viewer finds himself entangled in associations and memories of his own childhood.

In 'Scatching My Name on Your Arm', the American photographer Deanna TEMPLETON documents the prevailing trend in California in the early 2000s that famous surfers' immortalize 'themselves on their fans' bare skin or underwear and bathing clothes.

This 11th 'Des Oiseaux' photo book contains a new series Paolo PELLEGRIN. During a stay in Japan, he was impressed by the majesty of a colony of eagles. His photos from invite into a mysterious and ghostly world where only the animal presence reigns.

Jacques Henri LARTIGUE is best known for his b/w photographs. The out-of-print photo volume 'Das Leben ist bunt' (Life is Colorful), with its profound evaluations of his diaries and albums why it was long overdue to discover his color photographs as well.

In 'Looking for the Masters in Ricardo's Golden shoes' by Catherine BALET, Ricardo's golden shoes travel from one world to another, starting from a self-portrait from 1839, tracing a considered and thoughtful path through 176 years of photography history.

The book 'Between Maple and Chestnut' by Terri WEIFENBACH is about the idyllic home - starting point in the 'American somewhere'. Through the use of selective focus & shallow depth of field, the photographer enters a space between painting & photography.

Out-of-print photo book 'PARIS 88/89' by Daido MORIYAMA offers a view of the French capital through the lens of a Japanese master photographer who lived there alone in the late 1980s, having shortly before discovered photographer Eugène ATGET for himself.

'Unfinished Father' by Erik KESSELS is the photographic documentation of a car construction project of his father, which remained unfinished because the father died over it. The volume symbolizes the image that the son has made of his very active father.

A figure of the younger Japanese photo scene, Yoshinori MIZUTANI, he examines the urbanity of his city Tokyo, documenting scenes bordering on the fantastic. His birds in 'Des Oiseaux' give the city back its secret.

'She dances on Jackson' by Vanessa WINSHIP is the result of travelings across the United States - from California to Virginia, from New Mexico to Montana - always in search of the 'American Dream'. It contains her typical portraits & landscape photographs

The poetic universe of Spanish photographer duo ALBARRÀN CABRERA is presented in this volume of the 'Des Oiseaux' photo book series in the form of a dreamlike journey to the land of birds. Each photo is like a story that seems to be stopped for a moment.

English ed., linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 21 x 1,5 cm., 104 pp., color ills., text langauge: English

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 photo volume 'Me Kaksi' by Pentti SAMMALLAHTI celebrates the chance encounter. It contains a selection of iconic as well as unpublished photographs from more than forty years of wandering the world and tells of the universality of emotional connection

'Belgicum' by Stephan VANFLETEREN is explicitly not an objective representation of a country, but a subjective photographic document in black and white. It is a voyage of discovery into a small country in the heart of Europe, at the turn of the centuries.

In this volume of the 'Des Oiseaux' book series, photographer Leila JEFFREYS takes us on a journey to amazing bird species that she has been portraying in her studio since 2008, where she observed 'how many birds have specific expressions, just like us'.

Double HC in one sleeve, 22 x 26 x 5 cm., 64 & 76 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 1,000 copies

'Steps on snow, dust on the lips' by Dan Isaac WALLIN deals abot the search for himself, recollections from childhood, leaving things that have been and seeking new meetings and places. All these things permeate the color images which are from 2009–2012.

HC, 26,5 x 21,5 cm., 78 pp., 30 color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 500 copies

The documentation of the domestic bird world in this self published book, 'The Pillar' by Stephen GILL, was designed by the Greger Ulf NILSSON to a high-quality volume, which pleases not only birdwatchers, but also photo book lovers with lasting effect.

The photo book 'Cuba. Finding Home' by Manuel RIVERA-ORTIZ contains over one hundred black and white photographs from different parts of Cuba, both about life in Havana and in the rural part. The subtitle describes his search & intention for this series.

HC, 30 x 26 cm., 132 pp.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 21,5 x 2,5 cm., 240 pp., highly color illustrated, English

British photographer Michael KENNA is a master of landscape photography and shows in his pictures a world that is almost transitory. In his volume of the 'Des Oiseaux' photo book series, his photographs of birds reflect nature without human presence.

In 'Des Oiseaux', Finish travel photographer Pentti SAMMALLAHTI captures the secrets of nature and among them the world of birds. Coasts, marshes, parks, endless plains, forest clearings, snowy landscapes where birds reveal their presence in a refined way

Erich ANDRES, GERMIN, Günter ZINT (eds.) Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 28,5 x 31 cm., 320 S., etwa 300 S/W- & Farb-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

'Real Life Dramas' by Mary FREY is a time machine that takes us 35 years back in time, into the reality of an undetermined place. Hyperreal photographs capture charged banalities on large-format films: images of people of the US-American middle class.

Terri WEIFENBACH's photos, taken in her private garden, reveal the secret world of nature inhabited by birds that nest in urban gardens. The American photographer immerses us in the infinitely small, 'Des Oiseaux' takes us into a living & wonderful world.

'India. A Celebration of Life' by Manuel RIVERA-ORTIZ gathers 120 photos of people & places in color & b/w, from Rajasthan to Calcutta, from Mumbai to Kutch and deals more with hope than despair and the dignity of people who still live deprived in poverty

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 27 x 1,5 cm., 104 pp., 48 color ills., bilingual text: English / Russian

For her photo volume 'Letters I didn't sent', Swedish photographer Jenny ROVA documented all the personal letters and e-mails that she I wrote and saved but never dared to send. The letters are from a period of fourteen years.

Graciela ITURBIDE, one of the main figures in Latin American photography, combines the documentary with the lyrical. For her, living birds stand for freedom. Birds photographed by her attract and repel us, attract our attention.

For 'Second Nature', Guy TILLIM visited the islands of French Polynesia and the megacities of Brazil. The search for the 'second face' in natural and urban landscapes contains images of overwhelming beauty and almost Buddhist-looking calm and clarity.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 19 x 24,5 x 3 cm., 160 pp., 94 color ills., text: English, Ltd. to 600 copies

'The World's First Photobook Was Blue', by ALBÁRRAN CABRERA shows their work as well as explains their artistic process. The title is a reference to Anna ATKINS, the spiral binding to BRASSAI and the book itself is a tribute to photography's complexity.

Photo volume 'What She Said' contains portraits that Deanna TEMPLETON made in the USA, Europe, Australia & Russia in combination with gig flyers as well as her own diary entries from the 1980s. A disclosure of growing up, full of humor and pathos.

B/w photographs from the 1920s to 1950s, some of which were published for the first time, create a small custom painting of a time when not only the region, which is still rural, has crossed the threshold of modernity, but also the photography itself.

The book 'My Dearest Javanese Concubine' by Luca DESIENNA is a love story. Two social outcasts - Tira, a 48-year-old transsexual & Dayang, a disposable person without family - in faraway Indonesia find a way to love each other regardless of their origins.

In her photo volume 'Shadows in Paradise', Marianna ROTHEN delves into a complex meditation on femininity. In the opaque narrative in the aesthetics of the 1960s, the presence of a gun visually combines with fear and melancholy in carefully staged scenes.

New publication of the 1982 black and white photos by Roger MELIS, first published in 1986 as a photo book. 'Paris zu Fuss' (Paris on Foot) was the first book by an East German photographer who told life in a strange city through photography alone.

The book 'Time Atlas' by Niina VATANEN combines images from diverse sources: personal photos, images from the Internet, encyclopedias, newspapers as well as textbooks. It focuses on time and how pictorial memory, personal experience & history intertwine.

The photo book 'Reading Raymond Carver' shows how the young photographer Mary FREY began in 1979 to photograph family, friends and strangers in their immediate surroundings. Responsibility, duties, worries and the need to look for meaning in everyday life

In 'I saw the air fly' children from Turkey, Syria & Iraq show their surroundings through their distinctive, wondering gaze: a vision marked by surprise & play, in which friends & family are captured head-standing, leaning out of windows, and in disguise.

The photo volume 'Choupette by Karl Lagerfeld' includes a selection of Polaroids that Karl LAGERFELD takes every day of his beloved cat and muse. This book is a loving and playful look into Choupette's gorgeous world.

In French! 'Voir Paris' is conceived as a poetic, visual stroll that, based on photos by Eugène ATGET (with the edges left unchanged), leads through courtyards and rooms, alleys, cafes, urban gardens and along the banks of the Seine.

Byung-Hun MIN's birds in 'Des Oiseaux' live in an ethereal space. They seem to be shrouded in a silvery light. The photographer's meticulous work allows him to render not only what he has seen, but also what he has perceived.

Out-of-print book 'Broken Line' by Olaf Otto BECKER shows the beauty of untouched landscapes in a remote part of our earth. The photos refer to romantic landscape painting; at the same time they document the endangerment of glaciers in a warming climate.

'Great Heart, Strong Hands' by Anne Helene GJELSTAD is about the life of women on Estonian islands of Kihnu and Manija, which are often seen as the last matriarchal society in Europe. She has found a way, which draws the viewer into their world and souls.

In his out-of-print photo book 'Long Play', Arne REIMER looks back at the analog age: there are photographs of stacked vinyl records, views of record stores as well as record boxes. The whole is supplemented by archive material that shows the development.

The volume 'Sasuke' includes emblematic photo series about the two cats of Masahisa FUKASE, Sasuke & Momoe. It combines unpublished images as well as photo icons, because his cats have already been the subject of several books. This is to be the last one.