Abstract & Experimental

In 'Fotografiegeschichte der Abstraktion' (Photographic history of abstraction), Kathrin Schönegg traces the history of photography: from the experimental beginnings in the 1830s, through (pseudo)scientific, applied & artistic contexts, to digitalization.

Softcover, square catalog volume, published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Wols Photograph 31/1-11/3 1979' at Museum Ludwig, Cologne. The German-language catalog text is by Lazlo Glozer.

For his out-of-print book 'Outskirts', Daisuke YOKOTA explores the boundaries between digital & analog photography. He uses color images from the outskirts of Tokyo - pictures of cars, trees & buildings - whose colors he then reverses into the monochrome.

The images in 'Di sguincio' by Guido GUIDI represent experimental dialogues between him and his 35mm camera. Antidocuments & anachronistic records comment ironically on photography's claim to truth showing his preoccupation with the medium's possibilities

'The Italian Photobook 1931-1941' by Giorgio Grillo traces the short, intense history of (photo)graphic modernism in Italy - as a medium between autonomous visual research and a 'functional' use in the often overlapping areas of advertising & propaganda.

In 'Cut Outs' Jessica BACKHAUS consequently continues her path of abstraction already taken in photo volume 'A Trilogy' - using analog methods she creates and documents visual experimental arrangements, poetic choreographies of intense, sunlighted colors.

The images in self-published book 'False Friends' by Dominic TURNER play with the idea of information gaps & misunderstandings. They explore shadows & veils of a familiar but not quite recognizable world and challenge us to rethink our own interpretation.

Through its fascinating text and numerous photographs, this photo volume, 'Man Ray in Paris' vividly demonstrates why the photographer MAN RAY is still considered to be one of the most inventive and exciting artists of the twentieth century.

The photo volume 'Manuel Álvarez BRAVO in Color' is the first book dedicated exclusively to his color work. He produced around 3,000 color photographs. The most important photographs are shown here: classic works and the little-known color experiments.

In photo volume 'Socorro!' Lucy RAVEN documents the shockwaves at an explosives range in New Mexico as silver gelatin shadowgrams on large format photosensitive paper and negative film. The results are subtly inflected abstractions in this artist’s book.