Compendiums

The photographers collektive SPUTNIK consists of: Agnieszka RAYSS, Rafal MILACH, Jan BRYKCZYNSKI, Adam PANCZUK, & Michal LUCZAK. All this photographers are included with their own photo book titles a paperback format in this box.

'Mauvais genre' presents views of men and women at the intersection of private life, the history of homosexuality, and feminist activism. Christine Bard and Isabelle Bonnet shed light on this often-silenced aspect through photos from Lifshitz collection.

'Cologne and its photo books. Cologne in the photo book from 1853 to 2010 'by Werner Schäfke shows the city as a large puzzle. Whether published in-house, on behalf of the city or industry, they document the diversity of this old & young Rhine metropolis.

by Fred Ritchie and Carole Naggar (eds), HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 29 x 3 cm., 272 pp., 1,600 ills., text language: English

by Colin Westerbeck (ed.). HC with dust jacket, 29 x 29 x 2 cm., 120 pp., 100 b/w & color ills., text language: English

'A Picturial History of the Empty Chair' by Erik KESSELS & Karel de Mulder deals with the subject of absence. Looking at an empty chair makes us wonder who could sit or who might be sitting there. Not knowing or seeing can make a photograph more exciting.

The peroid 1965-1975 was marked by turbulence & transformation, also in the work of Japanese photograpers like Taiji ARITA, Eikoh HOSOE, Daido MORIYAMA, Masatoshi NAITO, Hajime SAWATARI, Issei SUDA, Yoshihiro TATSUKI, Shuji TERAYAMA and Katsumi WATANABE.

The out-of-print catalog 'Mirror Mirror. Portugal as seen by Magnum photographers' was published on the occasion of the 2004 exhibition in Lisbon. A look at Portugal from the 1950s to the present through the eyes of thirteen leading Magnum photographers.

Actual print run, HC, 25 x 29 x 3,5 cm., 336 pp., text language: English

For his photobook compendium 'Canon. On African Photobooks', Johannes Wohnseifer selected titles from his private collection that focus on the African continent. These photobooks, published between 1948 and 2011, are presented here in chronological order.

'Facing Britain', contains the most comprehensive show of work to date on British documentary photography, which is famous for its socio-political themes such as unemployment, migration, racism, consumer society, gender justice and warlike conflicts.

Pb., 19 x 24 cm., 224 pp., b/w ills., text language: German - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

'Queer Tattoo' by Rudolph, Wolbergs & Polinsky is the first comprehensive presentation of the vibrant, diverse queer tattoo community. Presented are 50 international tattoo artists:inside, introduced through extensive portraits, texts, and picture spreads

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 27 x 2 cm., 272 pp., 136 color & 61 b/w ills., text language: English

HC with dust jacket, 24 x 32 x 4 cm., 383 pp., color ills., text language: English

Out-of-print photo book set 'Nocturnes' explores six different photographic journeys - by Tiane Doan na CHAMPASSAK, Gert JOCHEMS, Olivier PIN-FAT, Daisuke YOKOTA, Aaron McELROY and Esther VONPLON - into ‘the night’. Different papers for each photo essay.

The focus of the catalog illuminating the early phase of the BECHER school is on the mutual influences between the image concepts emerging in Düsseldorf and the innovations of the 'New-Color Photography' and the 'New Topographics' movement in the U.S..

by Thomas Seelig & Urs Stahel (eds.) Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 25 x 30,5 x 5cm., 400 S., reich bebildert,deutsch-sprachiger Text - here: GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

HC with dust jacket, 25,5 x 28 cm., 252 pp., 74 color & 100 b/w ills., 1,800 gr., text language: English

Art historian Ian Jeffrey has sifted through WWII soldier albums and selected the most compelling photos to create a record of lives that have seen the unprecedented. Style & content of the photographs changed along with the collective mood after 1942.

With photo works by Roger FENTON, Robert CAPA, Lewis HINE, Larry BURROWS, James NACHTWEY, Mary Ellen MARK, Sebastian SALGADO, Frank HURLEY and many more

The compendium includes many international photographers of diff. groups & schools of 20th century (New Vision, Straight Photography, New Topographics, New Color, Becher School), collected by Gallery Kicken in Berlin to celebrate their 30's birthday.

In 'Witness Number 7,' Todd HIDO creates a connection between his photographs of vacant interiors of foreclosed homes and portraits of Leon Borensztein. HIDO's powerful, surreal images evoke a longing for the time when things were better in these homes.

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 27 x 29 x 5 cm., 656 S., etwa 2.000 Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

The third volume in the series 'Conversations' by Remi Coignet also contains interviews with participants from the international photo scene on the role of the photo book in the work of photographers, designers & publishers, as well as their book design.

The photo volume 'Thingstätten' edited by Katharina BOSSE deals with open-air theaters and meeting places of National Socialism. Art and documentation, text and image enable an interdisciplinary examination of the significance of the past for the present.

The catalog accompanies the exhibition SUBJECT AND OBJECT. PHOTO RHINE RUHR and contains many illustrations, current texts and photo-historically significant articles. It examines relationships between different photographic positions that have developed.

This photo volume compiled by Hans-Peter FELDMANN, 'Frauen' - as 'Women' also available in English - shows a selection made and edited by the Düsseldorf photo artist from over 500 photos in a private collection.

This 'Phaidon 55' edition covers the work of the US-american Magnum photographer Eugene RICHARDS. It includes a detailed expert essay, fiftyfive chronologically arranged photographs, each annotated, and a biography of the Dorchester, Massachusetts native.

This compendium of South African photography, 'Figures & Fictions', offers a first overview of contemporary photography in this part of the African continent and brings together well-known photographers.

Open bound Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 27 cm., 268 pp., 121 color & b/w ills., text language: English. Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2018.

With photo works by Jananne AL-ANI, Luc DELAHAYE, Harun FAROCKI, An-My Lê, Paola DE PIETRI, Walid RAAD, Jo RACTLIFFE, Till ROESKENS, Eyal WEIZMAN and Donovan WYLIE

Long time out-of-print catalog volume 'Aus der Distanz' features works by Bernd and Hilla BECHER as well as by Becher students Andreas GURSKY, Candida HÖFER, Axel HÜTTE, Thomas RUFF, Thomas STRUTH as well as Petra WUNDERLICH. And it contains two texts.

The Cologne Carnival in photo works by German photographers Theodor BARTH, Ute BEHREND, Thekla EHLING, Dirk GEBHARDT, Matthias JUNG, David KLAMMER, Frederic LEZMI, Nadine PREISS and Wolfgang ZURBORN.

With Photo essays by Henri CARTIER-BRESSON, Walker EVANS, Nan GOLDIN, W. Eugene SMITH, Mary Ellen MARK, Sebastiao SALGADO and James NACHTWEY

In German language 'Hinter der Kamera', Juliet Hacking portrays 38 of the most important personalities in the history of photography. By working out contexts, the portraits add to an overview of great innovations, trends and developments in photography.

'The Dutch Photobook' deals with the recent history of the Dutch photobook. Selected titles were placed in the context of developments in photography & society on the basis of the themes of landscape, youth, travel, urbanity, and the autonomous photobook.

3 booklets, bound together, Claudia HEINERMANN - Wolfskinder / Wolf children, Michal IWANOWSKI - Clear of People & Indre SERPYTYTE - Forest Brothers

Boxed set of 10 photo volumes by Jessica BACKHAUS, Gerry BADGER, Harvey BENGE, John GOSSAGE, Todd HIDO, Rob HORNSTRA, Rinko KAWAUCHI, Eva Maria OCHERBAUER, Martin PARR as well as Alec SOTH

with photographs by Rudolf HOLTAPPEL, Brigitte KRAEMER, Bettina STEINACKER - Gebundene Ausgabe, 22,5 x 31 x 2 cm., 208 S., Farb- und S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

'125th Street. Photography In Harlem' reflects the history of New York's Harlem neighborhood, marked by consumerism, gentrification, glamour as well as political revolt. With images by Berenice ABBOTT, Dawoud BEY, Katsu NAITO, Gordon PARKS, Jamel SHABAZZ.

Heine, Achim / Rebekka Reuter / Ulrike Willingmann (eds) - HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25,5 x 32,5 cm., 192 pp., 230 color ills., bilingual texts: German / English. Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011.

In the book 'Verlassene Ort' (Abandoned Places) various photographers document the beautiful and at the same time eerie atmosphere of places where decay has set in and nature has returned. The history & present of these places are explained in short texts

HC with dust jacket, 23,5 x 28 x 3 cm., (with works by Edouard BALDUS, Mathew BRADY, Louis DE CLERCQ, Maxime DU CAMP, Roger FENTON, Jean-Baptiste FRENET, Charles HUGO und David Octavius HÜGEL, Robert ADAMSON, Gustave LE GRAY and many more

by Nina Kloepper (ed.) With photo works by Karl BLOSSFELDT, Alfred EHRHARDT, Bernd und Hilla BECHER, Hiroshi SUGIMOTO and Claudia FÄHRENKEMPER

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 29,5 x 24 x 2,5 cm., 176 pp., text language: German - GERMAN TEXT ONLY! Kerber Verlag, 2013.

18x linen bound HC with dust jackets (mostly), each book: 18,5 x 24 cm. (9,5 x 7 in.), with duotone b/w &/or color ills., text langiage: English

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)

This part of the two-volume work, 'Autopsie. Volume 1', by photo book expert Manfred HEITING presents the German-language titles of the interwar period in all their variety. The focus lies on the German-speaking countries and the period from 1918 to 1945.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 28 cm., 300 pp., Color & b/w ills., text language: German - GERMAN TEXT ONLY! Prestel, 2002.

'Die ersten 30 Jahre - Photographie' presents the 'Schule Friedl Kubelka für künstlerische Photographie', the private school for photography in Austria, which is still influential. With photographs and an interview with the founder & the current director.

Actual print run, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17,5 x 22 x 4 cm., 352 pp., color & b/w ills., text language:. Taschen 2008 (2005).

With works by Robert FRANK, Garry WINOGRAND, Joel STERNFELD, William EGGLESTON, Alec SOTH, Victor BURGIN, Taino ONORATO & Nico KREBS and many more

Timm RAUTERT accompanied his teaching activities at the HGB with publications, in which mainly works by his students were shown. Kalte Herzen' contains photos and videos by Ulrich GEBERT, Florian EBNER, Aymeric FOUQUEZ and Johanna DIEHL, among others.

This catalog, published on the occasion of an auction of International Style photographs, contains many exterior and interior photos as well as furniture, an introductory text and a detailed appendix, in which all photographers and architects are named.

With photo works by Walker EVANS, Theodor JUNG, Dorothea LANGE, Carl MYDANS, Russell LEE, Ben SHAHN, Jack DELANO, Marion Post WOLCOTT, John VACHON, Gordon PARKS and many more

Actual printrun, HC with dust jacket, 25 x 29 x 3,5 cm., 320 pp., richly color illustrated, text language: English

This book is a thoughtful guide for photographers through today’s complex landscape of images, with the ultimate goal of understanding how to make images that matter: Understanding Photographs, Making Photographs, and Moving in Pursuit of Unique.

Broschierte Ausgabe, deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN!

In 'Book Manifest' Irma BOOM presents her vision of the nature, meaning nad relevance of the book. Based on more than 350 of her books, she shares her knowledge gained from intensive research and discusses context and relationship to the traditional book.

The photographs in 'After Us the Flood' give the abstract processes and complex interrelationships of the climate crisis a visual form. The international works of the last ten years was often the result of intensive research & cooperation with scientists.

The subtitle of the volume 'Red desert Now!' is 'Antonioni's Legacy in Contemporary Italian Photography' and shows the filmmaker's influence on (mainly Italian) photographers such as Lewis BALTZ, Guido GUIDI, Francesco NERI and Franco VACCARI.

With photobooks by SANDER, RENGER-PATZSCH, TÜLLMANN, RIMKUS, FREED, HASHIGUCHI, REINARTZ, CHARGESHEIMER, McBRIDE, RIEBESEHL, BORCHERT, ARNOLD and many more

This book runs completely under the radar; for me it belongs in every good sorted photo journalistic library. While researches for a new image motif in art/photography of the early 20th century the editor collected interesting, often unknown material.

The compendium 'Photobook Belge' by Tamara Berghmans contains volumes of famous as well as less known photographers and many text contributions. It covers a period of more than 150 years with almost 250 photo books, all carefully described and illustrated

HC mit SU (Prägung eines Motivs nach einer Tuschezeichnung von August Macke), mit Fotografien von CHARGESHEIMER, Heinz HELD, Hans JESSE, Werner KOEP, K. KUHNT/D.BALKHAUSEN, Rolf PRETZ und Hans REUTER

Five paperbacks (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 27,5 cm., ? pp., color & b/w ills., no text, limited to 100 numbered copies. Oodee, 2013.

The many unpublished pictures in this volume illustrate the social change from a clerical to a cosmopolitan, modern society. A photo book about the growth and development of the Saarland between crisis and restructuring.

The unusual 'PBM_Catalog Box' contains leporellos, brochures and posters for the 33 exhibitions and projects shown during the PhotoBookMuseum pop-up in Cologne. The shape of the box alludes to the exhibitions shown in traditional shipping containers.

For 'Harter Blick, stille Stadt und ein Fotoraf, der zur Rakete wird', jounalist & critic Freddy LANGER has selected 150 titles from a trove of reviews that he believes will endure. Among them are classics and a selection of little-noticed young talents.

HC with dust jacket, 28,5 x 31 x 3,5 cm., 320 pp., b/w ills.., text language: German - GERMAN TEXT ONLY! Emons Verlag, 2013.

Pb. with dust jacket, 24,5 x 29,5 x 2,5 cm. (10 x 11,5 x 1 in.), 288 pp., 218 b/w & color ills., 1,600 gr., text language: English

The out-of-print catalog 'Land_Scope' presents a variety of ways in which photo artists such as BIALOBRZESKI, DEVLIN, EGGLESTON, GHIRRI, GÜTSCHOW, HÜTTE, JOHNE, KEETMAN, MOSSE, RIEBESEHL, RUFF, SHORE, SUGIMOTO approach the landscape.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 26 x 28,5 x 5 cm., 516 pp., richly color illustrated, text language: English

For the volume 'Fashion Photography for America 1999-2016', German photographer Juergen TELLER photographed original W magazines and Barneys catalogs from his archives, a low-fi approach that emphasizes the physical process of reviewing his past work.

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Foto. Modernity in Central Europe 1918-1945' by Witkovsky & Demetz gives a thematically, visual survey of modernist photography which creations exemplify the region's potential between the First and Second World Wars.

with photo books by Mark STEINMETZ, Anthony HERNANDEZ, Bevan DAVIES, Katy GRANNAN, Sage SOHIER & John HUMBLE, Sage SOHIER, Mark STEINMETZ

They have developed into status symbols and have become the source of diverse experiences. 'Swimming Pools' shows their different layers of meaning in photographs by Martin PARR, Harry GRUYAERT, ABBAS, Deanna TEMPLETON, LARTIGUE, Slim AARONS among others.

This catalog volume comes almost without text: the presence of Edward Hopper in famous American photographs is too obvious. As the publisher himself says was this collection inspired by the reference to Hopper's presence by the British author Geoff Dyer.

'The Bitter Years: Edward Steichen and the FSA Photographs' contains all the photos from the original exhibition in the structure & sequence as conceived for the show. An important contribution, as there was no proper catalog for the show at the time.

With photo works by Matthew BARNEY, Christian BOLTANSKI, Hanne DARBOVEN, Tacita DEAN, Gabriel OROZCO, Richard PRINCE, Klaus RINKE, Cindy SHERMAN, Taryn SIMON and many more

Paperback (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 28 x 1,5 cm., 200 pp., 179 b/w ills., text language: English. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985.

Photo and text volume 'Magnum Manifesto' is a richly illustrated story of an idea that has long since become a myth. The volume contains not only - but also - the famous pictures from the Magnum archive, an 'inexhaustible reservoir of memories'.

Paperback with photo works by Andreas GURSKY, Candida HÖFER, Axel HÜTTE, Thomas RUFF und Thomas STRUTH

German-language catalog 'Nature as Art. Landscape in the 19th Century in Painting and Photography' emphasizes significance and mutual influences between painting and photography in the perception of landscape in works by French, English & Italian artists.

This Nazraeli 'NZ Library Set #4' consists of six signed hardcover photo volumes by Steve BANKS / Katy GRANNAN / Abelardo MORELL / Catherine OPIE / Mark STEINMETZ / Jack TEEMER, collected in a slipcase. All texts are in English, limited to 350 copies!

'Vier Frauen. Vier Lebensläufe: Fotografieren in der DDR' focuses on female photographers from Saxony - Christine STEPHAN-BROSCH, Evelyn KRULL, Gerdi SIPPEL and May VOIGT - who are representative of a large number, some of whom have almost been forgotten.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17 x 21,5 x 2 cm., 160 pp., 123 color & b/w ills., bilingual text: English / Belorussian

HC with dust jacket, 25 x 29 x 3,5 cm., 320 pp., richly color illustrated, text language: English

The photographs in 'Berlin Wonderland' makes clear how much the city has changed. It revives this unique time of awakening, resistance & reorganization. In interviews & quotes, protagonists of that time bring the subculture of Berlin's Mitte back to life.

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.

'Land's End' shows photos that were taken in Berlin between 1981 and 2014 and used for the 'Topography of Terror' website. Photographs by Joachim BROHM, Andreas GEHRKE, John GOSSAGE, Volker HEINZE, Kai-Olaf HESSE, Bettina LOCKEMANN and by Michael SCHMIDT.

Sibylle BERGEMANN, Ute MAHLER, Werner MAHLER, Maurice WEISS

This out-of-print catalog, 'Photobloc. Central Europe in Photobooks', contains interesting essays on various topics in the history of Central European photo books and - in addition to many photo book illustrations - an article on East German photography.

This volume illustrates one hundred years of district history in Harlem with photographic works by Eve ARNOLD, Richard AVEDON, Cornell CAPA, Roy de CARAVA, Henri CARTIER-BRESSON, Bruce DAVIDSON, Leonard FREED, Helen LEVITT, Aaron SISKIND and WEEGEE, a.o.

'Anonymes. L'Amérique sans nom. Photographie et cinéma' documents the representation of anonymous citizens in US in photos by Walker EVANS, Jeff WALL, Chauncey HARE, Lewis BALTZ, Anthony HERNANDEZ, Bruce GILDEN, Arianna ARCARA & Luc SANTESE, Doug RICKARD.

by Matz / Vollmer. Hardcover, 24 x 29 x 4 cm., 288 pp., 310 Abb., deutsch-sprachig - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

with photo works by Hans FINSLER, Albert RENGER-PATZSCH (among others, ed. by Paul WOLFF) - 140 pp., 103 b/w ills. (83 ills. in duotone), German only