Many classic photo volumes by Bernd & Hilla BECHER, René BURRI, Anton CORBIJN, photographers of the Düsseldorf School (Elger ESSER, Candida HÖFER, Thomas STRUTH), Peter LINDBERGH, Helmut NEWTON & Cindy SHERMAN among others were published by Schirmer/Mosel

In this out-of-print photo volume, 'Performance' by Richard AVEDON, portraits of over 200 stars and artists of the performing arts of the second half of the 20th century are shown, many of them in photographs that had rarely or never been shown before.
0,00 € Weight 2.6 kg
This out-of-print German language volume 'Photographien 1969-1989' spans the work by US-American Robert MAPPLETHORPE from the early 1970s and shows his most iconic images from portraits to still lifes and figure studies alongside lesser-known photographs.
128,00 € * Weight 2.6 kg
Gebundene Ausgabe, 30 x 26,5 cm., 347 S., Farb-Aufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
0,00 € *
This anthology contains 160 pictures by ninety female photographers to answer the question of whether there is a 'female gaze' in photography. The focus is on the four major subject areas of social reality, family, female body and virtual reality.
39,80 € * Weight 1.4 kg
This out-of-print photo volume 'Menschen ohne Maske. Photographien 1906 - 1952' by German photographer August SANDER in paperback format is a re-issue of a 1971 publication, released at Swiss Bucher Verlag.
0,00 € * Weight 1 kg
Out-of-print volume 'As Dark As Light' contains a set of 16 nocturnal photographs made by Axel HÜTTE in various cities around the world. Aside from the underlying theme of night photography, the works are united by the strict geometry of the compositions.
from 24,00 € Weight 0.8 kg
German-language anniversary edition of the classic photo book. Walker EVANS put together 'American Photographs' himself. It became a sober, yet highly aesthetic description of the United States in the 1930s that influenced generations of photographers.
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'Flaneur durch das nächtliche Paris' concentrates BRASSAI's 1930s night images. Located between reportage, social documentation & poetic vision, his nocturnal Paris from the interwar period is above all a milestone in the history of younger photography.
0,00 € * Weight 1.9 kg
'Invasion Prague 68' by Joseph KOUDELKA documents the invasion of Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw Pact countries at that time. Compiled from archive material on the 40th anniversary, it makes the atmosphere of those heroic days of Prague tangible again.
0,00 € * Weight 1.9 kg
'Life and Work' about Andrei TARKOVSKY brings together film stills, Polaroids & documentary photos for each of his films, writings and private photos. A tribute to a great visionary who thought in poetic, often disturbing images of almost biblical force.
36,00 €
Gebundene Ausgabe, 21 x 30 cm., 268 S., 165 Duoton-S/W & 3 Farb-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
49,80 € *
The out-of-print photo book 'Mein Paris' with photographs by Robert DOISNEAU is a book about Paris. 600 images are arranged like walks through the city and time: along the Seine, around the Eiffel Tower, through the gardens and parks, and into the suburbs
0,00 € * Weight 1 kg
The out-of-print photo volume 'The Vienna Album' accompanied the exhibition, 2005/2006 at KunstHausWien. Among other icons in photography, it contains also distinctive images which were featured on more than 250 Vogue titles and in countless publications.
98,00 € * Weight 1.2 kg
Collector's Edition. The photo book 'Waits / Corbijn 1977 - 2011' is the chronicle of an artistic collaboration that goes back over 35 years to the photographs of the young, still largely unknown Dutch artist Anton CORBIJN of Tom Waits in 1977.
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'Joseph Beuys. Werkübersicht 1945-1985' is the ideal introduction to Beuys's world of thought and imagination and the work he left behind in all its many metamorphoses. 152 illustrations from all of the artist's creative areas and a text by Alain Borer.
34,00 € *
Photo & text book 'Man redet immer zu viel' (You always talk too much) contains twelve interviews with Henri CARTIER-BRESSON from almost fifty years. In view of the flood of secondary literature, he provides authentic information about his life and work.
24,80 € * Weight 0.4 kg
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.
39,80 € * Weight 0.9 kg
Also this small sized, out-of-print version of his artist's book 'Life's a Beach' features traditions and rituals associated with beach life that British Magnum photographer Martin PARR has been photographing around the world for decades.
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Photo-text volume 'The Düsseldorf School of Photography' traces its ascendancy from the mid-1970s. Filled with superb reproductions of the artists' best-known pictures, this compendium offers the first encyclopaedic overview of this important movement.
0,00 € Weight 2.4 kg
In out-of-print photo book 'Die Deutschen', René BURRI mainly depicts everyday life in Germany, where the bullet holes from the war can still be seen on the wall of the building. Hepursued his project for many decades. In 1986 and 1999, it was republished
0,00 € Weight 1.5 kg
Out-of-print book 'The Essential Cecil Beaton. Photographien 1920-1970' provides insight into the sheer inexhaustible creativity of this multi-talented photographer through outstanding pictorial examples and with personal statements by him on photography.
48,00 € Weight 2.2 kg
German ed. 'Centennial', published on the 100th birthday of Irvig PENN, is the most comprehensive publication on his to date - an indispensable overview for anyone interested in his multi-layered oeuvre and the history of photography of the 20th century.
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For her erotic volume 'Wicked', Ellen von UNWERTH has compiled 40 images of the highest art of seduction. With the Brazilian beauty Adriana Lima she stages a small intimate witches' sabbath, lets her romp, dance and ride through the pictures of the book.
58,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
The German-language text volume 'About my artists' contains speeches, lectures, texts about German and international photographers, artists, friends, books and works on the 75th birthday of the publisher's founder and director Lothar Schirmer.
19,80 € * Weight 0.6 kg
The reissue of photo volume 'Portraits' contains a collection of portraits by Helmut NEWTON, first published in 1987. Anyone who had himself portrayed by him knew what would come of it. The new edition guarantees some surprising reunions with old friends.
from 28,00 € Weight 1.4 kg
The book 'Walker Evans. America Leben und Kunst' by Svetlana Alpers about the photograph & heroe traces the phenomenon of a work whose author claimed that photography was the most literary of the visual arts. Afterword and translation are by Wolfgang Kemp
25,00 € *
Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 28 x 21 cm., o.S., S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
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The up to then little researched early work by Henri CARTIER-BRESSON from the 1930s was the subject of an exhibition at MoMA in New York in 1987. The volume of the catalog with a well-founded text by Peter Galassi is still regarded as authoritative today.
78,00 € Weight 1.1 kg
Gebundene Ausgabe, 24 x 36x 3 cm., 200 Seiten, 153 Photographien, vierfarbig reproduziert nach Vintage Prints, und 165 Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
58,00 € *
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.
18,00 € *
'Eugène Atget - Paris' - third volume of a series dedicated to those great masters in the history of photography, whose photographs have lost nothing of their fascination & influence to this day. The hardcover volume has been out of print for a long time.
38,00 € Weight 0.5 kg
Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 22,5 x 29,5 x 2 cm., 184 S., 108 Farb-Abb., 1.000 gr., deutsch-sprachiger text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
39,80 € *
The catalog volume for the exhibition 'Die Neue Sachlichkeit' at Centre Pompidou shows 32 photographs by August SANDER, surrounded by artists and subjects from painting & sculpture, design & architecture, photography, film & graphics, theater & literature
78,00 € *
Only announced so far, this issue, 'The Complete Café Lehmitz Family Album', is to contain the complete material of the legendary footband. Then what will become of the classic itself? We are very curious!
68,00 € *
In 'Steinwerke und Kalköfen', German photographers Bernd & Hilla BECHER document buildings in the stone processing industry in Europe. For 30 years they photographed the different variants of a building type from the early days of industrialization.
from 48,00 €
Laurenz BERGES - photographer of the Dusseldorf School - concentrates on the details of abandoned apartments, vacant houses and neglected courtyards, looks for zones of urban ambiguity and transforms them into poetic but strictly documentary photographs.
49,80 € *
The volume 'Photographien', compiled by Henri CARTIER-BRESSON himself, combines the highlights of a life in the service of photojournalism and photographic art - the very combination for which it has repeatedly set new standards since the 1930s.
98,00 € *
Photo book 'Typologien industrieller Bauten'' by Bernd & Hilla BECHER was published in 2003 as a paperback edition. It is the bestseller among the BECHER titles. He contains individual images arranged in tableaus, supplemented by a text by Armin Zweite.
from 78,00 €
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'.
19,80 € * Weight 2.8 kg
US-American photographer Irving PENN selected for this photo volume, 'Passage. A work record', those photographs that speak most strongly to his work spanning over half a century. It also includes photographs of the people of Benin commissioned by Vogue.
78,00 € * Weight 2.4 kg
The out-of-print volume 'Aus der Werkstatt der Natur' brings together the most beautiful photographs by Karl BLOSSFELDT as well as an unpublished text by the master. It follows his traces in contemporary art e.g. in the comic fantasies by Benoît Peeters.
0,00 € * Weight 1 kg
'Die Kennedys. Portrait of a Familie' von Richard AVEDON führt uns zurück in den Januar 1961. Er enthält für die Modemagazine Look und Harper's Bazaar gemachte Fotos der Familie John F. Kennedys, der kurz zuvor zum Präsidenten der USA gewählt worden war.
34,00 € * Weight 1 kg
'Karl Blossfeldt und das Auge Allahs. Warum wir nicht aufhören können, die Natur wie eine Schöpfung anzusehen' by Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom contains 26 of the most beautiful images by the photographer as well as a brilliant essay on plant photographs.
19,80 € * Weight 0.4 kg
Out-of-print catalog for the major 'Bernd & Hilla Becher' retrospective at Metropolitan Musem with 3 essays and 108 plates to their life & work in a broad sweep. For the 1st time including their early works as well as an interview with the son Max Becher.
98,00 € Weight 1.6 kg
This photo volume, 'Düsseldorf-Oberkassel. Drakeplatz 4' shows Eva BEUYS' impressive documentation of an artist's apartment that was also a studio. For this was a magical place where work on groundbreaking art concepts was mixed with raising children.
29,80 € *
The out-of-print volume 'Marilyn Monroe' by US-American photographer Bert STERN contains a selection of the most beautiful color & b/w images taken during Marilyn's 'Last Sitting' 1962 in los Angeles, pictures of indescribable sensual and human charisma.
168,00 € *
This out-of-print book 'The Living and the Dead' about Anton CORBIJN goes back to his roots featuring his autobiographic series 'a. somebody'; an early series of tombs, 'Cemetery'; and 80 iconic portraits of musicians and bands from his career of 40 years
0,00 € * Weight 1.3 kg
In his debut photo book, 'Fotografien 1991 1995', Laurenz BERGES shows the condition of barracks rooms like former Soviet troops, as they presented themselves after the fall of the Wall: clean-swept rooms that he photographed in daylight and in color.
58,00 € Weight 0.7 kg
Out-of-print book 'Color' shows selected works by Joachim BROHM, one of the most prominent representatives of color photography of his generation in Germany: 'Ruhr' (1982-1983), 'Ohio' (1983-1984), 'Areal' (1992-2002), 'Culatra' (2008-2010) and some more
38,00 € * Weight 0.8 kg
The out-of-print volume 'Couples' by fashion photographer Ellen von UNWERTH contains pictures of different couples in all kinds of relationship constellations and quite a few surprises. A book that, filled to the brim with life, gives the fun back to lust
48,00 € * Weight 1.1 kg
The volume 'Theorea' by Axel HÜTTE contains works from 1994 to 1996, showing industrial areas on the outskirts of the city, company premises in the green and Tuscan cultural landscape, seen through the concrete pillars of a utility building - no people.
from 20,00 € Weight 0.8 kg
Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 30 x 30 x 2,5 cm., 140 S., 66 Farb-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN!
0,00 € *
HC with dust jacket, 32 x 28 x 3 cm., 180 pp., 131 color- & duotone b/w ills., bilingual texts: German /English
58,00 € *
Gebunden (ohne Schutzumschlag, wie erschienen), 15,5 x 21,5 x 2 cm., 188 S., 324 S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachig - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
29,80 € *
This edition is a German-language reconstruction of the legendary 'Scrapbook' with which the CARTIER-BRESSON, who was believed to be dead, traveled to New York on May 15, 1946 to contribute prints for his own 'posthumous' exhibition.
from 98,00 € Weight 2.3 kg
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 30 x 2,5 cm., 128 pp., color ills., 1.200 gr., bilingual: German / English
78,00 €
In this photo book, the pictures are not thematic, but arranged according to stories - interwoven with their own stories. 'Sofort Bilder' is a photographic road movie through the early years of the artist, who quickly became world famous for his films.
29,80 € * Weight 2.1 kg
HC, 27 x 31 cm., 260 pp., 174 b/w and color ills., bilingual text: German / English
0,00 € *
In his volume 'Kontinente' Axel HÜTTE presents us his photographic vision of the earth in its climatic and geological diversity - a vision that moves between the poles of realism and romanticism. Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom wrote the accompanying texts.
29,80 € *
This photo volume shows the documentation by theater photographer Abisag TÜLLMANN of the action 'Titus Andronicus/Iphigenie' from May 29, 1969, which has a significance in the work of Joseph BEUYS: his only action in the experiential space of theater.
49,80 € *
HC, 30 x 29 cm., 264 pp., 228 ills., english (+ german text as inlet)
0,00 € *
Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 25 x 17,6 x 3,6 cm., 384 S., 379 Abb. (davon 26 in Farbe), deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
49,00 € *
'Shoot for the Moon', Tim WALKER's much-awaited follow-up, tells the story of fantasys other, darker side. Dazzlingly designed by Irma BOOM and lavishly produced and contains spectacular photographs, images that demand to be read as art as much as fashion
29,80 € *
The book 'Hommage' for the retrospective on the work of Inge MORATH shows the whole spectrum and the - perhaps feminine? - subtlety of her work. An autobiographical speech she gave in Berlin is the main text of the German-English accompanying publication.
58,00 € *
G/French. Following the concept of typology and comparative vision, the 61 b/w photos of this German-French re-issue capture the entire spectrum of BECHER’s encyclopedia of industrial buildings in a representative manner and in characteristic 'portraits'.
34,00 € *
Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag (leicht angestoßen), 232 x 28 x 2,5 cm., 264 S., 232 S/W-Abb. (davon 150 ganzseitig), deutsch-sprachig - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
58,00 € *
HC, 27 x 36 cm., 316 S., 150 Farb- und S/W-Fotografien, deutsch-sprachig - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
0,00 € *
'Industrielandschaften' by Bernd & Hilla BECHER is a novelty: For the first time, your view of the whole opens up, including the settlement and residential buildings of the workers. The systems are presented in context and thus receive a narrative element
from 68,00 €
The catalog for Thomas STRUTH retrospective provides information about his artistic development: from the first series 'Unconscious Places' to 'Nature and Politics', which deals with research and globalization, as well as early works and archive material.
from 58,00 €
'Urformen der Kunst' & 'Wundergarten der Natur' made him famous. 'Masterpieces', gathers the most beautiful of the strictly objective, yet poetic plant portraits by Karl BLOSSFELDT, which inspired both Surrealists & representatives of the New Objectivity.
from 19,80 € Weight 1.6 kg
29,80 € *
HC, 33 x 42 x 1,5 cm., 80 pp., 36 color ills., bilingual text: German / English
44,00 € *
The famous monograph on the work of American photographer Diane ARBUS in German translation. The representative overview of her work complements the photographs with writings and interview passages and became itself a reference work and a book classic.
from 19,80 € Weight 0.9 kg
Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 21,5 29 x 3 cm., 200 S., 69 Duoton-S/W-Aufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
39,00 € *
Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 23,5 x 1 cm., 56 pp., 28 color & duotone ills., 350 gr., bilingual: German / English
18,00 € *
The out-of-print volume 'Photographien' with b/w images by Jeanloup SIEFF from 1958 to 1981 contains portraits, landscapes and pleasantly gentle nudes, followed by a few privileged moments and accompanied by texts that bear no relation to the pictures.
58,00 € * Weight 1.6 kg
GERMAN ED.! Gebundene Ausgabe, 24 x 36,5 cm., 480 S., 419 Farb-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY! Ausgabe.
128,00 € *
'Vivian Maier. Das Meisterwerk der unbekannten Photographin. 1926-2009', provides an overview of her oeuvre and is the first comprehensive biography of this extraordinary woman. This 4th edition contains 238 photographs on 288 pages, some in color.
58,00 € *
Gebunden, mit Schutzumschlag, 25 x 29 x 2,5 cm., 287 S., duotone S/W-Abb., bilingual: Italienisch / Deutsch
120,00 €
Peter LINDBERGH's 1997 monograph 'Images of Women, vol. I', a comprehensive overview of his fashion photos and portraits of celebrities, here again in a reduced-size hardcover edition.
49,80 €
The out-of-print monograph, 'Whistle for the Wind', on the work of Ryan McGINLEY contains the images of his books published until 2012, as well as texts that authors address the phenomenon 'McGinley'. The photo book impresses with its good print quality.
148,00 € * Weight 2 kg
This First edition of photo volume 'Fabrikhallen' by Bernd & Hilla BECHER contains b/w photographs from the 1960s to 1990s. All factory halls were recorded in Germany, each recording is provided with the location and the date of the recording time.
120,00 € * Weight 2000 kg
Photobook 'Cafe Lehmitz' by Anders PETERSEN shows the former meeting place and final stop for people from the red light district of Hamburg's Reeperbahn as a living social entity with its own self-image and with dignity. Actual with a preface by Tom Waits
98,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
'Vivian Maier. Street Photographer', presents the b/w photographs of a professional nanny. These impress both with the breadth of the work and the high quality, showing all facets of city life in post-war America in humorous, beautiful and raw images.
from 39,80 €
Since 1957, Bernd & Hilla BECHER have compiled a wealth of examples of the industrial building type for 'Wassertürme' (Water Towers) photo book. Although they are functional buildings, the photographed specimens reveal an unprecedented variety of shapes.
78,00 €
This volume, 'New Documents 1967', about an exhibition that was to give photography a new direction - coinciding with the emergence of the RAF in the then FRG - contains documents as well as photographs by Diane ARBUS, Lee FRIEDLANDER and Garry WINOGRAND.
19,80 €
'Joseph Beuys. Ich (Myself the Iphigenia)' documents this art event of May 29, 1969 with numerous objects & drawings, the b/w photographs by Abisag TÜLLMANN & Ute KLOPHAUS, as well as the statements by Eva Beuys, Botho Strauß, Peter Handke and many others
34,00 € *
by Fried, Michael (ed). Hardcover with dust jacket, 22 x 28 x 3,5 cm., 433 pp., richly illustrated, German language
58,00 € *
New edition. Black and white photographs by Caroline Tisdall. 25 x 18 x 2 cm., 160 pp., German language.
39,80 €
When Helmut NEWTON presented a selection of his Polaroids to the audience with 'Pola Woman' in 1992, which he had used as sketches, the scene was enthusiastic. For the first time the master of erotic photography let himself be looked over his shoulder.
29,80 € *