Schirmer / Mosel Verlag

The book 'Berenice Abbott. Portraits der Moderne' gives selected works and explanatory essays on the three major groups of works - portraits, cityscapes, natural science.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 15 x 22 cm., 280 pp., color ills., English

In 2014, the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris organized a retrospective for PETERSEN, on which this great monograph - as it were the first, comprehensive appreciation of the work - this great humanist photographer has appeared as an accompanying catalog.

Out-of-print volume 'Evidence 1944-1994' provides an insight into the photographic practice of the famous photographer Richard AVEDON, documents his artistic development, shows the emergence of projects and makes work and thought processes comprehensible.

'Texte zum Werk' (writings on Thomas Struth), brings together selected essays on the work of Thomas STRUTH. Twenty contributions invite to think and philosophize about the work of the prominent German photographer of the Düsseldorf School of Photography.

One volume reissue 'People of the 20th Century' by August SANDER shows a work consisting of hundreds of individual and group portraits, which - arranged according to various aspects - presents a typology of German society in the 1920s, the Weimar Republic

Weit mehr als Perfektion und Glamour haben Peter LINDBERGH die Ausstrahlung, Individualität sowie die Persönlichkeit der Frauen vor seiner Kamera interessiert – Qualitäten, die man eher mit der Portrait- als der Modephotographie verbindet.

The 1991 photo book 'Pennsylvania Coal Mine Tipples' by Bernd & Hilla BECHER contains B / W photos of small-scale mines in Pennsylvania, USA, from the 1970s. Each recording is provided with the location and the date of the recording.

The German-language photographic volume 'Bibliotheken' (Libraries) by Candida HÖFER contains photographs of famous library rooms in Europe and the USA. The color photographs are accompanied by an essay by the Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco.

'A propos de Paris' is the classic photo book among the photographic volumes by Magnum agency member Henri CARTIER-BRESSON. His 130 black and white photos pay homage to Paris, the city of his youth & age and a constant source of intellectual inspiration.